Diego Bragà in Luxembourg for TalentLAB 2025

We at the Nightclub Suffer Together

ALKANARA - Diego Bragà is in the center of the photograph, looking directly into the lens, with arms hanging by their side. They are dressed in a long, shiny black coat, reaching down to their bare feet buried in the sand. In the background, the horizon line and the evening sky, fading from orange to purple. - ©Rui Palma — @ Rui Palma

17.02 — 21.02 2025

Broken hearts, Latin Americans, African Americans, and immigrants pulsed in a loop during the disco era of the 1970s. They all died. This is war. Miss Universe takes refuge in a bunker that was once a disco —in the height of fascism— in Copacabana, where she encounters gay ghosts. From a real archive —her uncle Richard Wagner’s— merging into fiction, WE AT THE NIGHTCLUB SUFFER TOGETHER is a hyper-pOPERA where the bunker becomes a ghostly, utopian disco, reinterpreting homoerotic themes through an androgynous transfeminist lens.

WE AT THE NIGHTCLUB SUFFER TOGETHER is a utopian and ghostly opera for the dance of our ghost-archives and an empowerment of queer ancestral survival tools. It’s a theatrical, operatic gesture, born from a love note received in a nightclub in the ‘70s, to embrace suffering and to usher in a beautiful future ahead.

— Diego Bragà

From 17 to 21 February and 30 May to 9 June, Diego Bragà will be an artist in residence in Luxembourg as part of the TalentLAB 2025 programme. At the residency, Diego will be accompanied by Nico Spinoza and Pedro Joaquim Borges.

With We at the Nightclub Suffer Together, Diego Bragà was one of the selected artists for CommonLAB 2024. She also was an artist residency at Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre in Brussels, as part of our annual exchange programme. We at the Nightclub Suffer Together is now one of the three Alkantara production projects for the year of 2025.

Credits

Direction, Libretto & Composition Diego Bragà Performers Diego Bragà, TBA Musical Direction, Soundscape Nico Spinoza Musical Production Pedro Joaquim Borges Hypeer-Pop Electronics & Beats Diana XL Choreographic support/ Movement dramaturg Tânia Carvalho Light design Rui Monteiro Technical direction Ana Carocinho Set design Carlota Lagida and Martim Paintings Martim Production Alkantara Residency Support TalentLAB and Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg Support for creation OPART, E. P.E./Estúdios Victor Córdon Support for dramaturgy CAMPUS/Rivoli, Festival END, Bolsa de Escrita Teatro Oficina Co-production Alkantara, in the context of Common Stories, a Creative Europe programme funded by the European Union Creation Grant O Espaço do Tempo, with the support of BPI and ‘la Caixa’ Foundation

Diego Bragà

Diego Bragà (she/they) is a technical and intuitive trans non-binary Luso-Brazilian artist-theatre-maker, filmmaker, composer and dramaturg – born in Belo Horizonte (BR) and based in Lisbon (PT). Diego is currently one of the emerging artists selected for Common Stories - Common LAB - to explore the shifting notions of diversity in a changing European society. In 2021, through an autobiographical film, she received the fellowship for young filmmakers from the Sundance Institute and her film “Think About The Beautiful Future Ahead” and can be seen in the Op-Docs...