Teatro do Bairro Alto

A dance solo that takes its title from a folk song from north-western Portugal, once sung at the end of the working day, exploring the physicality of calling songs in a reflection on vulnerability, loss and ageing.

Nivine Kallas explores the resonances and points of tension between gesture and word, in a dance that dialogues with the Arabic language, its script, rhythm, inflections and silences. Rooted in a childhood marked by absence and silence in the Lebanese education system, the piece revisits the image of a classroom window through which the mind escaped while the body remained confined.

In this theatrical experiment, a video game is played from start to finish in a single session of about 8 hours, with 10 episodes and 4 breaks (with food and drink). One audience member takes the controller as elected leader while everyone else watches the story unfold, cheers, makes suggestions and helps take decisions, in a daring, political mix of Animal Farm with Pokémon and Final Fantasy.

In the play Câncer em Saturno, Joana Levi — following Rasante (2000) and Primárias e Exóticas (2024) — turns her attention to the human being's relations with the micro- and macroscopic worlds.

This play is set in a pojangmacha, one of South Korea's typical late-night street food bars, where we meet three characters, including a snail and a gummy bear.

In this theatre piece, Klió, a pop singer acclaimed by audiences but ignored by critics, documents her own story as she prepares to celebrate ten years of her career, haunted by a mysterious entity.