TIAGO VIEIRA
PAGAN POETRY
Forum Dança | May 8, 2026 | 6.30 pm
PAGAN POETRY stems from a desire to inhabit a choreographic landscape—a space for forging connections and giving rise to rituals—as well as from the two notebooks I kept during the Mysthery School process, which, going beyond a mere diary, serve as a kind of cartography of aphorisms, memories, thoughts, ideas, and the powers of the imagination.
The aim is to create an encounter where ritual language breaks down the boundaries between the divine and the profane. I am interested in the intimate relationship between Love and Resistance . Poetry as a political gesture, seeking to dignify marginalized bodies—absolute symbols of Difference, Freedom, and Resistance against all fascist systems.
[Tiago Vieira]
Choreography, soundscape, text, costumes, set design, performance: Tiago Vieira
Photo © DR
Biography
Tiago Vieira
A graduate of the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, he furthered his training through various theater, dance, and performance workshops.
He combines directing with teaching theater and dance. In 2019, he completed a master’s degree at the RITS School in Brussels, where he danced *The Rite of Spring* for 12 hours, undertook a walk that began at a concentration camp near Berlin and ended at Pina Bausch’s grave, and presented his show on the main stage of the KVS THEATRE. In 2020, the show WE MUST ALWAYS FORGIVE COWARDS, BUT NEVER BE LIKE THEM was named by the newspaper Expresso as one of the best shows of the year. In 2024, he launched the company Tiago Vieira e os melancólicos tropicais with the performance Dói mas você goza. In 2025, he began teaching at the Escola Profissional de Cascais and was part of the PACAP project directed by Meg Stuart.