AMINA, the second chapter of the creative cycle ‘A Coleção do Meu Pai’ (My Father's Colletion) (2023-33), draws on Manuel da Fonseca's novel Cerromaior to imagine an imaginary city, based on a creative process that includes a preliminary phase of collective research and community dance sessions. It brings together an intergenerational, intercultural and multidisciplinary team.

From the book Cerromaior, we import the idea of looking at a particular territory, in this case the South Bank, a territory on the outskirts of the centres of power, inhabited by people who are increasingly diverse but united by a common factor: the oppression of capitalism in its long death throes. We look at people's daily lives, at mundane issues, but ones that have a huge impact, such as the quality of public transport, access to healthcare, energy poverty in housing, among others.

We allowed ourselves to be influenced by other references brought by all the performers, namely Kurt Joss's Mesa Verde, a play created between the two world wars to find a parallel with the present day and which gives a macro context to the play; Patrícia Portela's book Dias Úteis, where we found the idea of the game and the device of the play; the voices and words of Grupo de Acção Cultural - Vozes na Luta, a collective of politically committed singers and musicians, born out of the revolutionary period in Portugal.

The result of these combinations is a piece composed of several games where words, beats, bodies and the manipulation of objects convey a possible truth about this territory and its respective pulse.

The tone of the piece is raw, ironic, cynical and indignant, placing the piece outside the constraints of political correctness.