The Azores Fringe Festival continues its annual crossing between islands, languages, and artistic frontiers with the arrival of Argentine performer Pía Nicoletti, who will present her experimental solo performance πr² (Pi R Squared) for the first time in the Azores.

The performance takes place Sunday, May 17, at 6 p.m. at the Auditório da Madalena on Pico Island, as part of the international arts festival that this year unfolds across seven Azorean islands with approximately fifty events.

Part physical theater, part dance ritual, part immersive visual meditation, πr² abandons spoken language entirely, constructing instead a poetic vocabulary through movement, gesture, sound, and handmade live projections.

The result is a deeply sensory and emotional experience — an unfolding spiral of interior transformation where the body itself becomes narrative.

According to the festival presentation, the performance invites audiences into “a profound sensory and emotional journey through the landscapes of human feeling and inner transformation — an infinite spiral in constant expansion.”

Nicoletti’s artistic path mirrors the nomadic and borderless spirit of the performance itself.

Born artistically in Buenos Aires at the Centro Cultural Enrique Santos Discépolo, the performer later studied Physical Theater at the Escola Superior de Arte Dramática da Galiza in Spain before embarking on years of travel across continents — hitchhiking through countries with little more than a backpack, curiosity, and artistic instinct.

In 2022, she received a prestigious Fulbright Program scholarship dedicated to research in physical theater, leading her to the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, California.

After spending a year living and creating in Mexico, Nicoletti developed πr² alongside collaborator Borja Carvajal, giving birth to the nomadic performance company Infinite Soup.

The company, founded in California, describes itself as emerging from “a profound desire to play, explore, and embrace emotion through art and creation” — a collective of humans and dogs traveling, growing, and learning through endless adventures.

That wandering, border-crossing philosophy aligns naturally with the ethos of the Azores Fringe itself, a festival created by Terry Costa and MiratecArts to transform the Atlantic islands into a meeting place for experimental creation, artistic risk, and international dialogue.

From volcanic landscapes rising out of the ocean to improvised theaters in island auditoriums, the Fringe has steadily cultivated an artistic geography where peripheral spaces become centers of imagination.

And now, through πr², another body arrives at the edge of the Atlantic carrying movement instead of speech, silence instead of explanation.

A solitary performer crossing islands with an infinite spiral of gestures.

A theater without words, arriving where the sea itself often says more than language ever could.

Translatged and adapted from Press Release.