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Bossa Nova 2026
Light design and operation
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In Tita Maravilha’s new solo show, Bossa Nova ceases to be merely a musical genre and becomes an act of class consciousness. Here, “bossa nova” returns to its original meaning — a new way of doing, of existing, and of claiming rights — revealing that the true revolution lies in the body, the voice, and the history of those who have always lived on the margins. Now, the true Bossa Nova has been revealed: Tita Maravilha. While the historical bossa nova movement sought to express a modern, light, and sophisticated Brazil, it also silenced the deeper rhythms of popular life — those shaped by poverty, migration, and struggle. On stage, amid songs, confessions, and personal myths, Tita cries out: “Give the people what belongs to the people!”
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Created by
Tita Maravilha
Performed by
Tita Maravilha, Bernardo Bertrand, Ely Janoville
Original text
Keli Freitas, Tita Maravilha
Voice-over
Àkila aka Puta da Silva
Associate director
Mário Coelho
Musical director and live music
Ely Janoville
Scenography, props and costume
Alex Simões aka Xana Modas
Scenography, props and costume associate
Marine Sigaut
Lighting designer and operator
Lui L'Abbate
Sound designer and operator
Leonardo Bindilatti
External eye
Izabel Zuaa
Produced by
Trypas Corassão Associação Cultural
Executive producer
Maria Tsukamoto
Co-produced by
FITEI, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Teatro-Cine Torres Vedras
Support
República Portuguesa - Cultura, Juventude e Desporto | Direção Geral das Artes - DGARTES, Fundação GDA
Co-production in residence
O Espaço do Tempo, Terceira Pessoa, Cão solteiro.residências 120
How to kill… for the sake of dying 2026
Light design and operation
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If I do not live my truth, I only write it, reduce humanity to poetry, and poetry to a common sense of morality. If my own life isn’t perceived as a moral sacrifice, then maybe this is only poetry - not real life...
And what if Georges Bataille and Sarah Kane sat down to play chess and decided to rewrite the history of art, or of humanity? What would that be like? The court pronounced a death sentence for the sake of love. The museum pronounced a sentence of eternity for the sake of art. And a funeral — half funeral, half cooking class — pronounced a sentence of returning to life, for the sake of dying. In this second part of How to Kill, continues my exploration of the body, training and discipline as means to transcend performativity. — Xana Novais
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Artistic direction, concept and performance
Xana Novais
Performance and collaboration
Ana Rita Xavier, Cata Gomes, Cru Encarnação, Zinnia Nomura, Fibi Eyewalker
Sound design and live manipulation
Diogo Melo
Assistant director
Carolina Vouga
Art direction
Xana Novais
Support for dramaturgy and production direction
Tatiana Rocha
Technical direction and sound
José Afonso Monteiro
Video
Zhang Qinzhe
Lighting
Lui L’Abbate
Blood Mother
Luz de Luna Duran
Chess master
Rafael Antonio Bergmann
Phlebotomy technician
Azul Luísa
Suspension technician
Binho Barduzzi
Process assistance
Carolina Vouga
Production and financial management
COISAS Coletivo & V.E.R.M.E.
Co-produced by
DDD – Festival Dias da Dança
Residency co-production
O Espaço do Tempo
Residency support
CRL – Central Elétrica
Sponsorship
Agência Funerária Nova Esperança
Support
Appleton, Theater Haus Berlin, Carpintarias Lavandeira, ALCIMA Construções Metálicas, Associação Académica de Espinho, Medika
Acknowledgements
Ângela Cardoso, Tiago Cardoso, Nino Ubezio, AMC-Vilarinho, Daniel Seabra, Francisca Marques, João Geraldo, Bernardo Sarmento, Marcus Porto, Camila Malenchini, João Bragança, Cláudia Galhós, Catarina Branco
Úlulu 2025-2026
Light design and operation
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Úlulu means placenta in forro or lúngwa santomé. According to an ancient ritual in São Toméan culture, the úlulu is planted, along with the umbilical cord, in the family's large backyard. Thus, according to the older generations, children grow up and travel the world but also know how to return to their birthplace.
This is a performance, where three creatures/creators evoke music, movement, poetry and landscape in a search for cords of transmission and nurturing, as they speculate and repeat rituals that harmonize collapse and regenerating, and raise questions: what if belonging to non-human geographies is a solution for the oncoming extinction? How can you do that without wasting the memory of rituals that can be useful for that transmutation? Where can you leave clues for a possible escape towards return? — Raquel Lima
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Artistic direction and creation
Raquel Lima
Performance
Maria Palmira Joaquim, Okan Kayma, Raquel Lima
Scenography
Eneida Tavares
Light design
Lui L’Abbate
Costumes
Neusa Trovoada
Sound design and original composition
Okan Kayma
Video and footage
Sara Morais
Movement
Lucília Raimundo
Indigenous worldview consultant
Tobi Ayé
Cration support
Danilo Lopes
Set design support
Axelle Camille, Jorge Carreira, Samuel Reis
Voices
Eneida Tavares, Tobi Ayé, Ana Maria Semedo, Marilene de Andrade, Ernestina Miranda, Elcínia Dias, Eliane Borges
External gaze
Dori Nigro
Production
Joana Costa Santos
Sound and video operation
João Pinto Félix
Administration
Agência 25
Co-production
Teatro Municipal do Porto, FITEI, Teatro do Bairro Alto
Residency co-production
OSSO, Alkantara, O Espaço do Tempo
Support
Cultura / DGARTES - Direção Geral das Artes, Rural Vivo, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa / Pólo Cultural das Gaivotas, Santos & Monteiro, Associação DOC, Culturgest
A Missão da Missão 2023
Light design and operation
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A Missão da Missão is a black and female revolution of seven women in constant cycles of hope. TBA has proposed to the Aurora Negra collective to revisit Heiner Müller's The Mission, the only play that Teatro da Cornucópia staged twice. Acknowledging the urgency to build utopias in order to build more egalitarian realities, A Missão da Missão is based on African liberation movements and the fundamental importance of female participation in those struggles for freedom.
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Text
Aurora Negra - Cleo Diára, Isabél Zuaa e Nádia YracemaArtistic direction and creation
Cleo Diára, Isabél Zuaa e Nádia YracemaPerformers
Ana Valentim, Aisha Noir, Cleo Diára, Isabél Zuaa, Nádia Yracema, Rita Cruz, Romi AnuelCostumes
Eloísa d ́AscençãoCostume making
Carmen Alves, Gabriela Lima, Izaac Lacerda e KarolLight Design
Lui L’AbbateSound design and original composition
Carolina Varela and Cire NdiayeSupport for sound design
Isaac VelosoSound design
Tiago CerqueiraScene
Marine SigautSupport for dramaturgy
Sara GraçaSupport for the movement
Vânia Doutel VazSupport for staging
Mário CoelhoVideo
Heverton HarienoSupport for video production
Mariana GuardoSupport for reseach
Joacine Katar MoreiraPromo photos
Patrícia BlackStage photos
Joana LindaProduction
Cama a.c
Daniel Matos and Joana Duarte (Management)Production director
Maria TsukamotoTechnical director
Ana CarocinhoCoproduction
Teatro do Bairro Alto, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Teatro Académico de Gil VicenteAcknowledgements
Apolo de Carvalho, Edson Incopté, Rui Galveias (BOTA), Moisés Perez, Eloísa Maíza, LAMA TeatroAudiodescription
Franco AcessoPortuguese Sign Language interpreters
Sandra Bragança, Teresa FigueiredoEnglish translation
Eloïse Grace WinterSubtitling
Rita Mendes
Ês Tr3s Irms 2023-2025
Light design and operation
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Es Tr3s Irms — Diogo, Macha and Irina — live in a town in the Russian hinterland. Bored with provincial daily life, which isolates them and stifles their dreams, they long above all else to return to Moscow, their birthplace.
In this production, through a post-contemporary, multidisciplinary reading of Chekhov’s classic, Tita Maravilha proposes a narrative in which the foundational concepts of normative society are revisited through the subjectivities of each of these three sisters.
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CREATED BY Tita Maravilha
CO-CREATION AND PERFORMANCE Ivvi Romão, June João, Luan Okun
MOVEMENT AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Era Jaja Rolim
DRAMATURGY Keli Freitas and Tita Maravilha
LIGHTING DESIGN AND OPERATION Lui L’Abbate
SET AND COSTUMES Marine Sigaut and Alex Simões aka Xana Modas
COSTUME EXECUTION Alex Simões
SOUND DESIGN Tita Maravilha
SOUND DESIGN SUPPORT Bertrand with music by Aurora, Puta da Silva, and Odete
OFF-SCREEN VOICE/VIDEO Telma Moreira Farinha
DESIGN AND DIRECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO Gadutra
PRODUCTION Trypas-Corassão Cultural Association
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Maria Tsukamoto
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Mandí Kaibô
CO-PRODUCTION Es Tr3s Irms is the winning project of the 5th Amélia Rey Colaço Grant, an initiative promoted by Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisbon), A Oficina / Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo), and Teatro Viriato (Viseu)
ENTREPARTIDAS 2018
Light technician and operator for SESC Palco Giratório Tour
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Beginning of the night, the city moves as a complex organism. It's time for boarding! The audience takes a bus and travels through the city streets where they meet the characters that balance themselves in the thread of time, reminding us that life is made of moments and encounters. A piece that talks, above all else, about what is ephemeral, comings and goings, longings, desires, possibilities, life and death. The trip around the city as an excuse to travel through the streets of oneself.
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Direction: Francis Wilker
Dramaturgy: Jonathan Andrade
Direction assistants: Ivone Oliveira and Aline Seabra
Cast: Adilson Dias, Diogo Vanelli, Giselle Ziviank, Gleide Firmino, Jhony Gomantos, Luiza Guimarães, Maria Eugênia Félix, Micheli Santini e Nei Cirqueira
Light design: Diego Bresani
Light technician and operation: Lui L’Abbate
Costume: Eduardo Barón, Hugo Cabral and Júlia Gonzales
Production: Tatiana Carvalhedo - Carvalhedo Productions
Maniva 2017
Light design
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Maniva presents a glimpse into a woman's life. In a passionate act, she sets out to prepare maniçoba: a typical dish from Pará cuisine made with maniva, the poisonous leaf of the bitter cassava. During this preparation, she experiences an encounter with herself, and in a journey through reality and dreams, the abysses and subtext of love are revealed.
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production, costumes and scenography: coletivo Maniva
local production: Samia Oliveira
direction: Rafael Toscano and Yuri Fidelis
acting: Larissa Souza
musical direction and soundtrack: Thiago Gama
music production and recording: João Lucas
playing: Thiago Gama and Lucas Ramalho
sound operation: Yuri Fidelis
light design: Lui L’Abbate
light operation: Ana Quintas
press: Laíra Mineiro
graphic design: Rafael Toscano
support: Govinda, Hostel 494 and Terrarium Belém
