mala voadora

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.

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 6th . 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.

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.

27 + 28 June. open rehearsal + show Showbusiness . mala voadora

SHOWBUSINESS was conceived by mala voadora, a theatre company, for PARTIS, Calouste Gulbenkian Fundation's program.

We gathered two social partners - the Escola de Comércio do Porto and A3S, specialized in social entrepreneurship and evaluation – in order to construct, together, and artistic program that goes along a professional course class.

Dois por Dois is the international residency programme promoted by mala voadora with the support of the Municipality of Porto. In case you’re wondering, ‘dois por dois’ stands for something like ‘two for two’. That is because this residency programme will use our two apartments upstairs to host two artists or curators every year - one from the performing arts and the other from any other art form - that could benefit from this and as long as mala voadora is an adequate space for the work involved.

8-11 June. residency Coleção Delirar a Anatomia: O Palco & O Pavilhão by Ana Rita Teodoro . mala voadora

Delirar a Anatomia  is a collection of feverish studies dedicated to a body part, it is an operation method. A project based in the anatomy study - its history, chinese medicine's perspective, physiology and paleontology — in iconographic or literary crossings, as well as in the empirical experience, that leads to writing scores and coreographic composition. The delirium happens in the friction of facts and fictions, it happens in the attack of the organs and its designted funcions. The ambition is to provoke crysis and revolutions that aloud more freedom in the body's creation and, like this, to redesign its forms, gestures and functions and, like this, to enlarge its way of being and existing. The studies are focused in the orifice. The orifice as pitstop, because the traffic between the inside and the outside provides the delirium. To delirious is to pass.

3 (8 pm) + 4 (6 pm) June . show Rifar o meu coração by Mónica Calle . mala voadora

This creation started with the brazalian documentary “Vou Rifar Meu Coração”, by Ana Rieper, exhibited at IndieLisboa 2012 Festival. The person responsible describes the show as "a work about love and the relation with the music, on a constant swing between fiction and reality. Around a bar table, 15 actores work on the confession's idea, strating from chance or random.

8 June . show Moçambique by mala voadora . PT.17, Montemor-o-Novo

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.

10 June (5 pm) . talk with João Ribas, Delfim Sardo e Jonathan Uliel Saldanha (in partnership with Culturgest) . mala voadora

mala voadora receives, for the first time, a meeting of AICA program, about the exhbitian Afásia Tática by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha at Culturgest Porto. 

The project Afasia Tática, conceived by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha for Culturgest Porto's space, originated in a movie, still in in process of completion, which is decomposed in four screens. The fundamental libretto present in this movie was designed for the piece Sancta Viscera Tua, presented in two churches in Portugal, in times of lent, at the invitation of the Porto's Cathedral's parish priest, in order to build a participatory ceremony, open to all, that could include collective singing, gesture and light.

27 (10 pm)+ 28 (6 pm) May . show NOME by Carolina Campos and Márcia Lança . mala voadora

We start with the old images' universe, images abandoned at fairs, forgotten, left behind. We grabbed this world's fragment to shift it in time, give it new meaning, a sense different from the original, making it explode in various directions and ways. 

20 (10 pm) + 21 (6 pm) May. show Légende by Romain Teule . mala voadora

Légende is a project that, using the conference codes, will approach these questions, having the bird's language and the study of what it can create as a starting point. Légende is an attempt to enter the word's world, to play with them, to question them. What are its powers, its failures? A word as an act.

11-13 May . workshop DasArts Feedback Method with Manolis Tsipos (FESTIVAL DDD - DIAS DA DANÇA) . mala voadora

“Feedback” is one of the most central used tools in DasArts. For the artists who receive feedback, it is one of the most important ways of testing their work and how it is received, with shares of one to one, as well as to the group (peer review). Impressions, critics, suggestions, tips and tricks: everything's included in the notion of "feedback". And all of that is one of the most central tools used in the artistic practice: between directors and actores, playwrighters and critics, students and mentors, artists and their audiences.

6 (4 pm) + 7 (3 pm) May . show A Morte da Audiência by Bruno Humberto (FESTIVAL DDD -  DIAS DA DANÇA) . mala voadora

A performance around the spectator's nature - the expectations, relations, tensions and roles each one accept, individually or as a group, in the situation of a show or scenic terror. Through dance, video, physical theatre, performance and sound, it presents an absurd essay on the spectator, its responsability, action and passivity in large scale.

29 (4 pm) + 30 (3 pm) Aprill . show Point of You by Ricardo Machado & Anna Réti (FESTIVAL DDD -  DIAS DA DANÇA) . mala voadora

Point of You is a game between two performers. Between two performers and their audience. Between two performers and two audiences. Between each one of the performers and its own audience. 

8 (10 pm) + 9 (6 pm) April . show Der Elgnuj by Carlota Lagido . mala voadora

1 + 2 April . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Centro Cultural Guaíra, Curitiba (Brazil)

1 (10 pm) + 2 (6 pm) April . show spa by David Cabecinha . via streaming in https://youtu.be/r_rKESuUEsw

8-9 April . show Moçambique by mala voadora . SESC Vila Mariana, São Paulo (Brazil)

14-19 February. residency Vala Comum by Andresa Soares . mala voadora

19th March (7 pm) . show Triple Threat by Lucy McCormick . AN ENGLISH FAMILY (SINGLE-PARENT) . mala voadora

Hit of the last edition of the Edinburgh International Festival, Lucy McCormick's Triple Threat presents a trashstep-dubpunk version of the New Testament: a medieval mystery for the modern world.

25 (10 pm) e 26 (6 pm) February. show Rabbits by Pedro Baptista . mala voadora

4 (10 pm) e 5 (6 pm) March . show Minotauro by David Esteves and Jani Zhao . mala voadora

8-9 March . workshop O Teatro do Espectador by Terceira Pessoa . mala voadora

11 (10 pm) e 12 (6 pm) March . show The Old Image of Being Loved by Terceira Pessoa and Óscar Silva . mala voadora

21-26 March . residency Efígie by Flávio Rodrigues . mala voadora

11 (10 pm) e 12 (6 pm) February . show FAKE!  by Ana Valentim, Mariana Ferreira, Mário Coelho and Pedro Baptista  . mala voadora

4 February . show philatélie by mala voadora . Cineteatro de Vila Nova de Cerveira

26 (10pm) e 27 (6 pm) November . show Terrarium by André Uerba . mala voadora

2-5 November . programme HAPPY TOGETHER 2016 . mala voadora + Teatro Rivoli

4 + 5 November . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Teatro Viriato, Viseu

22 (10pm) e 23 (6pm) October . show Assentar sobre a Subida das Águas by Sónia Baptista . mala voadora

11 - 16 September . programme An English Family 2016 . mala voadora

AN ENGLISH FAMILY returns to malavoadora.porto between the 11th and the 16th October. This edition offers a special session of “Readings in the Monastery” with Chris Thorpe, multiple screenings of a selection of films by Ben Wheatley and performances from Forced Entertainment, Third Angel and Ira Brand - she co-runs Edinburgh’s Forest Fringe and will make a performance about gender, sexuality, power and Bruce Springsteen. Come and meet the family.

12 October (10pm) . show The Lad Lit Project by Third Angel . mala voadora 

13 October (7 pm) . film Sightseers by Ben Wheatley . mala voadora 

13 October . film Down Terrace by Ben Wheatley . mala voadora

14 October (7pm) . film Kill List by Ben Wheatley . mala voadora 

14 October (10pm) . film A Field In England by Ben Wheatley . mala voadora 

15 October (10pm) . show Break Yourself  by Ira Brand . mala voadora

16 October (4pm) . show Quizoola!  by Forced Entertainment . mala voadora

11 October (9pm) . Leituras no Mosteiro . in partnership with Teatro Nacional São João, Porto

5-9 October (16:30-20:30) . meeting point . mala voadora (Queer Porto 2)

9 October (7 pm) . installation/performance work in progress SU8MARINO . mala voadora (Queer Porto 2)

9 October (17:30) . cycle Normcore Narratives . mala voadora (Queer Porto 2)

8 October (17:30) . show V, ou Finalmente a Casa Amarela by Gonçalo C. Ferreira . mala voadora  (Queer Porto 2)

7 October (11am) . masterclass New Queer Cinema with Tom Kalin e Cheryl Dunye . mala voadora (Queer Porto 2)

6-7 October (17:30) . competition In My Shorts . mala voadora (Queer Porto 2)

5 October (17:30) . show Velvet N'Goldmine by Flávio Leihan . mala voadora (Queer Porto 2)

29 September (10 pm)  . Dança da Crise ou Talvez Ele Pudesse Pensar Primeiro e Dançar Depois ou Como Fazer Coisas sem Dança ou Oldschool #40 by João dos Santos Martins . mala voadora 

23 - 27 September . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Teatro Municipal Maria Matos, Lisboa

24 (10 pm) + 25 (6 pm) September . show O Declive e a Inclinação by Alexandre Pieroni Calado e João Ferro Martins . mala voadora

27 July . filming/performance Practicing Paradigm by Dinis Machado . mala voadora

7 (21h30) e 8 (21h00)  julho . apresentações das PAPs de Dança e Teatro pelos alunos finalistas do Balleteatro . mala voadora 

18 junho (18h00-18h30) . visita à mala voadora com José Capela no âmbito da Semana Acesso Cultura . mala voadora 

7-12 June . residency Minotauro by David Esteves and Jani Zhao . mala voadora 

8 June (9 pm) . THE TEMPEST™, amusement park by Rogério Nuno Costa with the students of the 2nd year of the Degree in Theatre, University of Minho . mala voadora 

3 de junho (21h30) e 4 de junho (19h00) . espetáculo Pirandello da mala voadora . Teatro Municipal do Porto - Rivoli

Pirandello não é uma encenação de uma peça de Pirandello, nem uma biografia do escritor italiano, autor multifacetado e distinguido com um Prémio Nobel da Literatura em 1934. Contudo, Pirandello é uma biografia: a história de Mattia Pascal, tal como a inventou Pirandello, em 1904, no livro Ele Foi Mattia Pascal. Foi este romance que a mala voadora adaptou para teatro, para fazer um espetáculo chamado Pirandello. 

28, 29, 30 April + 5,6,7 May . Meeting Point . Festival DDD - Dias da Dança . mala voadora

29 (18:30) + 30 (15:00) April . show Kid As King by Bruno Senune . mala voadora (Festival DDD - Dias da Dança)

30 April (22:00-2:00) . Opening Party . Festival DDD - Dias da Dança . mala voadora

6 (18:30) e 7 (15:00) May . show Op. 20, Acto I by Gonçalo C. Ferreira . mala voadora (Festival DDD - Dias da Dança)

9 (10pm) + 10 (6pm) April . show Prado de Fundo by SillySeason . mala voadora

2 (10 pm) + 3 (6 pm) April . show 50 Toneladas by Carlota Lagido . mala voadora

19 (10pm) + 20 (6pm) March. show Ensaio para uma cartografia (ou os sete pecados) by  Mónica Calle . mala voadora

12 (10pm) + 13 (6pm) . show Santos e Pecadores by André Murraças . mala voadora 

11 + 12 March . show Universos Paralelos by mala voadora . Teatro Virgínia (Torres Novas)

5 (10pm) + 6 (6pm) March . show Alla Prima by Tiago Cadete . mala voadora 

26-28 February + 2-6 March . show Universos Paralelos by mala voadora . Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisboa) 

25 + 26 February . masterclass with Trajal Harrell (in partnership with Serralves). mala voadora 

30 (16:30) January . artistic platform Colon of Duty by Rabbit Hole . malavoadora.porto

18-25 January . residency Uma Gaivota by Estrutura . malavoadora.porto

11-17 January . residency A Constituição  by Colectivo 84 . malavoadora.porto

9 (10pm) + 10 (6pm) January . show Waltz by Voadora Compañía . malavoadora.porto

16 + 17 December . show Macha by Mariana Tengner Barros / Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte . malavoadora.porto

5, 6, 12, 13, 16 + 17 December . exhibition WEB 2.0 A obra de arte e imagem consumo na era digital by António MV . malavoadora.porto

12 (10pm) + 13 (6pm) December . show Cápsula by Rabbit Hole . malavoadora.porto

30 November - 6 December . residency Terreno Selvagem  by Miguel Castro Caldas, Pedro Gil & Raquel Castro

27 + 28 November . An English Family programme by mala voadora . malavoadora.porto

9-15 November . residency Baroque Musings by António MV + Lotte van Gelder . malavoadora.porto

7 + 8 November . Happy Together programme by mala voadora . mala voadora.porto

mala voadora does a Hamlet - from Shakespeare's version of the play known as “the bad quarto”.

Our work is not based on repertory. But we like “plays”. With the same conviction as we don't limit ourselves to them. Plays, from the most ancient to the newest, are raw materials that we manipulate with as much freedom as we feel necessary to the show (text servicing the show and not the other way around). 

28-30 outubro . oficina no âmbito do projecto Hamlet . São Luiz Teatro Municipal

mala voadora does a Hamlet - from Shakespeare's version of the play known as “the bad quarto”.

Our work is not based on repertory. But we like “plays”. With the same conviction as we don't limit ourselves to them. Plays, from the most ancient to the newest, are raw materials that we manipulate with as much freedom as we feel necessary to the show (text servicing the show and not the other way around). 

24 + 25 October . show Eurodance by Rogério Nuno Costa / BCN . mala voadora.porto

16-18 October . show Viúva, porém Honesta by Magiluth . mala voadora.porto

07-10 October . Queer Porto 1 . mala voadora.porto

1 October (21:30) . performance in the fall the fox, e na queda raposar by Sónia Baptista . Circular Festival . mala voadora.porto

In the workplace, three employees dispute the small powers, climbing and descending the stairs of hierarchy. They reveal themselves between reports, memos and the consumables closet, where they keep the anguish of their souls. «Impostor» is a game with absurd rules, in which the goal is to destroy others, inflating the importance of the role they play in the organizations' structure. Confused? They aren't. They know very well that the semiannual bonuses depend on the talent of their every move.  

11-18 September . residency  Um Triste Ensaio Sobre a Beleza by Mara Andrade . mala voadora.porto

10 September . final presentation of Vitória 283 . uma cidade inteira dentro de uma sala . mala voadora.porto 

mala voadora + Third Angel

As What I Heard About The World approaches 100 presentations in countries like Portugal, United Kingdom, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brasil, Finland, France, Greece, Lebanon and Poland, and before it heads out to Belgium and the United States, Lisbon's mala voadora and Sheffield's Third Angel collaborate again on a new show. It is, quite literally, a project.

25 (21:30) + 26 (17:00) July . show L-O-V-E by Paula Diogo . mala voadora.porto

20 June (11.30pm) . Closing party FITEI . mala voadora.porto

mala voadora does a Hamlet - from Shakespeare's version of the play known as “the bad quarto”.

Our work is not based on repertory. But we like “plays”. With the same conviction as we don't limit ourselves to them. Plays, from the most ancient to the newest, are raw materials that we manipulate with as much freedom as we feel necessary to the show (text servicing the show and not the other way around). 

9-20 June. programme Expatriados by Festival Internacional de Teatro de Expressão Ibérica (FITEI) . mala voadora.porto

mala voadora does a Hamlet - from Shakespeare's version of the play known as “the bad quarto”.

Our work is not based on repertory. But we like “plays”. With the same conviction as we don't limit ourselves to them. Plays, from the most ancient to the newest, are raw materials that we manipulate with as much freedom as we feel necessary to the show (text servicing the show and not the other way around). 

mala voadora + Teatro Oficina

The protagonist of Título e Escritura arrives on stage as a traveler that stumbles upon the audience. He explores that situation. Rambles through things that spring to his mind. Mostly about his own past. He refers to what might have been familiar in that past and confronts the audience in from of him.

mala voadora does a Hamlet - from Shakespeare's version of the play known as “the bad quarto”.

Our work is not based on repertory. But we like “plays”. With the same conviction as we don't limit ourselves to them. Plays, from the most ancient to the newest, are raw materials that we manipulate with as much freedom as we feel necessary to the show (text servicing the show and not the other way around). 

29-31 May . show Wanted by Cátia Pinheiro and José Nunes . mala voadora.porto

18-24 May . residency Mechanical Monsters by Rui Neto . mala voadora.porto

07 May (21:30) . performance arte no/e o espaço público by Carla Cruz . Festival Performance Urbana . mala voadora.porto

11 April (7pm) . book launch Tempus Fugit with poems of Sónia Baptista and drawings of Bárbara Assis Pacheco . mala voadora.porto

An actor and an actress welcome the audience at the studio-theatre room of the National Theatre Dona Maria II in Lisbon. They are both Portuguese, they have studied theater together and they are part of mala voadora. They aim to please the audience. As everybody does. Generally, the reactions of enjoyment of those whom we please are vital; they are a source of contentment (and how actors do appreciate them!). These two actors will give an account of a full day in the life of Louis XIV, the Sun King, the French ‘Roi-Soleil’.

28-29 March . performance Terceira Via by Rogério Nuno Costa . mala voadora.porto

18-22 March . show Ch-ch-changes by Pedro Penim with the Theatre students of Balleteatro . mala voadora.porto

mala voadora + Third Angel

Domestic sounds available on CD as an antidote to loneliness. A company that specializes in selling evidence you've been somewhere when you haven’t. Suits photo-shopped onto photos of dead men so they can look respectable in the paper. Donkeys with stripes painted on. Mourners who never knew you. Replicas. Protesters for hire.

14 março . lançamento da Flanzine . mala voadora.porto 

From the legend of the Trojan Horse of the Classical Antiquity to the contemporary virtual Trojan Horse, the theme of violation assumes diverse shades within the feminine. If the hollow womb of the wood horse carried the Greek army that in the rescue of Helen, spouse of Menelau, would destroy the city of Troy from within its own centre

9-20 February . residency Uncertain Song by Luís André Sá . mala voadora.porto

mala voadora + Third Angel

As What I Heard About The World approaches 100 presentations in countries like Portugal, United Kingdom, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brasil, Finland, France, Greece, Lebanon and Poland, and before it heads out to Belgium and the United States, Lisbon's mala voadora and Sheffield's Third Angel collaborate again on a new show. It is, quite literally, a project.

“When we were children we had a crane with a lame wing. He was friendly and didn't mind our jokes. He strutted along behind us, crying out to us not to run too fast. But in the fall and in the spring when large swarms of cranes were flying over the village, he became very restless. And I could understand why.”

mala voadora + Third Angel

Domestic sounds available on CD as an antidote to loneliness. A company that specializes in selling evidence you've been somewhere when you haven’t. Suits photo-shopped onto photos of dead men so they can look respectable in the paper. Donkeys with stripes painted on. Mourners who never knew you. Replicas. Protesters for hire.

Lígia Soares will experiment with a new solo work another try out for theatrical creation: this time, the speech will not be pre-recorded to support the lack of action, and fiction will no longer be pointed at a woman sitting on a chair wearing a dress, instead it will be projected on a woman dressed as a "chroma key" who, once again, offers up to the public as an intermediary between reality and its "special effects": if it is true that romance was killed by cinema, I won’t sit on a couch, I'd rather get dressed like a prairie so you continue accurately shooting above the skyline.

Ex Machina is a research on the concept of deus ex machina. We intend to investigate the different appearances and representations of deus ex machina in literature, theater, cinema, both classical and contemporary, to reflect on such an efficient and spectacular dramaturgical mechanism and to rethink the common elements of all these representations of the the superhuman. 

5, 10 e 12 dezembro . oficina no âmbito do projecto Hamlet . ZDB

This is the story of a dwarf woman living in the shadow of the pity of a small provincial town’s inhabitants. The dwarf, only about eighty centimeters tall, with a gangly and clumsy walk, always moaning with pain, was for other women but a creeping being, like a child who never grows up. She wasn’t a person really, they said. Her existence was limited, in the eyes of others, to her deformity, her monstrosity, the insurmountability of that body. She lived on the remains of big people, on their possible love. The love of the unfortunate.

DISPLAY tem como mote a superlativação do ego do artista. Como referia Marcel Duchamp “A palavra “artista” foi inventada quando o pintor se transformou num personagem.”

This statement, rightly adopted as the tittle of Susana Otero's first long choreographic work, was a comment by Mark Twain upon the reports of his death due to an alleged illness.

“The walls of separation do not reach the sky” (inscription on a French church) 
A man and a woman stand side by side. They talk to an audience. They hardly look at each other most of the time.

Supposedly Ro.ger it is not a performance, instead it could be a thing, a thing with no name, no definittion, no space, no body but it's not, it has all of it, it is all of it. Sometimes it goes away , it stops being a body to be just the memory of an image in space. 

Mr. Devil is also a dad, and his daughters are stunningly beautiful and bright, because they are between two realities, and they can travel one to the other whenever they wish. Each daughter of the Devil has her own story. One was a princess and would only marry a man her equal in brightness and ingenuity.

mala voadora + Third Angel

Domestic sounds available on CD as an antidote to loneliness. A company that specializes in selling evidence you've been somewhere when you haven’t. Suits photo-shopped onto photos of dead men so they can look respectable in the paper. Donkeys with stripes painted on. Mourners who never knew you. Replicas. Protesters for hire.

“What a powerful beast, this one, a voracious and tentacular animal lying asleep here with its arms and legs spread all over like an octopus: an eccentric octopus, with no central head, no natural conformation; a huge, shapeless mass breathing through various mouths, resting (abandoned) and sleeping, sighing, groaning, sometimes whining.

A stamp collection was the starting point. Its iconography is both theme and visual protagonist of the show. The stamps – magnified and projected on a screen – start off by being an object of philatelic and historical analysis and later become agents of novelistic wanderings, including a recreation of the Portuguese arrival in Japan.

27-29 June+ 10-14, 17-21 September . show A Farsa by As Boas Raparigas . mala voadora.porto

Vitória 283 é um projecto artístico da mala voadora dirigido a crianças da zona histórica do Porto, implementado em parceria com o Centro Social de Nossa Senhora da Vitória (CSPNSV) e a A3S - Associação para o Empreendedorismo Social e a Sustentabilidade do Terceiro Sector, e co-financiado pela Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian no âmbito do programa PARTIS - Práticas Artísticas para a Inclusão Social.

30 agosto 2014 . espectáculo O decisivo na política não é o pensamento individual, mas sim a arte de pensar a cabeça dos outros (disse Brecht). da mala voadora . Festa do Teatro (Setúbal)

Supposedly Ro.ger it is not a performance, instead it could be a thing, a thing with no name, no definittion, no space, no body but it's not, it has all of it, it is all of it. Sometimes it goes away , it stops being a body to be just the memory of an image in space. 

31 July + 1 August . show Infinito Besos by Tania Árias . Citemor . . mala voadora.porto