Entrevistas
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.
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
Project selected under Lobby program by mala voadora.
19th June . 9 pm . mala voadora
20th June . 7 pm . mala voadora
OFF is a science fiction show.
10th June . 7 pm . Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães
19th June . 9:30 pm . Teatro Municipal de Portimão
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 . mala voadora
21st may . 20h (performance in portuguese) e 22nd may . 20h (performance in english) - Escher Theater (Luxembourg)
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
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.
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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.
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.
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 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).
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.
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 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.
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
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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).
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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at mala voadora . opening September 25th at 6:30pm . visits from September 26th to October 4th between 4pm and 7pm
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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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.
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May 10th, 11th and 12th from 5 pm to midnight . Parsomnia . Patrícia Portela . mala voadora, in association with FITEI
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
April 11 th . between 4 pm and 8 pm . workshop with Ola Maciejewska within the BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts . mala voadora
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.
from October 22nd to November 4th . mala voadora's residence . Fausto . O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo
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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?
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.
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?
September, 24th - 26th . between 8.30pm and 11.30pm . Centro Cultural Vila Flor (CCVF), Guimarães
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.
April 12th, 13th and 14th . Sheherazade - A milésima segunda história de Xerazade . Susana Paixão . mala voadora
April 12th, 13th and 14th . Desfile Provisório . Joana Mont'Alverne . mala voadora
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.
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.
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.
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.
5 - 16 June . show your best guess by mala voadora + Chris Thorpe . United Kingdom tour
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
mala voadora welcomes the first conference of a cycle on February 19th at 9.30 p.m.
Free entry . Limited seats
mala voadora welcomes the second conference of a cycle on June 5th at 7.00 p.m.
Free entry . Limited seats
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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.”
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.”
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.
Does a person feel happier working or not working? Does work provide the solution for our collective happiness? Or rather does laziness? These are some of the core questions of A manual on work and happiness, an international collaborative project whose final result will be a text conceived as a manual explaining step by step how to construct a performance which, in turn, illustrate how to possibly achieve happiness through working. This show can be set up in any part of the world, simply by following the instructions guidelines, just like a DIY manual.
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 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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Amazónia is a mala voadora's project that - among other programming activities around ecology - will create a show, that is going to premier on November 9th at São Luiz Teatro Municipal, in Lisbon, included in the programme of Lisbon Ibero-American Capital of Culture 2017. 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. Because it wouldn't make sense to address an ecological theme without being ecological, this show's concretization is based on the element's thrift.
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.
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.»
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.
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 (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.
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
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."
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.
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.
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).
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.
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".
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.
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.
8-11 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Beaumarchais is the result of a partnership between mala voadora with the composer, conductor and musicologist Pedro Amaral. It is an opera inspired by three texts of Beaumarchais – The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother – which already have been, all of them, adapted for opera in the past. The three new versions will be live recorded in a studio mounted on the stage of Dona Maria (National Theatre). There will be the proper soundproofed recording cabin, microphones, mixing tables, monitors, all the infrastructure, catering, technicians, cleaning crew, staff, public relations, everything. There will be true workers – elements of the working class who, fulfilling their political and social vocation, will claim for their rights, fight, make revolutions, lynch their oppressors. This show could be called Revolutionary Riots in the Deutsche Grammophon, or Class Struggles at Decca (this one is less glamorous). Beaumarchais would like it.
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.
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.
1 + 2 April . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Centro Cultural Guaíra, Curitiba (Brazil)
8-9 April . show Moçambique by mala voadora . SESC Vila Mariana, São Paulo (Brazil)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
8-9 March . workshop O Teatro do Espectador by Terceira Pessoa . mala voadora
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11 (10 pm) e 12 (6 pm) March . show The Old Image of Being Loved by Terceira Pessoa and Óscar Silva . mala voadora
4 February . show philatélie by mala voadora . Cineteatro de Vila Nova de Cerveira
2-5 November . programme HAPPY TOGETHER 2016 . mala voadora + Teatro Rivoli
11 October (9pm) . Leituras no Mosteiro . in partnership with Teatro Nacional São João, Porto
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
22 (10pm) e 23 (6pm) October . show Assentar sobre a Subida das Águas by Sónia Baptista . mala voadora
5 October (17:30) . show Velvet N'Goldmine by Flávio Leihan . mala voadora (Queer Porto 2)
6-7 October (17:30) . competition In My Shorts . mala voadora (Queer Porto 2)
5-9 October (16:30-20:30) . meeting point . mala voadora (Queer Porto 2)
7 October (11am) . masterclass New Queer Cinema with Tom Kalin e Cheryl Dunye . mala voadora (Queer Porto 2)
9 October (17:30) . cycle Normcore Narratives . mala voadora (Queer Porto 2)
9 October (7 pm) . installation/performance work in progress SU8MARINO . 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)
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.
24 (10 pm) + 25 (6 pm) September . show O Declive e a Inclinação by Alexandre Pieroni Calado e João Ferro Martins . mala voadora
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
7 (21h30) e 8 (21h00) julho . apresentações das PAPs de Dança e Teatro pelos alunos finalistas do Balleteatro . mala voadora
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27 July . filming/performance Practicing Paradigm by Dinis Machado . mala voadora
23 - 27 September . show Moçambique by mala voadora . Teatro Municipal Maria Matos, Lisboa
18 junho (18h00-18h30) . visita à mala voadora com José Capela no âmbito da Semana Acesso Cultura . mala voadora
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.
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
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)
29 (18:30) + 30 (15:00) April . show Kid As King by Bruno Senune . 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
12 (10pm) + 13 (6pm) . show Santos e Pecadores by André Murraças . mala voadora
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19 (10pm) + 20 (6pm) March. show Ensaio para uma cartografia (ou os sete pecados) by Mónica Calle . mala voadora
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
11-17 January . residency A Constituição by Colectivo 84 . malavoadora.porto
26-28 February + 2-6 March . show Universos Paralelos by mala voadora . Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisboa)
Universos paralelos is a science fiction show. It's the first day of work for three security guards in a company. They begin, as in their duty, to watch everything that happens through surveillance cameras. The head of security mysteriously disappears: first from the company, then from everyone's memory and, finally, from the images captured by the surveillance cameras.
Universos paralelos is a science fiction show. It's the first day of work for three security guards in a company. They begin, as in their duty, to watch everything that happens through surveillance cameras. The head of security mysteriously disappears: first from the company, then from everyone's memory and, finally, from the images captured by the surveillance cameras
11 + 12 March . show Universos Paralelos by mala voadora . Teatro Virgínia (Torres Novas)
Universos paralelos is a science fiction show. It's the first day of work for three security guards in a company. They begin, as in their duty, to watch everything that happens through surveillance cameras. The head of security mysteriously disappears: first from the company, then from everyone's memory and, finally, from the images captured by the surveillance cameras.
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
30 November - 6 December . residency Terreno Selvagem by Miguel Castro Caldas, Pedro Gil & Raquel Castro
9-15 November . residency Baroque Musings by António MV + Lotte van Gelder . malavoadora.porto
27 + 28 November . An English Family programme by mala voadora . malavoadora.porto
7 + 8 November . Happy Together programme by mala voadora . mala voadora.porto
10 September . final presentation of Vitória 283 . uma cidade inteira dentro de uma sala . mala voadora.porto
11-18 September . residency Um Triste Ensaio Sobre a Beleza by Mara Andrade . mala voadora.porto
16-18 October . show Viúva, porém Honesta by Magiluth . 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.
1 October (21:30) . performance in the fall the fox, e na queda raposar by Sónia Baptista . Circular Festival . mala voadora.porto
Festival is a sci-fi show. The action takes place in an office, where you can go in and out by some doors. In this office, there are people working. Their job is to imagine what may be life after death and their professionalism rests in their capacity to speculate (ideas like Heaven or reincarnation will seems inexperient's job). They dedicate their time to the non-imagined-yet.
9-20 June. programme Expatriados by Festival Internacional de Teatro de Expressão Ibérica (FITEI) . mala voadora.porto
We can’t help living in the future: booking flights for our holidays, organizing birthday parties, writing applications, sending invitations, producing t‐shirts
for tours... all of this are merely suppositions. When the time comes, those things may happen according to plan, or not. What if we could rewrite History? Or, at least, what if we could imagine that things might have gone a different way? Or anticipate all possible paths leading us to‐wards the future, so we could be prepared for any possible scenario? Or actually live in anticipation a certain event believing it will definitely happen?
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
18-22 March . show Ch-ch-changes by Pedro Penim with the Theatre students of Balleteatro . mala voadora.porto
28-29 March . performance Terceira Via by Rogério Nuno Costa . mala voadora.porto
Pirandello is not a Pirandello's play staging, nor the italian writer's biography, multifaceted author and distinguished with a Literature's Nobel Prize at 1934. However, Pirandello is in fact a biography: the history of Mattia Pascal, just like Pirandello invented it, at 1904, in the book The Late Mattia Pascal. This was the romance mala voadora adapted to theatre, to do a show called Pirandello.
9-20 February . residency Uncertain Song by Luís André Sá . 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
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.
5, 10 e 12 dezembro . oficina no âmbito do projecto Hamlet . ZDB
28-30 outubro . oficina no âmbito do projecto Hamlet . São Luiz Teatro Municipal
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Companhia Maior + mala voadora
Speaks one at a time and everyone refers to a superlative thing - the more this, the more that... Or, as it's written in the title, the best, the fastest, the worst, the saddest, the hardest, the funniest. But not only. They also talk about the smallest thing of the world, and the biggest, the best way to die, the best city to fall in love.
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.
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.
“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.
O workshop será centrado nas questões teórico-práticas que estimularam a sua última criação “de repente fica tudo preto de gente”. As ideias de Elias Canetti no livro “Massa e Poder” e a formação de uma massa disforme de singularidades, vão ser elementos abordados neste encontro com o coreógrafo brasileiro.
3-7 February + 7-11 March. residency Oslo – fuck them all by Mickael de Oliveira and Nuno M. Cardoso . mala voadora.porto
11-13 April . show Indicação para se perder by Constança Carvalho-Homem and Teresa Coutinho . mala voadora.porto
7 + 8 June . show End of Transmission by Mariana Tengner Barros/BCN . malavoadora.porto
Um filme feito de planos misteriosos e sons que se perdem ao longe, familiares às personagens imersas num dia-a-dia rural. Vemos um homem caminhar pelo campo, um artesão concentrado no seu ofício enquanto aplica uma ideia à madeira, matéria por domar, natureza pura à espera dos sonhos do Homem.
31 July + 1 August . show Infinito Besos by Tania Árias . Citemor . . mala voadora.porto
“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.”
5-6 julho 2014 . espectáculo what I heard about the world da mala voadora + Third Angel . Theatre Monnot (Beirute, Líbano)
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)
9-14 September . residency Prospecção # 5 by Miguel Loureiro . mala voadora.porto
28-29 janeiro 2014 . espectáculo what I heard about the world da mala voadora + Third Angel . Principal Club Theatre at Mylos (Thessaloniki, Grécia)
31 janeiro-2 de Fevereiro 2014 . espectáculo what I heard about the world da mala voadora + Third Angel . Bios (Atenas, Grécia)
7 fevereiro 2014 . espectáculo philatélie da mala voadora . Centro Cultural do Mindelo (Cabo Verde)
10-11 maio 2014 . espectáculo what I heard about the world da mala voadora + Third Angel . Festival Here&Now (Mannheim, Alemanha)
Sullied deals with the notion of purge processes, of exorcism, the getting rid of the prevailing of appearences. Sullied bodies, impure bodies, abject bodies, bodies on the virge of being consumed by the voracity of the images they produce. There is, nevertheless, a certain beauty and atraction for the excess, for searching for the limits, for the process of questioning what they project for the outside: like a game of decaying identities looking for a possible reconstitution.
8 fevereiro 2014 . espectáculo Título e Escritura da mala voadora + Teatro Oficina . Centro Cultural do Mindelo (Cabo Verde)
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.
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’.
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’.
Three pieces by August Strindberg. Three plots about the exercise of power through intimate dialogue, consisting of an increasingly reduced number of characters. Rogério de Carvalho was invited to stageCredores, the first of the plays.
Through the chance encounter of two men in New York’s Central Park and the consequent diagnosis of the social (and interior) contexts that distinguish them, Edward Albee triggers in The Zoo Story “an examination of the American way of life […], a stand against the notion that everything in our sliding land is great.”
To stage the soliloquy A Noite Mesmo Antes das Florestas, by Bernard-Marie Koltès, was invited Miguel Loureiro, who had already participated as an actor in a show conceived based on that text, staged by Álvaro Correia.
To stage Albert Camus’ “The Justs” – a confrontation of ethical perspectives on sacrificial deaths motivated by an ideal of world transformation - a connection was established between, on one hand, the attempts made by the members of the terrorist group in order to accomplish the attack on the Grand Duke and, on the other, the attempts made by the group of actors in staging the show.
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.
From a set of three actresses united by friendship, each one invited, in turn, the other two to have dinner at their home. The sounds and dialogues produced during the collective preparation of the three dinners were recorded and gave rise to a script: an array of actions, objects, kitchen sites, routes and dialogues.
The diptych hard I + II has as its theme two ingredients of the most common “spectacular”. Hard I is about violence, from the body to the war, from the family to the international competitions, and it develops around a family nucleus “father, mother and son” and stories of elephants.
Show aimed at children. A series of travel postcards serves as a pretext to show the alterity allowed by the theater and the various components of its construction on stage.
The show was the result of a comission from the “O Estado do Mundo” Forum, part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of F. C. Gulbenkian. Starting from Walter Benjamin's homonymous essay, interpreted as a monologue, the show then develops as a journey through books of different species, organized in 5 cycles [...]
The show develops around the idea of traveling. In two ways. On the one hand, it aims to evoke the civilization's travel over time, since the Noah's Ark episode until the Titanic's tragic wreck. On the other hand, the travel - or, more specifically, the tourism - is presented like the current manifestation of the development moral paradox. the travel also served as a reference for the scenic construction of the show, between bagage transportation rituals, accident prevention warnings and far-flung landscapes.
First show of a cycle about identity, it has an assembly format. Speeches excerpts from multiple XX century heads of state (from Stalin to Mandela, from Mussolini to Arafat) follow without being noticed where one ends and the next one starts, independently of what we think it's the relevance of each one.
Chinoiserie, about the cultural identities, was conceived based on a collection of around 2000 bibelots. Such as the peculiar East images offered by chinoiserie, the bibelots are imaginative. Their interest is, on the one hand, in the possibility of being faithful to what they represent, on the other, on their capacity to create representation.
From the information compiled in the book The 101 most influential people that never lived (by Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan and Jeremy Salter), real/show is situated between the fictions that involve the most popular characters and the phenomena associated to their success: the values they disseminate, the influence they practice, the producted they sell or the bad effects they cause.
Music and light effects announce the beginning of a grandiose show. A man in a t tuxedo enters, stops and will remain motionless until the end of the show. The only variations will be the light casting down upon him, the soundtrack (music about film characters performed live by two actors) and the video that occupies the back of the stage.
Starting from the speeches used by mala voadora on the show O decisivo na política..., Miguel Loureiro directed Spitx. After those sppeches had been indifferently juxtaposed to expose the rhetoric that is subjacent to them all, now, in Spitx, Loureiro proposes to “retreat from the public dimension of discourse, ideological entity, for an imaginary projection of the intimacy of its author."
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.
On stage, three actors design a show. They rehearse it, discuss it, and put on costumes to act in it. Besides these three artists, other professionals execute tasks that contribute to the making of the show: a women irons costumes, another prepares appetizers that the actors will later eat in a staged party, a man paints the wall that serves as backdrop to that party.
Overdrama was the first text that Chris Thorpe wrote for mala voadora. Taking as reference ongoing events at the time of writing, Overdrama portraits a situation of social turmoil, on the break of generalized catastrophe. A group of individuals recounts their personals dramas and, through them, their stand – more involved or more detached - on events.
In memorabilia the main events of 2011 are reviewed like it is costume at the end of each year: the most devastating catastrophes, the most determining political facts, scientific breakthroughs, records, tabloid gossip, personalities that died, weddings, the most notable cultural events, etc.
Eight women, at a party, move between the inside and the outside of a house. Between the house and the garden. House & garden are two plays acted out by the same cast, portraying the same roles, in two different stages. The audience sees one and then the other.
From a collection of traditional stories from the region of Guimarães, Chris Thorpe wrote a text that, in accordance with mala voadora's proposal, reflects the typical structure of melodrama. Dead end relates to things as fate and sacrifice, a certain darkness - things that, in melodramas, are arranged so that Good succeeds.
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 + Teatro Oficina
Don DeLillo's The Day Room is a circular play. Everything takes place in an hospital room, which is also another room is the same hospital, which is also a motel room, which is the possible venue for a theater show, which is a hospital room. People that disguise themselves so they can obverse people disguising themselves.
mala voadora + Association Arsène + Simon Rummel
Jorge Andrade is Portuguese, Odile Barbelley is French and Simon Rummel is German. Paraíso 1 is a musical for three voices in which a landscape is described. To dream up a landscape, or a heavenly setting, is to dream up a way to describe them.
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 + 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.
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.
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.
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.
mala voadora + Association Arsène + Simon Rummel
Jorge Andrade is Portuguese, Odile Barbelley is French and Simon Rummel is German. Paraíso 1 is a musical for three voices in which a landscape is described. To dream up a landscape, or a heavenly setting, is to dream up a way to describe them.
mala voadora + Association Arsène + Simon Rummel
Jorge Andrade is Portuguese, Odile Barbelley is French and Simon Rummel is German. Paraíso 1 is a musical for three voices in which a landscape is described. To dream up a landscape, or a heavenly setting, is to dream up a way to describe them.
Eight women, at a party, move between the inside and the outside of a house. Between the house and the garden. House & garden are two plays acted out by the same cast, portraying the same roles, in two different stages. The audience sees one and then the other.
Eight women, at a party, move between the inside and the outside of a house. Between the house and the garden. House & garden are two plays acted out by the same cast, portraying the same roles, in two different stages. The audience sees one and then the other.
Eight women, at a party, move between the inside and the outside of a house. Between the house and the garden. House & garden are two plays acted out by the same cast, portraying the same roles, in two different stages. The audience sees one and then the other.
mala voadora + Teatro Oficina
Don DeLillo's The Day Room is a circular play. Everything takes place in an hospital room, which is also another room is the same hospital, which is also a motel room, which is the possible venue for a theater show, which is a hospital room. People that disguise themselves so they can obverse people disguising themselves.
mala voadora + Teatro Oficina
Don DeLillo's The Day Room is a circular play. Everything takes place in an hospital room, which is also another room is the same hospital, which is also a motel room, which is the possible venue for a theater show, which is a hospital room. People that disguise themselves so they can obverse people disguising themselves.
mala voadora + Miguel Pereira
Wilde is based on Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman – a satire to Victorian moralism. The play's happy ending is guaranteed by the cunning orchestration of a lie by a women of doubtful reputation. Wilde is specifically based in the radio version of the play produced by BBC Radio 7.
mala voadora + Miguel Pereira
Wilde is based on Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman – a satire to Victorian moralism. The play's happy ending is guaranteed by the cunning orchestration of a lie by a women of doubtful reputation. Wilde is specifically based in the radio version of the play produced by BBC Radio 7.
mala voadora + Miguel Pereira
Wilde is based on Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman – a satire to Victorian moralism. The play's happy ending is guaranteed by the cunning orchestration of a lie by a women of doubtful reputation. Wilde is specifically based in the radio version of the play produced by BBC Radio 7.
mala voadora + Miguel Pereira
Wilde is based on Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman – a satire to Victorian moralism. The play's happy ending is guaranteed by the cunning orchestration of a lie by a women of doubtful reputation. Wilde is specifically based in the radio version of the play produced by BBC Radio 7.
From a collection of traditional stories from the region of Guimarães, Chris Thorpe wrote a text that, in accordance with mala voadora's proposal, reflects the typical structure of melodrama. Dead end relates to things as fate and sacrifice, a certain darkness - things that, in melodramas, are arranged so that Good succeeds.
From a collection of traditional stories from the region of Guimarães, Chris Thorpe wrote a text that, in accordance with mala voadora's proposal, reflects the typical structure of melodrama. Dead end relates to things as fate and sacrifice, a certain darkness - things that, in melodramas, are arranged so that Good succeeds.
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 + 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 + 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 + 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.
To stage Albert Camus’ “The Justs” – a confrontation of ethical perspectives on sacrificial deaths motivated by an ideal of world transformation - a connection was established between, on one hand, the attempts made by the members of the terrorist group in order to accomplish the attack on the Grand Duke and, on the other, the attempts made by the group of actors in staging the show.
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.
Primeiro espectáculo de um ciclo sobre identidade, tem o formato de um comício. Excertos de discursos de múltiplos chefes de estado do século XX (de Estaline a Mandela, de Mussolini a Arafat) sucedem-se sem que se perceba onde acaba um e começa o seguinte, independentemente do que julgamos ser a pertinência de cada.
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.
mala voadora + Association Arsène + Simon Rummel
Jorge Andrade is Portuguese, Odile Barbelley is French and Simon Rummel is German. Paraíso 1 is a musical for three voices in which a landscape is described. To dream up a landscape, or a heavenly setting, is to dream up a way to describe them.
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 + 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.
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.
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).
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 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 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 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).
Music and light effects announce the beginning of a grandiose show. A man in a t tuxedo enters, stops and will remain motionless until the end of the show. The only variations will be the light casting down upon him, the soundtrack (music about film characters performed live by two actors) and the video that occupies the back of the stage.
mala voadora + Miguel Pereira
Wilde is based on Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman – a satire to Victorian moralism. The play's happy ending is guaranteed by the cunning orchestration of a lie by a women of doubtful reputation. Wilde is specifically based in the radio version of the play produced by BBC Radio 7.
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