COSMIC PHASE / STAGE
COSMIC STAGE/PHASE acts as an emancipatory tool, creating a shared artistic- speculative imaginary. It proposes a narrative that gradually loses linearity, engaging the audience in a dynamic communication exercise. A real-time construction of an immersive and contemplative environment stimulates reflection on communication methods and the perception of otherness. This environment allows for the emergence of […]
[THE SYSTEM]
No one saw, no one knows, no one remembers. The stone broke. How do we keep going?Como continuamos? [THE SYSTEM] explores the solidarity generated through collective work, and tackles the very notionof work, of toil as a generator of action, of movement. For this piece; I decided to capitalize friendship. friendship. I invited my closest […]
Roundtable Tordesilhas
SillySeason (PT) and Tercer Abstrato (BR/CL) are two companies founded in 2012 in different countries. In this talk, the discussion falls on how to construct a show that highlights their stylistic and thematic diversity, and how to establish connections and intimacies between their cultural and political contexts. The two collectives engage in an in-depth reflection […]
THE FIREBIRD
The Firebird is a performance-show that can be described as a ‘portrait of the artist’, taking the baton from the homonymous musical piece by Igor Stravinsky. After dancing Stravinsky´s composition at 8 years old in his childhood home´s living room, now at33 years old, Pedro Baptista seeks to revive that same piece, as well as […]
JOURNEY TO
LISBON
“Journey to Lisbon” is a theatre performance that seeks to investigate, through a fictional story, theartists´ families´ past and their connections to Portugal´s recent history, based on an original text byIsabela Figueiredo in dialogue with the album “Diz À Mãe Que Está Tudo Bem” by the musician SilkNobre. In this performance-concert, just as in the […]
IT´S JUST ONE DAY
IT´S JUST ONE DAY was born of the desire to imagine a fantasy fiction story collectively, founded onfragility, error, arrhythmia and loss of control, as a response to the lack of a future in which we areliving. Using a tool for live writing, and lasting for 8 hours, we reveal the building of a flux […]
BERTIE
BERTIE is a virtual reality (VR) experience for the stage, in which one group of people meet within animmersive video game conceived specifically for this project. Thrown into the apocalyptic scenarioof a multiplayer online game about to end, the player-performers use VR goggles and avatars toexplore a tecno-melancholic terrain, replete with piles of digital trash […]
RUINS PART I: redux. realms. regards
RUINS PART I: redux. realms. regards. is a 3-hour performative encounter between Liz Rosenfeldand an*dre neely, which follows their continuous collaboration entitled “RUINS” — an open and multidisciplinary project which combines research, film, performance and writing to explore thecollapse in queer political and social resistance. This new iteration, expanded from PART I, will focuson the […]
