Palcos Instáveis

A "no after" in consecration. A kind of posthumous praise for something that never received its due value. In memory of what existed, Sagração de quem Era places human interaction with nature in a prism of praise and fiction, in an act of denial, in an accidental attempt at greenwashing. If the apocalypse was the end, there would be no after. The very term "post-apocalyptic" is at its core a contradiction in terms. The idea that after a climate disaster there is an after is in itself a denialist act of self-sabotage, as the Earth will continue to exist without us. And so I travel the world, irreversibly, unable to keep up with the time in which I live. — Margarida Constantina

Margarida Constantino is a choreographer and dancer born in Porto. She studied at Artez, in Arnhem, with a specialization in theory and artistic research from the Honors program. Margarida began her career in the arts at the Academy of Music of Vilar do Paraíso and Ginasiano, having also studied at ESD - Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa. During her time in the Netherlands she presented works by Marco Goecke, Elias Lazaridis -Sidi Larbi / Eastman Foundation, Trisha Brown with Eva Karzach, Roser Lopez Espinosa, Krisztina de Châtel, Eldad Ben-Sasson, among others. She performed several plays, including 21, at the Korzo theatre in The Hague, That's so Tapical in collaboration with Laura Daelemans, promoted by Instável - Centro Coreográfico. In recent years she has worked as a dancer at Nicole Beutler Productions, leineRoebana, among other choreographers in Amsterdam, and simultaneously as a movement director and performer for Michal Grycko's film Tao Naar Dis about the artistic direction of composer Jesse Passenier, among other projects in videodance and music videos.