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PROJECTS

work in progress

PERFORMING ARTS

Caxias' Nights

Two women who lived intensely during the dictatorship. Leninha, the most feared and powerful female figure in the Portuguese political police: the PIDE; and one of the victims who suffered most at the hands of this terrible agent. Based on the life of a disturbing figure: the woman who rose highest in the PIDE hierarchy, still unknown to most Portuguese people today.

Salta para o Saco

João and Ludovina are a young couple whose love is put to the test through various adventures. Saint Peter chooses them to try to instruct the angels about the realities of life. Throughout the story, Saint Peter himself appears disguised to the two young people and in one of these disguises offers a special bag to João, testing his courage and bravery. But will the love of Soldier João and Young Ludovina withstand the war, the heat, the cold, the flies and, above all, the distance?…

Letters from Viana: Guerra Junqueiro

In Viana do Castelo, Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro married, lived and worked between 1879 and 1890; he was Secretary General of the Civil Government of Viana do Castelo; he wrote The Tear; The Little Moleirinha; The Hunter Simão; he corresponded with Eça de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão; he was a friend of Luis Augusto de Oliveira and António Feijó. The rest is contained in the Letters from Viana: Guerra Junqueiro.

From Índia?!

A couple of teachers far from home, without a home. Only he was placed. She is working remotely. He has to teach Portuguese but he is a History teacher. She can help but she doesn't cook. He cooks but he has to prepare the material. The Auto da Índia, from 1509. Portugal, from 2023.

Lápis Cor de Carne

Children's and family's play about building a new world for everyone.

My body is not your country

Solo show about migrant women and their bodies.

Spicy White

A comedy about cultural differences.

Pains of Youth

A play about a group of bourgeois young doctors, a portrait of a discontented post-war generation.

The Heresy of Love

A play about Sor Juana de la Cruz.

Barulheira

A play/ performance based on Álvaro Lapa's texts.

Boxing

A two handers site-specific performance and installation about departures and what we consider to be a home.

Trojan Horse

Solo movement performance based on Trojan Horse legend and the figure of Helen of Troy.

Sopro

Performance and photography exhibition inspired on animal masks and the air element.

Atlas

Collective performance of a landscape of people mapping a sort of 'atlas' of the complex cohesion of a social tissue.

Suite nº 1 ABC

An international choir of 22 performers presents a selection of recordings, treated as very exact scores.

Queria fazer-te uma Pergunta & Os filhos de Spoutnik não andam na rua

Site-specific performance and sound installation celebrating Marguerite Duras.

A mulher é o futuro do homem

Site-specific performance.

Bodies in Urban Spaces

Temporary intervention in diversified urban architectonical environment.

O Botequim

Site-specific. Dialogue between a performer and a piano.

O Sentimento dum Acidental

Site-specific rehearsed reading and movement.

Katzelmacher

Play about a group of ten aimless friends. Their days change when a foreigner arrives to stay.

AUDIOVISUAL

Seis dias depois de Forever

Uma exploração poética da identidade humana e da edição genética que distorce a ficção e a realidade.

Som

Curta-metragem inspirado em ficção científica e terror.

O amante

Filme teatral ou filme ensaiado. Site-specific. De The Lover, de Howard Barker.

Santa Joana dos Currais

Construção metacinematográfica que explora o planalto como um lugar de ensaio e teatro onde atores, amadores e moradores desempregados compartilham a mesma experiência de trabalho. Da peça de Brecht, Santa Joana dos Stockyards.