Fogo Fátuo #3

Fogo Fátuo (will-o’-the-wisp) is an event dedicated to art in motion — a meeting space for different languages, geographies, and traditions. Each edition of Fogo Fátuo offers a dynamic programme that encompasses intimate acoustic performances and immersive audiovisual experiences, showcasing the breadth and richness of performative and sound-based artistic practices.

This new edition of Fogo Fátuo is entirely dedicated to the work of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, offering an immersive two-day experience of this artist and choreographer’s universe.

The programme is presented by Galeria Municipal do Porto in partnership with Teatro Municipal do Porto, where Baczyński-Jenkins will also present two additional choreographies.

Galeria Municipal do Porto will host Unending love, or love dies, on repeat like it’s endless, a choreographic reflection on desire, fragmentation, love (as communality), loss and time. The piece manifests relational forms of being-with and for one another. Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background), undertakes the charge of eroticism, queer longing and pleasure that might recall situations alternately between friends, lovers, strangers.

At Teatro Rivoli, the programme features Untitled (Holding Horizon), a performance with shifting perceptions between a memory of a rave, a ghostly gathering, a militant congregation and a pastoral imaginary. Malign Junction (Goodbye, Berlin), a piece dedicated to the theme of finitude, navigating capture, movement in relation to power and a broken promise.