Conversas com Formigas premieres in February at AMAS-theatre in Portugal. This is the second premiere in a collaboration project of Kekäläinen & Company, Teatro Mosca, Leirena Teatro and Colectivo Glovo, and the first creation for a group. Director and choreographer is Sanna Kekäläinen, sound designer is Surma.
Nine performances at AMAS-theatre until 7.3.2026.
The first premiere of the project, solo work Conversations with Ants had its premiere in Portugal in autumn 2025. The project continued with performance events in Finland, and it was also shown as part of Focus of the Local Landscape programming of Moving in November festival. In 2026 the project continues with performance series in Portugal, Spain, and Finland.
Sanna Kekäläinen is responsible for the overall dramaturgy and direction of the works. She does not see the project as the construction and presentation of a single, unique work, but rather as a series of works that transform and take on a life of their own.
The theme of ants runs through the entire project. Kekäläinen is working with author Kari Hukkila with the aim of linking the principles of ants’ activity to the theme of the Anthropocene.
Ants are a kind of biological and global double for humans: only ants and humans have spread across the entire globe, except the northern and southern polar regions.
Conversas com Formigas
12.–14.2.2026 performers: Fran Martinez, Fred da Cruz, Milene Fialho, Sanna Kekäläinen and live music by Surma
26.2.–7.3.2026 performer: Milene Fialho