Supracasa is a program that supports artistic creation in the performing arts, resulting in the co-production and promotion of selected shows. Its first edition, in 2024, enabled artistic residencies for five artists/companies from or based in the region.
At the invitation of the project, the stage of Theatro Circo saw the presentation of the projects Hide to Seek by Júlio Cerdeira, Duelo by Joana Providência, and Hei-de Reparar by Raquel S., with the presentation of the remaining creations, by Ana Baptista and Ana Isabel Castro, scheduled for the last quarter of the Portuguese Capital of Culture.
In this second edition, Supracasa expanded its scope to the whole country and selected three new creations in the field of performing arts — two projects aimed at the general public and a third for children and young people. The three projects will have an artistic residency throughout 2025 and will be presented during 2026, as part of Theatro Circo’s program.
The selected projects were:
– “GOLDENLADY” (Provisional Title), by Mercedes Quijada
General Audience / Dance and Interdisciplinary
Synopsis: Mercedes Quijada and Melina Koulia, one Spanish and one Greek, dance in dialogue with a female choir, evoking the memory of multiple Mediterranean identities. Their bodies absorb visions and respond to ancestral singing 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 the intersection between tradition and contemporaneity.
– CAPRA – or how to say hello to fear, by Roxana Ionesco Mihaela Lugojan
General audience / Theater
CAPRA — or how to say hello to fear is a show by Roxana Ionesco created from an ancestral pagan tradition of Romanian and Moldovan collective memory — the New Year’s goat — a ritual of renewal. A CAPRA that seeks to mirror our innermost selves — those parts that, because they are so unknown, frighten us. Fear blocks me, the unknown blocks me, but not here. CAPRA is the connection between the past and the future, a “CAPRA–bridge” that allows us, collectively, to question what exists beyond Fear.
– ASSIMÉTRICO, by Beatriz Valentim
Children and youth audience / Dance
Synopsis: Inspired by David Byrne’s American Utopia, Assimétrico aims to be a show that awakens teenagers to the importance of music, its history, and its ways of creating and listening. 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 construct body-instruments from these compositions, which themselves emerge from bodily movements.
Curated by Maria Inês Marques and Sara Borges
Partners
Artist Residency: Espaço do Tempo, Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva
Creation Scholarship: ANTECIPAR O FUTURO, an initiative of the D. Maria II National Theatre, with the support of NTT DATA and in partnership with Espaço do Tempo
Co-production: Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva, Festival DDD, Teatro Diogo Bernardes / Ponte de Lima Municipality, Teatro do Bolhão, Teatro Municipal do Porto and Instável – Centro Coreográfico