“When I came back this time, I was nothing but loose skin. I’d left my bones and organs in the celestial roots above and my blood pumped itself alive outside my body, connecting only through a long vein to the space in my back where my shoulder blades once were. As I made my way home, I tried to keep a smile on my face, but I had no cheek bones or teeth to hold it together.”
Excerpt of "Wild Rose" in Alopecoid: Cunning Rebellion (2025)
PedroAfoxso
PedroAfoxso (Lisbon, 2002), is a writer, movement and theater maker based in The Netherlands. In his catalogue-formatted work; dance, text, video and spoken word, immerse the audience in a parallel world inspired by queer and grotesque imagery. His hope-seeking research explores society’s permeability to change through an ambush where empathy contrasts with brutal, honest humanity, resulting in a checkmate, that forces the system to either revolutionize or admit defeat.
Pedro's pieces: Is it wrong not to be special, 4,9/10, MUST SWEAT and Infinitely Near Point inspired his Written Movement artistic practice from where his first trilogy solo work comprised of a stage performance, an album and a book, ALOPECOID was born in 2026. His work keeps developing in Amsterdam and The Netherlands at MimeFabriek, Stichting Triplets & ZIDTheater.
Written Movement
How to move a book on stage? Exploring the bridge between paper and the studio, where the essence of words and movement coexist as emotional impacts rather than translations of each other, PedroAfoxso keeps developing Written Movement. Using improvisational dance practices and different forms of text (poetry, short stories, essays) he plays with the border between reality and fiction, letting the body and voice react to an immersive world, shaping and altering it as well. The research has also expanded outside the theater into site-specific settings and digital forms.
Viewing the grotesque body as a place where all human beings reside, Pedro plays with meaning and satire to incite an inner revolution in the viewer and bring them towards compassion and gentleness. By leveling the playing field, he then looks for points of queer exposure; a moment of vulnerability that opens the door to changing the normative status quo.
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