Sulphur Edges

Sulphur Edges is a choreographic encounter shaped with and through place. Developed during the Forum Dança’s PACAP 8 / Mystery School residency in Portugal, the work unfolds across São Miguel’s thermal sites, ocean-edge public pools, traces of a mine and the shell of an abandoned hotel.

Guided by choreographer and director Meg Stuart’s live direction, the performers respond intuitively to the elemental conditions of each site. Movement arises from relation — to temperature, texture, invisible forces, and to one another. Fantasy flickers in the in-between, where a pool becomes a portal, a ruin becomes a score and attention becomes the work itself. The camera moves as a choreographic partner, tracing tensions between body, sites and atmosphere. What remains is a record of relations — provisional, porous, alive.

Meg Stuart will be present for a Q&A and will also sign her recently published book Let’s Not Get Used to This Place, in which she looks back on the past fifteen years within a career spanning more than three decades.