Hide to Seek + Limbo Pass €15

Frente e Verso invites a prismatic gaze, a crossed perspective, based on the premise that we coexist in the same Time - we are Contemporary - and, therefore, we are concerned with similar themes, which we approach based on narratives and vocabularies that result from this same historical context.
Hide to Seek aims to think of the mask as the crystallization of an expression, state of mind or (id)entity, but also as a possibility of (de)identification for the emergence of a distinct corporeality. In a tense, ritual game of hide and seek, the body redefines itself with each gesture, allowing itself to be transformed by its successive repositioning. A clear dialog is sought between a watertight form and an alterable form, between the singular and the collective, which allows the mask to be imprinted on the face and otherness to be invoked in the body.

Hide to Seek, by Júlio Cerdeira, and LIMBO, by Victor de Oliveira, are the shows selected for Frente e Verso 2025, for the way they explore the expression or concealment of identity(ies), as a tool for transformation or a place of uncertainty and anxiety.

Artistic direction and choreography Júlio Cerdeira
Performed by Maria R Soares, Rafael Pinto and Suevia Rojo
Music (live) Miguel De
Lighting Pedro Abreu
Props (masks) Ed Freitas and Nuno Fonseca
Acting accompaniment Joana Gomes Martins
Artistic consultancy Cláudia Marisa and Né Barros
Communication and video design Luís Belo
Photography João Octávio Peixoto and Miguel De
Executive producer Rui Macário Ribeiro


Production and communication support BANQUETE - Association for Research and Creation in the Performing Arts
Acknowledgements Hugo Loureiro
Partnerships Arte Total, Backstage - Escola de Dança e Artes Performativas, Centro de Arte Oliva, Coffeepaste, Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo, Município de Braga, Núcleo de Investigação em Estudos Performativos (NIEP), O que Faltava and zetgallery
Co-production Braga 25 - Portuguese Capital of Culture 2025, Teatro Diogo Bernardes/Municipality of Ponte de Lima and Instável - Centro Coreográfico and Teatro Municipal do Porto


This project has the support of the Portuguese Republic - Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.
This show is part of the SUPRACASA program of Braga 25 - Portuguese Capital of Culture