Tender Riot takes place before anything happens — a preparation for revolt, a campsite of exhausted dreamers. The stage becomes a landfill, a concert, a shame ritual, a performance gone wrong, where everybody is in action. We wear every hat, play every role, build and dismantle our own authority, swaddling and manipulating one another — until softness becomes defiance. Somewhere between a puppet show, a protest, and a burnout support group, Tender Riot unfolds as a dream of a riot that never arrives.
Credits
Facilitation and concept
Ana Rita Xavier, Daniel Conant
Co-creation and performance
Ana Rita Xavier, Daniel Conant, Madison Pomarico, Andy Pomarico, Jonas Friedlich, Maurícia Barreira Neves, Belisa Branças
Dramaturgical assistance and artistic doula
Maurícia Barreira Neves
Production
Belisa Branças
Sound composition
Jonas Friedlich
Light
Madison Pomarico
Scenography and costumes
Andy Pomarico
Funding
Bayerische Landesverband Für Zeitgenossischen Tanz
Residency spaces
Backsteinboot, Tanztendenz, Espaço do Tempo, CRL - Central Elétrica, Fábrica Asa, CIAJG
Management
Amparo99
Thanks to
Cristina Planas Leitão, Stephan Bikker, Ingrid Kalka, Ana Paula Ferreira, Manuel Xavier, Túnel, Inga Ivanova
© Daniel Conant
Tender Riot unites seven artists from dance, music, visual art, and performance for their first collaboration. A meeting point between choreography, sound, light, and visual design, the group explores tenderness as resistance and collectivity as practice. Rooted in horizontality and experimentation, they bridge artistic communities across Europe to create works that are both intimate and defiant.