Series of presentations

2026 | Forum Dança

We bring back Cartografias cycle with four works that together create a space for reflecting on the body as a living archive, a field of contention and transformation. Their constellation traces a territory where choreographic creation asserts itself as an act of radical listening, symbolic friction and ethical reinvention. Each work opens a distinct fissure, yet all share the impulse to map liminal zones – between the visible and the spectral, the intimate and the political, the mythical and the biographical – building on the atmosphere created by these artists during their participation in PACAP 8, directed by Meg Stuart.

Thus, in COWBOYS CORNER, the stage becomes a field of active haunting, where bodies and words guide the audience through a landscape of contested belonging. The dramaturgy summons the invisible as choreographic material, producing a suspended space-time that questions who may occupy the commons. PAGAN POETRY shifts this investigation towards ritual and the power of language. Drawing on cartographic notebooks, the work proposes an insurgent poetics that dignifies marginalised bodies and affirms love as resistance, dissolving boundaries between the divine and the profane.

In Monstrosity Studies // Staging Innocence, monstrosity emerges as a critical tool. The work draws upon myths, genealogies and intergenerational wounds to expose the residues of violence that shape contemporary behaviours and moralities, unleashing a storm that disorients in order to reveal. Finally, LENTO explores queer intimacy through deceleration as a political strategy. Slow-motion movement opens up micro-perceptions where lesbian love breaks away from normative narratives and claims new ways of inhabiting affection.

These four proposals emerge from three-week artistic residencies at Forum Dança and invite us to bear witness to their emergence and to exchange with the artists after each performance, so that, together, we may craft thoughts that inspire action and help transform the world.

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