AURORA (or BOOK) is a project under development with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. AURORA is a creation that dreams of other ways of “seeing.” Imagine a performance that takes place with your eyes closed. We don’t know exactly where it happens, whether in someone’s living room, in a black box theater, or on the streets of a city. There is a line that stretches between reality and fiction. A line that starts at the tip of a finger and extends into space. Aurora is also the moment between night and day, the period of light when the sun has not yet risen, when everything is diffusely illuminated in a tension between darkness, shadow, and light. It is the moment that is not yet.
In this work, Paula Diogo invites a group of collaborators to create a habitat for the body, allowing it to be thought of as a tactile and reactive matter, which, when deprived of sight, activates other ways of reading the world and relating to reality.
Premiere scheduled for 2026.
direction and creation Paula Diogo co-creation João Lopes Pereira and Renato Linhares performers João Lopes Pereira, Paula Diogo (alternating with Márcia Lança) and Renato Linhares dramaturgical support Mariana Ricardo external viewpoint Joana Gomes and Márcia Lança light design Wilma Moutinho Torres Vedras’ light operation Catarina Côdea sound design Suse Ribeiro original soundtrack João Lopes Pereira in dialogue with Mariana Ricardo and Yaw Tembe set and technical direction and staging to be defined video recording and styling Masako Hattori photo João Tuna project management Paula Diogo and Daniela Ribeiro executive production Ricardo Arenga and Má-Criação co-production Má-Criação and Teatro Viriato residencies Alkantara, Centro de Experimentação Artística do Vale da Amoreira, TAGV, Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras and Teatro Viriato development support apap – FEMINIST FUTURES: project co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe Program, Dançando com a Diferença and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian rehearsal support Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém and Polo Cultural Gaivotas | Boavista support República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto/DGArtes – Direção Geral das Artes
OPENING
Teatro Viriato, Viseu PT, Março 2026
TOUR
Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras, Torres Vedras PT, 2026