Marco da Silva Ferreira F*cking Future
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F*cking Future choreographs the friction between militancy and militarization, exploring and challenging the systems that shape bodies and behaviours. On a four-sided stage, and from within those very systems, a collective marches between rigidity and dissolution, discipline and desire, invoking new forms of union and insurgency.
Its intimidating approach reveals bodies that are MACHINE GUNS IN A STATE OF GRACE, piercing those who watch them like memories that cannot be forgotten. They sing with a disarming sensitivity and confront the future.
We remain here, resisting through movement.
WE – WE ARE THE GHOSTS YOU TRIED TO KILL
WE ARE THE FAGGOT, THE FEMME AND THE TWISTED,
THE DRAG AND THE BUTCH, THE UGLY, THE QUEEN
WE ARE THE RHYTHM YOU WANT TO ERASE
WE ARE THE FIRE YOU WANTED TO CHASE
About Marco da Silva Ferreira
Marco da Silva Ferreira was born in 1986 from Santa Maria da Feira and graduated in physiotherapy by Instituto Piaget, Gaia (2010), a career who has never exercised. The intensive body practice began in 1996 through high-performance swimming but superseded in 2002 to give way to body practices in the performing arts. His path was self-taught in dance styles that flowed in urban/street contexts, pop culture and clubbing. In 2010, Marco won the TV contest So you think you can dance- Portugal and professionally danced to choreographers as André Mesquita, Hofesh Shechter, Sylvia Rijmer, Tiago Guedes, Victor Hugo Pontes, Paulo Ribeiro and other. Marco is one of the winners of the Chanel Next Prize 2026.
As choreographer, Hu(r)mano(2013) set up the beginning of an unpredictable journey. BROTHER (2016) consolidated an authorial discourse and both pieces integrated Aerowaves Priority Companies. Followed by Bisonte (2019); Corpos de Baile(2020) for the Portuguese National Ballet Company and SIRI(2021) co-created with the filmmaker Jorge Jácome supported by Foundation d’entreprise Hérmes-New Setting Program. In 2022 premiered førma Inførma (2022) with the South African Company Via Katlehong, Fantasie Minor (2022) supported by CCN de Caen and C A R C A Ç A (2022) selected by Big Pulse Dance Alliance and shortlisted for the Rose International Dance Prize. a folia (2024) for Ballet de Lorraine. F*cking Future (2025) performed in a quadrifrontal stage. Sugar Rush (2026) will be the next piece choreographed to Tanzmainz.
Marco was associated artist in Teatro Municipal do Porto(2018/2019); Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen in Normandie(2019/ 2020/ 2021) and currently of Maison de la Danse – Lyon (2023-2027).
Artistic Team & Credits
Artistic Direction and Choreography Marco da Silva Ferreira
Artistic and Dramaturgy Assistance Catarina Miranda & Cristina Planas Leitão
Performers Catarina Casqueiro, Eríc Amorim dos Santos, Fábio Krayze, Doisy Bryan, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Matias Rocha Moura, Max Makowski, Nala Revlon / José Santos (trainee), Mélanie Ferreira (residency)
Music Rui Lima & Sérgio Martins
Light Teresa Antunes & Rui Monteiro, Marco da Silva Ferreira
Production Direction Mafalda Bastos
Production Assistance Ana Lopes
Production Structure P-ulsa
Diffusion ART HAPPENS
Co-producers Maison de la danse, Lyon/Pôle européen de création, in support of Biennale de Lyon (FR); Sadler’s Wells (UK); Charleroi danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles (BE); Teatro Municipal do Porto (PT); PACT Zollverein(GE) ;Points Communs – Nouvelle Scène nationale of Cergy-Pontoise /Val d’Oise (FR); Théâtre National de Chaillot (FR); Julidans Amsterdam (NL); TANDEM Scène nationale (FR); La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse /Occitanie (FR); Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer (GE); Centro Cultural de Belém (PT)
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels and República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes
Residency Co-producers O Espaço do Tempo; Centro de Criação de Candoso, Teatro Municipal do Porto; CRL-Central Elétrica
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