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31 July, 7 p.m. Espaço Alkantara Free EntryI was born just a few years after the war of independence and at the beginning of a civil war that would last 16 years, so I can say that my first relationship to life in general was a relationship of violence. The ...

31 July, 7 p.m. Espaço Alkantara Free EntryClara Amaral’s current research explores variations of the act of reading. She asks: In what other way can I read out loud? How can I make that reading out loud into a performative gesture? The act of reading silently (The distance between your ...

13 August, 7 p.m. Espaço Alkantara Free Entry, tickets available 30 minutes before the showing - Limited seatsPlantas e Fantasmas arises from the need to explore charms and magic as tools to dispel the shadow hanging over a disenchanted world — like looking at the dead we would like to ...

18 July, 7 p.m. Espaço Alkantara Free EntryElastic Bodies (working title) is a hybrid project of dance and sculpture that explores distance, connection, and boundaries in relationships with oneself and others. The project works with yarn as an exploratory guide, using its materiality to illustrate space, tension, volume, and restriction ...

4 July, 7 p.m. Espaço Alkantara Free EntryHello Stranger is a dance work that is centered around memories of home and lived experiences within the context of architectural space and surrounding environment. At Espaço Alkantara, New York based choreographer and performer Lisa Parra, in collaboration with Los Angeles DJ artist ...

May 30, 9:30 p.m. Espaço Alkantara Free entry MINA is an experimental project that extends Carlota Lagido's contemporary dance practice to other disciplines that are part of her artistic and life lexicon such as drawing, video, photography, music, cooking, ornithology and botany. The project is divided in different phases — research, experimentation, and ...

19 June, 9 p.m. Espaço Alkantara Free entry As part of their residency for Weather Forecast at Espaço Alkantara, Daniel Pizamiglio and Romain Beltrão Teule invite audiences into the studio for an open rehearsal on June 19.Two persons facing the unknown. Two persons searching in their memories, their futures (predicting? not predicting?) Two persons in research, creating ...