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I seek new ways to present and share a process that has been and continues to be the streets, that has been and continues to be clubbing, that has been and continues to be intimate, that has been and continues to be crooked. A process that doesn’t fit neatly into any format, which is why I search for it. It is a practical, lived investigation. Being present in places and spaces, being part of them, not taking away, but being.

I tell stories, share personal archives and others collected over many years. I question performance, I question academia, I question the body, and I weave together plants, the city, and the social processes of destruction and construction of cultures and bodies. Always in the plural. Literally, it means being crossed (atravessada) by something, by many things. To be intersected. To be mischievous, to unsettle. To serve myself on a platter. To be a street crossing between two larger streets. To be a crossing.

Overlays of memories and volcanoes. Street culture and entangled nature. Clubbing spaces for a single body.
Crowded imagery for a lonely space. Tissue, from Fascia to Cosmos.
Oracles for never-ending parties.
To (dis)solve the world into full nothingness

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Credits

Concept, Performance, Text
Piny

Sound designer
Leo Soulflow

Video Editing
Pedro Jafuno

Graphic Design
Bruna Borges

Video archives
Piny’s personal archive and the OU.kupa festival archive

Light Design
Cárin Geada

Research and rehearsal support
Rebecca Mateus

Outside eye
Teresa Coutinho, Melissa Rodrigues, André Cabral (additional people to be added)

Production & Distribution — Accompanied Artist by Materiais Diversos, 2026–2028

Co-production
DDD - Festival Dias da Dança (PT); Charleroi Danse - Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE); TBA - Teatro do Bairro Alto (PT)

Co-production in residency
Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (FR), in partnership with CAMPUS PCS (PT); O Espaço do Tempo (PT), within the framework of the Associated Artist programme.

Residency Support
Alkantara (PT); A QUINTA, Sandim (PT)

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Piny believes in artistic creation as a space of freedom and in cross-disciplinary research that bridges academia and informality. She is a dancer, performer, choreographer, researcher, and teacher. Born in Lisbon, of Portuguese and Angolan descent, she trained in Architecture and Contemporary Dance. In 1999, she began studying North African dances and their contemporary fusions, and since 2006 she has also been engaged with Hip Hop, Clubbing, and Ballroom cultures. Her practice unfolds across performance, creation, and curatorship.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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