Performance
09.05.2026
21:30
Theatro Circo (Pequeno Auditório)
Dajana Lothert
“TALOS” is the name of a collaborative pilot program developed by the European Union that brought together fourteen institutions to design a surveillance system. Developed between 2008 and 2013, it envisioned the deployment of semi-autonomous robots capable of swiftly occupying any public space. “TALOS” never got off the ground—it was merely a test of the technological capabilities of the parties involved. Since 2016, artist Arkadi Zaides has been bringing together choreographers, playwrights, and other artists for a project of the same name that explores the relationship between movement, cutting-edge technologies, and the future of existing geographical borders, based on dynamics of action-reaction, limits and transgression, paralysis and mobility.
This performance takes place as part of Dançar na Primavera, a program supported by Institut Français.
Support: República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes · RTCP – Rede de Teatros e Cineteatros Portugueses
Arkadi Zaides
Arkadi Zaides works as a choreographer, performer, and researcher. His multidisciplinary projects navigate between spaces where structural violence gives rise to specific forms of social choreography and the artistic space where these are questioned, displaced, and reconfigured through bodily interventions, performative translation, and hybrid staging. He holds a master’s degree from the AHK Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam, a PhD in Arts (Dance) from the University of Antwerp, and a PhD in Arts (Theater) from Ghent University, where he is also a visiting professor.