Corpo em Cadeia 26/27

Corpo em Cadeia is an artistic and social project whose mission is to uphold the dignity of and raise the profile of people deprived of their liberty, thereby contributing to the humanisation of prisons and fostering critical and constructive reflection on the prison system.

The project is based on an interdisciplinary model that integrates contemporary dance, performative practices and Gestalt psychotherapy, through an ongoing process of dialogue and co-creation between artists, psychotherapists and people deprived of their liberty.

The project was launched in 2019 at Linhó Prison as part of the PARTIS initiative, organised by the Olga Roriz Company. Following the first phase (2019–2022), the Olga Roriz Company continued its work at Linhó and, since 2025, at the Padre António Oliveira Educational Centre in Caxias.

In 2026, with the involvement of a new partner – Creative Connections – the project set out to expand its scope, taking this methodology to two new prisons: Vale de Judeus (male inmates) and Odemira (female inmates).