Pedro Sousa Loureiro aka Feathering
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Pedro Sousa Loureiro aka Feathering
Artistic Director - Interdisciplinary Arts Project Association | Creator | Performer Born in Coimbra, Portugal, in 1989, Pedro Sousa Loureiro, also known as Feathering, is an interdisciplinary artist working across theatre, cinema, performance, radio, and visual arts. His practice explores nonlinear dramaturgy, alter egos, gender identity, social hierarchies, and borders—both physical and symbolic. Working through text, performance, drawing, collage, video installation, and sound, he creates works that investigate relationships between intimacy, authority, and collective memory. Collaboration is at the core of his practice. He develops projects with performers, non-performers, writers, and musicians, often blurring the boundaries between disciplines. His aesthetic is shaped by the tension between the worlds of pop and electronic music and the lyricism of opera. A self-described nomadic artist, Feathering has participated in international residencies and collaborations across Armenia, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Public space is a recurring site of experimentation. Through performances, interventions, drawings, and collages installed in subways, buses, train stations, and other everyday environments, he explores how artistic gestures can transform ordinary places into spaces for encounter, storytelling, and participation. MASTER in Arts Drama (Theatre Directing) Royal Institute of Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) Brussels, Belgium • 2024 Supported by a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship for artistic training abroad. - https://gulbenkian.pt/en Bachelor in Theatre Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC) Lisbon, Portugal One year of Bachelor in Fine Arts School of Arts and Design (ESAD) Caldas da Rainha, Portugal His artistic practice develops between creation, performance, pedagogy, and collaborative experimentation. In theatre and performance. He has worked as a performer with Maria João Rocha, Joris Lacoste, Jorge Silva Melo, Patrícia Portela and Ricardo Neves-Neves. Between 2014 and 2023, he co-founded and coordinated the interdisciplinary arts collective OS PATO BRAVO alongside Joana Cotrim and Marta Barahona Abreu. The collective received the Novos Prize 2016 in the Theatre category. Selected Works and Projects: For the 2026 edition of the TODOS Festival in Lisbon, he serves as co-programmer within a shared curatorial model under the artistic direction of Miguel Abreu. "Magnetic Grandmother" will be the opening performance of Festival TODOS 2026 on 10 September at the Sala Valentim de Barros. In 2026, he received support from the GDA Foundation for the project Electro Eternity, which premiered from April 16 to 26 at CAL (Centro de Artes de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal), and was later presented on June 5 at Teatro Cinema de Fafe. He also received support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for the creation Magnetic Grandmother, presented from February 19 to March 1 at Teatro Ibérico (Lisbon), followed by presentations on March 7 at Teatro Cinema de Fafe and May 8 at Teatro Diogo Bernardes (Ponte de Lima). In 2025, he was selected as one of 20 performers/directors for the open call How to Count to 4 at 120 Beats per Minute by the Belgian multidisciplinary company Needcompany, held in Brussels. That same year, he was selected for a residency within the Corso Open Call with Bibi Van Lieshout, taking place in Antwerp in November 2025. In 2024, he created LONG SUMMER DREAM, presented at Kaaistudios / Kaaitheater and Bronks Theatre in Brussels, Belgium. https://kaaitheater.be/en/agenda/23-24/long-summer-dream In 2023, he presented 2 Steps and a Walk at the Gala Gallait Festival by the Belgian company Tristero, and was in residence at Académie Le Grippault in Richelieu, France. In 2021, he created ONLINE DISTORTION / BORDER LINE(S), co-produced by Teatro Viriato and Liceu Camões, and presented at Casa do Capitão in Lisbon. In 2018, he created IMPERATORE at Liceu Camões, considered one of the 10 best shows of the year by Time Out Lisbon. In 2017, he created BEAUTIFUL HOUSE, supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, presented at the Caves of Liceu Camões and Teatro Sá da Bandeira in Santarém. He created and directed the radio programs Intersecções (2016) and Shot de Liberdade (2020 and 2024) for Antena 2. He also works as a theatre teacher in primary and middle school education. International Artistic Residencies: – (2026) Art residency at Corso, Antwerp, Belgium – (2026) Art Residency at Couto Misto with Patrícia Portela, Couto Misto, Galicia, Spain – (2026) Art Residency at Fundación Montemadrid with Patrícia Portela, Madrid, Spain – (2025) Art Residency with Bibi Van Lieshout at Corso, Antwerp, Belgium – (2024) Art Residency in Talin, Armenia – (2023) Residency with Rota Clandestina, supported by DGARTES internationalization funding, Talin, Armenia – (2023) Art Residency - Académie Le Grippault in Richelieu, France – (2019) Today Art Initiative, rural artistic residency, supported by the Armenian Ministry of Culture, Talin and Byurakan, Armenia – (2018) “En Loleeta”, by Axelle Verkempick, Bottelarij, Brussels, Belgium – (2017) “Ticket to Heaven”, by Joana Cotrim, KVS BOX, Brussels, Belgium – (2016) “Move Movie”, with the Nomadways collective, Bernay-en-Ponthieu, France – (2015) “15 Days / 15 Collages”, London, UK |
