RENATA PORTAS & EMÍLIO GOMES

How does tableware dance? Or three glasses? Is a chainsaw able to dance? A ballet owing as much to theatre (especially fairground theatre, a lost tradition) as to children’s stories (and their unlimited ability to animate everything surroundingchildren), music, circus and operetta. A ballet born from our inability to simply name human bodies moving about in a space looking for meaning (dramaturgical or not) as dance. An evening of grotesque ballet in honour of terrifying nights. — Renata Portas and Emílio Gomes

Renata Portas is a theatre director, actress and dramatist. She is the artistic director of Público Reservado, a company theatre established in 2013. She staged plays and texts by authors such as Valère Novarina, Heiner Müller, Euripides, Peter Handke and Pedro Eiras, among others.

Emílio Gomes completed a degree in theatre studies/performance at the School of Music and Performing Arts (Porto). He was a resident actor at Teatro Oficina, between 2003 and 2005, and from 2008 to March 2015, having worked with João Garcia Miguel, Marcos Barbosa, Jorge Andrade, Alberto Villareal and Cristina Carvalhal, among others.