Rendez-vous with Marga Alfeirão

What’s your current obsession?

The housing crisis – a sexy revolution and a sexy aftermath

Favorite theatre jargon? 

Warm up

Who is your role model?

Priscila Valadão

What gives you hope?

intimacy

Current project you are excited about?

Teaching dance class this december in the community space from my neighborhood

Craziest thing that happened during a performance?

Giant flies attack during the whole show

A piece in our upcoming programme you’re looking forward to?

LOUNGE

What continues to inspire you as an artist?

People being intimate with what they feel and are

Which show still makes you wonder, left a long lasting impression?

Minor Matter

Who would be your ideal collaborator?

Already is, Myriam Lucas

What is crucial in your work process?

tarraxinha

What are issues in the theater world that need to be addressed more?

The push of eurocentric conceptions of dance, deeply influenced by academic thinking and european canon.

What’s your biggest struggle?

The same as my biggest blessing, being a woman who wishes to live in a matriarchal society, living in a patriarchal one.

If you wouldn’t work in performance art, what would your other dream job be? 

Public policies in culture and particulary in choreography, independet journalist, capoeira fighter...something linked to service in creativity and movement.