I am a word and also its echo

Screening in our Decatur Studio location windows and on Vimeo

December 1, 2024-January 31, 2025.

Set in Atlanta, "I am a word and also its echo" is a screen dance film directed by Nuno Veiga in collaboration with and featuring Sue Schroeder. Inspired by the writings of Clarice Lispector, the film explores the fleeting nature of the present moment. Schroeder's performance, accompanied by Veiga and Filipe Sousa evocative score from their project a r | r a with voice recording by Adrien Kay, captures the delicate balance and transient beauty of the now, reflecting the essence of life's impermanence.

Creators

Nuno Veiga

Nuno Veiga, born in Viseu, Portugal is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher whose practice includes sound art, acting, theater direction, video art, installations, teaching, and arts facilitation. Veiga has been working in professional arts contexts since 2001 and graduated in Theater Studies from the University of Évora in Portugal in 2006.
 
Moving to London in 2011, Veiga continued to work as an actor, audiovisual designer, and arts facilitator,

collaborating with various companies and institutions, including Rambert Dance Company’s The Playground,

Soho Theater, Knot Theory, Hide Tide, Spare Tire, Battersea Arts Center, Rare Salt and Edinburgh International Festival. As an arts facilitator, Veiga worked with community groups including at-risk youth, the elderly, and people with learning difficulties. As an Associate Artist at Spare Tire, Veiga developed several projects with voiceless communities.

In the last decade, Veiga has worked as a sound artist for dance, film, and installations with choreographers including Yola Pinto, Amélia Bentes, Silvia Pinto Ferreira, Romulus Neagu, Miguel Altunaga Verdecia, Jordan Bridge, Luca Bracia, Zjana Muraro, Darren Ellis, Susan Kempster, Anastasia Papaeleftheriadou, and Robert MacNeill.

In over 40 years of work in the arts, Sue Schroeder has created more than 110 original works at the intersection of movement/dance and visual art for theaters, museums, green spaces, architectural works, and water environments.  Her  work has appeared throughout the United States, as well as Mexico, Israel, France, Germany,  Poland, Georgia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Iceland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada,  Guatemala, and Hungary.  Her multidisciplinary vision has led to collaborations with major voices in dance, music, spoken word, visual arts and design.

Sue Schroeder

Additionally, she is recognized as a leading arts activist and mentor.  As a contemporary artist and dance maker, Sue focuses on the creative process, movement research, exploration, and dance-making as a catalyst for social change.

Filipe Sousa is a Portuguese pianist, composer and workshop leader based in Portugal. He works with artists and communities of ranging age, ability and background. Filipe regularly leads workshops and presents work in the UK and across the world. He founded Quest Ensemble, a contemporary piano trio that writes original music with Preetha Narayanan and Tara Franks and he has been commissioned to create sound installations and to write for music ensembles, theatre, film and dance.

With a background in Architecture, years practicing capoeira and more recently contact improv, his work as a

Filipe Sousa

composer and performer is often concerned with space and movement, driven by a strong sense of rhythm and flow. Filipe as always had the piano at the centre of his practice, but his interest in the details and minutiae of sound has taken him into the realms of sound art, sound design and composition. He is interested in performance as experience and in generating immersive environments.

Filipe trained in classical piano and singing at the Lisbon Gregorian Institute, continuing through the Hot Club Portugal, where he studied jazz piano and composition, he then relocated to London in 2008 to dedicate himself exclusively to sound and music. In 2010 he completed MMus in Leadership from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama followed by a fellowship focused on collaborative and participative work. He is an Associate Artist at Spare Tyre theatre company and a regular leader at Create Arts. Filipe has worked with various orchestras and institutions in the UK and across the world including the Barbican Centre, CCB Lisbon, Projeto Guri, Sinfonia Viva, London Contemporary Orchestra and the EU Youth Orchestra. He founded Quest Ensemble, a contemporary classical piano trio, and teaches at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and occasionally at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.