BUALA

Dance Not Dance? Let’s Dance...

Dance Not Dance lets ghosts circulate in their truncated transience, leaving us with the task of tying up loose ends. Another of these ghosts is Valentim de Barros, who was admitted to the Miguel Bombarda Psychiatric Hospital by the fascists with a diagnosis of “homosexual pathology”. It is one of the several disabled bodies that the new dance has recovered in its affirmation of a becoming queer and becoming crip. But in these archaeologies, some absences are also felt.

I'll visit

22.02.2026 | by Rui Eduardo Paes