Light Design
BEAUTIFUL
Direction, Creation & Interpretation:
Daniel Conant
Ana Rita Xavier
Light:Madison Pomarico
Sound Design:
Jonas Freidrich
Dramaturgical Support:
Madison Pomarico
Co-production:
TMP - Teatro Municipal do Porto
DDD Festival 2025
Supported by:
the European Union and Goethe Institute2025
BEAUTIFUL is a stage set for rebellion. Two performers —caught between being watched and watching themselves—grapple with power, presence, and untamed questions: Who is in control here?
A pedestal stands horseless. Ghosts linger. Marching bands echo. Where power once stood, emptiness reigns. In the absence of authority, the stage becomes a battlefield for the absurd, where performance itself is the weapon. The performers push back, creating a spectacle that is everything at once. ‘Beautiful’ is a tender exploration of liveness, collaboration, and what it means to perform when everything—and nothing—is watching.
Absurd and unapologetically alive. Welcome to the riot.... It’s gunna be BEAUTIFUL
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I, The Consumer
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Madison Pomarico is an American born, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages with the interface of performance, movement, and visual languages in combination with the use of technological elements that challenge the limits of the body, and various levels of performer autonomy. Her work is driven by a sense for experiment and artistic cross-pollination between visual arts and different genres of dance, expanding our perception of tangible experience, and pushing the boundaries of expectation. She works with mediums such as video, light design, animation, sculpture, and graphic programming environments in an attempt to dissolve established modes of working digitally and materially, and invent new immersive methods in the process.