mala voadora & Miguel Pereira

“Wilde” is based on Oscar Wilde’s “LadyWindermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman” (a satire on Victorian morality), and more specifically on BBC Radio 7’s radio version of the play from the 1940s. The cunning elaboration of a lie by a woman with a dubious reputation ensures the play’s happy ending. The appropriation of the appropriation by means of that recording results in a performance in which actors and dancers try to outweigh it through a mixture of playback, theatre, operetta and dance. All characters look like the same ideal woman, thus standardising the female figure and blurring the differences between good and evil, man and woman, young and old.  

mala voadora was founded by Jorge Andrade and José Capela, and it presented its first performance in 2003. Aside from Portugal, mala voadora has performed in Germany, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Cape Verde, Scotland, the USA, Finland, France, Greece, England, Lebanon, Luxembourg and Poland. In 2013, it inaugurated the building at Rua do Almada (Porto). In 2018, mala voadora enters a new era of its journey, creating and programming in an integrated way.

Miguel Pereira attended the National Conservatory Dance School and the Higher School of Dance of Lisbon (Portugal), and he went to Paris and New
York with a scholarship. As a performer he worked with Francisco Camacho, Vera Mantero and Jorge Silva Melo, among others. He also worked with Jérôme Bel on “Shirtology (Miguel)”. As a creator he highlights “Antonio Miguel”, for which he received the José Ribeiro da Fonte New Talent Award and an honourable mention by Acarte-Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2000). He has been an associated artist at O Rumo do Fumo since 2000.