Companhia de Música Teatral

The work of Companhia de Música Teatral celebrates the surprising and important capacities of young children to share artistic activities in a group with their parents. In colourful spectacles of human exuberance they prove that infants need and contribute to companionship, that they have  innate enjoyment of rhythm and sympathy for others’ pleasure. Companhia de Música Teatral have made something wonderful. It is a revelation to developmental psychologists, actors and musicians, which proves that creative artistic activity is a need of human beings, and a force for education.

The work of Companhia de Música Teatral is at the level of international excellence and indeed at the forefront of what I consider to be relevant as an artistic experience for young children. I am aware of the influence my own work has had in several of their projects and I am very happy to see that my ideas have inspired the creation of new work and have expanded to full artistic experiences in which music is at the very root.

I have known the work of CMT since the early days. This remarkably fluid, innovative group of creators – composers, writers, actors, singers, dancers, musicians and digital multimedia artists – has, already, contributed significantly to the development of performance art. By presenting participatory performance spaces – both real and imaginary – destined primarily for infants and toddlers, but also enjoyed by their accompanying adults, the company has expanded the general concept of theatre, bringing magic, the element of surprise and intense ephemeral beauty – all important factors in the development of the young mind – to the creative experience.