PARAGEM FESTIVAL – AS Bestas, As Luas, by Elizabete Francisca with the participation of Kino Sousa

August 18 | 8:00 PM

Location: Miradouro da Praia da Luz Org.: Bóia – Cultural Association and CM Lagos with the support of DGArtes/RTCP Duration: 60 min Free entry

Strongly inspired by the line «I do not obey because I am wet», from the song performed by Elza Soares, this performance proposes a representation of the political geography of a non-submissive body through gesture and sound. At a time when so many voices and bodies continue to be silenced, it affirms the body as a space of resistance, identity, and emancipation: from the sex to the head, from the head to the cosmos, from the cosmos to the ground. A possible mantra to keep me in imbalance.

BIOGRAPHY: Elizabete Francisca develops her work between dance, performance, cinema, and visual arts, favoring multidisciplinary and collaborative contexts. Her artistic practice focuses on the body as a space of identity, resistance, and emancipation, exploring the relationship between intimacy, politics, and performative gesture. She currently integrates the collective APNEIA COLETIVA, where she continues to develop an artistic language based on experimentation and collective creation.

ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL TEAM: Creation, performance: Elizabete Francisca Music, live operation: Kino Sousa Costume: Carlota Lagido

ABOUT THE PARAGEM FESTIVAL: In the context of the eighth uninterrupted edition of the PARAGEM Festival – Contemporary Artistic Practices in Beach Season, which takes place between June and September 2026 in various locations — some of them for the first time, such as Lagos: thank you, Centro Cultural de Lagos and Municipality of Lagos! — we seek, in each territory, contexts of tourist and summer enjoyment related to the collective beach imaginary. This first extension will once again be based on a transdisciplinary program, aiming to promote relaxed access platforms that facilitate the approach to artistic creation and contemporary culture in summer daily life. The goal is to involve as many people as possible in their holiday routines, offering, in unconventional spaces, a carefully curated, unusual, disruptive, and surprising selection, sometimes subtly. And it's not just us saying it: many different individuals and entities, both public and private, independent structures, and media have said so in various (circ-)instances. The programming includes artistic interventions rich in disciplinary intersections, such as performative installations, performance-conferences, performative walks, aquatic drifts, psychogeographic strolls, situated literature, performative readings, performance, outdoor cinema, DJing, and live acts in "tourist attractions," among other proposals. What continues to drive us, curatorially, is the presentation of artistic-cultural events through the sometimes unusual combination of the arts and the context. Under the motto “(On) Holiday in the Algarve,” we will once again challenge multi, trans, and interdisciplinary artists to present, create, and reinvent themselves through performative actions and artistic interventions that creatively respond to the theme in situ. We want to provide effervescent days in Lagos, capable of shaking and expanding the stabilized perception of a holiday destination through encounters with artistic occurrences that surprise and astonish. At the same time, we want to contribute to an unforgettable holiday for everyone.