Gio Lourenço & Sofia Berberan in residency at Espaço Alkantara
Sobre o Fim [About the End]
- 02.02 — 15.02 2026
Between 2 and 15 February, Gio Lourenço and Sofia Berberan are in residency at Espaço Alkantara, developing their new performance Sobre o Fim.
Sobre o Fim [About the End] begins with the end of a romantic relationship, evolving into a reflection on the idea of endings, both individual and collective. The project explores territories of intersection between Humans and Plants, a kind of botanical memory, creating a shared hallucination, an atmosphere, which gives rise to the possible fiction of this encounter. What matter remains rooted in the end of love? The end is not merely a point of rupture, but an opening for new fictions that emerge from collapse. Plants transform ashes into roots.
The stage design explores botanical performativity and incorporates carnivorous plants, aphrodisiac plants, dream-inducing plants, and plants with healing properties. The sound design is based on sounds produced by the plants, combining pre-recorded sounds with live, real-time plant-generated sounds.
Presentations
Centro Cultural de Lagos: 20 and 21 March
DDD – Festival Dias da Dança: 16 and 17 April
Credits
Artistic Direction Gio Lourenço and Sofia Berberan Performers Ágatha Barbosa, Gio Lourenço, Marcelo Lopes and Sofia Berberan Lighting Design Lui L'Abbate Movement Direction Teresa Noronha Feio Collective Dramaturgy coordinated by Cláudia Madeira Installations and Videos Sofia Berberan Sound Design Ágatha Barbosa and Marcelo Lopes Scenic Design Joana Fins Faria Production Medusa Material
Born in Luanda, Angola, in 1987, and was raised in Portugal. He had a bursary, from Centro Nacional de Cultura, for training in dance and performance at c.e.m - centro em movimento, and is trained in theatre and animação by CERCICA. He is a resident actor at Teatro Griot where he worked as an actor in shows directed by Zia Soares, Rogério de Carvalho, Nuno M. Cardoso, Guilherme Mendonça, Bruno Bravo, António Pires, João Fiadeiro, Hélder Costa e Paula Diogo, José Carretas, Maria Amélia Videira and Genoveva Faísca. His performance Preta was shown in the...
Sofia Berberan (PT) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator whose practice explores the relationship between visual arts, botany and performance. She has exhibited in Portugal, Cape Verde and the United Kingdom, and her work has been published in various newspapers, magazines and books. She holds a degree in Philosophy and a postgraduate qualification in Performing Arts.