João dos Santos Martins
20 March 2025, at 18h30
Espaço da Penha – Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours
Free entry, subject to capacity and prior enrolment here.
Bio
João dos Santos Martins (Santarém, 1989) is an artist whose work encompasses dance, exploring formats such as choreography, exhibition and publishing.
His practice articulates collaborative modes of making that focus on issues of transmission, memory, repertoire and paradoxes in the activity of dancing. He has created pieces such as ‘Projecto Continuado’ (2015) – SPA Authors Prize – and ‘Companhia’ (2018), with Ana Rita Teodoro, Clarissa Sacchelli, Daniel Pizamiglio, Filipe Pereira and Sabine Macher, ‘Antropocenas’ (2017) with Ritó Natálio or ‘Está Visto’ (2023) with Joana Sá, Ana Jotta and Filipe Pereira.
As a dancer he has performed works by Moriah Evans, Ana Rita Teodoro, Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Boris Charmatz, Marcelo Evelin, Jérôme Bel, Rui Horta, among others.
Her interest in the genealogies of dance history led her to create, together with Ana Bigotte Vieira, a device to map dance in Portugal – ‘Para Uma Timeline a Haver’ – and to found a biannual journal – ‘Coreia’ – dedicated to writings by artists and about the arts. She occasionally writes and curates. In 2014 she founded Parasita, an artists’ association of which she is a member.
About the lecture cycle “My Dance History”
“All of us, dancers, choreographers or performers, have received in some way and by some route, more academic or more self-taught, an idea of the History of Dance, or the History of the Performing Arts, from which we feel “descended” (and perhaps we feel descended from several Histories at the same time!). There were certainly choreographic or scenic creators who made us understand the art we make the way we understand it today. Each one has a specific idea of how that History unfolded, and for each one there are certain creators and certain movements and artistic currents that contributed to configure the idea of dance that you have and practice and that, in some way, is responding to that History. These lectures will give us the opportunity to know the History of Dance that each one has created within themselves.”
Vera Mantero
Participants
Ana Borralho & João Galante, André Lepecki, António Pinto Ribeiro, Christine de Smedt, Clara Andermatt, Cláudia Dias, Cristina Planas Leitão, Eszter Salamon, Francisco Camacho, Gil Mendo, Gustavo Ciríaco, Jennifer Lacey, Jeroen Peeters, João Fiadeiro, Joclécio Azevedo, Jonathan Burrows, La Ribot, Lia Rodrigues, Ligia Lewis, Lisa Nelson, Loïc Touzé, Madalena Victorino, Marcela Levi, Marcelo Evelin, Margarida Bettencourt, Mark Tompkins, Meg Stuart, Mette Edvardsen, Miguel Pereira, Nadia Lauro, Olga Roriz, Panaibra Gabriel Canda, Rui Horta, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz, Sofia Neuparth, Sónia Baptista, Susan Klein, Vânia Rovisco, Vera Mantero, Xavier Le Roy.
The lecture series My Dance History is a project developed since 2011 by O Rumo do Fumo and Forum Dança. The project, initially implemented in Lisbon, was also presented in Viseu, Funchal and Barcelona, in partnership with: Teatro Viriato, Dançando com a Diferença and La Poderosa. The cycle has been hosted by: Edifício (LX Factory), Espaço da Penha, Lisbon Library Network and Victor Córdon/OPART Studios.
Rumo do Fumo and Forum Dança are structures financed by the Portuguese Republic – Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts. Project supported by the program contract with the Lisbon City Council / Municipal Directorate of Culture / Division of the Library Network.