©Joana Linda
I was born in 1983, Aveiro, Portugal. I’m a theatre maker and a performer based in Lisbon, whose work articulates different artistic fields, such as Theatre, Performance, Multidisciplinary practices.
In 2007, I graduated as a performer and theatre maker at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon). In 2018, I graduated at DAS Master of Theatre (DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam), with the support of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian’s Grant.
I have been developing situated research processes, based on encounters with specific places/communities/people. Frequently, each research creates a proliferation of different artistic objects, that manifest the project in different temporalities and modalities, beyond performance: podcasts, video, text, albums.
My work consists in creating encounters as situations in-between commonality and performativity, proposing often an invitation to participation, in order to generate a reflection about collective gestures, agency, autonomy, shared responsibility, conflict and dissent.
My works proposes participation as a fabric that is woven and negotiated with the presence of everyone, exploring different modes of engagement: by building haptic spaces, spaces that operate through touch or where different senses are translated into touch through synesthesia and metonymy; by collaborating with local communities that become performers and co-creators of the piece; by creating spaces of sharing that generate a field of relationships where the places of who does, who sees, who chooses, who thinks, and who talks are in circulation and open to questioning.
Between 2007 and 2015, I have worked mostly in partnership with the performer and theatre maker Solange Freitas. We created together the following theatre pieces: Go Tell Fire To The Mountain (2015); Ex Machina (2014); Bugs (2013); O Festim, in partnership with the performer and theatre maker Tiago Cadete (2012); Fora de Jogo (2011); Temporária(2010); Lá e Cá (2007).
Since 2018, I created and directed the following projects: I’m always late to important funerals at Teatro Maria Matos (2018); Matéria (2019-2024), an open studio for sharing artistic practices and a podcast; The songs we sing against the walls we clean (2022), in collaboration with Josefa Pereira and Aixa Figini; Lugar X (2023-2025) a contextual artistic research, created within the framework of the European program PLANT - Performing Life Akademia Network.
As a performer, I worked with Rimini Protokoll; Ricci/Forte; El Conde de Torrefiel; Jérome Bel; Edit Kaldor; Marina Nabais; Henrique Furtado; Raquel André e Cristina Carvalhal.
I am part of the Dramaturgical Cooperative, a collective that proposes a meeting space dedicated to the written component of performing arts projects, since 2023.
With Raquel André and Sara de Castro, I co-founded the project MUDA – Harassment in the Arts in Portugal (2025).