enespt
Biennial 2025 – Camino Irreal

Past events

Event with captions

12 – 14 September

Lisboa

Centro Cultural de Belém

opera

Dino D’Santiago

Adilson

More than an individual, Adilson represents thousands of people left on the margins of the system. The opera turns waiting into poetry and turns invisibility into an act of resistance.

13 – 14 September

Lisboa

Sala Estúdio Valentim de Barros / Jardins do Bombarda (TNDM II)

performance

Tickets

Julián Pacomio

Toda la Luz del Mediodía

The second part of a long-term trilogy, this project explores the moment of midday, where intense, vertical light brings both clarity and weight. The work investigates the transition from excess energy to stillness, from exposure to fading, translating into choreography the tension between heat, rest, and visibility.

20 – 21 September

Lisboa

Sala Estúdio Valentim de Barros / Jardins do Bombarda (TNDM II)

Theatre

Tickets

Kiluanji Kia Henda

Coral of Bodies without North

In the theater show “Coral dos Corpos sem Norte”, Kiluanji Kia Henda thinks of migration as a process of the pemba. Going as coming back. The journey as a stay in place. A curse that accompanies us at every step and takes us back to where we started.

3 – 4 October

Madrid

Teatro de la Abadía

25 – 26 October

Lisboa

Teatro do Bairro Alto

Theatre

Tickets

Alberto Cortés, João Gabriel

Os Rapazes da Praia Adoro

A creation that brings together theatre and painting to explore the intimate encounter between two male bodies — one Portuguese, the other Spanish — on an imaginary beach somewhere between Lisbon and Madrid. This symbolic place becomes a space of connection and healing, where intimacy and desire intertwine, evoking memories of 1970s and 80s pornographic cinema. The piece proposes alternative ways of understanding male sexuality, marked by delicacy, poetry, and the need for affection.

15 October

Lisboa

Espaço BoCA

leitura, talk

Free admission

Elvis Guerra

Ramonera

Elvis Guerra will present his book Ramonera, which will be published in Portugal in October this year by Orfeu Negro, marking the first time a work has been translated from Zapotec into European Portuguese. In this context, Elvis will present the poems he has written based on his personal experiences and cultural identity.

17 – 18 October

Madrid

Réplika Teatro

performance, cinema, Music

Tickets

Raquel André

Belonging | E di | Pertenencia | Zugehörigkeit | Pertença | 絆

Meeting people, getting to know their personal stories, their lives, their memories full of future. This show, which could be a performance film, suggests an immersion in the complexity of the idea of belonging.