Amongst the future ruins of an ever more polarised and racialized society, Lisbon’s Alkantara Festival 2023 reinaugurates its yearly appointment with some of the most interesting national and international artist by bringing to the city’s stages Martinique-born Rébecca Chaillon’s...
Directo, sin filtros, crudo. Ideado y escrito por Agnés Mateus y Quim Tarrida, en escena en el Festival de Almada, una creación desconcertante e inquietante desde el primer minuto. Un espectáculo sobre el feminicidio que no deja cómodo al...
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...
Flying ingeniously through centuries of gender oppression and patriarchal gaslighting, Jogging by Beirut-based actress, writer and activist Hanane Hajj Ali connects the gloomily bright dots that make up the constellation of women’s subjugation, rebelling to the mainstream narrative of...
From the dry lands of central Sardinia to the northern desolate mountains of Trás-os-Montes, the 39th edition of the Almada Festival brings to Portugal the “cacodemonia” of transnational pagan rituals, shining a crepuscular light onto the latent animality we...
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,...
Il Festival di Almada, giunto quest’anno alla sua trentottesima edizione, torna a ospitare nella sua programmazione spettacoli internazionali e portoghesi, incentrando tutta la sua identità sul dialogo tra teatro e danza estera e locale.
Tra gli spettacoli di danza presenti...
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...
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...
«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...
Set in the liminal space between the “no longer” and the “not yet”, Yoann Bourgeois’ Minuit exalts the unquantifiable effervescence of aliveness by expanding the gap between intention and action, all the while putting up quite a show of...
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...
«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...
Tasked with the Alkantara Festival 2023’s closure, Uirapuru by Marcelo Evelin transports the Portuguese audience into a reiterative reflection on resilience and reinvention in a time of climate and political change, decolonising both art and thoughts via ethereal birdsongs...
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...
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,...
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...
Beautiful aesthetics and telluric soundscapes are not enough to save Victor Hugo Pontes’ latest creation from the dangers of vacuity: Corpo Clandestino, an allegedly norm-shattering performance for seven marginalised bodies grossly misses the mark, consolidating rather than weakening the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Portugal’s Almada Festival celebrates its 40th edition with some of the most distinguished national and international creators and companies. Twenty theatre, dance and new circus shows (eight Portuguese, twelve foreigners) will be performed on nine stages in Almada and...
In an attempt to unshackle Art from the commodifying dynamics internalized in both performers and spectators, Portuguese theatre company auéééu’s latest attack on the senses lands an interesting (albeit long-winded) punch on the performative status quo, throwing the audience...
