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Techno-Zombies is a performance that operates at the threshold between realities — where flesh meets code, and the visible is haunted by the spectral. Drawing from the aesthetics of science fiction, the immersive logic of video games, and post-human discourses, the piece opens up a space of instability: a zone where perception fractures, presence multiplies, and reality teeters on the edge of collapse. We begin with the premise that a single space can contain multiple layers of existence. Like moving through portals or game levels, we shift from the everyday to the supernatural, from flesh to algorithm. This sensory confusion — where dream and wakefulness, avatar and subject, blur into one — gives rise to a contemporary epic: stories crafted in an attempt to make sense of isolation, digital exhaustion, the collapse of memory, and the breakdown of the body. A liminal zone where affect becomes ambiguous and identity dissolves into recursive loops. Bodies blur into mirages, while emotions are rendered into data streams, absorbed by algorithms.

Credits

Dancers/Actors 
Ana de Oliveira e Silva, Ana Freitas, Maria Antunes, Francisco Rolo, Lewis Seivwright

Concept, Artistic Direction, Space, Sound and Video Design
Ana Borralho & João Galante

Choreographic Support
Maria Antunes

Dramaturgical Support
Fernando Ribeiro

Light Design
Joana Mário

Original Soundtrack
Coolgate aka João Galante

Costumes
TBA

Digital Video Effects
TBA

Video Assistance
TBA

Artistic Assistance (Creation Residencies)
Tiago Gandra

Production
casaBranca

Co-production
Teatro das Figuras, Cineteatro Louletano

Co-production in Residency
O Espaço do Tempo

Support
Câmara Municipal de Lagos

© Bruno Simão

Ana Borralho (1972) and João Galante (1968) met each other while they studied visual arts at AR.CO (Lisbon) and worked together regularly in the 90's as actors/co-creators with the portuguese theater group Olho in Cacilhas/Almada (near Lisbon). They have been working together on projects of their own since 2002 on performance art, dance, theatre, installation, photography, sound and video art. Since 2004 their work has been frequently shown on international festivals. Borralho and Galante are co-founders of the casaBranca cultural association. They are also artistic directors/curators of the live art festival Verão Azul (Lagos/Portugal). They live and work in Lisbon and Lagos (Portugal).

Ana Borralho & João Galante / Casabranca (PT)

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