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...
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...
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...
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...
«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...
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...
