Andorinha só não faz verão

PACAP 9 / Marcelo Evelin

Teatro do Bairro Alto

July 9-12, 2026
Thursday to Saturday 7:30PM + Sunday 5:30PM

PACAP 9 is built around a collaborative collective creation process for its final performance at TBA. Taking unison as a premise for being together, we reinvent this traditional choreographic form by embracing – and complicating – its inherent impossibility of occurring as a plausible reality today. The insistence will not ignite an abandonment of the form, but rather a replacement of individualist logics with a radical choreography of togetherness and sharing.

The performance was created from the practices proposed by the artists invited by the programme’s curatorial team, who are considered co-creators in this amalgam of autonomous intentions that reverberate into a shared dance. Over the six months of the programme, we tried to open our perception to what kept appearing to us in mysterious ways, and by trusting in the rigour of these subtleties, we found a piece that was already making itself through us.

ANDORINHA NÃO FAZ VERÃO evokes a body that is in itself a multitude of disappearing forms – a cosmology of the dead and the living – to be performed as one who practises the capacity to bend light, to move around the invisible, and to remain devoted to what is impossible to do alone.

Marcelo Evelin and the Participating Artists of PACAP 9

PACAP is a program organised by Forum Dança for professionals working in the arts who wish to engage in a period of advanced experimentation, combining it with research, artistic creation, and public presentation. Each edition of PACAP runs for six months. Its 9th edition is curated by Marcelo Evelin, with artistic collaboration by Bruno Moreno.

Artistic and Technical Credits

Creation, choreography and direction
Marcelo Evelin

Creation, choreography and direction assistance
Bruno Moreno

Creation and Performance | PACAP 9 Participating Artists
Abdulay Bragança Dias, Bruna Danesi, Camila Delgado, Déborah Alessandra Soares, Federico Brocal, Johanna Szőke, Julia Domínguez, Manuela Libman, Maria Ramalho, Maria Tamarit, Mel Paiva, Parvin Saljoughi, Paula Otero

Live sound
Sara Zita Correia

Dramaturgical Support
Bibi Dória

Light and space
Ska Batista

PACAP 9 Guest Artists
Ana Rita Teodoro, André Lepecki, Christine Greiner, Coletivo Piscina (Andrei Bessa, Bibi Dória, Bruno Brandolino, Josefa Pereira, Julián Pacomio, Lucas Damiani, Márcia Lança, Natália Mendonça, Nicole Gomes e Romain Beltrão Teule), Eleonora Fabião, Flavia Pinheiro, Jocelyn Cottencin, Marine Sigaut, Miguel Pereira, Piny, Tiyê Macau, Venuri Perera

Video documentation
Gabriela Giffoni

Production
Carolina Martins

Production assistance
Mafalda Sustelo

Communication
Marta Ramos

Forum Dança direction
Dora Carvalho

Duração
1h30

Venue

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto
R. Ten. Raul Cascais 1 A, 1250-268 Lisboa

More info here.

TBA online tickets online here.

Support and Partnerships

Co-Production PACAP 9: Teatro do Bairro Alto

Co-producer in Residency PACAP 9: O Espaço do Tempo