2026, July
Fri
UNTIL JUL 31

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.

Fri

PULSO / Support and Mentoring for Choreographers

In five months of work, PULSO aims to improve the development and production capabilities of creators and artists with projects in the creation phase.

2026, September
Wed
SEP 16

MAN-MAN / Tiago Miguel

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.

Wed
SEP 16

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, October
Sat
OCT 2 AND 3

The Ruin is a Tail / Sancha Meca Castro

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
OCT 2 AND 3

TAMBOR / Melissa Pérez Sousa

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
OCT 10

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.

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.