SANCHA MECA CASTRO☉ Sky Casting

Taking the skin as an interface, the place as a counterpart, and disruption as a boycott of narrative continuity, Sky Casting explores the place of fear in a body caught between control and the sensory. From processes of evasion, third-person dances, emotional artifacts, abandonment of logic, and division of agencies, gestural and sonic patterns emerge. One manipulates when one is a whole body, a multiple body, or only parts. One tests the power of fearlessness and revisits the question of how one can surrender to a noise that one cannot understand but perhaps can feel. Anchored in queer quantum physics theory, Sancha works with improvisation as a means of relating to place, and repulsion as a central element of attraction. Sky Casting is an essay on collapse as the starting point for the end of fear.

Choreography, performance, and materials: Sancha Meca Castro

Music: Inês Malheiro

Costumes: Miruna Vlad

Artistic accompaniment and dramaturgical support: Toni Steffens and Ana Rocha

Rehearsal assistance: Nara Gonçalves and Nika Faescke

Special thanks to Carolina Araújo, Maria Novo, and Hayden Bouvet

Sancha Meca Castro is a performer, choreographer, and transdisciplinary artist. Interested in the absurd and the bizarre, she works through speculative practices on the nature of objects, archives, and gestures. Her movement practice explores tangible matter and invisible materialities, such as fictions, value creation, ruins, collapsing emotions, and other memories. She studied sculpture at Fbaup, dance at BDI, and choreography at SNDO. She has presented work in Portugal, the Netherlands, England, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.

Mula – Performing Arts

from sunset on day 20 to sunrise on day 22 — March 2026, Porto (PT)

An animal between species, representative of hybridity and resistance, ℳ𝓊𝓁𝒶 asserts itself as a symbol of recklessness, crossbreeding, and transgression. A collective body that insists. ℳ𝓊𝓁𝒶 was born from the desire to create a weekend festival gathering, focusing on dance and its hybrid languages, crossing performative and sound practices, continuous readings, astral and oracular, as well as temporal, bodily, collective, and situated experiences. Intertwining spaces, people, and rhythms, ℳ𝓊𝓁𝒶 affirms conviviality as an artistic and political practice, understanding the gathering as a place of listening, sharing, and transformation.

ℳ𝓊𝓁𝒶 proposes a temporary territory for experimentation and sharing, bringing together performances, concerts, workshops, readings, and meetings in different spaces throughout the city of Porto over the course of a weekend. The pilot edition brings together seven independent venues in the city of Porto and 21 artists in a celebration of the spring equinox. On this day of the solar cycle, when the Sun shines directly on the Equator and day and night are in balance, through a journey through the daytime and nighttime hours, we focus our attention on the pleasures, encounters, possibilities, and affections that the bodies on stage produce and move.

All performances, workshop and concert during the ℳ𝓊𝓁𝒶 weekend are free of charge and operate on a first-come, first-served basis, with no reservations or advance ticketing. Each venue opens to the public 30 minutes before the performance and has limited capacity. Although entry is free, we invite audiences to make donations (pay what you can) to support our partner venues and, in part, solidarity organisations in central Portugal. Club ℳ𝓊𝓁𝒶, food at each venue, as well as tarot readings and natal chart sessions, are paid directly on site. More information on the “information & accessibility” page.