Directed by Meg Stuart
In collaboration with Ana Szopa, António Bollaño, Arash Khakpour, Emily da Silva, Guillermo Tarasewicz, Isabela Rossi, iSSiE – iSaAc, Julia Kosałka, Kaya Vieira Freeman, María Ibarretxe, Martha Kotsia, Michiru Shin, Natacha Campos, Raul Aranha, Salomé Pham-Van-Hué, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Śomi Śniegocka, Therese Bendjus, Tiago Vieira
Cinematography Aline Belfort
2nd Camera/Drone Tom De Langhe
Editing Aline Belfort, Meg Stuart
Music Gasper Piano (composition: Silent Side of Noise, performed by Bram Bossier, Ben Faes, and Hannah Madeleine Kölbel; Os Bravos (traditional) sung by Kaya Viera Freeman with additional voices by Natasha Campos and Maria Ibarretxe)
© Mariana Lopes
Sulphur Edges is a choreographic encounter shaped with and through place. Created during Forum Dança’s PACAP 8/Mystery School residency, the work unfolds across San Miguel’s thermal sites, public pools at the ocean's edge, the traces of a mine and the shell of an abandoned hotel. These locations act not as a backdrop but as co-agents in the process of sensing, listening, and transmission.
Guided by Meg Stuart’s live direction, the performers respond intuitively to the elemental conditions of each site. Movement arises from relation — to temperature, texture, invisible forces, and to one another. Bodies waver along thresholds between stillness and trembling, containment and release, public space and private reflection. Edges of architecture, voice and presence remain permeable. Fantasy flickers in the in-between, where a pool becomes a portal, a ruin becomes a score and attention becomes the work itself. The camera moves as a choreographic partner, tracing tensions between body, sites and atmosphere. What remains is a record of relations — provisional, porous, alive.
CreditsTourdatesMAY 2026
© Mariana Lopes
© Aline Belfort
© Aline Belfort
© Aline Belfort
© Aline Belfort