Erva Daninha

A performance that brings the public space inside, pointing to the diversity of colours, forms, genres and actions. A park, a square, a garden, a meeting point, a crossing point. An intimate human exhibition in the open space. A mirror of the audience; life taking place before us. Accelerated rhythms and rituals of a hurried society that does do not know itself. People crossing each other, watching each other, but knowing nothing of their neighbours. A state of emergency where the little things take on great meaning. Those arriving do not know what happened before. We know little about each other. Only we, the observers, witness the sculptures of time, the before and after, or what is yet to come. — Erva Daninha


Erva Daninha was born in 2006 and focuses on the development of contemporary circus by creating new performances and by programming. Its performances are based on social and political issues it wishes to develop from its own dramaturgical point of view. It carries out a choreographic work that crosses circus techniques with everyday situations, actions and objects. It seeks inspiration in life, attempting to reproduce it in an extraordinary way, while always looking to maintain a narrative, even if an abstract one.