“ЯΛ́ЯΛ” / New Creation by Catarina Miranda for Companhia Instável
ЯΛЯΛ is a stage creation for five performers that explores the power of musical phenomena within contexts of collective celebration.
Departing from an interest in frequency, sound vibration, and altered states of consciousness, the work is inspired by Entrudo celebrations in Galicia and Northern Portugal, the RARA festivities of Haiti, and figures such as the Urso Macaco Louco from the Pernambuco Carnival.
Through the use of wind instruments and light sculptures, the piece seeks to evoke resonant soundscapes and experiences of a collective body — somewhere between machine, animal, and instrument.
Catarina Miranda
Catarina Miranda has been developing and presenting creation projects grounded in fictional discourses, whose languages intersect dance, voice, scenography, and light, approaching the body as a vehicle for hypnagogic transformation and awareness of the present.
She holds a degree in Visual Arts (FBAUP) and a Master’s in Choreography (EXERCE, ICI–CCN Montpellier). Her work is defined by the construction of topographies and bodies that are simultaneously archetypal and post-human.
Her projects, including ΛƬSUMOЯI, CABRAQIMERA, DREAM IS THE DREAM, REIPOSTO REIMORTO, and BOCA MURALHA, have been presented at venues such as the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Gulbenkian Foundation, and the Serralves Museum.
She collaborates with Companhia Instável as both a tutor and artist, and has presented the works SHARK and RAM MAN within Palcos Instáveis at Teatro Municipal do Porto.
In 2024, through her collective COBRACORAL, she collaborated with FAÍCC students on the project S-P-H-Y-M-O, presented at the Serralves Foundation.
Dance / M6 – 60 min
vibration — altered states of consciousness — resonance — wind instruments — cultural celebrations — exoskeleton
Upcoming dates
Premiere / February 13 and 14, 2026 / Palco do Auditório at Teatro Campo Alegre
Direction and Creation: Catarina Miranda
Assistant Director: Àngela Díaz Quintela
Co-creation: Àngela Díaz Quintela, Catarina Miranda, Duarte Valadares, Inês Luzio, Joana Sousa, Junis Becherer, Leo Calvino, Mafalda Cardoso, and Tiago Miguel
Performers: Duarte Valadares, Inês Luzio, Joana Sousa, Junis Becherer, and Leo Calvino
Interns: Mafalda Cardoso and Tiago Miguel
Sound Composition: Clélia Colonna and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha
Sound Design: Süse Ribeiro
Lighting Design: Santiago Tricot
Design and Construction of Sound Instruments: Sérgio Coutinho
Light Installation Design and Installation: João Ferreira
Mask Design and Construction: Júlio Alves
Costume Making: Diana Regal
Artistic Residencies: Instável – Centro Coreográfico, Teatro do Campo Alegre, and La Palleira
Co-production: Instável – Centro Coreográfico and Teatro Municipal do Porto
Production: Companhia Instável
Executive Production: Rita Santos
Support: La Palleira
Instável is supported by the Portuguese Republic – Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts and is a resident structure at Teatro Campo Alegre, within the Teatro em Campo Aberto programme.