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INSTÁVEL

Centro Coreográfico

 

Fundada em 1999 por Ana Figueira, ao longo de cerca de 10 anos a Instável deu-se a conhecer através dos projetos de Companhia: em cada ano, um coreógrafo conceituado seleciona bailarinos em audição e cria uma nova peça em residência, para depois estrear e circular tanto quanto possível. Com a mudança para o Teatro do Campo Alegre, em 2011, a Instável amplia e consolida o seu trabalho, dando início ao seu caráter de Centro Coreográfico.

VER MAIS
URNA
de Joana Couto

Como é que se desconstrói o indivíduo informado cultural e socialmente, depois de entrar no loop das suas próprias cegas convicções? Urna é a oportunidade não aproveitada, perdida para sempre num não-tempo longínquo. É a perda de perguntas significativas e a obsessão por respostas tranquilizadoras e efémeras. Urna é o que sobra depois da curiosidade, que se torna opressão, que cede lugar ao cacófonico redundante, que por sua vez cede o lugar ao absurdo, que cede o lugar ao vazio, que cede o lugar a novas possibilidades, que geram outras curiosidades. E assim por diante para sempre. O que sobra é um loop; movimentos, palavras, símbolos esvaziados de significado, repetem-se até ao ridículo para podermos refletir acerca da urgência de reduzir (ou elevar?) o ser humano à besta rendida.

2026, February
Sat
FEB 13 AND 14

ЯΛ́ЯΛ / New Creation by Catarina Miranda for Companhia Instável

ЯΛЯΛ is a stage piece for five performers, based on the experience of collective celebration as a space for the expansion, exaltation, and transformation of the body. Rhythm, dance, and sound construct a sonic and luminous environment where bodies traverse liminal states, between wakefulness and vertigo.

Sat
UNTIL FEB 28

Instável Production Course / Evening Schedule

Instável Production Course is an irreverent training program that combines essential topics and key professionals through a modular structure with a strong practical component. Rather than providing fixed working models, it aims to provoke critical thinking, stimulate synergies, and foster interaction.

2026, March
Sat
MAR 6 AND 7

I’d like to dance the same way you park your car / Dimitri, Eliot and Rita

I'd like to dance the same way you park your car is a performance about the political body, a choreographic essay on imagining a utopian body who inhabits the dystopia. A sequence of attempts, failures, and interrupted gestures.

Sat
MAR 6 AND 7

Conto Preto / Nala

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.

Thu
MAR 26

Do Terreiro ao Mundo / New Creation by Clara Andermatt

Do Terreiro ao Mundo is a dance that traverses time. Its steps trace threads of faith, struggle, and craft. What begins in the churchyard extends beyond, carried in body and memory, forging new paths, becoming change, and a living force. It is here.

2026, May
Thu
MAY 7

A SENSE OF / Beatriz Lourenço

In A SENSE OF the audience is invited to co-create a space, where collective power and dreaming are used as modes of protest.

Fri
MAY 28 AND 29

SLUMBER PARTY: HEARTBREAK EDITION / João Oliveira and Mariana Pontes Barbosa

MAN-MAN transports the audience to the intimate and ordinary setting of MAN-MAN, the character who inhabits the stage and his body in the same way: by dressing, undressing and covering.

2026, June
Sat
JUN 20

KOKORO / Ana Isabel Castro and Deeogo Oliveira

1. Hurt, Touched, Grievous, Sad, Plangent, Sensitive, Half Rotten, Broken; 2. Psychophysiological function that consists of experiencing a certain type of sensation; (...)

2026, September
Tue
SEP 15

Apneia / Leo Calvino and Joana Couto

Normality returns quickly and sanity is not at risk, just turn the other way and snuggle back into your own soft and fragrant conceptions. How many layers does a dream have? Where does one person's dream end and another's dream begin? Where is the border between the real and the surreal?

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.