Filipe Moreira & Lola Sousa

The genesis of FIBRA [Fiber] lies in the visual potential of costumes, adopting them as main character and the starting point for scenic creation. The clothes-body epidermis emerges as the medium to explore the ambiguity and beauty of human emotions linked to the idea of deformity and metamorphosis. Based on the limitations and adjustments between the wearable piece and a body, one finds pretexts to reflect upon what’s beautiful and ugly in a symbiotic relationship whose inherent concern is a more active sensory communication between matter, artist and spectator. By wearing the textile wrapping, the performer isolates himself from the outside. Smells, sounds and touch become more acute and at the same time concentrated, and are thus dominated. That which is visible takes on a dance of numerous identities. — Filipe Moreira and Lola Sousa


FILIPE MOREIRA creates performances, and body and voice are his creative tools. He has a degree in acting from ACE – School of Arts and another in choreography from the Falmouth University.

LOLA SOUSA is a costume designer at Teatro do Bolhão. As a creator she explores textiles when designing oddly-shaped, wearable and haptic objects.