Projects
Tender Riot
Ana Rita Xavier
Daniel Conant
Madison Pomarico
Andy Pomarico
Jonas Friedlich
Belisa Branças
Maurícia Barreira Neves
Ana Rita Xavier, Daniel Conant
Sound Composition: Jonas Friedlich
Light: Madison Pomarico
Set Design and Costumes: Andy Pomarico
Production: Belisa Branças
Dramaturgical Assistance /
Artistic Doula: Maurícia Barreira Neves
Guidance Festival 2026 / Oficina
TMP - Teatro Municipal do Porto
DDD Festival 2026
Backsteinboot,
Tanztendenz,
Espaço do Tempo
CRL – Central Elétrica
Fábrica Asa
CIAJG
Tender Riot takes place before anything happens — a preparation for revolt, a campsite of exhausted dreamers. The stage becomes a landfill, a concert, a shame ritual, a performance gone wrong where everybody is in action. We wear every hat, play every role, build and dismantle our own authority, swaddling and manipulating one another — until softness becomes defiance.
Somewhere between a puppet show, a protest, and a burnout support group, Tender Riot unfolds as a dream of a riot that never arrives.
Tender Riot unites seven artists from dance, music, visual art, and performance for their first collaboration. A meeting point between choreography, sound, light, and visual design, the group explores tenderness as resistance and collectivity as practice. Rooted in horizontality and experimentation, they bridge artistic communities across Europe to create works that are both intimate and defiant.