{"id":18897,"date":"2026-05-19T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imaginarius.pt\/?p=18897"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:51:24","slug":"feira-suspends-its-routines-for-three-days-of-imaginarius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginarius.pt\/en\/feira-suspends-its-routines-for-three-days-of-imaginarius\/","title":{"rendered":"Feira suspends its routines for three days of Imaginarius"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between 21 and 23 May, Imaginarius \u2013 Festival of Performing Arts in Public Spaces is bringing a new rhythm to the city of Santa Maria da Feira, suspending routines to welcome different artistic languages \u200b\u200band new ways of occupying streets, squares and various urban spaces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over three days, the historic centre will host 42 companies and more than 200 artists from 16 countries, who will present 39 shows of theatre, dance, music, folk art, digital arts and performance, five of which are world premieres and 23 are national premieres, for a total of 125 free performances.<\/p>\n

The festival’s opening, scheduled for Thursday, 21 Mayt, at 6:00 PM, next to the Mill House, will be marked by the sharing of the Imaginarius Manifesto and its reinterpretation by Feira-born filmmaker Guilherme Henriques, one of the most relevant names in contemporary videography linked to extreme and alternative music, and who is part of the so-called “Imaginarius Generation”.<\/p>\n

For 25 years, Imaginarius has established itself as a space for discovery, connection, and transformation through art in public spaces. Far from comfort or consensus, the festival has been bringing artistic creation closer to everyday life, activating the territory as a lived space, traversed by encounters, tensions, and diversity.<\/p>\n

In a time marked by acceleration, surveillance, and social fragmentation, the festival chooses to continue imagining, embracing art as a practice of resistance, critical thinking, and the possibility of reconfiguring how we inhabit and share common space.<\/p>\n

In this edition, which celebrates the festival’s 25th anniversary, Imaginarius traverses the entire historic centre of the city and experiences it fully, constantly questioning and leaving more questions than answers.<\/p>\n

An example of this is the performance Mirage (un jour de f\u00eate), by Cie. Dyptik, where there is no fixed centre nor a single possible direction. The audience circulates between dance and movement, in a creation traversed by references to the Levant region (Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Jordan), where memory and the idea of \u200b\u200bresisting in community permeate the public space.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, ADN, Odyss\u00e9e Verticale, by the French company Transe Express, suspends musicians and performers dozens of metres high, transforming the sky into a scenic plane above the city.<\/p>\n

Conversely, THAW, by the Australian band Legs On The Wall, slowly follows the melting of ice and the body’s resistance to time and duration.<\/p>\n

Correfoc, brought to the streets by the Catalan group Diables del Barri G\u00f2tic in dialogue with the Environment and Citizenship Forum, restores intensity to the streets of the historic centre through fire, noise, and the continuous occupation of public space.<\/p>\n

The festival programme also includes the conference \u201cImagining: Culture, Coexistence and the City in an Unstable World,\u201d on 23 May at 2:30 PM in the Municipal Library auditorium, featuring urban planner and thinker Charles Landry as the speaker. More than discussing cultural programming or events, this conversation proposes a reflection on the capacity of cities to create relationships, identity, and forms of coexistence.<\/p>\n

The full festival program is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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