PARASITA is the name of the nonprofit Association created in 2014, with headquarters in the municipality of Santarém, whose activity is the production and creation of artistic objects and cultural events where experimentation and critical discourse are privileged through research proposals where processes and products interact without distinction.
Today, PARASITA works as an association of artists who share resources and objectives to meet the characteristics of a professional environment in which dance is becoming more and more a fluid support — crossed by practical and theoretical studies, expanded practices, and discussions about boundaries between doing and curating —, to problematize the cultural responsibility of artists and related agents. Designed as an artistic structure, made by artists and for artists, PARASITA is currently composed by Ana Rita Teodoro, Carlos Manuel Oliveira, João dos Santos Martins and Rita Natálio, and managed by Lysandra Domingues.
