CABRAQIMERA is a stage piece for a skating quartet addressing a physical and technological contemporaneity. This is the dizzying reality of the “here and now”, in which technology accelerates the passage of time to explosive dimensions. Are we really no longer on the brink of risk, looking for a way to keep up with events, tasks and our environment?

The Portuguese dancers respond to the challenge by roller skating, while neon lighting effects reveal different spaces and moods. Along with plastic and hypnotic means of expression and gestures, the quartet draws an extreme projection of the “other” body and opens the door to imagination and fiction. The stage space, inspired by speed sports, encodes activities, intersections and casual encounters. And why not topics for reflection, such as the need for more efficient bodies in today’s high-speed world? 

Choreographer Catarina Miranda combines dance, scenography and light to turn the stage into a place where one can understand the present. She saturates her work with imagery and dramatic inspiration from the so-called Hypnagogic hallucinations – cognitive changes and visions that occur during the transitions between wakefulness and REM sleep.