Andar para trás
Sara Anjo
2025

“Walking Backwards” is a dance fable that invites the audience to imagine other ways of walking through the world. Created especially for children, this piece proposes an allegory where the movement of walking backwards disarms the logic of linear time and reveals new ways of seeing, feeling and transforming reality.
This show highlights “walking backwards” as a poetic and political gesture, where each step is an opening to the imagination. And where listening to the body and space is a driving force for change, designing a possible world within each movement. This dance fable thus evokes an ecosystem inhabited by hybrid beings, whose allegorical and imagistic character reflects and creates possible points of view for the future. It also poses questions such as: What is your horizon? What do you discover when you walk? What does the future have in store for you?
Accompanying the piece there is a deck of 12 scores, which summon a set of images and ideas that connect the body to the earth.

Artistic direction and creation: Sara Anjo Artistic collaboration and performance: Artur Pispalhas, Josefa Pereira, Sara Anjo, Reza Mirabi Sound design: Artur Pispalhas Set design: Martina Manyà Costumes design: Marisa Escaleira Graphic design, illustration: Daniela Rodrigues Light design, technical direction: Cárin Geada Creation assistance: Flora Détraz Communication: Maria João Bilro Administrative, financial management: Vítor Alves Brotas Production: agência 25 Representation: Rodolfo Freitas Coproduction: LU.CA, Cine-Teatro Municipal Curvo Semedo – Município de Montemor-o-Novo , Município de Sardoal – CCGV, Materiais Diversos Residencies: Estúdios Vítor Cordon, Oficinas do Convento, Teatro Viriato Coproduction residency: O Espaço do Tempo Support: República Portuguesa | DGartes – Direcção Geral das Artes