circolando 25th anniversary | 15 November, Central Elétrica

As part of the international residency Travessias de Criação Porto–Central 2025, we open with Clemente, a bodily investigation that combines distinct visual materialities and connects absence to dance.
An expedition that activates the layers of mourning while articulating the power of presence — transforming the oppositions between life and death.

Following the Travessias de Criação Porto–Central 2025 international residency — a partnership between Porto Iracema das Artes and CRL – Central Elétrica — Maria Epinefrina presents Maldita.
A snake-bodied mermaid: monstrous and erotic. This movement research draws from floorwork techniques in pole dance and from myths and legends that reveal divine, insurgent, and sinful womanhoods.
A choreographic composition reflecting the heritage of guilt, punishment, and the monstrous burden historically placed upon the female figure in Western culture. 

Estilhaços e Acúmulos is an instalation built from the debris of consumption, this installation emerges between the gesture of collection, the performative act, and its unfoldings. Each found garment carries traces of stories, bodies, and absences — testimonies of environmental and social erosion.
The research establishes a sensitive space for reflection, taking waste as archive, fabric as memory, and the body as a territory of crisis and reinvention. A poetic exercise of reconstruction in the face of an announced collapse.

ERRANTE is a sonic journey through displacement, memory, and the search for belonging. Two musicians cross sounds and silences as if traversing invisible borders.
Each note is a step; each pause, an impossible return. ERRANTE is born from the idea of physical and emotional movement — and an inner dance.
It is the sound of those who leave and those who stay, creating a provisional territory of rhythms, echoes, noise, and melodies that mix roots and invent a place where wandering becomes home.

An iconic figure of the underground imagination, Claiana is a show in flesh, groove, and bone — one that could never be accused of hip paralysis.
Singing in a language of his own invention, Claiana delivers a unique fingerprint, drawing from influences that span an entire ocean — from Patrick Saint-Éloi (Kassav’) to Michael Jackson — along with a deep passion for football and the life philosophy of Bruce Lee.