Daniel Seabra / Erva Daninha

In a circus performance, two aerial acrobats constantly look for balance between two bodies, using a loose rope with two ends at a height of seven metres. That rope, that unstable and unsteady string changes the perception of the audience concerning the bodies on stage. Our starting point is that rope, which hangs the need for something else besides a simple connection. We depend upon this link, upon this rope that leaves us hanging and secures us. That ties us up, but holds us. Every action has a consequence as far as the status of the other is concerned, and such linkage forces us to trust one another.


DANIEL SEABRA was born in Porto and started his artistic career in 2010, specialising in aerial acrobatics at Chapitô. He worked as aerialist for the Royal Circus (2013) and Cirque Pinder (2014), among others. He also collaborated with companies such La Fura dels Baus and Companhia da Esquina. In 2017, he worked with João Pedro do Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira in Palhaço Rico fode Palhaço Pobre [Rich Clown Fucks Poor Clown] for BOCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts. He participated in the creation of Companhia Erva Daninha’s Savar A. M. In 2018, he directed the project Fractions of a Whole for Imaginarius Festival and premiered his first solo, Crisálida [Chrysalis], in the scope of Mostra Estufa. As a creator he focusses his research on merging circus with other artistic languages, in order to perceive the way in which they contaminate each other.