VORTEXXX 0.0
Artistic Director and Choreographer
Rita Spider
Dancers and Co-creators
Bárbara Henriques, Bea Fernandes, Caco Lebre, Cíndy June, Filipa Ferreira, Inês Cordeiro, Joana Maia, Júlia Khouri, Juliana Carvalho, Júlio Nuncio, Magarida Reis, Pedro Esteves, Pi Amaro, Rafael Lourenço, Rita Sousa, Sara Coelho e Seph.
Sound and Lighting Design: Pedro Pinto . Set Design and Props: Nucha’ARTE . Photography: Dinis Rosa – Dopedini . Music by Rita Spider . Multimedia Designer – Motion Graphics: David Ventura
VORTEXXX 0.0
Artistic Manifesto
VORTEXXX is not just a performance.
It is a field of experience.
A territory where dance, consciousness, and narrative converge to reveal the invisible cycles that shape human existence.
In VORTEXXX 0.0, eighteen characters move through loops of transformation. Each cycle exposes patterns, confronts limits, and opens pathways between what we are and what we have forgotten we once were.
Between the human and the divine there is an in-between space.
It is within this space that the VORTEXXX emerges.
Here, the audience does not simply occupy the role of spectator.
Each person becomes a traveler within the universe of the work.
Upon entering the space, they receive a being to follow.
A destiny to witness.
A narrative to uncover.
There is no single path.
Stories intersect, repeat, fragment, and transform.
Each gaze reveals a different version of the same reality.
In the VORTEXXX, time moves in a spiral.
Cycles return not to repeat the past, but to reveal what has not yet been understood.
Gradually, the beings begin to remember.
They remember their primordial nature.
They remember the origin.
And what once appeared human reveals itself as divine.
VORTEXXX 0.0 is the first portal into this universe — a space where body, imagination, and consciousness meet to explore an essential question:
What if every human being were, in truth, an entire universe waiting to awaken?
Synopsis
VORTEXXX 0.0 is an invitation to cross into a living universe in constant transformation.
In a space where the boundaries between stage and audience dissolve, 18 characters move through cycles of transformation between the human and the divine, confronting memories, choices and patterns that shape their destiny.
Upon entering this universe, each spectator is given a character to follow. From that moment on, they are no longer mere observers, but become part of a living narrative — freely moving through the space and discovering different fragments of the story.
Between choreographic rituals, parallel realities and temporal loops, VORTEXXX reveals a territory where time bends and stories return in new forms.
With each cycle, something awakens.
Something ancient.
Something that has always been there.
Gradually, the beings begin to remember their forgotten essence, revealing the divine archetypes that have always lived within them.
In VORTEXXX, the space becomes a living organism where audience and performers share the same passage.
Each spectator experiences a unique path.
Each gaze reveals a different story.
Because within VORTEXXX, every journey is singular.
And within each human being lies an entire universe waiting to awaken.
Characters
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METAFIS
PEDRO
A divine being named METAFIS, inspired by Eros, Pele, Aurora, Archangel Michael, and Melchizedek. He has piercing blue eyes, light skin, and a radiant aura. His presence embodies freedom, light, and the breaking of old cycles. He moves with incredible speed, surrounded by swirling flames and golden light. His heart chakra glows with emerald and rose hues. He wears celestial armor with sacred geometry patterns, and his wings are made of light and fire. The background is a cosmic landscape with auroras and volcanic energy.
Style: mythological, epic, luminous, high-detail, sacred art.
Message
Freedom through change…
When a leap of faith is taken, when something has been held for too long, in that moment we begin to see hope for change.
Metafis is the presence behind the diaphragm—the fire of following our own light.
The moment he arrives, the will to change moves forward—the one who breaks cycles. The freedom to begin again.
Metafis is freedom through change, a phoenix of light.
Question to you who are watching:
Why don’t you go after your light?
MORGANA
SARA
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CRIAVAK
JOANA
Guardian of the deep waters of the soul, where nothing can be dead and nothing remains stagnant. Goddess of perpetual movement, she manifests at the exact moment when the soul calls for transformation. She is the embodiment of the Beginning and the End. With cosmic authority, she opens and closes the portals of the Universe. When her seal is closed, the door is transmuted and can never be opened again.
With a delicate breath, she cleanses and releases, ensuring that the ground becomes fertile for the birth of the new. Morgana destroys in order to liberate, and destruction is an act of pure compassion and detachment.
An alchemist of the invisible, she holds the sacred gift of transforming the weight of existence into prayer. She is the bridge, the veil, and the gateway between Heaven and Earth. Light and mysterious, she has the ability to stop time, suspending the cosmos within a single breath. In that vacuum of eternity, she releases what must be let go and reveals, with divine precision, the sacred crack through which the light must enter.
Message
“It has been some time—if time has even passed… and I wonder whether it was not the generous wind that blew upon my face…
Today my prayers are also for the wind, so that it may carry my desires to the universe and lift me gently… heart raised high and forehead to the ground.”
Questions to you who are observing:
Which animal accompanies the Goddess? What does Morgana always carry with her?
Various paths can be taken, some mandatory, others optional. The real question is not which one to choose, but how it is walked.
Criavak is a divine transformation of human walls, inviting one to move through this Vortexxx world without limitations.
Questions to you who are observing:
What is the source of Criavak’s energy?
Where does its movement arise from?
BOOGALOO MOSESR
RAFAEL
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SYPHER
RITA
THE SEAGULL
INÊS
A gentleman, dressed in a black and grey suit, wearing sunglasses and a popper hat, with a strong beard and an ultra-bright background…
He doesn’t walk — he glides in boogaloo style between the 6 elements and the 6 senses…
Questions to you who are watching:
Is judging something positive?
What would your inner child say about you if it were with you?
She lives fully, calmly, without haste or anxiety. She embraces her entire being and shares that embrace with those around her.
However, when she descends to Earth (the planet of emotions), she embodies the life of a young woman who is insecure, quiet, and constantly belittles herself.
For six loops, Sypher tries to remember her true identity while experiencing the complicated yet beautiful human life.
Message
Live and Let Live
Questions to you who are watching:
How many times did it take pointing the finger for her to be heard?
Or for her to be able to hear herself?
Within a rigid and regulated society, there exists a being who carries within herself a dormant gift, whose nature she does not yet understand. She lives much of her life following the same patterns as others, trying to fit into a reality that does not reflect her.
This disconnection creates a constant restlessness, making her feel out of place, as if she belongs and, at the same time, does not belong. There is something within her that does not fit—a subtle difference that sets her apart from the group.
Between doubt and impulse, a journey of seeking begins—a внутрен race between what she knows and what she feels. It is within this confrontation that a light begins to emerge, at first diffuse, but impossible to ignore.
As she recognizes it as part of herself, the body transforms: it stops resisting and allows itself to be. Her true form then emerges—free, fluid, and ethereal—where light is no longer something to be reached, but something she has always been.
Question to you who are watching:
Is this race an escape… or a path?
MOKSHEUS
JÚLIO
SINCI
PI
ÉLUX
CACO
Moksheus seeks to awaken this dialogue between routine and intuition… on a journey of singular purpose driven by the greatest need of all… to love unconditionally.
We are all told that we need to be alone… so says modern society! But where is the truth in that, or where does that solitude begin and end? Are we alone because we choose to be, or because we believe we must be?
Questions to you who are whatching:
• What is your superpower?
• What is freedom?
• What is the universal language of the world?
Sinci does not walk — she happens.
Born from the invisible pulse of the now, she is a goddess without past and without promise, made of moments that dissolve as soon as they touch the skin of time. In the Vortexxx universe, where everything spins and dissolves, Sinci is the silent center of the whirlwind — not because she controls it, but because she does not resist.
She does not carry memories like chains, nor does she project futures as refuge. Sinci lives in the vertigo of the present, where every gesture is whole, every breath is a birth. Her body dances as if it had never learned, as if every movement were the first — and the last.
Her authenticity is not an effort; it is a raw state. Wild, fluid, untamed. Sinci does not seek to be — she is. And in that full existence, she teaches without words: that truth only exists in the now, and that freedom is not something to be found — but to be recognized.
There is something both ethereal and visceral in her presence. Like wind that cannot be seen, yet transforms everything it touches. Like fire that does not ask for permission to burn.
Sinci is the instant that escapes the hands of those who try to hold it.
And perhaps, in observing her, we realize — even if only for a second — that to live is this: to dissolve into the moment, without fear of disappearing within it.
Questions to you who are whatching:
In which part of Sinci’s body is her power born?
What awakens in Sinci as she crosses the invisible?
Where does the wound become power?
An explosive god, yet without losing control — energetic and contagious, influenced by Fire and Ether, geometrically formed by the infinite…
His physical form is that of a gentleman with fox-like features.
Questions to you who are whatching:
Are you sure you are living life?
Or are you just reacting to life?
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KAOKAB
JÚLIA
YIN LONG YANG
Cindy
KENSHÕ
BEA
Kaokab is an old soul goddess, descending from lineages of travellers, she keeps her center of gravity while everything changes and collapses around her. she is a cleaner, oiling feelings and dreams to flow them through the tiny and wide waves of life. she is a peace keeper, she seeks balance, softness, and raw reality. She is fear and courage. She heals the world with her warm arms. She is oneness.
We are a multitude and impermanence,
We are all our experiences — experiences of birth, of travel and exploration.
We are our passions and everything that animates us, including the contradictions within us.
We are everything and its contrary.
We are not binary beings in our essence, but we learn to be.
When we dance, we unlearn what we were taught to believe was right and convenient.
We don’t have to meet expectations to be loved, to belong.
We already belong in our essence — with all the parts of ourselves, all our thoughts:
the ones illuminated by light,
and the ones cornered by fear and darkness.
Let us show up with all of it —
our whole spectrum,
our entire complexity.
The goddess is not afraid of her dark parts.
She recognizes all of it while battling with grace and wisdom.
She is not perfect, nor does she strive to meet expectations.
She is whole.
Questions to you who are whatching:
-What is her super power ?
-What is her love language ?
A goddess represented by a deep blue dragon with cosmic eyes. She symbolizes balance, the intuitive feminine and the creative masculine. Her consciousness and intuition allow her to feel the vibration of everything that exists.
Questions to you who are whatching:
What does she seek to recognize the most?
Are there limits for her?
A goddess driven by ambition, with a desire for eternal observation and expansive connection.
She expresses love for the imaginary.
Questions to you who are whatching:
Does facial expression transform into a bodily dimension?
Does gold affect her, or does it bring her happiness?
Are the layers of color real?
YUSSEFA
SEPH
Of controlled instinct, of strategic solitude, and of a spirit that does not need approval, the golden eyes transmit present awareness.
“I am what I know, therefore I do not know what I am, and the more I think I know, the less I think about what I am, because I am never what I know nor do I ever know what I am, until I learn to be — to be without knowing what I know or what I am, just to be.”
Questions to you who are whaching:
What is the animal form of my god?
What energy do you see and/or feel in my god?
Service Name
FILIPA
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Service Name
BÁRBARA
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YUSSEFA
JULIANA
Service Name
MEG
Of controlled instinct, of strategic solitude, and of a spirit that does not need approval, the golden eyes transmit present awareness.
“I am what I know, therefore I do not know what I am, and the more I think I know, the less I think about what I am, because I am never what I know nor do I ever know what I am, until I learn to be — to be without knowing what I know or what I am, just to be.”
Questions to you who are whaching:
What is the animal form of my god?
What energy do you see and/or feel in my god?
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