Make Trouble
Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti & um cavalo disse mamãe
CANTAR
March
2026
Fri
20
Sat
21
Sinopse
Eight people resist and survive in a collapsing, violent world. As they embark on a long journey on foot, they make room for imagination and enchantment — like a decaying circus with melancholic yet hopeful performers. And they sing. They sing to ward off pain, to find relief. They sing like Gal Costa on Cantar, her 1974 album released at the height of Brazil’s military dictatorship. They sing for freedom — in times of war, intolerance, and violence, when societies and their States revert to authoritarian politics, silencing and death. They sing even if the circus loses its tent, if the sea floods the cities, if humanity forgets how to love.
Living is dangerous. So is being part of a community where difference and dissonance provoke crises, oppression, and conflict, but also new understandings of what it means to co-exist. What concessions are needed to walk together? — Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti & um cavalo disse mamãe
Living is dangerous. So is being part of a community where difference and dissonance provoke crises, oppression, and conflict, but also new understandings of what it means to co-exist. What concessions are needed to walk together? — Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti & um cavalo disse mamãe
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© Walesca Timmen
Info sobre horário e bilhetes
Fri
20.03
21:30
Sat
21.03
21:30
Campo AlegreAuditorium
Aditional info
- Price
7€
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Duration
1h20
- Age rating
12+
- Aditional information
Spoken in Portugues and English
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Accessible to wheelchair users
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Author's bio text
Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti (1984) is a Brazilian artist working in dance, theatre, and performance. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Dance, a Master’s degree in Education, anda PhD in Modern Literatures and Cultures. Queer, non-white, and neurodiverse, he began his artistic journey at the age of 9. He is the founder and artistic director of the independent, multidisciplinary, and transboundary collective, um cavalo disse mamãe, based in Lisbon. Living between Portugal and Brazil, his research focuses, among other topics, on non-human animal behavior, its poetics and symbolisms, physical theatre, and dance-theatre. In Rio de Janeiro, he collaborated for seven years with choreographer Lia Rodrigues, an experience that strongly resonates in his own work. His creations include Contra a espada (2005), Cabíria corta o cabelo (2013), Mãe (2015), Um corpo foi achado (2018), Também se matam cavalos (2022), Quando eu morrer me enterrem na floresta (2023) and 52blue (2024).
Ficha Técnica
- Created, directed and performed by
Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti
Co-created and performed by
Bárbara Cordeiro, Francisca Pinto, Mayara Batista, Piero Ramella, Sara Paternesi, Yaw Tembe
Direction assistant
Francisca Pinto
Original music
Yaw Tembe
Lighting and technical direction
matéria leve
Lighting
Ska Batista, Josefa Pereira
Lighting accompaniment and mentoring
Leticia Skrycky
Writing about the lighting project
Naiana Padial
Documentation and social media
Walesca Timmen
Photos
Walesca Timmen, Sara Giraldo
- Executive production
Sinara Suzin (Alkantara)
Produced by
Alkantara
Co-produced by
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Alkantara
Creation Support
OPART, E.P.E./ESTÚDIOS VICTOR CÓRDON
Co-production residency
O Espaço do Tempo
With the support of
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Goethe Institut - Culture Moves Europe, La Caldera, Companhia Instável, PAF (Performing Arts Forum), Forum Dança, Centro Cultural da Malaposta, Ilê do Mestre Peixinho, N’goma Capoeira Angola
