Part of the Braga 25 Portuguese Capital of Culture program, Supracasa is a program to encourage the creation and dissemination of the performing arts.
After a first edition, which offered artistic residencies in 2024 to five artists or companies from the region, whose final works are being presented throughout 2025, the program returned with a nationwide call for proposals, which was open from February 12 to March 12.
With total funding of €39,000, three performing arts projects were selected – two aimed at the general public and one at children and young people – covering the disciplines of Theatre, Dance and Cross-Disciplinary. The artistic residencies should take place throughout this year, culminating in the public presentation of the work in 2026.
The proposals were selected by a jury made up of Mickaël de Oliveira (playwright, director, programmer and artistic co-director of Coletivo84), Laura Lopes (performing arts programmer at Teatro do Bairro Alto) and Maria Inês Marques and Sara Borges, representing the Theatro Circo team.
The selected projects are:
– “GOLDENLADY” (Provisional Title), by Mercedes Quijada
General Audience / Dance and Disciplinary Crossroads
Synopsis: Mercedes Quijada and Melina Koulia, one Spanish and one Greek, dance in dialog with a female choir, evoking the memory of multiple Mediterranean identities. Their bodies absorb visions and respond to the ancestral chant with refined gestures inspired by flamenco and martial arts. In a vibrant dance, they move between exhaustion and delicacy, revealing the shared essence of being a woman, at a crossroads between tradition and contemporaneity.
– CAPRA – or how to say hello to fear, by Roxana Mihaela Lugojan
General public / Theater
Synopsis: “CAPRA – or how to say hello to fear” is a performance based on an ancestral pagan tradition from Romanian and Moldovan collective memory – the New Year’s goat. A ritual of burying the old and welcoming the new – always in celebration. Through the reinvention of this tradition, the story challenges the limits of reality: four women try to overcome their greatest fears by confronting the entity/character Frica. What lies beyond our fears?
– ASSIMÉTRICO, by Beatriz Valentim
Children and youth / Dance
Synopsis: Inspired by David Byrne’s American Utopia, “Asymmetrical” aims to be a show that awakens teenagers to the importance of music, its history and its ways of being created and heard. The body is the relational instrument for the construction of a duet, in a parallel work with participating teenagers. Beatriz invites a composer to create music so that they can investigate and build bodies-instruments for these compositions which, in themselves, emerge from bodily movements.
Minutes of the call are available for consultation:
Minutes 09/04/2025 / Annex 09/04/2025
Minutes 29/04/2025 / Annex 29/04/2024