The sixth edition of the performance na piscina, organized by Mariana Tengner Barros of the association A Bela Associação, brings the performance *Periféricas*—featuring Márcio Canabarro, Ana Rocha, and Mariana Tengner Barros—to the swimming pool.

Periféricas – Synopsis
Ana (Portugal), Mariana (Portugal), and Márcio (Brazil)—three performers and choreographers whose paths span the visual arts, dance, and design, as well as cleaning jobs, work in bars and nightclubs, endless hours spent in transit, and precarious employment contracts. Between rehearsals, coffee breaks, translation work, and cleaning tasks, they sustain the very invisibility that keeps daily life and artistic structures functioning.
Periféricas is more than just a performance; it is an ongoing process—an inquiry into precarity, care, and survival. It inhabits kitchens, public transport, supermarkets, and rehearsal studios: spaces where the need for subsistence intersects with the act of creation. By exposing the limits of both artistic and social life, it reveals the tension between the center and the margins, visibility and invisibility, dehumanization and the desire for equity.
It is a collective act that transforms survival routines into artistic gestures, denouncing systemic unsustainability while proposing a potential map for justice, awareness, and belonging—encompassing the human, the more-than-human, and the non-human.

Artistic Direction: Ana Rocha, Mariana Tengner Barros, and Márcio Canabarro
Creation, Performance, Costumes, and Set Design: Ana Rocha, Mariana Tengner Barros, and Márcio Canabarro
Music & Sound Design: Ana Rocha, Mariana Tengner Barros, and Márcio Canabarro, in collaboration with OAK Witch (Jonny K and Mee_K)
Lighting Design & Technical Direction: Sebastião Pinto
Production: A Bela Associação
Co-production: Teatrão
Support: Almada City Council | DAMAS | Linha de Fuga | Residency support: O Espaço do Tempo | Hotelier
A Bela Associação is an organization funded by the Portuguese Republic – Directorate-General for Culture, Youth, and Sport.

Free contribution - suggested 5 euros
Anyone who wants to stay for dinner (vegan) - 7.5 euros.
Limited seating. Reservation advised.

reservations: hot@hotelier.com.pt