The more the present is dense and oppressive, the more we hasten to escape from it.
Louise Michel, revolutionary from the Paris Commune of 1871

21st March 2001
Vera Mantero and the Ballet Gulbenkian present 'como rebolar alegremente sobre um vazio interior' (“how to merrily roll over an interior emptiness”) in the auditorium of the foundation in Lisbon.

5th July 2005
By decision of the foundation, the Ballet Gulbenkian abruptly ceases to exist. In October of the same year visual artist André Guedes receives two cardboard boxes containing the costumes he had designed for Mantero’s choreography.

January 2008
Guedes and theater maker Miguel Loureiro decide to launch a project in which they re-use both the costumes and the title of the original performance, changing only one word: the ‘interior’ emptiness becomes ‘Exterior.’

4th February 2010
At the O Rumo do Fumo studio in Lisbon, the boxes are opened: the begining of the work sessions for ”como rebolar alegremente sobre um vazio Exterior”.

May of 2010
'como rebolar alegremente sobre um vazio Exterior' is premiered in Porto and Lisbon, respectively at the theatres Carlos Alberto and Comuna, in the frame of alkantara festival.