The exhibition marks the 30 years of the Foundation and the 20th anniversary of Museu de Serralves, presenting the programme of the Performing Arts Service between 1999 and today. It was born and developed through compromises between seemingly irreconcilable objectives: on the one hand, the need to present concrete data (names, dates, images) that showed where, how and when certain artists performed, and mirrored the pioneering character of the importance given to the performing arts by Serralves; on the other hand, it translates what seems to immediately distinguish these arts: the implication of the spectator, the eminently collaborative spirit, the "here and now" as opposed to "this was". The compromises included by putting on display documentation and letting its visitors know who has performed in Serralves (and when, how and where), while presenting elements that evoked the “here and now.” The documentation was incorporated through a process of collaboration: once the programmers Cristina Grande and Pedro Rocha selected the images and words that best illustrated the last twenty years of their programming (between stage photography and graphic materials that announced and accompanied the activities), it was commissioned to a graphic designer, Luís Teixeira, to create a book that would never be published, whose pages would be exclusively presented on the walls of Biblioteca de Serralves, along with the recordings of shows and props to which these programmers considered to be of special importance. At the same time, it was decided to occupy a considerable area of the library’s mezzanine with an object that would immediately evoke the idea of theatre and could "trigger" the viewer: a small stage waiting to be occupied. The visitor can and should sit down to read (programming texts, key books to understand the performing arts today) and, most importantly, to hear testimonials and memories of spectacles written by people especially attentive to Serralves' performing arts programming - between artists, musicians, writers and current or former directors and programmers of theatres and music and performance festivals - and then read by two actors. These testimonies came to reconcile the irreconcilable: the memories of certain shows, or of concerts and performances - necessarily subjective, incomplete, fragmentary - constitute the necessary counterpoint to data, dates, chronologies, documentation. It is largely thanks to them that this exhibition is not just about "what it was"; it is also now, and it is also here.

In a good movie session, before the arrival of sound films, the music was performed live. This experience is not only relived but also updated in the cine-concerts performed in the 8th edition of Invicta.Música.Filmes, with new music written for two recently restored silent films. J'Accuse, a pacifist film by French filmmaker Abel Gance, is accompanied by a soundtrack created by his compatriot Philippe Schoeller and will be premiered in Portugal, by Orquestra Sinfónica. A few days later, the Remix Ensemble and Digitópia present the result of the challenge that Casa da Música posed to the composer from Porto, Igor C. Silva, to create a score for a Portuguese silent film from 1927, the crime film O Táxi Nº 9297 by Reinaldo Ferreira, a journalist better known as Repórter X. The soundtracks of some of the best-known films in history are featured in the concert of Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, including music by Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone and John Williams. The opening of the festival is a fascinating A Trip to the Moon through the lens of a pioneer of French cinema, Georges Méliès, a science fiction from 1902 also presented in a cine-concert with new music created here at Casa da Música by members of Digitópia.

Reflexo is the latest work of Cordis, the unusual duo of Paulo Figueiredo (piano) and Bruno Costa (Portuguese guitar). After a 12-year-career, this duo presents another album of original compositions, successor to Cordis (2008), Cordis2 (2011) and Terceiro (2015) - the latter recorded with Quarteto Arabesco. Formed in 2008, Cordis intersects piano and Portuguese guitar with passion and intensity, seeking a new aesthetic approach through a constant dialogue. The result is a surprising fusion of roots and modernity, tradition and innovation, translated into musical paintings capable of leading the audiences on new and exciting journeys.