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.
artistic direction and creation Paula Diogo guest artists João Lopes Pereira, Renato Linhares, Yaw Tembe, Wilma Moutinho, Ângela Rocha, Mariana Ricardo, Masako Hattori and Joana Gomes project coordination Daniela Ribeiro production Má-Criação residencies Alkantara, Teatro Viriato, Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras and Centro de Experimentação Artística do Vale da Amoreira / Moita development financing Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian support apap – FEMINIST FUTURES (projeto cofinanciado pelo Programa Europa Criativa da União Europeia) e Dançando com a Diferença
OPENING
Teatro Viriato, Viseu PT, Março 2026
TOUR
Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras, Torres Vedras PT, 2026