Before Being is a performance created by Beatriz Batarda based on works by William Shakespeare, in which the visiting public is invited to experience a unique closeness to the actor’s creative process, an opportunity to better understand the nature of the actor’s work and accompany the construction of the ficcional gesture from the beginning ‘til its finishing.

“Over a 6 days period I will occupy the exhibition gallery during its opening hours. I will be filling the empty space, reading, making choices of texts, working on its sound and body, working on the movement of each thought, while people walk by or stay. Together we shall look for a way of being in the moment.”
Beatriz Batarda