A hybrid recital for two body-landscapes animated by breathing. A cluster that destroys and expands, disaster and anti-disaster in which acceleration, fungi and voice survive. Invisible splendours. Hyper-future and hyper-past. Between dysmorphia, the sun and the flesh.

Splendour and Dysmorphia premiered in June 2019 at the 73rd edition of the Avignon Festival, as part of the VIVE LE SUJET! programme at the Jardin de la Vierge. Co-produced by the Avignon Festival and SACD - Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, the piece is a co-creation between choreographer Vera Mantero and musician and visual artist Jonathan Uriel Saldanha. The premiere in Portugal took place in February 2020 at the Vila Flor Cultural Centre, Guimarães, as part of the GUIdance Festival, and moved the project to a performance hall context, making use of other scenic resources.

In 2024, Vera and Jonathan work together again on this creation, giving rise to the film The Breaking Point, presented at the TBA - Teatro do Bairro Alto in Lisbon.