De: Ana Borralho & João Galante ESTREIA / 31 OUT 2026 Teatro das Figuras
Techno-Zombies operates at the threshold between realities – where flesh meets code, and the visible is haunted by the spectral. Drawing from the aesthetics of science fiction, the immersive logic of video games, and post-human discourses, the piece opens up a space of instability: a zone where perception fractures, presence multiplies, and reality teeters on the edge of collapse.
We begin with the premise that a single space can contain multiple layers of existence. Like moving through portals or game levels, we shift from the everyday to the supernatural, from flesh to algorithm. This sensory confusion – where dream and wakefulness, avatar and subject, blur into one – gives rise to a contemporary epic: stories crafted in an attempt to make sense of isolation, digital exhaustion, the collapse of memory, and the breakdown of the body.
A liminal zone where affect becomes ambiguous and identity dissolves into recursive loops. Bodies blur into mirages, while emotions are rendered into data streams, absorbed by algorithms.
Reality becomes porous – haunted by glitches, ghosts, and synthetic echoes. What is human is no longer stable; what is digital is no longer neutral. In this shifting terrain, presence becomes performance, memory becomes code, and intimacy is reprogrammed. Techno-Zombies invites us to inhabit this threshold – not to escape, but to feel what it means to be fractured, connected, and haunted in the age of endless simulation.
In this universe, characters do not explain themselves, nor do they reveal who they are. They are opaque, flickering figures, crossed by invisible forces. They are not full agents, but rather surfaces — interfaces — onto which we project our desires, our fears, our failures. They move in loops, like techno-zombies caught between channels, between timelines, between overlapping realities. They inhabit an undefined space.
Concept, Artistic Direction, Sound Design, Space: Ana Borralho & João Galante
Dancers/co-creators of movement and actors: Ana de Oliveira e Silva, Ana Freitas, Francisco Rolo, Lewis Seivwright, Maria Antunes
Light Design, Space: Joana Mário
Original Soundtrack: Coolgate aka João Galante
Stage props and Costumes: Rafaela Salgueiro, Natália Castañola
Dramaturgical Support: Fernando Ribeiro
Artistic Assistance: Lucas Damiani, Tiago Gandra
Character Make-up Design: Sara Marques de Oliveira
Early-Stage Movement Research: Maria Antunes
Scene Photography: Lucas Damiani
Executive Director: Mónica Samões
Head of Production: Marise Francisco
Executive Producer: Salomé Ventura
Administrative support: Teresa Serra Nunes
Design Web and web: José Pelicano
Press Relations (Premiere): Aviva Obst
Production: casaBranca
Co-production: Teatro das Figuras, Cineteatro Louletano, Câmara Municipal de Lagos
Co-production Residency: O Espaço do Tempo
Support for Artistic Creation: OPART, E.P.E. / Estúdios Victor Córdon, Alkantara, Culturgest, LARGO Residências, O Rumo do Fumo, Forum Dança, Alma d’Arame
casaBranca is a structure funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direcção-Geral das Artes
Acknowledgments: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
PERFORMANCES:
31 OCT 2026 Teatro das Figuras – Faro
20 NOV 2026 Centro Cultural de Lagos
5 FEB 2027 Cine Teatro Louletano