The Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), in Lisbon, today begins “three days of celebration”, which include theatre shows, dance, music, installation and performance in various spaces, thus marking the opening of the new season.
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11/09/2026
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Lusa
A programming, of today, Saturday and Sunday, includes shows paid in the auditoriums and proposals for free entry, by prior ticket withdrawal, besides outdoor initiatives, according to the CCB, in a statement.
Today, at the Grand Auditorium, choreographer Victor Hugo Pontes presents “Falsas Histórias Realeiras: Uma Pina Collagem”, a show created from the work of writer Manuel António Pina, with music by The Girl No, and debuted at the São João National Theatre in Porto.
In the Small Auditorium is presented “The Disappearing Act”, solo creation of Yinka Esi Graves that crosses dance, live music, text and video to explore issues of invisibility, absence and representation.
The first day ends at CCB Square with “C’est Pas Là, C’est Par Là”, the company Galmae and Juhyung Lee, an interactive facility in which the public is invited to collectively untangle a rope wrapped around a stone, becoming part of the work.
“True Stories: A Pina Collage” and “The Disappearing Act” return to the scene on Saturday.
The Saturday schedule also includes “Please Do Not Touch”, in Nuna, at the CCB Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC).
In this creation, which is also presented on Sunday, the artist proposes an afrofuturist monologue on the role of museums in colonialism, the consequences of cultural plundering and representativeness in artistic institutions.
Still at MAC/CCB, on Saturday, curator Cindy Sissokho conducts a ‘visit-conversation’ to the exhibitions “Multiple Eyes”, by Patricia Domínguez, Ines Doujak and Lubaina Himid, and “Cloud of Confusion”, by Frida Orupabo, in a proposal that aims to put in dialogue works that border issues of race, gender, memory, representation and resistance.
The CCB museum also hosts the dance show “Krump Session”, with artistic direction by Dougie Knight and production of the Cultural and Artistic Association Via Urbana, which features the ‘krump’, an urban dance style that emerged in the early 2000s in the peripheral neighborhoods of Los Angeles, as “practice of liberation, resistance and collective transformation”.
Krump Sessions has sessions on Saturday and Sunday.
In the same days there will be music in the Garden of Olives with “Singing Together for the World”, proposed by the Association The PAR addressed to families, which brings together eight musicians, invited artists from different backgrounds, and the Preparatory Choir of the Children's Choir of the University of Lisbon, bringing together cultures, stories and identities.
The program also includes, among others the CCB Market, a conversation with the programmers of the new season, DJ ‘sets’, a participatory performance inspired by the music of Johann Strauss II that combines music, dance and interaction with the audience and a Noa Noa Ensemble concert.
The new season of CCB performative arts was presented in June and extended until 2027, with programming in the areas of music, theatre, dance, artistic creation and proposals for different audiences.