Dancing on a Ritual Stone

Dancing on a Ritual Stone

Performance action at the Cromlech of Almendres, Portugal

This photographic series documents Dancing on a Ritual Stone, a site-specific performance created at the Cromlech of Almendres, one of the largest and oldest megalithic stone circles in Europe. Located in Portugal and dating to around 4000 BCE, the site has long been associated with ritual, ceremony, and humanity's relationship with the landscape.

In this performance, I dance upon one of the ritual stones while working with a length of gauze that moves between my body, the wind, and the surrounding megaliths. The gauze references ancestral healing practices of the Nazca culture of Peru, who developed sophisticated textile and gauze-making traditions connected to care, healing, and the body.

By bringing this material into dialogue with an ancient European ceremonial landscape, the work creates a symbolic bridge between distant cultures, geographies, and histories. My body becomes a connector between these worlds, activating a space where memory, ritual, and landscape intersect.

The performance explores ideas of collective healing, ancestral knowledge, and the enduring significance of sacred sites. Through movement and gesture, it seeks to reawaken a relationship between body and place, acknowledging the landscape as a living archive of human experience and cultural memory.