Gaya de Medeiros & Gil Dionísio

Between an intimate encounter and the magic of the stage there is a lot, but what is the smallest distance between these two instances? Pai para Jantar [Father for Dinner] is a game between Gaya, Gil and the audience, which tries to scrutinize masculinity in a poetic and humorous way. The performance plays with the ways in which we manage words, affections and archetypes around the idea of “being a man”. Done in small groups, the performance suggests a subjective path towards the ballast of our parents that lasts in our personality and is at the base of many desires and failures. A meeting between a butcher woman and a minotaur that got lost in its own labyrinth. — Gaya de Medeiros 


Gaya de Medeiros is 31 years old and is originally from Brazil. She attended the Animation Cinema course at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. She studied classical ballet, contemporary dance, theatre and drama. For 9 years, she was a dancer at Cia de Dança do Palácio das Artes, in Brazil. In Portugal, she collaborated with Tiago Cadete, Sónia Baptista, Gustavo Ciríaco, Alex Cassal and Daniel Gorjão. She staged two shows, BAqUE and Atlas da Boca, which was voted one of the best shows of 2021 by Expresso newspaper. She founded BRABA.plataforma which aims to support, enable and finance initiatives that focus on / target the Trans community.

Gil Dionísio (1988) is a multidisciplinary and self-taught artist in several areas, such as writing, video, cinema, theater and music. He is the founder of a publishing house and a web radio, both dedicated to the underground arts. As an artist, he works as a producer, a promoter, a director, an editor, a designer, a composer, a performer, a creator and a performer (editing and design, by the hands of António Gil). In addition to solo work, with Contos e Lenga Lendas, Sons de Embalar or just with the violin or piano, he is also a frontman, composer and lyricist in Pás de Problème, Ligadura and Criatura. In the last decade, he has performed in theater and dance in regular collaborations with Clara Andermatt, João Garcia Miguel, Sara Ribeiro or Miguel Borges.