19 > 23 JAN 2026
13 > 17 APR 2026
E.B.1 Bairro Operário
This workshop will be a space for us to explore and reflect on who we are, the place we occupy in this world, and what we want to do in it.
In January, we begin by focusing on each of our own “selves.” We work with gestures, animals, trees, objects, words, and the characteristics with which we individually identify. We experiment with them in our bodies, to see if they fit us. We create self-portraits in different ways.
And we build a private exhibition about the “self.”
Then, in April, we will dive into the world and into what we want for it. We will choose the words the world needs in order to survive. We will choose the actions that can make the world happier. We will commission a world, exactly as we would like it to be. We will store that dream, that desire we want to become real, in a bottle, or in an envelope, in a box, in a safe? And we will decide what to do with it. Do we bury it to rediscover it in eight years? Do we throw it into the sea so it can travel very far? Do we send it by post? To whom? Do we publish it in the newspaper?
Rita Rodrigues was born in 1977 in Lisbon. She began taking theatre classes with António Feio. She trained in “gesture theatre” at the Estudis de Teatre school in Barcelona. At the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, she completed a postgraduate degree in Theatre Studies. She has undertaken various training courses in theatre and dance, with particular emphasis on the “Dance in the Community” course at Fórum Dança.
Since 1998, she has been working as an actress / performer, collaborating with several directors / creators such as Luís Castro, João Ricardo, Claudio Hochman, Carlos António, Jorge Fraga, Sofia Cabrita, Ana Sofia Paiva, Sílvia Real, Martin Joab, Giacomo Scalisi, and Madalena Vitorino, among others.
She created the performances Missão Lupa, Bicho da Malha, Caracol, Em busca de um neto, Catadupa, and Pap-séc, and was co-creator and performer in Sótão, S.A. She teaches theatre to children and adults, and since 2013 she has been the director of the community project of the senior theatre group of Portimão (O GRUPO).
