Dates / Schedules
Thursday, November 20th 2025 8:00pm
friday, November 21st 2025 9:30pm
Dance
Bocarra — a word meaning an oversized or wide-open mouth — draws on the female polyphonic singing repertoire from northern Portugal and Galicia, where songs speak of bitterness and evoke brutal violence against women. These voices — in shouts or whispers, ritualised or fragmented — emerge as gestures of non-conformity and resistance.
On stage, three performers sing, move and engage with a collection of original sound objects. Made from stone, ceramic, plastic or metal, these handcrafted instruments act as extensions of the internal organs and breath, activated by air, friction and touch, until the body itself becomes a soundscape.
Structured like a concert, where each song takes the lead, Bocarra composes a vocal and sensorial choreography in which bodies, transformed into instruments, produce melodic hauntings — cries that echo as forms of resistance.
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Biography
Luísa Saraiva is a choreographer and performer born in Porto, Portugal and living between Porto and Berlin. She studied psychology at the University of Porto and dance at the Folkwang Arts University in Essen. Her choreographic work explores the language of the body and voice and lies at the intersection of movement and musical composition. She was selected for the danceWeb scholarship in 2019 and in the season of 2019/2020 she was one of the choreographers-in-residence at the K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg. In 2022/2023 she was a recipient of the Tanzpraxis Scholarship from the City of Berlin. In recent years, she has been teaching workshops and holding panels on mental health awareness for the dance community.
Ages
+12 years
Data sheet
Choreography, Artistic Direction Luísa Saraiva
Performance by and with Luisa Alfonso, Alexandre Achour, Luísa Saraiva
Instruments Inês Tartaruga Água
Sound Design Francisco Antão
Light Design Cárin Geada
Costumes Isabelle Lange
Martial Arts Training Zeina Hanna, Manuel Pérez Bouza
Vocal coach Fabíola Augusta
External Eye Niklaus Bein
Production Management Övgü Özen/Apricot Productions (Germany), Mariana Costa/Associação Calote Esférica (Portugal)
Acknowledgements Matthias Mohr, Arnaldo Saraiva
Executive production Övgü Özen, Nadine Freisleben/Apricot Productions (Alemanha), Mariana Costa/ Associação Calote Esférica (Portugal)
Co-production Festival Dias da Dança/Teatro Municipal do Porto, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine, PACT Zollverein
Financial support República Portuguesa – Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia/NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Kunststiftung NRW
Supported by Residencias Paraiso, Colectivo RPM
Prices and Discounts
Note: No reserved seats
Discounts
DISCOUNTS are only valid for CCB production and/or co-production shows and for tickets with a price above €12, with the exception of CCB cardholders, the discount is applied to values above €8.
50 % people with specific needs and accompanying person
50% for Arts and culture professionals
50% for unemployed
30% for CCB Card’s holders (individual, Senior, Youth and Family)
20% for people over 65 / for under 30s / students / for groups of more than 20 people
Tickets at €5 for Artistic Schools
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