PINY

This work is a lecture performance in which the artist tells stories and shares personal archives and other records collected together over many years. The artist explains: “I question performance, I question academia, the body, and I intertwine plants, the city and social processes of destruction and construction of cultures and bodies. In this way, in plural. Literally, it means to be traversed by something, by many things. To be traversed. To be, or to be mischievous, to be annoying. To serve myself up on a tray. To be an alley between two larger streets. To be a crossroads.”

Born in Lisbon, Piny is of Portuguese and Angolan descent. She holds a degree in dance and architecture. She is a performer, dancer, pedagogue and choreographer, and works at the meeting points of traditional dances from the SWANA region, street dance, clubs and ballroom dance culture. She has staged shows such as Periférico (with Vhils, 2017), HIP. um ponto de vista de buceta (2019), G Rito (2021) and ONYX (2024). Piny is the artistic director of the OU.kupa festival and studies hatha yoga, advaita vedanta, astrology, tarot and decolonial practices.

Concept, Performance, Text Piny / Sound designer Leo Soulflow / Video Editing Pedro Jafuno / Graphic Design Bruna Borges / Video archives Piny’s personal archive and the OU.kupa festival archive (photographic material courtesy of Maiur Narendra, Rafael de Oliveira, Susana Luzir and Wilson Sanches, and the documentaries ‘Ballroom Seen’ by El Bango and ‘Krump’ by Pedro Jafuno and Dougie Knight) / Light Design Cárin Geada / Research and rehearsal support Rebecca Mateus / Dramaturgical support Cristina Planas Leitão / Production & Touring  Accompanied Artist by Materiais Diversos, 2026–2028
Coproduction DDD – Festival Dias da Dança (PT); Charleroi Danse – Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE); TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto (PT) / Coproduction in residency Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (FR), in partnership with CAMPUS PCS (PT); O Espaço do Tempo (PT), within the framework of the Associated Artist programme / Residency Support Alkantara (PT); A FAZENDA, Sandim (PT)