Performance

Waking Life festival.
Crato, Portugal

(It is a paradoxical space where Alice can feed her head and where a collective body can imagine the worlds we could garden when there is freedom to break from default reality.)

Synchronicity. 2023

Amanita (Shibari), Coco Villareal (Butoh) & Arran Gregory (Paint)

Butoh meets Shibari and Painting in a interactive performance that rises from the symbiosis of the creative mind of the 4 artists. A timeless creation that merge you in a space of delusional time and syncronicity.

Amanita, Coco Villareal & Arran Gregory, + 10 participants.

The Eleusinian Mysteries took nine days to complete. From day one through five, a series of purification rituals were performed. Day five was called the Grand Procession. The priestesses of Demeter and Persephone began their walk to Eleusis with thousands of initiates behind them. Then, they would enter the temple of Demeter, called Telesterion. As the largest closed building in the ancient Greek world, it could easily hold a few thousand. What happened after that no one knows for sure – all initiates swore a vow of secrecy.

Ma Of Elements. 2025

Butoh Performance. An Elemental tribes sacred journey to Ether, and a path to Oneness and alighnment.

Amanita, Arran Gregory, Coco Vilarreal & Max Richardson (Direction and Interpretation), + 25 participants gathered and guided during the festival to be part of the performance.

Banana Being. 2025

Exploring the excessive or obsessive relationship of the body with specific materials. In this proposal the relationship will be established with banana bunches that cover and transform the figure of a standing man. This hybrid body, manipulated by matter, puts the performer in a voluntary relationship with monstrosity, keeping the human aspect encapsulated inside.

Matthieu Ehrlacher (Direction and Interpretation), Amanita (Shibari), Kino Sousa (Sound), Elisabete Francisca (Interpretation), Tiago Gandra (Light).