Masks of Time, or "Mascaras do Tempo" in Portuguese, is a choreographic reflection on war, loss, and forgotten humanity, but, above all, it is a testimony to the resilience of the body and the endurance of memory.

It emerges as a visceral lament, yes, but also as a cry of presence. Each movement becomes a ritual inscribed in flesh, echoing the shadows of wars that still haunt our world, while simultaneously revealing the power of a body that insists on remembering, on feeling, on existing.

This piece is a requiem for the innocent, especially for children whose lives were abruptly cut short, not by the passage of time, but by the brutality of human actions. And yet, within the danced gesture lies a spark of hope: the belief that by naming and embodying what has been forgotten, a space of awareness and transformation might open.

Here, the body becomes a politicised territory, invoking the concept of "Homo Sacer", that figure cast aside by the system, whose very vulnerability exposes a subversive strength. Dance, in this work, is not only mourning: it is a language of resistance, a poetry that endures.

Accompanied by the haunting soundscape of Dead Can Dance and the voice of Lisa Gerrard, *Masks of Time* invites the audience into a profound and sensitive immersion, where pain is not the end but the beginning of a new kind of listening more empathetic, more human, more awake.