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Palcos Instáveis

Dimitri, Eliot & Rita

I’d like to dance the same way you park your car

March

2026

premiere

Fri
6
Sat
7

Sinopse

I'd like to dance the same way you park your car is a performance about the political body, a choreographic essay on imagining a utopian body who inhabits the dystopia. A sequence of attempts, failures, and interrupted gestures. The utopian body is the one that has unlearned how to function: a body of suspended action, that does not master space, that does not respond to the urgency of productivity. We live surrounded by bodies that bend, adapt, offer themselves: useful bodies. This one, by contrast, is the body that refuses, until it becomes dysfunctional, obsolete, inefficient. What emerges is the need to pursue the goal of achieving no goal at all and, in that shared failure, to discover another way of being in the world. — Dimitri, Eliot & Rita  

Palcos Instáveis is a space for risk, experimentation, and artistic provocation, where artists at different stages of their careers—young, emerging, or established—test ideas and challenge languages. A project by Instável – Centro Coreográfico, in co-production with Teatro Municipal do Porto, which supports contemporary dance creation in Porto and the north of the country through residencies, grants, and performances at Teatro Campo Alegre. 


body

utopia

non-production

obsolescence

Color photograph in a dark setting. A person dressed in blue and wearing sandals arches their body while wearing a light-colored mask, positioned upside down.

© DR

Info sobre horário e bilhetes

Fri

6.03

19:30

Accessible to wheelchair users

Sat

7.03

21:00

Accessible to wheelchair users

Campo AlegreStudio

Aditional info

  • Price 
    7€
  • Duration 
    45min
  • Age rating 
    14+

Acessibilidades do espetáculo

Accessible to wheelchair users
Accessible to wheelchair users
Strobe or intense lights

Author's bio text

Rita Soeiro was born in Porto in 1989. She studied the body — through dance — and the mind — through psychology. She later refused to separate one from the other and founded FOSCO, where art and science, instead of opposing each other, engage in dialogue. 

  

Dimitri Thouzery is a French digital artist and designer. Originally trained in the sciences, he later turned to the visual arts and contemporary art, before dedicating himself entirely, from 2017 onwards, to digital and generative arts. His practice explores the intersection of visual arts and technology, where algorithmic processes become tools for creation and aesthetic expression. 

  

Eliot Benoist, born in 1993, is a musician, dancer and actor based in Toulouse. He began with the electric guitar and played in several rock bands during his adolescence, before turning to the performing arts. Trained at Cours Florent in Montpellier, he completed his formation with workshops by Maguy Marin, Katerina Andreou, Rébecca Chaillon, I-Fang Lin, Argyro Chioti and Dimitra Trypani. Since 2022, he has collaborated with Futur Immoral, where he works as both dancer and musician. At the same time, he joined the Kerman / Sébastien Ly company for the piece Explorer (2025). His work develops at the intersection of experimental music and choreographic performance, seeking to create tension between gesture and sound. His performances emerge from minimalist sound devices, where an economy of means opens a space for raw presence and direct engagement with the audience. 

Ficha Técnica

  • Created and performed by 

    Eliot Benoist, Rita Soeiro, Dimitri Thouzery 
     
    Original music 
    Eliot Benoist, Dimitri Thouzery 
     
    Sound engineer 
    Luís Faria 
     
    Digital arts 
    Dimitri Thouzery 
     
    Co-produced by 
    Instável – Centro Coreográfico, Teatro Municipal do Porto 

    Artistic mentorship 
    Nuno Preto 

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