Platano

Platano is a platform created by Margarida Constantino to develop and showcase theater and dance performance art in solo creations and in collaboration with Christina Mastori and Maas van Gogh. She has been integrated in the Netherlands as a maker and performer since 2021, and active with Platano since 2023. This platform was created in order to acknowledge all the collective efforts of the different artists whose roles vary dependending on the necessities of a specific project or research. The projects and their development rely strongly on the collaboration of multiple artists to create performance art, music and digital media. In the past year we created, 'Sagração de quem Era', 'SELF-HELP: How to make babies, have a career and eat organic', SELF-HELP the film, ‘Rite van Wat Was’ and ‘Grains of Noise’, among other short scale projects. These bodies of work were showcased were possible with support by multiple institutions in the Netherlands and in Europe. Together we look for a collaborative voice within dance theater to speak about subjects that are close to our generation, such as environmental issues, coming of age, mental health, working in the cultural sector, and how to coexist within the differences that make us human.