A ritualistic pop concert-performance by an Afro*saloia* artist who grew up in a rural African suburb on the outskirts of Lisbon. She is in the process of recording an album, but struggles to choose the songs, the styles, the aesthetic. Before the word, there is SOUND, MATTER—what reverberates in the HEART. To inhabit what has been forgotten, and what is unimaginable.
Credits
Direction and Performance
Isabél Zuaa
Dramaturgy Support
Melissa Rodrigues, Mauro Hermínio
Musical Creation and Sound Design
Carolina Varela
Movement Support
Piny, Vânia Dutel Vaz
Vocal Support
Joana Campelo
Costume Design and Space
Eloísa d'Ascensão
Video
Heverton Harieno
Light Design
Bee Barros
Sound and Video Operation
Isaac Veloso
External Eye
Bruno Huca
Production
Joana Costa Santos
Administration
Agência 25
Co-production
Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Festival Singular, Teatro Municipal São Luiz
Co-production in Residency
O Espaço do Tempo, Centro de Criação de Candoso
Support
República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto I DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes, Casa da Dança
© Marcelo Hallit
Isabél Zuaa is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Lisbon, with origins in Angola and Guinea-Bissau, and experiences in Brazil.
Zuaa creates dramaturgies in which bodies like her own occupy centrality and protagonism, proposing narratives where presence, identity, and memory intertwine. Through the artistic object as a living archive, she summons biographies and references to generate expansive questions.
In 2019, she founded the AURORA NEGRA collective with Cleo Diára and Nádia Yracema.
Isabél was highlighted in BANTUMEN's POWERLIST 2021, 2022, and 2025 as one of the 100 most influential personalities in the Lusophone world.