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 at 33 years old, Pedro Baptista seeks to revive that same piece, as well as the mythical figure of the “burning bird”, in order to continue a dialogue with his urges and questions, both identity/personal as well as artistic, and both individual as well as profoundly collective. While always navigating between autobiography and the artistic dilemma of “how to stage Stravinsky´s piece”, Pedro Baptista challenges himself to think of legacies, and the cycle of life-death-rebirth, with a solo that can be an abstract dance; an open movement.