from December 11th, 2020 to February 28th, 2021 . WINDOWS, by José Capela . Official Portuguese Representation at PQ19 - Prague Quadrennial Performance Design and Space . MNAA - Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Lisbon)

Dates extension: WINDOWS, by José Capela from December 6th tp 25th april 2021, at the MNAA - Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon.

12th September to 10th October 2021 . WINDOWS . wednesdays to sundays - 2 pm to 6 pm . mala voadora

9th april . 2 pm . https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/84200212463… (ID reunião: 842 0021 2463 | Senha de acesso: 021153)

22nd april . 2 pm . https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/81185526362

29th april . 2 pm . https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/83820090309

3 open classes

3rd and 4th May 2021 . mala voadora (FITEI)

21st May 2021 . 20:00 (show in Portuguese) and 22nd May . 20:00 (show in English) - Escher Theater (Luxembourg)

19th and 20th November 2021 . 21:00 . mala voadora

14th December 2021 . 19:00 . Teatro Municipal da Guarda

18th to 20 de Fevereiro 2022 . Friday at 21:00, Saturday at 18:00 + 21:00, Sunday at 16:00 . Centro Cultural de Belém

6th and 7th August 2022 (shows in English) . 20:00 . Hošek Contemporary (Berlin)

Fausto, conceived in 2018 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the CCB, narrated the story of a spectacle of unmeasured ambition that did not happen, but absorbed a large part of the State Budget and created a national tragedy – all permanently reported on television. It also staged the attempt to install a populist power, failed in the end. Returning to the controversial reception of this show, mala voadora invited Alex Cassal to write a monologue for Jorge Andrade: inFausto. If Fausto gathered about 100 people on stage, inFausto is a monologue. But the scale of intrigue is not diminished. Contrary. Fausto, it turned out, was after all the target of a Machiavellian international conspiracy.

19th to 23rd january 2020 . residency . mala voadora . porto

12th may . 7:30 pm . mala voadora, in FITEI

13th may . 5:00 pm . mala voadora, in FITEI

This place unfolds under different dimensions, in a space contaminated by times past and for a future time.

mala voadora . 27th and 28th may 2021-  admissions at http://2d-3d.org/

2D/3D . producing illusion

It is about perspective that we propose to speak in this 2D/3D meeting, understanding the mechanisms that aim at the scenic illusion, without limiting them to what happens on stage, but rather extending its scope to all areas of image and space production where the dimension of perceived reality is the product of illusionism.

Project selected under Lobby program by mala voadora.

3rd June . 9:00 pm . mala voadora

4th June . 7:00 pm . mala voadora

Project selected under Lobby program by mala voadora.

4th June .9 pm . mala voadora

5th June . 7 pm . mala voadora

Artistic Residency . mala vodora.porto . 29th march to 1st april

Jonas&Lander's new creation is a hybrid show between dance and the music concert designed for five dancers, a fado singer and three musicians.  Like most urban musical currents, such as samba or flamenco, fado also had its own dances. In Lisbon, the one that knew the greatest expression was Fado Batido, a dance based on an energetic and virtuous tap. In Bate Fado, the duo of performers and choreographers proposes to reinterpret and recover the act of beating (tapdancing) Fado, where dance emanates the quality of percussion instrument in dialogue with the voice and guitars. Bate Fado reveals itself as the first step towards rescuing the dance that fado has long lost.

Artistic residency . mala voadora porto . 21st to 30th april - DDD - Festival Dias da Dança 2021

Rawmaterial: creation of  conditions (objective) for new relationships between thought and movement, generating behaviors that are deviable from the  norm and consequentlynew languages (subjective  reading).

Processing: Integration and application of rawmaterial in contexts/universes that propose a more or less subtle contradiction/friction between context and rawmaterial, creating a precarious balance between the sayable and the unsayable.

Final product: the organic formation of performative puzzles that cause in the spectator the activation of the speculative mind, forcing them to resort to their own existential heritage for a potential resolution that fortunately does not exist.

Project selected under Lobby program by mala voadora.

5th June .9 pm . mala voadora

6th June . 7 pm . mala voadora

Project selected under Lobby program by mala voadora.

18th June . 9 pm . mala voadora

19th June . 7 pm . mala voadora

Project selected under Lobby program by mala voadora.

19th June . 9 pm . mala voadora

20th June . 9 pm . mala voadora

Workshop: "Text for performance - finding new ways to be a writer" with Chris Thorpe

New dates soon

open rehearsal . 23rd July . 7 pm . mala voadora

A Tralha is an almost monologue about accumulation. An essay on waste and obsolescence in the form of personal narrative.

July 5-7th . 3pm to 4:30 pm . online

For a week Jorge Andrade will write his version of The Future Show by Deborah Pearson.

DigitACT is a transnational ERASMUS+ project that seeks to support young professionals and performing arts technicians to adapt to the needs of digitization and the evolution of their field of work by developing advanced digital skills.

12th to 19th September . artistic residency . mala voadora

22nd November, 9 pm . mala voadora

Paula Diogo imagined the cycle ABOUT REMEMBERING AND FORgetting to talk about the way memory operates in our lives.

20th to 26th September . artistic residency . mala voadora

Here we are human, perhaps demigods, celebrating the mysteries.

4th September . 4 pm . Feira do Livro do Porto .  Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett

By invitation of Gonçalo M. Tavares, Jorge Andrade will participate in the cycle Entre Arder e Durar dedicated to theater. 

28th September – 3rd October . New York

Jorge Andrade will participate in a writing residency in New York, coordinated by John Clinton Eisner, central figure of the prestigious writing laboratory The Lark, and with the participation of Megan McClain.

Yellow Puzzle Horse is a dance for a self-made dress in a constructed forest. The dress, as important as the sewing and the dancing, as forbidden labors.

14th October, 7 pm and 15th October, 9 pm . mala voadora (Queer Porto 7)

The Ark is the third chapter of "The Perfection Trilogy". It aims to cause a strong disruption of social constructs.

16th October . 9 pm . mala voadora

'The body is not only an instrument for experiencing art; nor is it to be understood only as a pedestal or display of art; the body is a decisive point of reference and access to art; the body extends and completes art; the body is the prosthesis of art.'

20th October . 9 pm . mala voadora

Thanatos _ a perforence to the mourning is the third performance of the Dis.autonomia Project, developed by Janaina Carrer since 2017, based on her father's dysautonomia disease.

21st October . 9 pm . mala voadora

book & exhibition 

opening reception, 22nd October, 7-10 pm . exhibition period 23rd -31st October . mala voadora

The Tradition - The Film fuses the disciplines of theatre, dance, soundscape, and documentary to explore the aftermath of patriarchal oppression in Elvas, a small town in Southern Portugal.

23rd October . 9 pm . film + discussion . mala voadora

Arquivo Atlântico, film screenings is a curatorial film program developed by Beatriz Cantinho and Túlio Rosa proposing a selection of films and videos that address the legacies of colonialism in contemporary social, economic and political formations.

27th October . 9 pm . films . mala voadora

18th to 22nd November . mala voadora

New edition of An English Family, by mala voadora.

24th November to 26th December . mala voadora

Invited to the creation "O que vem depois da esperança?", the Brazilian artist Ave Terrena will fulfill a residency in mala voadora to elaborate a dramaturgy based on the search for visibility.

13th and 14th December . Teatro Municipal da Guarda

We are taking the new edition of An English Family to the Teatro Municipal da Guarda.

November and December . mala voadora

John Clinton Eisner is on mala voadora to develop a writing residency, with support of Porto’s City Council InResidence program. During this residency, the artist will develop work on two fronts: (1) the writing of a book of his own and (2) a collaboration with Jorge Andrade in the writing of a text to be staged, in 2022, by mala voadora, entitled Cornucópia.

31st January to 13th February . Residency at mala voadora

12th and 13th February . Saturday at 21:00 + Sunday at 19:00 . Shows

"Sem rede" is a show about the decline of the millennial generation at the heyday of social media and artificial intelligence. On a hot rainy night in 2023, a young courier suffers a motorcycle accident when she crashes into Vicente's car, which was heading to the premiere of the international series that he stars. Instead of going to the hospital, Vicente takes Marta to his house. For a hidden reason, he can't let her out.

19th February . 19:00 . mala voadora

Two men dig and talk. Different people appear — from where exactly?, from the world that we imagine to exist outside the cemetery?, from the images that the Gravediggers' conversation evokes? — bringing different perspectives, experiences, languages.

21st March to 3rd April . Residency at mala voadora

31st March to 3rd April . Tuesday to Saturday at 21:00 + Sunday at 19:00 . Shows

9th and 10th April . Saturday at 21:00 + Sunday at 19:00

In search of visibility, empowerment, a sense of belonging and TRANS* representation in Portugal, the lecture-performance "O Que Vem Depois da Esperança?" critically reflects on how the bodies of people outside the imposed norm of sex-gender-desire were constructed and represented in the media throughout the ages in Portugal’s imaginary.

27th March to 17th April . Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança, Lisbon

The Windows installation, designed for PQ19, addressed the vision mechanisms involved in "looking at the stage." In them intersect (1) the scenographic tradition begun with the European invention of perspective, which led to great part of our stages being seen through a window – the arch of the proscenium – and (2) the image editing possibilities typical of our time, in which we spend many hours looking at windows such as computer monitors and mobile phone screens.

29th March to 3rd April . New York

Jorge Andrade, artistic director of mala voadora, participated in a writing residency in New York, along with other playwrights from different countries.

28th and 29th April . 9:30 - 13:30 . mala voadora

mala voadora will be a partner of another edition of DDD – Festival Dias da Dança. On 28th and 29th April, we will host a conversation in Long Table format, which enables all the intervenients to participate in the talks. DDD, along with Brazil's Festival Panorama is curating a cycle of three talks dedicated to the future of festivals entitled What are festivals for? Talks about (the) future (of) festivals. Talk #3 - An (un)sustainable logic and the (un)feasibility of choices will take place in mala voadora.

11th May . 16:00 . mala voadora . FITEI 45

In FITEI 45, mala voadora will receive the launch of the virtual and free publication resulting from the Ibero-American Forum of Violence and Justice, by the Bombón Theater and of which FITEI is one of the co-producers.

13th May . mala voadora . FITEI 45

17th to 20th May . mala voadora . FITEI 45

FITEI gives the opportunity to companies and artists in the process of creation to develop their projects in the context of artistic residencies. mala voadora will host the residency of a project that Nuno Nunes is developing with the community.

6th to 19th June . mala voadora

CORTEJO is a guided-performatic tour at the gardens of Palácio de Cristal, where the Portuguese Colonial Exhibition of 1934 was held, through which the spaces and ideas of the exhibition are stressed by the absence of buildings and bodies or by their replacement through new themes. The evocation of ruins or empty spaces is the logic that operates the entire route.

17th and 18th June . 21:00 . mala voadora

For the first time, mala voadora will host the final work of a group of undergraduate students at the University of Minho Theater. 

28th to 29th June . Vilnius, Lithuania

mala voadora is going to Lithuania to attend the Third Transnational Meeting of the project “DigitACT: Developing Digital Skills for Young Actors and Young Performing Arts Technicians in the era of Pandemic”. In this meeting, the status of the project will be presented and its next phase will be launched, namely the Implementation of the Workshop in Portugal, scheduled for 2023.

13th July to 4th September . mala voadora

Robert Schenkkan will develop a writing residency at mala voadora, with the support of the InResidence program of the Porto City Council. 

15th to 21st August . mala voadora

Arquivo Atlântico is a research and creation project that proposes to think about coloniality from the elaboration of an archive – a set of gestures, images and reports that have the potential to inform and problematize the present. The project is born from the desire to look at the history of the various territories bathed by the Atlantic Ocean in order to understand the forms of occupation, extraction, hierarchy, exclusion and extermination that mark, even today, the experience of these territories and the colonial legacy present in the relations between the Global North and South.

29th September to 1st October . 21:00 . mala voadora

We live in permanent danger. By the simple essence of being alive, we already know it. But on a planet undergoing marked environmental change, with profound changes to the Earth System, this risk is permanently present.

2nd to 10th October . mala voadora

Xan Colman, artistic director of the Australian collective A IS FOR ATLAS, is at mala voadora to start, with Jorge Andrade, the preparation of the show DINING ROOM TALES.

29th to 30th October, Saturday at 19:00 + Sunday at 17:00 . mala voadora

Talk after the performance . 30th October, 18:00 . mala voadora

This performance is an immersive and ethereal experience, an ecosystem inhabited by the artist and the audience, where two intersected bodyscapes unfold, mapping her identity and circumscribing her transition.

OFF is off. More details soon.

In 2017, mala voadora had the idea that in 2020 we would do OFF. A show about the end. The end of a cycle. The end of our lives, the end of the planet, the end of new ideas, the end of mala voadora. The end of everything. An idea that was anything but original. We all know that the end is inevitable, but at the time it was imagined more distant than now. We thought that there would be time to invent it.

4th and 5th september 2021 . Querer-se morrer confortavelmente na dor, by Filipa Matta and Óscar Silva (Terceira Pessoa) . mala voadora

Querer-se morrer confortavelmente na dor is a performance by Filipa Matta and Óscar Silva, created in the context of the multidisciplinary project “Rastro, Margem, Clarão”, which involves creators in performing arts, visual arts and theoretical essay around Rui Nunes' writing universe.

from October 23rd to November 8th . Corpo Brasileiro - group art show with works by Élle de Bernardini, Andressa Cantergiani, Clara de Cápua, Janaina Carrer, Fabiana Faleiros, Julha Franz, Pedro Galiza, Raphael Jacques, Gabriel Pessoto, Túlio Rosa, Yuri Tuma, Fabiana Vinagre and curated by Petr Hosek . mala voadora

October 24th at 6 pm . Arquitectura e «Pessimismo», by Pedro Levi Bismarck - Launch & Debate about a political condition in architecture . with Sergio Fernandez, Carlos Machado, Bernardo Amaral and Inês Beleza . mala voadora

The progressive integration of architecture in the political-economic structures of neoliberalism, accelerated by the crisis of the last decade, had significant impacts on professional and disciplinary practice.

October 24th at 9 pm . Improvised and Experimental #101 . sound installations with Paulo Alexandre Jorge (sax), José Pereira (drums) and João Magalhães (electronics) & Pedro Melo Alves (drums) . mala voadora

October 28th at 7 pm . Rat Choir - Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir's installation . mala voadora

Rats make sixteen different sounds to express happiness in a frequency undetectable by the human ear. They name each other and play social games according to rules which they express with sounds, as their existence is mostly lived in darkness.

October 30th at 9 pm . Experimental Film Projection #6 - projection of films by Milla Films & Colectivo Vlopcinema, Colectivo Los Ingravidos, Samuel Cortés, Paulo Correa Vargas, Antoni Hidalgo, Tzu-An Wu, Matias A. Donoso, Bernd Lützeler, Laurence Favre, Natalia Fentisova, Jan Rehwinkel, Luisa Greenfield, Deborah S. Phillips, Melina Pafundi and curated by Matias A. Donoso . mala voadora

October 31th + November 1st at 9 pm . Ad Extra - Túlio Rosa & Beatriz Cantinho . mala voadora

Ad Extra addresses the politics of free movement within European space (ad intra), in contrast with the hardening politics of its exterior borders (ad extra).

from September 25th to October 4th . AN ENGLISH FAMILY 2020 . mala voadora . coproduction TNSJ . support Porto's City Council / Criatório programme

Despite the well-intentioned efforts of some artists and institutions, at mala voadora we found no other way of reacting to the present pandemic than to consider it a misfortune for theatre. And we've been developing some apparent paralysis. Publicly, we chose not doing. Instead we dedicated ourselves to thinking about the future, planning it, believing that we'll be together again without asepticisms and the need to produce “theatre patches” instead of theatre. This new edition of An English Family constitutes our return to contacting with the audience. Even in the present context, we've managed to ensure that the family reunited. We took the opportunity to hold a meeting of the “nuclear family”, reinforced in the city by the happy partnership with TNSJ, which becomes our co-producer.

at mala voadora . September 25th at 7pm + September 26th and 27th at 9pm

Our planet is coming to an end.100 humans is all that remains of our species. 99 are already hibernating inside a spaceship. There is only 1 left. With the spaceship, which will depart in search of a new planet to be colonized, follows a record of the memories of its 100 crew members. A record of everything they want to remember when they wake up thousands of years from now in an unknown place. It was an arduous and thorough task. 99 have already finished it and are now waiting for the hundredth to complete their recording so that the journey can begin.

at mala voadora . opening September 25th at 6:30pm . visits from September 26th to October 4th between 4pm and 7pm

at TeCa . September 25th at 9pm + September 26th at 7pm + September 27th at 4pm

FESTIVAL is a sci-fi show. The action takes place in an office, where four people are working. They dedicate themselves to the task of imagining what life after death might be like, and their professionalism depends on their speculative capacity. They dedicate their time to the not-yet-imagined, like art. Ideas like Heaven or reincarnation will seem to be the work of inexperienced people, compared to the thoughts of these four employees, around microbes, waiting rooms, monitoring systems, switches, multiplied people - a festival.

at Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória . September 29th at 9pm + September 30th at 7pm + October 1st at 9pm

The photograph was taken in the lobby of Colégio Salesiano de Lisboa in 1995, the year that the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins came out, the one that would become Miguel N.'s favorite band. We were in the 9th grade, João C. and Filipa N. were in love, Pedro C.C. dreamed of becoming a football player and Rui A. went on television to imitate Mickael Jackson. Almost everyone had a nickname: Testa Rossa, Cavalona, Splinter, Beaver, Chinese, Dumbo. I, the seventh from the left, in the back row, was Olívia Palito. 

at TeCa . October 2nd at 9pm + October 3rd at 7pm + October 4th at 4pm

In 2017, mala voadora had the idea that in 2020 we would do OFF. A show about the end. The end of a cycle. The end of our lives, the end of the planet, the end of new ideas, the end of mala voadora. The end of everything. An idea that was anything but original. We all know that the end is inevitable, but at the time it was imagined more distant than now. We thought that there would be time to invent it. Present stole that time. Thus, OFF will be a show about the end without much imagination. A show that everyone knows how it ends. And as there is nothing to invent, there is all the time to celebrate.

mala voadora is receiving artistic proposals for presentation at the company's space in Porto, in the scope of LOBBY, a programme that will run from May 22nd to May 30th (2020), intended for performing arts projects that are unheard of in the city. 5 projects will be selected to be present in one of several rooms of the mala voadora's building. The applications run until February 10th, 2020.

November 30th. Produção Caseira . action by Isaque Pinheiro . mala voadora

November 30th at 3.30 pm . O Dinheiro, esse sublime valor . conference/debate with António Guerreiro, Elettra Stimilli, Jorge Bateira and Christophe Hanna . mala voadora

October 25th at 9 p.m. Improvised & Experimental No. 76 . concert by João Almeida (trumpet), João Carlos Pinto (electronics), João Valinho (prepared snares and objects). mala voadora

from October 17th to November 3rd . show MON€Y by mala voadora . Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Sala Estúdio)

MON€Y is a collaboration between mala voadora and the artist Deborah Pearson. You can watch two episodes of a sitcom being recorded. Like this, the theatre audience is placed in the situation in which the sitcom studios audience usually is: they watch the recordings, hear recorded laughs that appear to be theirs and are entertained, whenever the recordings pause, by an actor.

October 26th at 9 p.m. Experimental Film Projection . curated by Matías A. Donoso . mala voadora

with films by Chris O’Neill, Rouzbeh Rashidi, Vicky Langan, Maximilian Le Cain, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Daniel & Clara, Santiago Aldunate, Francisca Lira, Francisco Irribarra, Maria Paula Diaz, Matías A. Donoso, Colectivo VlopCinema (Chile) and Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Mexico).

October 27th at 6 p.m. 1989 by Túlio Rosa / Beatriz Cantinho (residence artists) . work in progress - performance . mala voadora

Thirty years ago, Fukuyama announced that the history meets its end in the disappearance of any ideology that could have the power to counteract economic liberalism. Images of the fall of the Berlin Wall were broadcast live, and stories from the eastern revolutions allowed us to imagine a future full of new possibilities.

from October 19th to 30th . Beatriz Cantinho's residence . mala voadora

Choreographer and researcher. Postdoc fellow at CIAC - Algarve University/PT, invited lecturer at the theatre department of the University of Évora and co-director at OSSO Colectivo, an artistic project funded by DGARTES_ Ministry of Culture_2018/19.

from October 17th to 31st . Túlio Rosa's residence . mala voadora

Performer and choreographer. He holds Master’s degree in Performing Arts and Visual Culture - Universidad Castilla-La Mancha/Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid, 2016), Bachelor’s degree in contemporary Dance - Angel Vianna Dance School (Rio de Janeiro, 2011).

from October 9th to 31st . Petr Hosek's residence . mala voadora

Gallerist and art curator. Born in 1988 in Czech republic, Petr Hošek studied art history and the theory of art in Prague and Madrid before he received his MA at Charles’ University in Prague. His MA thesis explored a possibility of presenting Post-Internet Art within the Physical Gallery Spaces. 

October 14th at 9 p.m . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Cine-Teatro de Alcobaça, Books&Movies Festival

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

29th January . 21:00 . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Cineteatro Municipal João Mota (Sesimbra)

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

from September 27th to October 6th . AN ENGLISH FAMILY 2019 . mala voadora and Mosteiro S. Bento da Vitória

An English Family’s fifth edition. It all started when we used this Júlio Dinis’ title to finish a text called “Nós e os Ingleses” (Us and the British) that we wrote for British Council when Tim Etchells was 2014 Lisbon’s City Artist; and we are now doing, in 2019, this festival’s fifth edition. Or almost-a-festival, due to its family dimension. 

October 2nd, 3rd, 5h and 6th at 10pm + October 4th at 6pm . show MON€Y by mala voadora . mala voadora (H room)

MON€Y is a collaboration between mala voadora and the artist Deborah Pearson. You can watch two episodes of a sitcom being recorded. Like this, the theatre audience is placed in the situation in which the sitcom studios audience usually is: they watch the recordings, hear recorded laughs that appear to be theirs and are entertained, whenever the recordings pause, by an actor.

October 4th at 9pm + October 5th at 7pm . show Locker Room Talk by mala voadora . Mosteiro S. Bento da Vitória

Locker Room Talk is written by Gary McNair, one of the most outstanding scottish playwrights of the present time. Talks between men, about women. It’s shocking for its sexist or misogynistic content, and it’s shocking for the way we are confronted with the fact that such content is more expected than we would like to. 

September 30th at 7pm + October 1st at 10pm . show #WOMENANDPOWER by mala voadora . mala voadora (studio)

Mary Beard and I have a few things in common: we both have green eyes, we’re both blonde, although actually her hair is grayish, we both have the same name even though it’s written and pronounced differently, both our mothers are/were teachers and we both read Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Mary Beard is used to doing conferences, this is my first one. 

September 27th and 28th at 10 pm . show IIt's True, It's True, It's True by Breach Theatre . mala voadora (H room)

Fringe First and Total Theatre Award-winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, Breach dramatise the sevenmonth trial that gripped Renaissance Rome, and asks how much has changed in the last four centuries. 

September 30th at 10pm and October 1st at 7pm . show OH YES, OH NO by Louise Orwin . mala voadora (G Room)

This is about having sexual fantasies that don't align with your politics. About understanding what you want and wondering how to ask for it. Award-winning performance artist Louise Orwin asks the difficult questions, taking you on a surreal joyride through female sexuality and violence.

September 27th at 9.30 pm . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

September 29th at 10 pm . show Contra by Laura Murphy . mala voadora (H room)

Drawing from circus and stand up, Contra is a theatrical solo-cabaret of contradictions. Fierce, witty and uncompromising, this highly physical show interrogates personal, social and historical occupations of the female body and explores, literally, where such bodies are positioned and how we are meant to look at them. 

from May 12th to 19th . Entrevista 86 - Residency  + May 25th at 5 pm . Entrevista 86 - Public Lecture .  Patrícia Portela and Alexandre Dal Farra . mala voadora, in association with FITEI

1986. Portugal enters the European Union; the elections are being disputed between Mário Soares, “the cool guy”, and Freitas do Amaral. Eating crows seemed a lesser evil in favour of a radical change in the country and, soon, in the whole world. 

May 10th, 11th and 12th from 5 pm to midnight . Parsomnia . Patrícia Portela . mala voadora, in association with FITEI 

June 1st at 9.30 pm . Lano Kaj Nêgo . Miguel Pereira & Asta . mala voadora

from June 6th to 16th . Windows - installation by José Capela . Countries exhibition . official portuguese representation at Prague Quadriennal 2019

José Capela, co-founder and artistic co-director of mala voadora, is responsible for the official portuguese representation at Prague Quadriennal 2019 (PQ2019), which runs from June 6th to 16th. 

May 8th at 7 pm and May 9th at 10 pm . DINH€IRO . mala voadora's show . Auditório Municipal de Gaia, DDD+FITEI

The type of plot that characterizes TV series such as “Dallas” or “Dynasty” is recreated on stage, hyperbolizing its violence and narrative strangeness. The clear division between good and bad is associated to those who search for excessive profit by exploiting oil and to those who defend ecological causes – the confront is immeasurable. Amongst romantic cruises with a lover, the purchase of the desired son on the other side of the world, huntings in Africa and oil prospection in virgin lands, diverse ways of killing are resorted and everything repeatedly finishes in an abundance of blood.

May 29th, 30th and 31st at 9 pm and June 1st at 7 pm . DINH€IRO . mala voadora's show . Culturgest, Lisbon

The type of plot that characterizes TV series such as “Dallas” or “Dynasty” is recreated on stage, hyperbolizing its violence and narrative strangeness. The clear division between good and bad is associated to those who search for excessive profit by exploiting oil and to those who defend ecological causes – the confront is immeasurable. Amongst romantic cruises with a lover, the purchase of the desired son on the other side of the world, huntings in Africa and oil prospection in virgin lands, diverse ways of killing are resorted and everything repeatedly finishes in an abundance of blood.

May 18th at 10.30 pm and May 19th at 7 pm . Vaga Carne by Grace Passô . FITEI

"Vaga Carne" is a solo play by Grace Passô, who also writes the text of the show. The play is a field game between word and movement, where a woman’s body lives the urgency of the discourse, looking for her identities and a sense of belonging

May 8th at 7 pm . May 9th at 5 pm . Cinderela by Lígia Soares . mala voadora , DDD + FITEI

A man and a woman enter stage and approach each other, disposing themselves with technique in a romantic stationary pose that lasts for the whole duration of the performance. 

May 8th at 3 pm . Wilde . mala voadora & Miguel Pereira . Café-Teatro do Teatro Campo Alegre . DDD+FITEI

“Wilde” is based on Oscar Wilde’s “LadyWindermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman” (a satire on Victorian morality), and more specifically on BBC Radio 7’s radio version of the play from the 1940s. The cunning elaboration of a lie by a woman with a dubious reputation ensures the play’s happy ending.

April 27th at 5 pm + April 28th at 3 pm . Marengo . Ana Isabel Castro . mala voadora . as part of Festival DDD - Dias da Dança

May 13th at 8 pm . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Prestopi / Crossings - International Festival of Independent Performing Arts . Maribor, Slovenia

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

April 12th, 13th and 14th . Haiku . Joana Magalhães . mala voadora

April 12th, 13th and 14th . Desfile Provisório . Joana Mont'Alverne . mala voadora

April 12th, 13th and 14th . Sheherazade - A milésima segunda história de Xerazade . Susana Paixão . mala voadora

April 12 th, 13th and 14th at 9 pm . Triple Bill: Sheherazade - A milésima segunda história de Xerazade, by Susana Paixão / Desfile Provisório, by Joana Mont'Alverne / Haiku, by Joana Magalhães . mala voadora

The three shows are presented in a continuous session, starting at 9 pm.

April 11 th . between 4 pm and 8 pm . workshop with Ola Maciejewska within the BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts . mala voadora

March 8th at 14:20 . It takes two to tango . Guilherme de Sousa & Pedro Azevedo . mala voadora

March 15th at 7 p.m . Descolonizaaaaarte! . Joacine Katar Moreira / INMUNE conference . within the BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts . mala voadora

March 7th at 3p.m . March 8th at 10:30a.m + 3p.m . March 9th at 4p.m . A Manual on Work and Happiness . Teatro Municipal do Porto - Campo Alegre

A group of people, following a manual of instructions, does a show. Doing a show, as much fun as it is, it's laborious. To entertain themselves and the audience, they tell stories. They speculate on what might be work in the future: who will do it, how it will be done, for whom... And, it's like that, between working and talking about work, that happiness will be sought.

March 29th and 30th . Wilde . mala voadora & Miguel Pereira . Théâtre National du Luxembourg

Wilde is based on Oscar Wilde's  Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman – a satire to Victorian moralism.

January 19th and 20th . Teatro Rivoli 87º Anniversary . 100% Porto . Performance by Jorge Andrade (mala voadora) and Marco da Silva Ferreira 

Writing the history of Rivoli is recording defining moments in the life of the city. Our unique history is part of that of the city, it marks its places with each brief, relevant moment. Rivoli lies between big and small history, from a collective scale to the most intimate one, ever since the early 1930s, when opera and theatre dominated the city’s artistic landscape. It even brought sound to film, which was an innovation at the time. Rivoli is a place that crossed many generations, rather different political and social backgrounds, and good and not so good periods. Most importantly, it is a place of renewal and reinvention. 

December 5th, 6th and 7th at 9 p.m. + December 8th at 4 p.m. Fausto by mala voadora . Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa

December 13th and 14th at 9 p.m . Hodierno . by Luís Marrafa with 3rd year Dance at Balleteatro Escola Profissional students . mala voadora

November 9th at 10 p.m. mala voadora's 15th Birthday . mala voadora

It's mala voadora's 15th birthday and Rua do Almada building's 5th. Double ephemeris. Party occasion. The night will open with "Ovid's Metamorphosis", performance in the scope of Forum of the Future, and then the celebration follows, with the party. mala voadora and those who worked in it within this 15 years are joined by the DJs MVRIA and Supa to welcome you.

November 9th at 11:30 p.m. Ovid's Metamorphoses . Forum of the Future . mala voadora

Although "Western History" tells us that during the Renaissance, classical culture served as a key reference for the West as it entered a period of anthropocentrism, classical mythology, also constitutes a universe of miscegenation between the human and the non-human. Putting aside the considerable differences in terms of the historical context, Ovid's Metamorphoses now seem to resonate within the context of the philosophical breakdown of human supremacy.

November 6th at 1 p.m. Gods in Color - Talk/Lunch with Vizenz Brinkmann . Forum of the Future . mala voadora

The white marble used in Greek and Roman temples and statues is one of the greatest symbols of Classical Antiquity. This marble can be found in Art History books, museums, and surviving monuments, and it was precisely this material that that was used to produce copies of these objects - during the Renaissance, Neoclassicism and the various revivals of Classicism in Europe and North America - and which continue to be replicated today. In this context, white marble has become synonymous with good taste, and people who know how to appreciate and surround themselves with references to Antiquity. But is it right to associate white with classical aesthetics?

from October 22nd to November 4th . mala voadora's residence . Fausto . O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo

September, 24th - 26th . between 8.30pm and 11.30pm . Centro Cultural Vila Flor (CCVF), Guimarães

December 10th . 22:00 . mala voadora . White Rabbit, Red Rabbit with Gonçalo Waddington

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

November 15th . 22:00 . mala voadora . White Rabbit, Red Rabbit with Vera Mantero

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

October 10th . 22:00 . mala voadora . White Rabbit, Red Rabbit with Pedro Penim

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

September 10th . 22:00 . mala voadora . White Rabbit, Red Rabbit with Tónan Quito.

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

September 7th + 8th at 10 pm . show Amazónia by mala voadora . Teatro Brás Cubas . Festival Mirada, Brazil

September 12th + 13th at 9 pm . show Amazónia by mala voadora . SESC Vila Mariana, Brazil

A group of avant-garde artists goes to Amazonia to shoot an ecological soap opera. The planet needs it, people are interested, it's ethical, it's urgent, it is going to have audience. #compromisedart The artists are looking for financing and the soap opera's characters too, because they also want to undertake: they want to civilize Amazonia, follow the universal path of civilization. The artists want the soap opera to be realistic - that the actions of the characters are carried out with truth - and we do too. The realism is the future. “Even if it’s true that we really are screwed, let’s not spend the rest of our lives on this planet telling ourselves how screwed we are.”

September 27th at 9.30 pm . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

September 4th - 8th . multiple times . participants' collective projects' public presentation . project Recurso  by Estrutura with mala voadora and José Maria Vieira Mendes . mala voadora

Recurso is a project from the portuguese theatre company Estrutura, with mala voadora and José Maria Vieira Mendes as partners, focused on theatre training. Both a theory and creation course and a research project by a group of trainers are part of it. The course happenned between March and September, 2018, at mala voadora. Between September 4th and 8th, there will be presented two shows co-created by the participants' ("manifesta." e "There's something about the air") and released an online publication. 

September 4th - 8th . multiple times . participants' collective projects' public presentation . project Recurso  by Estrutura with mala voadora and José Maria Vieira Mendes . mala voadora

Recurso is a project from the portuguese theatre company Estrutura, with mala voadora and José Maria Vieira Mendes as partners, focused on theatre training. Both a theory and creation course and a research project by a group of trainers are part of it. The course happenned between March and September, 2018, at mala voadora. Between September 4th and 8th, there will be presented two shows co-created by the participants' ("manifesta." e "There's something about the air") and released an online publication. 

September 4th at 9.30 pm + September 5th at 7 pm . manifesta. . Emanuel Santos, Joana Mont'Alverne, Mafalda Banquart, Tiago Araújo e Tiago Jácome . show cocreated in the scope of Recurso

September 7th at 9.30 pm + September 8th at 7 pm . There's something about the air . Joana Magalhães, João Ventura, Mafalda Lencastre, Sofia Santos Silva e Susana Paixão . show cocreated in the scope of Recurso

We are nostalgists as much as we are futurists

Metamodernist Manifesto

Don´t let the fiction die.

October 14th at 5 pm . No Democracy Here by Liad Hussein Kantorowicz screening . mala voadora

No Democracy Here deals with the topic of political domination. Liad, a lefty human rights defender dominatrix re-educates her right-wing-leaning obedient submissive slaves.

October 14th at 8.30 pm . #LOSMICRÓFONOS by Mont de Dutor . mala voadora

How can we become microphones to amplify our discourse? How can we empower pop culture to suggest rhythms, dynamics, sensations and affections with the potential to open the eye of the beholder and the ears of the listener? What does it mean to be pop or popular?

October 5th at 9.30 pm . show Amazónia by mala voadora . Cine-Teatro Louletano, Loulé

A group of avant-garde artists goes to Amazonia to shoot an ecological soap opera. The planet needs it, people are interested, it's ethical, it's urgent, it is going to have audience. #compromisedart The artists are looking for financing and the soap opera's characters too, because they also want to undertake: they want to civilize Amazonia, follow the universal path of civilization. The artists want the soap opera to be realistic - that the actions of the characters are carried out with truth - and we do too. The realism is the future. “Even if it’s true that we really are screwed, let’s not spend the rest of our lives on this planet telling ourselves how screwed we are.”

September 29th at 9.30 pm . show Amazónia by mala voadora . Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães

A group of avant-garde artists goes to Amazonia to shoot an ecological soap opera. The planet needs it, people are interested, it's ethical, it's urgent, it is going to have audience. #compromisedart The artists are looking for financing and the soap opera's characters too, because they also want to undertake: they want to civilize Amazonia, follow the universal path of civilization. The artists want the soap opera to be realistic - that the actions of the characters are carried out with truth - and we do too. The realism is the future. “Even if it’s true that we really are screwed, let’s not spend the rest of our lives on this planet telling ourselves how screwed we are.”

September 3rd - October 24th . artistic residences programme . Mont de Dutor . mala voadora

In residence at mala voadora, Mont de Dutor will plan and build future projects, take part in mala voadora's work processes, namely in the construction of the show Fausto and work on an adaptation of their show #LosMicrófonos.

October 13th at 9.30 pm and October 14th at 5 pm . Biblioteca Municipal de Marvila, Lisbon

A group of people, following a manual of instructions, does a show. Doing a show, as much fun as it is, it's laborious. To entertain themselves and the audience, they tell stories. They speculate on what might be work in the future: who will do it, how it will be done, for whom... And, it's like that, between working and talking about work, that happiness will be sought.

July 10th . 22:00 . mala voadora . White Rabbit, Red Rabbit with Tiago Rodrigues

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

from July 23rd to 28th - artistic residence mala voadora + Deborah Pearson . MON€Y

MON€Y has as an epicenter a show that will follow mala voadora and Deborah Pearson collaboration and that will be co-produced by Teatro Nacional D. Maria II.

August 10th . 22:00 . mala voadora . White Rabbit, Red Rabbit with João Pedro Mamede

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

5 - 16 June . show your best guess by mala voadora + Chris Thorpe . United Kingdom tour

mala voadora welcomes the second conference of a cycle on June 5th at 7.00 p.m.

Free entry . Limited seats

June 11th - July 5th . residence in Pergine, Italy

A group of people, following a manual of instructions, does a show. Doing a show, as much fun as it is, it's laborious. To entertain themselves and the audience, they tell stories. They speculate on what might be work in the future: who will do it, how it will be done, for whom... And, it's like that, between working and talking about work, that happiness will be sought.

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

12 and 13th May . Y Por Que John Cage? by Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol . mala voadora

“Y por qué John Cage? [And Why John Cage?] is a dramatic study on sound and meaning in a given speech. The power of the sound of words; sound as structure, as a travelling dynamic."

11 and 12th May. Cine-Teatro de Alcobaça

A group of people, following a manual of instructions, does a show. Doing a show, as much fun as it is, it's laborious. To entertain themselves and the audience, they tell stories. They speculate on what might be work in the future: who will do it, how it will be done, for whom... And, it's like that, between working and talking about work, that happiness will be sought.

28 and 29th Abril + 5 and 6th May . The Lonely Tasks by Mara Andrade . mala voadora . Festival DDD - Dias da Dança 

“The Lonely Tasks is a studies series where I intent to document the my body's performative utility.  uma série de estudos onde pretendo explorar e documentar a utilidade performativa do meu corpo. I propose myself to simples tasks, already learnt by me, inserted in an aseptic environment, so that my body reacts by itself: dinner, cleaning, skin care, knitting, physical activities, etc."

26th April . 7 p.m .  show Moçambique by mala voadora . Teatro Municipal do Porto - Rivoli

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

26th April . 7 p.m .  show Moçambique by mala voadora . Teatro Municipal do Porto - Rivoli

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

16, 17 and 18th March . Apollon Theatre . Patras, Greece

A group of people, following a manual of instructions, does a show. Doing a show, as much fun as it is, it's laborious. To entertain themselves and the audience, they tell stories. They speculate on what might be work in the future: who will do it, how it will be done, for whom... And, it's like that, between working and talking about work, that happiness will be sought.

4 + 5 May . show your best guess by mala voadora + Chris Thorpe . Here&Now Festival, Manheim

Your Best Guess is one of the shows to be presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival under the Cameo Live program curated by Deborah Pearson, co-director of Forest Fringe. mala voadora and Chris Thorpe will get together again for the premiere of the show in the UK, after the presentations in Portugal during 2015 and 2016.

13 and 14th April . Cinema-Teatro Joaquim D'Almeida . Montijo

A group of people, following a manual of instructions, does a show. Doing a show, as much fun as it is, it's laborious. To entertain themselves and the audience, they tell stories. They speculate on what might be work in the future: who will do it, how it will be done, for whom... And, it's like that, between working and talking about work, that happiness will be sought.

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

March 24th . project Recurso  opening . by Estrutura with mala voadora and José Maria Vieira Mendes . mala voadora

Recurso is a project from the portuguese theatre company Estrutura, with mala voadora and José Maria Vieira Mendes as partners, focused on theatre training. Both a theory and creation course and a research project by a group of trainers are part of it.

March 10th . 10 p.m. . mala voadora

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

March 22nd . Launch of the Festival DDD - Dias da Dança programming . mala voadora

The Festival DDD – Dias da Dança is a contemporary dance festival that brings together the municipal councils of Porto, Matosinhos and Gaia, through a programme that articulates several performance venues and public spaces, and a multitude of artists, partners and public. 

AN ENGLISH FAMILY returns to mala voadora in 2018. AN ENGLISH FAMILY is an annual program, which achieves this year its fourth edition and that has an announced ending to 2020. In 2018, between February 15th and 18th, the program presents: I Could Go On Singing (Over the Rainbow) by FK Alexander, Story #1 by Greg Wohead and Rachel Mars and History, History, History  by Deborah Pearson. 

February 15th . 10 pm . mala voadora

FK sings live, with accompaniment from noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association and along with the last known recording of Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, at her final concert in Copenhagen March 25, 1969. This was shortly before her death on June 22, 1969, at the age of 47 by drug overdose.

February 17th . 10 pm + February 18th . 10 pm . mala voadora

October 23rd, 1956, a revolution started in Hungary. Hungarians fought Soviet troops on the streets, from their homes, and from the Corvin Cinema, the Revolutionary Headquarters. Deborah Pearson loosely “translates” the film that was meant to be premiered at that cinema on that day.

from February 19th to March 2nd . Xavier de Sousa

mala voadora welcomes the first conference of a cycle on February  19th at 9.30 p.m.

Free entry . Limited seats

February 16th . 10 pm + February 17th . 6 pm . mala voadora

Story #1 is a reflective consideration of how and why we construct narrative. Greg Wohead and Rachel Mars, in the first piece of an ongoing collaboration between them, made to themselves to create something very unlike what they’d tackled previously in their solo work: they’re interested in exploring where danger can poke through the narrative and intersect with the ‘real’. In TV everything is behind a screen. In performance where we acknowledge from the top that we are all in a room together, the ‘realness’ of that - the real-time shifting boundaries of that contract - presents danger far aside from content.

February 10th - 10 p.m. . mala voadora

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

February 8th + 9th . Moçambique . mala voadora's show . Théâtre National du Luxembourg

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Moçambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

January 26th at 9.30 p.m. + January 27h at 7p.m. Amazónia . mala voadora's show . Teatro Municipal do Porto - Rivoli

A group of avant-garde artists goes to Amazonia to shoot an ecological soap opera. The planet needs it, people are interested, it's ethical, it's urgent, it is going to have audience. #compromisedart The artists are looking for financing and the soap opera's characters too, because they also want to undertake: they want to civilize Amazonia, follow the universal path of civilization. The artists want the soap opera to be realistic - that the actions of the characters are carried out with truth - and we do too. The realism is the future. “Even if it’s true that we really are screwed, let’s not spend the rest of our lives on this planet telling ourselves how screwed we are.”

5-17 december . residence ELAH - study for a collective of organisms by THIS TAKES TIME . mala voadora

The international collective THIS TAKES TIME (Aleksandra Osowick, Filipe Pereira, Helena Martos, Inês Campos e Matthieu Ehrlacher) is in residence at mala voadora during the first two weeks of december with ELAH - study for a collective of organisms. ELAH starts in the will to share with the audience the side that is never exposed in their previous project, HALE - a study for an artificial organism.

January 10th - 10 p.m. . mala voadora

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

On December 9, an excerpt from the text written by Pablo Gisbert for mala voadora during the Summer residency will be unveiled in a public reading held at 9pm at L’Arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino (Italy). The event will gather the international partners of the project and the community of Mondaino, who will be part of the staged reading.

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a blind-date between Nassim Soleimanpour's text and the performer. Nassim Soleimanpour is 35 years old and he's iranian. For non-compliance with military obligations, in 2010, he was forbidden to leave the country. Thus, he wrote a text that could have the circulation that he couldn't - White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. A text that doesn't need set, or costumes, or a cast, or rehearsals. In fact, it can not be rehearsed. The performer can't have any knowledge of the text prior to the time - already in front of the audience - it is delivered to him/her.

23 - 25 November . show Quando nós, os mortos, despertarmos by Luís Mestre with 2nd year class of Theatre of Balleteatro Escola Profissional . mala voadora

Quando nós, os mortos, despertarmos or When We Dead Awaken, the last play written by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1899 and staged for the first time in the next year, portrays the individual and the irreparable loss of itself, the presence of a missing body and the absence of a present body, and finally the sacrifice and violence of a life for art. 

18 + 19 November (18:00; 19:00; 21:00; 22:00) . show Kaspar: Palavra Soprada by Alexandre Pieroni Calado . mala voadora

The show Kaspar: Palavra Soprada is at the epicenter of the cross-disciplinary project “Parole Soufflée” with artistic direction of Alexandre Pieroni Calado. “Parole Soufflée” promotes visibility of the prompter function, at the same time as it discusses it as an image of the condition of the subject in his relation with the language. 

4-11 November . Happy Together 3 . mala voadora + Teatro Rivoli + Galeria da Biodiversidade

For the third consecutive year, mala voadora joins Fórum do Futuro, doubly: proposing speakers whose talks integrate the programme of the Forum - the ​Voluntary Human Extinction Movement's activist​, Les U. Knight and the artist, technologist and philosopher, ​Koert van Mensvoort ​- and organizing a call for art, “Happy Together“, which focus on the same theme of the Forum of the Future. The winners of this year's edition were Tiago Cadete, Guilherme Sousa + Pedro Azevedo, and Sónia Baptista (with Carolina 
Campos,​ ​Júlia​ ​Rocha​ ​and​ ​Raquel​ ​Melgue). 

March to October 2018 . project Recurso  by Estrutura with mala voadora and José Maria Vieira Mendes . mala voadora

Recurso is a project from the portuguese theatre company Estrutura, with mala voadora and José Maria Vieira Mendes as partners, focused on theatre training. Both a theory and creation course and a research project by a group of trainers are part of it. The course will happen between March and September, 2018, at mala voadora and will consist of a group of theoretical-practical labs (between March and July) and the development of collective projects (between August and September) then publicly presented at September, 2018. This project is financed by Municipality of Porto's programme Criatório.

10 November (7 pm) . talk Voluntary Human Extinction: Fresh Hope for Planet and People with Les U. Knight/VHEMT . Forum of the Future, Galeria da Biodiversidade (Jardim Botânico)

All human societies encourage procreation, what we short-sightedly call “having children.” This natalism is the natural result of evolution. Throughout our existence, societies which didn’t encourage procreation were overcome by those which did. Although continued growth of our numbers has become a disadvantage, our cultural conditioning prevents us from recognizing this fact. We have been taught that creating another of us is always worthy of celebration. Pair bonding, procreation, and child rearing comprise our default life. Likewise, the idea of our species ceasing to exist in the future is simply unthinkable, though we seem willing to accept tens of thousands of other species’ extinction. Their extinction is considered an unfortunate consequence of our expansion into their habitat — we all have to live somewhere. Wherever we live, not much else lives.

11 November (7 pm) . talk Next Nature: How Technology becomes Nature with Koert van Mensvoort . Forum of the Future, Teatro Rivoli

Interactive paint, medical candy, lab grown meat and the Twitter tooth are a just few of the products that might hit the shelves in the future. Dr. Van Mensvoort designs speculative products to provoke debate on the new technologies that are transforming our lives. Wild systems, genetic surprises autonomous machinery, and beautiful black flowers. Our technological environment has become so complex, omnipresent and autonomous that it becomes a nature of its own. Yet, despite our deep-rooted relationship with technology, most of us are still relatively unaware of how new technologies are introduced, accepted or discarded within our society. Dr. Van Mensvoort will show how technology becomes nature in seven steps and what engineers, inventors, designers and entrepreneurs can learn from that.

4-11 November . video installation The Amazon is the saddest place in the world by Sónia Baptista (with Carolina Campos, Júlia Rocha and Raquel Melgue)

A poetic narrative of attractions and repulsions, sane and insane or, one doesn’t know how much, sane. The Amazon is sad because she’s disappearing, the Amazon is sad because she cannot be taken, the Amazon  is sad because she’s losing herself.

4-11 November . installation Amazónia is not a fiction by Tiago Cadete . Happy Together 3/Forum of the Future . mala voadora

Amazónia is not a fiction is about the documentation of Tiago Cadete’s ten-day trip to the Amazon. That trip was made with the intention of taking only one photograph that could represent the whole trip.

4-11 November . installation Horto - form from touch by Guilherme de Sousa and Pedro Azevedo . mala voadora

The installation “Horto – form from touch” aims to trigger a relationship between two different groups of people, based on the exchange of affection between the people and the plant. That relation between humans and plants is defined by science as Thigmomorphogenesis (of the Greek thigmo "touch", morpho "form ", and genesis "origin").

2 November (21:30) . Battle of Ideas 2017 - Who and what are the Arts for? . Maus Hábitos, Porto

mala voadora is a promotion partner of this year's edition of Battle of Ideas, happening on November 2nd, at 9.30 p.m., at Maus Hábitos, Porto. This year's edition has "Who and what are the Arts for?  as motto and will count with the presence of Vânia Rodrigues, Alexandra Balona, Vera Mota, Manick Govinda and Alistair Donald.

November 245h + 25th at 9.30 p.m. Amazónia . mala voadora's show . Theatro Circo (Braga)

A group of avant-garde artists goes to Amazonia to shoot an ecological soap opera. The planet needs it, people are interested, it's ethical, it's urgent, it is going to have audience. #compromisedart The artists are looking for financing and the soap opera's characters too, because they also want to undertake: they want to civilize Amazonia, follow the universal path of civilization. The artists want the soap opera to be realistic - that the actions of the characters are carried out with truth - and we do too. The realism is the future. “Even if it’s true that we really are screwed, let’s not spend the rest of our lives on this planet telling ourselves how screwed we are.”

November 9th-11th + 15th-19th. Thursday to Saturday at 9 p.m. // Sunday at 5.30 p.m. Amazónia . mala voadora's show . São Luiz Teatro Municipal (Lisboa)

A group of avant-garde artists goes to Amazonia to shoot an ecological soap opera. The planet needs it, people are interested, it's ethical, it's urgent, it is going to have audience. #compromisedart The artists are looking for financing and the soap opera's characters too, because they also want to undertake: they want to civilize Amazonia, follow the universal path of civilization. The artists want the soap opera to be realistic - that the actions of the characters are carried out with truth - and we do too. The realism is the future. “Even if it’s true that we really are screwed, let’s not spend the rest of our lives on this planet telling ourselves how screwed we are.”

21 (10 pm) + 22 (6 pm) October . show Terás sempre a promessa de voltar ao lugar de partida by Ricardo Vaz Trindade . mala voadora

Any of this is new: the consumer society blurred identity, culture and language outlines and created the successful man and woman image, happy people with photoshop-smiles. The media promises placate frustrations and promulgate the goal of always having more, be more grow more. “Terás a promessa de voltar ao lugar de partida” is the story of a woman in conflict with her own growth; a woman with an economy, that has to grow to survive. 

21 October .  show Moçambique by mala voadora . Teatro Micaelense, Ponta Delgada

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

14 (10 pm) + 15 (6 pm) October . show Ad Bestias - Um manual de decoração para sobreviventes by Rafaela Jacinto . mala voadora

The day before my 21st birthday, I got an Hospital red band. The color that covered my wrist was the same the Roman Emperor used to paint the dead beasts at the arena, before offering them to the audience. «Trauma survivors who have PTSD develop trust, closeness and communication issues, which can affect the way they act with others.»

8 October (8.30 pm) . show Your Sexts are Shit: Older Better Letters by Rachel Mars . Queer Porto 3 . mala voadora

In October 2017 Rachel brings a special Queer edition of Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters to Porto. The show features letters from  Joyce, Frida Kahlo, some gay monks. Georgia O'Keeffe, Mozart, Charles Bukowski, Radclyffe Hall, Eleanor Roosevelt and others, plus sexts sent to her by anonymous donation.  

13 October .  show Moçambique by mala voadora . TAGV, Coimbra

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

30 September (5pm) . Ambulatório AICA . Talk with Paulo Pires do Vale and Delfim Sardo . in partnership with Culturgest . mala voadora

On the September 30th, mala voadora welcomes the second meeting in the scope of Ambulatório AICA programme,  this time about the presentation of a book on Alberno Carneiro's three instalations. The three pieces - in exhibition at Culturgest Porto until October 1st - make up telluric situations, in which the countryside presence, recriated in the exhibition area by the rigorous and careful organization of the nature cycle elements.

28 September . show sim sim não não by João Rodrigues, Maria Duarte and Sílvia Figueiredo . Circular – Festival de Artes Performativas . mala voadora

"If I think of someone who tells a story, I imagine a group of people huddled and around them a huge space... particularly scary... maybe they're leaning against the wall, maybe close to the fire, to the fireplace... somewhere, to me, a story is a shelter. [...] The story teller is, at the same time, in the center, intimately, and far on the horizon. He's the horizon, with the story of one side, and in the other, with the universal."

AMAZÔNIA NÃO É UMA FICÇÃO (Amazon is not a fiction) by Tiago Cadete, A AMAZÓNIA É O SÍTIO MAIS TRISTE DO MUNDO (The Amazon is the saddest place in the world) by Sónia Baptista with Carolina Campos and Júlia Rocha, and HORTO – UMA FORMA QUE VEM DO TOQUE (Horto - form from touch) by Guilherme de Sousa and Pedro Azevedo are the call for art's three winning projects of the Happy Together programe's 3rd edition, promoted by mala voadora in partnership with the Municipality of Porto.

30 September . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Teatro Virgínia, Torres Novas

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

20-24 September . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Teatro Maria Matos, Lisboa

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

15 September . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Cine-Teatro Avenida, Castelo Branco

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

9 (part 1, 19h + part 2, 22h) + 10 (part 1, 15h + part 2, 18h) September . show O Espetáculo Mais Contemporâneo do Mundo by Joana Magalhães . mala voadora

4 July - 3 September . call for art HAPPY TOGETHER 3 . in partnership with the Municipality of Porto

mala voadora launches Happy Together 3rd edition's call. Once again, this third edition is a partnership between mala voadora, preparing a show called "Amazónia" to be premiered in November, around ecological questions, and Forum of the Future (Municipality of Porto) which, this year, has "Terra Elétrica" or "Electric Earth" as subject. The research process that mala voadora has been doing for the show "Amazónia"  and Forum of the Future's subject converge in a common thematic territory, in which seems the perfect ilustration of what does it mean to be "happy together".

16 August - 16 October. residency by Greg Wohead . Dois por Dois - mala voadora's international residency programme . mala voadora

Between 16 August and 16 October, with the support of the Municipality of Porto, it is time for the first international residency under DOIS POR DOIS, mala voadora's international residency programme. In 2017, the selected artist is Greg Wohead. Greg Wohead will be working on in different projects, like Call it a Day, a theatre performance made from in loop recreations of a talk wih a Amish couple who decided to que decidiu abdicate of modern technology in the name of their religion, and Story #2, in collaboration with Rachel Mars, a research on the possibilities of radical narrative covertly influenced by political events of 2016. 

21-26 August . show your best guess by mala voadora + Chris Thorpe . Edinburgh Festival Fringe, UK

Your Best Guess is one of the shows to be presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival under the Cameo Live program curated by Deborah Pearson, co-director of Forest Fringe. mala voadora and Chris Thorpe will get together again for the premiere of the show in the UK, after the presentations in Portugal during 2015 and 2016.

7-13 August . residency Chego sempre tarde aos funerais importantes by Catarina Vieira . mala voadora

This project is a reflection about love and death. How do we prepare ourselves to love? How do we prepare ourselves to death? We prepare a rendez-vous with the meticulous care of who prepares a terrorist attack. In both cases, anyone would think we're crazy if they knew all the details invested in this preparations. We intend to explore and feed the tensions between the lonely hero's narrative, who's always ready for everything, with the action fields where the preparation's idea is maybe absurd and dramatic: the love and death.

1-13 August . writing residency A Manual on Work and Happiness by mala voadora + Pablo Gisbert, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino, Italy

L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino is hosting the Writing Residency of the project A Manual on Work and Happiness in the first half of August. Jorge Andrade and José Capela (mala voadora) and Catalan writer Pablo Gisbert will jointly create the text of the play which will generate four different performances in four different cities in 2018. These performances will include the participation of the local communities of Patras (Greece), Alcobaça (Portugal), Montijo (Portugal) and Pergine (Italy).

24-29 July . residency Eurodance by Rogério Nuno Costa/BCN . mala voadora

EURODANCE is a geopolitical and techno-emotional hecatomb, a 190 beats- per-minute counting down towards the end of the world, a bad trip on a rave-plane Hamburgo/Ibiza with elliptic stopover at Pará and emergency landing for fuel at Luanda, a psychotropic drug also known as AzeitegeistTM.

14 + 15 July . International Seminar on Work and Happiness . A MANUAL ON WORK AND HAPPINESS . Pergine, Italy

The project will be launched during Pergine Spettacolo Aperto Performing Arts Festival with the International Seminar on Work and Happiness, on July 14 – 15 2017, where experts will be invited to present their research and the audience will be able to participate in the discussion as well as exchange opinions and perspectives on the topics: happiness, work, laziness, creativity.

4-7 July . Laboratório Estrutura + José Maria Vieira Mendes . mala voadora

Estrutura invited José Maria Vieira Mendes to collaborate on developing a theoretical-practical laboratory, which will start from some ideas around theatrical studies, defended in “Uma coisa não é outra coisa” by José Maria Vieira Mendes (Livros Cotovia, 2016), used to the issue of identities. How do I introduce myself? How am I perceived?  - questions with implications for artistic speech's production and thought on shows.

6 July . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Festival de Almada

Jorge Andrade was born in Mozambique asceu in 1973 and came to Portugal at the age of 4, but in Mozambique (the show) he builds a biography as if he had returned there and lived there all his life. To make this story credible, we imposed it on the History of the country. Jorge Andrade, tomato paste manufacturer, is now part of the Mozambique's History, of its political vicissitudes, of its situation in the context of the Cold War, of the processes of the international economy to which the newly independent country was faced up to.

1 (10 pm) + 2 (6 pm) July . show Longo Curso by Rita Morais . mala voadora

LONGO CURSO has the identity manifestation through movement as main engine. It explores particularly the parallelism between running's practice and emigration, between the athlete and the traveller, being that in both cases, even if in different scales, the movement triggers a similar research, questioning and identity's (re)definition process.

22 June - 2 July . show Beaumarchais by mala voadora + Pedro Amaral . Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Lisboa 

Beaumarchais results from a partnership betweenmala voadora and Pedro Amaral, a composer, maestro and musicologist. It is an opera based on three texts of "Beaumarchais" that already were, all of them, adapted to an opera in the past. The three new versions will be studio recorded, being that studio the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II's stage. There will be the soundproof recording cabin, the microphones, the mixing tables, monitors, all the equipment, catering, technicians, cleaning team, the concierge staff, RP's, everything. There will be real workers - elements of the working class,fulfilling its political and social vocation, that will claim their rights. They will fight, do revolutions and lynch the oppressors. This show could be called Revolutionary Riots at Deutsche Grammophon, or Class Struggle at Decca (this one's less glamorous). Beaumarchais would have like it.