Una conferencia performativa de Carlos Pulpón y del colectivo Quemar las naves, sobre la línea sutil que separa el consentimiento y la violencia sexuales, con un enfoque especifico y una denuncia abierta sobre el no exponerse claramente por parte...
A soft-spoken yet gritty invitation to the feathery alcove of a woman in constant transformation where body parts are recontextualised and gazes are traded, questioned and renegotiated: this and some more, in Paola Diogo and Renato Linhares’ Espelhos e...
With winter at the doors and after more than two weeks of plays, performances, workshops and seminars, Lisbon’s Alkantara Festival 2022 draws to a close, leaving behind a constellation of thought-provoking works that, just like Vânia Doutel Vaz’ The...
In his latest, critical and powerful performance, BOCA FALA TROPA, Gio Lourenço incorporates, brings back, repeats and updates memories and cultures, mixing the personal with the universal with feverish lyrism and bringing Kuduro on the theatrical stage for a...
Arming silence with voices and the body with deities, Betty Tchomanga’s Mascarades reasserts the power of hybridity in the face of postcolonial modernity, re-imagining, re-mapping and re-constituting an elsewhere in that gap between worlds where the man, the woman,...
The 2022 Alkantara Festival keeps on giving with full hands, this time presenting Jaha Koo’s Cuckoo, «a journey through the last 20 years of Korean history told by a bunch of talkative rice cookers» where the audience, suspended between...
Thanks to Rosana Cade and Ivor MacAskill’s The Making of Pinocchio, a show about the joy of transformation, art and the ethics of resistance, Lisbon’s Alkantara Festival 2022 could not shine any brighter in the fading lights of the...
In the midst of an unprecedented, anthropogenic climate crisis, Lisbon’s Alkantara Festival 2022 reinaugurates its yearly appointment with some of the most interesting national and international artist by bringing to the city’s stages the award-winning performance Sun & Sea,...
«It’s urgent - love», once said Eugenio de Andrade, «it’s urgent – a boat upon the sea. It’s urgent to destroy certain words, hate, solitude, and cruelty, some mourning, many swords». Urgent, yes, but not easy, as proven by...
As Oktoberdans 2022 comes to a close, Bergen’s theatregoers are invited one last time to partake in a feast of performative diversity made up of imaginative, close-to-the-bone and somewhat nostalgic works that shine brightly in the darkness of the...
On this eighth day of festival, when the end is nigh and tiredness hangs heavy beneath the eyes, Oktoberdans 2022 once again ups the ante, packing together three weighty, cerebral works that take its performing arts aficionados on a...
Subiendo una escalera decorada de lágrimas rojas en el barrio de Gràcia, se entra a las salas del Teatre Lliure de Barcelona, uno de los centros escénicos más importantes del territorio catalán, que dio por comenzada su temporada 2022/2023...
Firmly set on its trailblazing path, Oktoberdans 2022 keeps offering new and stimulating works to its audience, this time by presenting the world premiere of Phitthaya Phaefuang (Sun)’s Realness: Luk Kreung, «a performance about transcending the gender binary, about...
Curating a festival is often about creating some sort of resonance between the performances of the artists invited and in these last two days of Oktoberdans 2022, the audience had the precious chance to walk on the echo of...
After a Saturday-long hiatus from all performances due to the heartfelt tribute to the legacy of the late artistic and general director of BIT Teatergarasjen, Sven Åge Birkeland, who left a significant and permanent mark on Norway’s art scene...
As the second day of Oktoberdans 2022 draws to an end, Bergen’s theatre-goers are left to take stock of the performances seen thus far, wrapping their heads around the many open conversations, workshops and laboratories that took place when...
After years of pandemic and travel restrictions, Norway's biennial international dance festival launches its 14th edition with a jam-packed programme, including «seminars, artist meetings, workshops, conversations and pure festivities», as well as performances galore. BIT Teatergarasjen’s Oktoberdans 2022 not...
After two weeks of jam-packed stalls and thunderous applauses, the 39th edition of the Almada Festival finally comes to an end and, in a successful attempt to go out with a bang, artistic director Rodrigo Francisco offers a memorable...
In Hands do not touch your precious Me, a hymn by the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna to the goddess Inanna, Wim Vandekeybus creates a mythical tale of confrontation and transformation, light and darkness, death and rebirth -together with composer...
Most known for his trailblazing works in experimental theatre, Robert Wilson brings back up one of his seminal and non-canonical pieces -now enriched by a renewed cast- in an attempt to remind us that the mirror he had held...
Following their previous play, Lá, French company Baro d’evel (Manouche for “For the love of God”) brings to Portuguese audiences its latest work, Falaise, a non-place in which Life itself flows freely, laughing at our earthly attempts at making...
Through a strikingly modern, minimalist writing style and a suspenseful plot, Thomas Ostermeier re-elaborates Sophocles’ masterpiece, Oedipus Rex, turning it into a contemporary fable of capitalistic amoralities and relational inhumanities to the delight of Almada Festival’s satisfied yet confused...
«What links the Italian industrialist Luciano Benetton to the small Mapuche community of Curiñanco-Nahuelquir? What links the former President of the Argentine Republic Mauricio Macri to Sylvester Stallone? The answers to these questions can be found in the southern...
The 39th Almada Festival continues along its experimental streak with Dorothée Munyaneza’s Mesh, a hybrid performance that effectually intertwines different artistic and linguistic styles in its path to create a new map of the world in which herstories become...
