(2024)

The practice of these bodies is as enchanted as it is brutal. There is the ancestry of a potent future. It is poetic and it has pleasure. There is calm and meteoric chaos, a sharing of personal archives and fantasies where the skin is intended not as a border but as a vehicle. We bring the street, the past and future in limbos of mantras and drums.

ONYX is a oneiric army of vacuum and presence, the erasure of borders between political and social intervention and the creation of a dreamlike space, charged with silence, noise, nonlinear information, weight, and a fluctuation of time.

We speak through bodies inhabited by dances of resistance, family stories of migration, and gently, we cross ritual, performance, eroticism, struggle, and oneiric-political fantasy. We navigate fluidly across genres and reconstruct languages of street and clubbing dances, as an evocation of their future ancestry. From hip hop to Vogue, we do it in the real world, so we bring it here. They are our weapons. Also words that we exchange and scream in between samples of so much music that also raised us. As if the body was not a boundary, as if history was not full of absences, with the certainty that imagination is absolutely essential. The revolution might indeed lie in the ability to imagine. Before, during, and after the action.

Creation, set design and costumes: Piny Movement co-creation, text: André Cabral Performers: André Cabral, Piny Sound design: Carincur, Leo Soulflow Light design: João Pedro Fonseca Interviews with: Carla Sousa (Piny’s mum) and Marta Cabral (André Cabral mum) Production & Touring — Accompanied Artist by Materiais Diversos, 2026 – 2028 Co-production: DDD – Festival Dias da Dança; Teatro do Bairro Alto; Materiais Diversos; Aveirense Theatre – Aveiro City CouncilRota Clandestina
Co-production in residence: Materiais Diversos & Grand Studio (BE); O Espaço do Tempo as part of the Associate Artist programme Residency support: Alkantara; TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto; Estúdios Victor Cordon

Selected performance for the 9th edition of PT.25 Plataforma Portuguesa das Artes Performativas / O Espaço do Tempo.