Professional archive
Photographs and documents cut one by one from the album pages, each enhanced for reading. This is not a restored scan.
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The gym: where it all began
October 1981. The gym at the school where Jorge taught physical education: the first classes, meeting Isabel and then Né Barros, and forming the first team. The pages bear the handwritten note «Escola Rainha… out. 81». The school is Escola Secundária Rainha Santa Isabel, in Porto.
The press invitation
29 November 1982, Auditório Carlos Alberto, Porto. Two photographs of the same invitation; both are kept.
The programme
A programme kept in the album. The story of Máquinas and Sailing accompanies this document; reading all the small print requires a higher-resolution review.
The press
Clippings kept by Jorge. The press and television welcomed Balleteatro enthusiastically. Illegible dates and titles have not been filled in by guesswork.
The festival poster
Poster for the 1988 festival in Porto, identified by Jorge. His memories of Três Loucos and Último Louco accompany it as a story, without replacing the works' official titles.
Portraits in Foco
Photographs by Luís Rangel before the press presentation, in the Foco area of Porto.
Stage photographs
Stage pages from the album. Jorge recalled the opening of an auditorium in Vila Franca de Xira; each image still needs to be safely matched to a performance, and the venue's name and date established.
The duet in the United States
Jorge and Né Barros at Smith College, Northampton, during his MFA in Dance. Music by Julius Robinson, his teacher; Susan Waltner headed the department.
Television years
Choreography created for each programme, moment and theme, with members of Balleteatro. Programme names and dates have not been inferred from the photographs.
Memories told by Jorge Levi
Máquinas, with music by Pierre Henry, began as choreography inspired by the printing works of Primeiro de Janeiro. Sailing, with Christopher Cross, was the dancers' first beginnings: the two sides of Balleteatro.
The national tour was supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Secretariat of State for Culture and local councils. We travelled in a double-decker British Leyland bus, with the equipment upstairs.
Memórias de uma Aldeia was a collective choreography about our grandparents' villages before 1974. It was one of the last shows I danced in. It took us on tour in Brazil. There are no photographs of those shows.
The festival at Auditório Carlos Alberto brought together important artists over several weekends. Balleteatro presented six choreographies: the first half closed with Os Três Loucos and the second with O Último Louco.
Jorge Levi