Production & Distribution — Accompanied Artist by Materiais Diversos 2026-2029

Materiais Diversos accompanies Gaya de Medeiros’ new creations: BANDIDAS, premiering at the Alkantara Festival in 2027, and Boba da Corte, an ARTEMREDE co-production scheduled to premiere in May 2027. It also supports the circulation of Pai para Jantar (2023), a performance that playfully engages audiences in a poetic and humorous exploration of masculinity.

Gaya de Medeiros (Brasil, 1990) é bailarina, atriz e encenadora. Fundadora da BRABA.plataforma, iniciativa dedicada a apoiar e viabilizar projetos protagonizados por pessoas trans e não binárias, constrói uma prática artística que cruza corpo, identidade e representação. Formada em Cinema de Animação pela UFMG, tem ainda formação em dança clássica e contemporânea, teatro físico e Butoh, tendo estudado com mestres como Denise Stoklos, Tadashi Endo, Roberta Carrieri e Cie Dos à Deux.

(2027)

Premiering at the Alkantara Festival.
More information coming soon.

(2027)

Boba da Corte is a project born from the desire to look at a generation of children of working-class parents who have achieved social mobility into the middle class and allowed themselves the luxury of dreaming. The narrative is simple: a person throws a birthday party with their new friends from the elite but is confronted with a message from a friend who got lost on the way and accidentally ended up in the street where the protagonist was born — a street in a social housing neighbourhood.

In addition, she celebrates her 35th birthday with intensity, having surpassed the life expectancy of trans people in her country of origin. At the same time, she is confronted with the age at which her mother died, at 36 years old.

“Either I die this year, or I will live forever!”

These anxieties drive a frenetic and passionate narrative: one of class differences and the constant uncertainty of belonging. With sharp humour, full commitment and the unforgiving gaze of someone drunk (at themselves and at others), Boba da Corte is both an attempt at healing and a finger in the wound — autofiction and a sociological portrait of a delirious middle class.

“It is very much self-hate, but also immense love.”

Direction and Performance: Gaya de Medeiros Dramaturgical Assistance: Alex Cassal Musician: Ricardo Almeida Set Design and Lighting: Tiago Cadete

(2023)

The construction of what it means “to be a man” and the pressure to conform to that ideal are revisited in an intimate way. Between an intimate encounter and the magic of the stage there is a lot, but what is the shortest distance between these two realms? Pai para Jantar is a game with the audience that seeks to unpack masculinity in a poetic and humorous way. The performance plays with the ways in which we negotiate words, affects and archetypes around the idea of “being a man”. This piece proposes a subjective journey towards the legacy of our fathers, which persists in our personalities and underlies many desires and failures. — Gaya de Medeiros

Concept: Gaya de Medeiros Performers: Gaya de Medeiros & Pedro Melo Alves Technical Direction: Ricardo Pimentel Set and Lighting Design: Tiago Cadete Dramaturgical Assistance: Alex Cassal Production Direction and Management: Marta Moreira | Irreal Produção Producer: Gaya de Medeiros Co-producers: Alkantara; Teatro Municipal do Porto Creation support: OPART, E.P.E. / Estúdios Victor Córdon