© Tomás Laranjo / “ЯΛ́ЯΛ”, 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.
Inspired by cultural manifestations where sound vibration is central – such as the Entrudo of Galicia and Northern Portugal, the Rara and Vodoo festivities of Haiti, and the Carnival of Pernambuco – the piece creates resonant landscapes through the manipulation of sound objects and light sculptures, conceived from wind instruments.
Between gesture, sound, and light, ЯΛЯΛ summons a collective body in constant transformation and proposes a shared psycho-sensory experience, inviting the audience to inhabit a common territory between celebration, intensity, and vertigo.
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 and Mafalda Cardoso
Performers: Duarte Valadares, Inês Luzio, Joana Sousa, Junis Becherer and Leo Calvino
Interns: Mafalda Cardoso
Sound Composition: Clélia Colonna
Sound Composition – Support: Jonathan Uliel Saldanha
Sound Design: Süse Ribeiro
Lighting Design: Santiago Tricot
Sound Instruments – Design and Construction: Sérgio Coutinho
Lighting Installation – Design and Installation: João Ferreira
Masks – Design and Construction: Júlio Alves
Costume Design and 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 and Sofia Palmeiro
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.