2026, September
Wed
UNTIL SEP 30

FAÍCC / Intensive Course in Interpretation and Choreography

FAÍCC is an intensive, dynamic and interdisciplinary training program, which takes place in the first semester of each year at Instável. It is aimed at performers and creators with solid foundations in contemporary dance who want to deepen their knowledge through a process oriented towards professionalization in the areas of interpretation and choreography.

Wed
UNTIL SEP 30

Open Call / Palcos Instáveis

Palcos Instáveis is a project to encourage emerging creation in contemporary dance. The selected proposals benefit from a creative grant, residence space, artistic support, and presentation at the Teatro Campo Alegre.

2026, October
Sat
OCT 2 AND 3

The Ruin is a Tail / Sancha Meca Castro

An archive isn’t as sterile as one might think. We wake up at dawn to move from the memory of the very first cell. We find that what is gone from the old body still echoes in the new one. The ruin is a tail.

Sat
OCT 2 AND 3

TAMBOR / Melissa Pérez Sousa

TAMBOR is a contemporary dance creation — a solo performance — rooted in autobiographical memories, cultural practices and experiences of migration. On stage, a body searches for states of physical intensity, drawing on the vocabularies of Venezuelan folk dance, street dance and clubbing cultures.

Sat
OCT 10

Do Terreiro ao Mundo / New Creation by Clara Andermatt

This creation stems from an invitation by Teatro Municipal de Vila Real to explore the world of the Pauliteiros de Miranda through dance, between tradition, memory and transformation.

Fri
OCT 16

It’s a Long Yesterday / Carminda Soares and Maria R. Soares

One or two bodies, six at most. It's a long yesterday is an exercise in desire, fracture and multiplication.

2026, November
Thu
NOV 19

Songs of Ascension / Beatriz Moreira, Iris Auguste and Giulia Micelli

The game is played with your eyes closed to switch off the violence of unattainable ideals of beauty, representations and preconceived ways associated with femininity. Connecting with the authorship of their own body, the performers.

Sat
NOV 27 AND 28

Manual de Defesa / Júlio Cerdeira

Conto Preto is a choreographic work that intertwines the spiritualities of Candomblé with the powerful identity of ballroom culture, creating a space for evocation, celebration, and resistance of Black and queer bodies.

Sat
NOV 27 AND 28

MECHITA / Sol Garcia

Conto Preto is a choreographic work that intertwines the spiritualities of Candomblé with the powerful identity of ballroom culture, creating a space for evocation, celebration, and resistance of Black and queer bodies.