THIS IS MY NAME is a performance show based on the life and work of Maria Mello Giraldes – a Lisbon poet with a strong family connection to Covilhã, author of “5 Espaços” (1983) and “6 Momentos” (1988) – to think the idea of ​​personal emancipation in other territories, promoting new centers. The perception and search for a femininity that is still ostracized and made invisible in contemporary times and in the bodies that compose it will be the reason for the construction of 

a dramaturgy whose main references are the ‘ghost artists’ of the Portuguese 20th century. In this way, the figure of Maria Mello Giraldes will enable discourse about the “non-inscription” and “non-representation”, in the words of José Gil, of female narratives. Just like “Memória da Matéria” and “Milénios” - two works that the poet ended up not publishing in her lifetime - “Este é o meu Nome” also searches for a spatio-temporal ephemeris that changes the order of things.