AΦEImprobable

AΦE is a state of the art future technology arts collective founded in 2013 by Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Fourmi, with the vision to bring the art of dance and the possibilities of technology closer to audiences. Their mission is to create high-quality productions that are not bound by a stage, working with technology to create new and incredible experiences for audience.

Since 2021, Aoi & Esteban have been the Gulbenkian Arts Centre’s Digital Artists in Residence, working closely with our team on the development of our Digital arts programming, and developing a digital studio on our Chatham Dockyard site.

Pioneering improvisers, theatre makers, conversation facilitators and winners of Producer of the Year in The Stage Awards 2023.

Over the past 25 years, they have staged epic outdoor spectacles like Sticky (which was seen by over 250,000 people); theatrical classics like The Tempest at Northern Stage and the Oxford Playhouse; intimate puppetry like Animo in studios across the country; adaptations like Theatre of Blood at the National Theatre; operatic triumphs like Satyagraha and Akhnaten at the English National Opera in London and the Metropolitan Opera in New York; female-led impro project Permission Improbable and most recently the multi-award-winning, record breaking My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican in London.

In 2023/24 they come to Gulbenkian with Day=Night (p16), an evening of improvised music and storytelling.