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Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods | Let’s Not Get Used To This Place

Book Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods

Let’s Not Get Used To This Place

 

Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods 2008-2023

Let’s Not Get Used To This Place is a publication dedicated to the work of choreographer Meg Stuart and the company Damaged Goods, marking over a decade of choreographic creation.

Edited by Julie De Meester, Astrid Kaminski, and Jeroen Versteele, Let’s Not Get Used To This Place brings together an extensive collection of materials – reflections, interviews, scores, process notes, essays, poetry, photographs, and performance texts – that span Stuart’s work between 2008 and 2023.

 

As a memorial gesture for PACAP 8, a program directed by Meg Stuart in 2025, Forum Dança is offering a limited number of copies for sale.

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Informations

About the book

Let’s Not Get Used to This Place // Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods

Since the early nineties, Meg Stuart, born 1965 in New Orleans, USA, and her Brussels-based dance company Damaged Goods, have produced a remarkable and audacious body of choreographic work. Ten years ago, Damaged Goods published Are we here yet? (ed. Jeroen Peeters), which spans the first twenty years of Meg Stuart’s career. 

 

In Let’s Not Get Used to This Place, the choreographer dives into more than a decade of works through reflections, interviews, scores and exercises, and notes on the practice of creating, performing, teaching and living dance. These are mixed with reports, essays and poetry by close collaborators and intimate strangers, photos, performance texts and archive material. The book’s title, gleaned from one of Stuart’s recent video works, ties together these multifaceted sources in a desire to discard tried and tested strategies, explore new contexts, and transgress the edge of what we (do not) know.

 

This publication also coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of Damaged Goods: a perfect way to celebrate this remarkable legacy.

Excerpt

‘For years, I have been calling out the word ‘change’ to dancers, so that they move from one improvised state to another without attachment or preparation. The more I propose this task, the more I discover that what remains is more significant than the change itself. The change reinforces not only the quality of letting go, but also the commitment of the attention we give to the state or physical idea we let go of. Abrupt changes mark where we are, what we have to leave, and what it takes to let go and open up again.

In another exercise, we hold a person tightly, and keep holding onto the trace of this physical contact after we let go of them; then we move with the trace and shape of this person. You can also do this with objects. Every lived experience leaves a mark. By tracing the shape of this mark, we take the experience with us to the next place. I believe that time is not one singular flow. You can always retrace and reframe. Past events are not fixed; they are a process that is still unfolding. You can write letters to people who have died, for example. It shifts your relationship with them. I have done this.’

 

Meg Stuart

+ Info

Edited by: Astrid Kaminski, Jeroen Versteele, Julie De Meester

Graphic design: Sean Yendrys with Björn Giesecke

Contributions: Jean-Marc Adolphe, Márcio Kerber Canabarro, Tim Etchells, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Philipp Gehmacher, Ezra Green, Astrid Kaminski, André Lepecki and Eleonora Fabiano, Jeroen Peeters, Gerald Siegmund, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Maria F. Scaroni, Meg Stuart, Jeroen Versteele, Jozef Wouters and many others.

 

Distributed by: les presses du réel

Language: English 528p., 16.5 x 23.5 cm

ISBN: 9782960320718

Price:

€45 regular price

€38 discount for former students of long-term courses at Forum Dança

 

More information and pre-orders at forumdança@forumdança.pt

Bio

Meg Stuart

Forum Dança | PACAP 8 - Meg Stuart
Meg Stuart © Camille Blake

Choreographer, director, and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. With her company, Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, ranging from solos and duets to group pieces, video works, site-specific creations and improvisation projects.

Stuart’s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines.

Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she explores dance as a source of healing and a way to transform the social fabric.

Improvisation is an important part of Stuart’s practice, as a strategy to move from physical and emotional states or the memory of them.

Meg Stuart has received many awards for her work, notably the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018, and she was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023.

More informations: www.damagedgoods.be

Top image credits © Book cover: photo by Eva Würdinger, design by Sean Yendrys

Activities PACAP 8

Lectures PACAP 8 / Mystery School

Patrícia Costa

Direção de Cena / Espaços culturais

Com Patrícia Costa

Seminários Abertos CGPAE | 2025

Curso de Gestão/Produção das Artes do Espetáculo

Informações

Direção de Cena / Espaços Culturais

Patrícia Costa
Patrícia Costa

Objetivos gerais

  • Conhecer as principais funções da Direção de Cena.
  • Desenvolver noções teóricas e práticas sobre as diferentes áreas de trabalho da Direção de Cena
  • Adquirir noções teórico-práticas sobre o trabalho da direção de cena

 

Conteúdos programáticos

  1. Breve apontamento sobre a história da arquitetura e sua influência na ação teatral
  2. Tipologias de salas e Infraestruturas: implantação de palcos e outros tipos de estruturas
  3. Equipamentos e Acessórios
  4. Segurança e Acessibilidades
  5. Organização de estruturas – Noções básicas sobre Direção Técnica | Direção de Produção | Direção de cena
  6. Noções básicas sobre Iluminação Cénica, sonoplastia e vídeo e a sua implicação direta no trabalho na Direção de Cena
  7. Nomenclatura sobre os diversos tipos de equipamentos utilizados nas diferentes áreas (teatro/dança/música/outros)
  8. Contra-regra, cenografia e figurinos
  9. Análise de rider técnico
  10. Construção de um guião de direção de cena

 

Biografia

Licenciada em Dança pela FMH – UTL, Pós-graduada em Dança na Comunidade pela FMH – UL e Mestre em Estudos do Teatro pela FLUL.

Iniciou a sua atividade profissional na área de produção em 1999, com o espetáculo “1/2h do Almoço”. Entre fevereiro de 2000 e julho de 2001 fez um estágio curricular seguido de um estágio profissional em Direção de cena no CCB. De julho de 2001 a maio de 2002 integra a equipa de direção de cena do CCB, como assistente de direção de cena. De junho de 2002 a abril de 2003 fez produção executiva e direção de cena na Cooperativa Teatro da Garagem. De abril a dezembro de 2003 fez produção executiva no Espaço do Tempo – Montemoro-Novo. Em outubro de 2003 funda A Menina dos meus olhos, associação cultural com a Marina Nabais onde faz parte da direção, com a responsabilidade direção de produção e de gestão financeira, até dezembro de 2005. De abril de 2004 a janeiro de 2007 fez parte da equipa de Direção de Cena do Teatro Camões/CNB.

Ao longo destes 23 anos colaborou pontualmente em várias estruturas, tanto na área de direção de cena com na área de produção, a destacar: Truta, associação cultural; Pato Profissional e Mala Voadora. Em agosto de 2015 funda HomemBala, associação cultural com Tónan Quito, fazendo parte da direção executando a gestão financeira e a direção de produção até dezembro de 2017.

Desde 2006 trabalha regularmente como formadora, dando vários workshops a profissionais do espetáculo e em várias escolas da área do espetáculo. A destacar o módulo de direção técnica e de cena no curso de técnicos de espetáculos na Restart – Instituto de Criatividade Artes e Novas Tecnologias em 2013 e Produção de espetáculos na Escola Superior de dança no ano curricular 2018/2019 e 2019/2020.

Desempenha a função de diretora de cena no CCB desde janeiro de 2007.

A quem se destina

Agentes culturais que pretendam desenvolver o seu trabalho/projeto na área de Gestão/Produção das Artes do Espetáculo.
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Horários

Este seminário é composto por 8 sessões que acontecem através da plataforma Zoom nos dias:

  • 2, 4, 9, 16, 18, 23 e 25 de setembro das 18h30 às 21h30 (terças e quintas)
  • Presencial no Forum Dança no dia 20 de setembro (sábado) das 10h30 às 14h

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  • Valor 195€

Regulamento

NOTA:

Com as devidas adaptações, o regulamento dos Seminários Abertos aplica-se o mesmo que é usado no curso completo do CGPAE.

 

 

A.) PARTICIPANTES

A.1.) Deveres 

  1. Frequentar com assiduidade e pontualidade a ação de formação. A presença e participação em todas as atividades do curso são consideradas condições necessárias para a prossecução de um elevado nível pedagógico.
  2. Participantes que ultrapassem o limite de 58 horas de faltas (20% das horas totais) não terão direito ao Certificado de Frequência e Aprovação final do curso. A chegada às aulas 15 minutos depois do seu início corresponde a 1 hora de falta;
  3. Utilizar com cuidado e zelar pela conservação dos equipamentos e demais bens que lhe sejam confiados para efeitos de formação;
  4. Cumprir com os pagamentos;
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A.2.) Direitos 

  1. Receber a formação em conformidade com os programas estabelecidos;
  2. Obter gratuitamente, no final da acção, o Certificado comprovativo da frequência e aproveitamento (caso estes se verifiquem) no curso;
  3. Beneficiar de um seguro de acidentes pessoais no decurso da formação;
  4. Receber informação e orientação profissional no decurso da ação de formação;
  5. Receber informação mensal sobre os horários do curso;
  6. Reclamar junto da coordenação da formação, em horário a acordar, e ainda, se a natureza da queixa o justificar, por escrito junto da entidade de formação, a qual responderá apropriadamente e do mesmo modo

 

B.) ENTIDADE FORMADORA

B.1.) Deveres

  1. Respeitar e fazer respeitar as condições de higiene e segurança do local em que decorre a formação;
  2. Não exigir tarefas não compreendidas nos objectivos e âmbito do curso;
  3. Actuar no respeito das normas nacionais de proteção de dados pessoais, nomeadamente mantendo para uso estrito da ação de formação os dados constantes da ficha de formando e dos curricula vitae.

B.2.) Direitos

  1. O cumprimento do regulamento e normas de funcionamento por parte das pessoas participantes;
  2. O tratamento com correção de representantes do Forum Dança e colaboradores;
  3. Efetuar as alterações consideradas necessárias aos horários pré-estabelecidos, comunicando-os atempadamente.

 

C.) AVALIAÇÃO

C.1.) Avaliação qualitativa

  1. Participação e aproveitamento da formação;
  2. Assiduidade e pontualidade.

C.2.) Avaliação quantitativa

  1. No final dos seminários com duração superior a 7 horas;
  2. No projecto final;
  3. No final do curso;
  4. Será utilizada a escala numérica de 0 a 20;
  5. A avaliação só será feita em caso de presença em pelo menos 70% das horas totais de cada seminário.

C.4.) Certificado de formação

No final da ação de formação será entregue um certificado comprovativo da frequência e do aproveitamento obtido.

Outros seminários

Performing weeding with two brides

Arquives for Future Spells

PACAP 8 / Mystery School of Coreography

Culturgest

17 a 19 july 2025 | Sat and Sun (19h)

MYS
Mystery School of Choreography
Escola mistério de coreografia
L’école chorégraphique du mystère
Escola Misteriosa de Coreografia
Tajymnŏ szkōła choreografije
Schule der Mysterien in der Choreografie
Μυστηριώδες σχολείο χορογραφίας
Tajemnicza Szkoła Choreografii
Escuela Mística de Coreografía
مدرسه رمز و راز طراحی رقص
Mysterium Skola för Koreografi
Escuela Coreográfica del Misterio
コレオグラフィーのミステリースクール

As a closing gesture of a six-month program of experimentation and co-creation, PACAP 8 | Mystery School of Choreography (MYS) spills and installs its studies at Culturgest.  In residency, MYS will reflect, move, nest and digest together, and share a fountain of spells over three durational evenings. Meg Stuart, Ana Rocha, Márcio Canabarro, Santiago Tricot, Mieko Suzuki, Xullaji, and PACAP 8 | MYS artists Ana Szopa, António Bollaño, Arash Khakpour, Emily da Silva, Guillermo Tarasewicz, Isabela Rossi, iSSiE – iSaAc, Julia Kosałka, Kaya Freeman, María Ibarretxe, Martha Kotsia, Michiru Shin, Natacha Campos, Raul Aranha, Salomé Pham-Van-Hué, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Śomi Śniegocka, Therese Bendjus and Tiago Vieira, offer their real and fictional archive with spirited intention for our common futures.

How can we instigate and elevate community through its multiple dimensional legacy? Can mysticism be a crack in the real, so we may step into an archive of becoming? What if embodied mysticism is a radical political act? What is the revolution of our nervous system? By not looking at dance as spectacle but as spell, can we re-arrange our relational field with the many realities rapidly changing around us? Embodying the shared archive forward and back, visitors will enter a collective journey of oracular encounters, visions and dreams. MYS invites you to immerse into its inner architecture. MYS taps into remembrance as a contextual container. Here, you are not a spectator. You are a fragment of the divine in rebellion, so proceed accordingly.  Because archiving the future is a form of hope.

Artistic director & MYS concept : Meg Stuart
Artistic collaboration PACAP8 | MYS : Ana Rocha
Artistic collaboration Archives for Future Spells: Márcio K. Canabarro and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot
Live music: Mieko Suzuki and Xullaji
Technical direction: Santiago Tricot
Special thanks: Aline Belfortm, Pedro Azevedo

 

Duration 4h | public entry and exit is allowed freely

 

PACAP 8 participants: Ana Szopa (PL), António Bollaño (PT), Arash Khakpour (IR), Emily da Silva (BR), Guillermo Tarasewicz (UY), Isabela Rossi (BR/IT), iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo (EC), Julia Kosałka (PL), Kaya Freeman (PT), María Ibarretxe (ES), Martha Kotsia (GR), Michiru Shin (JP), Natacha Campos (PT), Raul Aranha (IN), Salomé Pham-Van-Hué (FR), Sepideh Khodarahmi (SE/IR), Śomi Śniegocka (PL), Therese Bendjus (DE) e Tiago Vieira (PT).

Production: Forum Dança Co-production PACAP 8: Teatro do Bairro Alto, Culturgest, Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk, Goethe-Institut Portugal, as part of the Kulturfest festival Co-production in Residency: O Espaço do Tempo PACAP 8 Support: Alkantara, Casa da Dança – Almada, Fundação GDA, Kees Eijrond Foundation, OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Rumo do Fumo, Piscina

Venue

Cultugest

R. Arco do Cego 50, 1000-300 Lisboa

More information here

Actividades PACAP 8

Lectures PACAP 8 / Mystery School

Apoios e Parcerias

Coprodução PACAP 8: Culturgest | Teatro do Bairro Alto | Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk | Goethe-Institut Portugal, no âmbito do festival Kulturfest.

Coprodução em Residência PACAP 8: O Espaço do Tempo

Apoios PACAP 8: Alkantara | Casa da Dança – Almada | Fundação GDA | Kees Eijrond Foundation | OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8

Top image © Vitorino Coragem

Participants PACAP 8

Biographies

Select each of the sections below to meet the people taking part in PACAP 8.

Ana Szopa (PL)

Ana Szopa
Ana Szopa

Ana (An): they/them/she/her – Born in 2000 in Silesia. Dance hostess, performer, choreographer, Reiki II healer, fuck the system sorcerer. Explores the possibilities of learning for oneself and others through dance and seeks methods of anonymization. Anonymous, meaning collective, rejects authorship and ownership of spoken and embodied content. By constructing queer personas in performance, engages in dialogue with them and learns from them, often allowing artistic practices to drift into entropy and explore the limits of control (raising questions about safety and consent).

António Bollaño (PT)

ANTONIO - Cópia

António Bollaño was born in 1998. He studied in the theatre school Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais and the dance and theatre school FOR Dance Theatre. He finished his degree in Acting in Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. As an actor and dancer worked with Bestiário, Olga Roriz, Nuno Carinhas, Pedro Ramos, Sara Carinhas, Carlos Avilez among others.

Arash Khakpour (IR)

ARASH

Arash Khakpour (آرش خاکپور) is a dancer and choreographer from Tehran and is privileged to be a dance artist based in the Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver, Canada). Arash has been practicing dance and performance for the past 15 years and has been a company member of the EDAM Contact Improvisation ensemble since 2017. He tends to invest in the nuances of prejudices in the body as a way of inviting the unconscious to the conscious, and as a doorway to confront unknown emotions. He sees dance as a process of physical, emotional and spiritual discovery and a mode of transformation.

Emily da Silva (BR)

EMILY

Emily da Silva is a Brazilian dancer and performer living in Lisbon. As a freelance artist, she collaborates with different artists and projects. She is interested in the idea of circularity – between tornadoes, whirlpools, black holes, somersaults and gyrations – exploring movements that destabilize, turn, reinvent the body and transfrom space.

Guillermo Tarasewicz (UY)

GUILLERMO

Guillermo Tarasewicz: Hartist, scenic/live. He is interested in the themes of popular culture and mass culture. His works are woven between dance, contemporary theater, and performance studies. He studied dance, social anthropology, and physical education. Based on this knowledge, he has created more than 15 pieces and developed some practices such as: ‘Danza tropical uruguaya’ and ‘Corporalidad Expandida’.

Isabela Rossi (BR/IT)

ISABELA

Isabela Rossi (BR) moves between dance, performance and creation. Trained in contemporary dance at RCPD Mariemma (Madrid, 2016), she has worked as a performer with various choreographers in Spain. In 2020, she received the AISGE Award for Outstanding Dancer for the piece LINGUA, by Natalia Fernandes. As a creator, she investigates the relationship between the wandering body, space and temporality. Since 2021, she has collaborated with Miguel Glez. on works such as Proceso de acomodación, awarded at the 34th CCM 

iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo (EC)

ISSIE

iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo is an Ecuadorian choreographer, trans artist-activist and violinist based in Europe. Their Works engages with trans-feminist anti-colonialism and ritualism, exploring transdisciplinary constellations of participatory composition. As a mestizo of Spanish/Kichwa/Cañari ancestry, iSSiE currently fosters “SHELTER” a transatlantic social-artistic research project in collaboration with Kichwa indigenous communities of the Andes, cultivating movement for socio-ecological justice. They is the artistic director and founder of maiskind, a queer artistic community in Cologne and member of the Yachay Wasi – Quito, INTERFEMME* and SOFRA Queer Migrants communities.

Julia Kosałka (PL)

JULIA

Julia Kosałka is a dance artist born in Kraków, Poland. She studied contemporary dance in Austria and Belgium, graduating from Conservatoire of Antwerp. She has worked in Germany with Iván Pérez at Dance Theatre Heidelberg and Alina Belyagina. She also collaborated with choreographers such as Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Claire Croizé, Inãki Azpillaga, Renan Martins, Ben Fury, and Agostina D’Alessandro.

Her practices are rooted in improvisation and real-time composition.

Kaya Freeman (PT)

KAYA

Kaya: I was born in Brussels to a portuguese mother and united-staten father 25 years ago. My parents are performing artsts and have been transmitng their interest and passion for art in many of its forms to me ever since I was born. I started to play classical piano around 6 and then discovered Fado and clarinet which deconstructed my very formal view of music. My practice then became more experimental as I played with different bands revolving around contemporary and ambient electronic music as well as an interest for jazz. During these researches I also studied at La Cambre in Brussels, contemporary bookbinding, and have been experimenting with ceramics, textles crafs, baking and fashion as some of my main passions.

María Ibarretxe (ES)

MARIA

María Ibarretxe del Val. Visual and performing artist. The body, voice and participation are central in her work. She is part of the collective Sra. Polaroiska with Alaitz Arenzana. Collaboration drives her practice, often working with other artists and in diverse socio-cultural contexts such as Japan, South Korea, Mexico, or Kurdistan, where she nourishes, learns, and constantly questions herself.

Martha Kotsia (GR)

MARTHA

Martha Kotsia (1996) is a multidisciplinary artist and activist based in Athens, Greece, born as a migrant in Malmö, Sweden. Reflecting on a “post”-colonial society and her childhood traumas her art varies between choreography, performance art, video, light design and poetry. After moving to Brussels to practice contemporary dance in her early adult years, she returned to Athens for architecture studies (National Technical University of Athens) as well as to later on attend the Academy of Choreography U(r)topias (Elefsina, Greece). While trying to contribute to re-wildness she’s publishing a research on Savage, Landscape and Walking.

Michiru Shin (JP)

SOMI

Michiru Shin (she/they) is a dance artist from Tokyo. Holds a BA in Visual Communication from Brighton University, UK. As a performer, she has collaborated with Bosmat Nossan, Lilach Pnina Livne, and Yasmeen Godder, among others. Her personal project, “Abstracted Bodies” incorporates dance movement, hand-poked tattoos of her abstract drawings, and Ilan Lev method treatment involving voice and touch. The project offers tools for deconstructing our images, gender, and social and political roles, suggesting the way to become abstract-shaped entities.

Natacha Campos (PT)

NATACHA

Natacha Campos, the daughter of Angolan parents born in the late 1990s, has worked in the languages of dance, theater and performance. Her research focuses on the confrontation between the visible and the invisible, the intimate and the public, in an attempt to find the common denominators in the apparently antagonistic.

Raul Aranha (IN)

RAUL

Raul Aranha: I was born and raised in India, and moved to Europe in 2018. I like a lot of things from dancing to cooking to sciences and philosophy.

Salomé Pham-Van-Hué (FR)

SALOME

Salomé Pham-Van-Hué. It is about living in this world, in the most living way possible. Through experimentation, I’m finding a path. Dance field represents for me a dreamed space of exploration ; and it should remain that way. I encountered it only a few years ago, after meandering in different fields. Since then, I had the chance to learn and transform near great people, as a student, as an interpreter in various projects but also with friends inventing ways of living and moving in daily life. For the next few years, I would like to pursue this research. It is about playing with, redefining, blurring edges to open interstices of freedom, expression and struggle.

Sepideh Khodarahmi (SE/IR)

SEPIDEH

Sepideh Khodarahmi is an artist working in dance and theatre whose work explores the tensions between pleasure and disgust, construction and destruction. Combining rhythm-based movement, club dance, and hyper-gendered drag, Sepideh Khodarahmi creates visceral and boundary-pushing performances that explore self-objectification, power dynamics, and absurdity.

They hold a BA in Acting from University of Gothenburg aswell as studied at the Department of Mathematics at Stockholm University, Broadway Dance Center, and Mime at Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance.

Śomi Śniegocka (PL)

somiiiiii

Śomi is an artist, sound poet and witch. Inspired by the surrealists and fascinated by psychogeography, she translates dreams into wa(l)king language. She connects with spirits and non-human creatures  through visions and various embodiment practices.

Her research manifests itself in the murmuring sounds of the subconscious and expanding auditory perception by means of  Deep Listening practices, Logomotion and Dreamwork.
She studied Performance Studies at the Jagiellonian University and Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, preparing her diploma in the Audiosphere studio. She has shown her performance Roe Deer Woman  among others at Movement Research in New York City and in numerous underground places in Mexico, where she lived for a while. She currently teaches at the Institute of Art and Design UKEN in Krakow.
Devoted admirer of planets, cats and synchronicities.

Therese Bendjus (DE)

Therese

Therese Bendjus is a performance maker and dancer originally from Dresden, Germany. After having traded her medical studies for an education in dance, she graduated from the BA Dance, Context, Choreography at HZT Berlin and was a fellow of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. In her works she challenges the measurable/diagnosable in order to access spaces of uncertainty and vagueness – building multi-sensorial spaces, that encourage people to be vulnerable, intimate and brave with one another and themselves.

As performer she worked a.o. with choreographers and theatre directors such as Kirill Savchenkov, Magdalena Weniger, Asya Ashman, Constanza Macras and Rolando Villazón.

Tiago Vieira (PT)

TIAGO - Cópia

Tiago Vieira: A graduate of the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, he completed his training in various theater, dance and performance workshops, including Teatro Praga, Olga Mesa, Vera Mantero, Susana Vidal, Miguel Moreira, Meg Stuart, Marlene Freitas, Joana Craveiro, Amália Bentes, Vitor Roriz and Sofia Dias, Francisco Camacho. He has worked with Mónica Calle, Miguel Moreira, Vera Mantero, Carlota Lagido, Ana Borralho and João Galante, Ana Ribeiro, Rui Catalão, Miguel Bonneville, Ricci/forte, BLITZ THEATREGROUP (Greece), Vânia Rovisco, Mónica Garnel, Catarina Vieira, Teatro Praga.

PACAP 8 Activities

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

Co-Production PACAP 8: Culturgest | Teatro do Bairro Alto | Anda & Fala / Walk & Talk | Goethe-Institut Portugal, in the scope of Kulturfest festival.

Co-producer in Residency PACAP 8: O Espaço do Tempo

Support PACAP 8: Alkantara | Casa da Dança – Almada | Fundação GDA | Kees Eijrond Foundation | OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8
Forum Dança - Meg Stuart | PACAP 8/MyS no TBA

Astral on the Dancefloor

Pacap 8 / Mystery School of Choreography

Teatro do Bairro Alto

24 and 25 May, 2025 | Sat and Sun

MYS
Mystery School of Choreography
Escola mistério de coreografia
L’école chorégraphique du mystère
Escola Misteriosa de Coreografia
Tajymnŏ szkōła choreografije
Schule der Mysterien in der Choreografie
Μυστηριώδες σχολείο χορογραφίας
Tajemnicza Szkoła Choreografii
Escuela Mística de Coreografía
مدرسه رمز و راز طراحی رقص
Mysterium Skola för Koreografi
Escuela Coreográfica del Misterio
コレオグラフィーのミステリースクール

How do we passionately integrate ancient knowledge in uncomfortable times?

At Teatro do Bairro Alto, a community of artists & dreamers will bring a multidimensional experience of their journey in a crystalline evening of MYS and guests.

The performance unfolds and shape-shifts through ceremonies of desire, and invitations of reconnection. Magical child meets queen of cups, interspecies songs are channelled for other possible worlds while the full moon howls through ruins of yesterday and tomorrow.

As above so below, through material and quantum activations, we set intention for a space where bodies meet imagination and reality.

Love is a mystery, and every practice is a ritual.

“Astral on the Dancefloor”, an encounter of fine lines between quantum feelings and quantum spaces.

Artistic direction & MYS concept Meg Stuart
Artistic colaboration Ana Rocha
Participants Ana Szopa, António Bollaño, Arash Khakpour, Emily da Silva, Guillermo Tarasewicz, Isabela Rossi, iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo, Julia Kosałka, Kaya Freeman, María Ibarretxe, Martha Kotsia, Michiru Shin, Natacha Campos, Raul Aranha, Salomé Pham-Van-Hué, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Śomi Śniegocka, Therese Bendjus, Tiago Vieira
Live Sound Pedro Melo Alves & Jari
Lights & Technical Direction Santiago Rodríguez Tricot
Production Forum Dança
Coproduction Teatro do Bairro Alto, Goethe-Institut Portugal, as part of the KULTURfest

Venue

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto
Rua Tenente Raul Cascais 1A | 1250-268 Lisboa

 

More info here

TBA online tickets online here

PACAP 8 Activities

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

Co-Production PACAP 8: Culturgest | Teatro do Bairro Alto | Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk | Goethe-Institut Portugal, in the scope of Kulturfest festival.

Co-producer in Residency PACAP 8: O Espaço do Tempo

Support PACAP 8: Alkantara | Casa da Dança – Almada | Fundação GDA | Kees Eijrond Foundation | OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8

Top image credits © Aline Belfort

Forum Dança - Marcelo Evelin | PACAP 9

Forum Dança | PACAP 9 - Marcelo Evelin

Forum Dança | PACAP 9 - Bruno Moreno

PACAP 9
2026

Performing Arts Advanced Programme

Curatorship by Marcelo Evelin

From 2nd February to 30th July 2026

Applications closed

Presentation

PACAP 9 / One swallow doesn’t make a summer

Curatorship Marcelo Evelin
Artistic Collaboration Bruno Moreno

‘An undisciplined experimentation and training programme, focused on instances of group creation and conditions of collaborative performativity.

 

We will invest in collective processes to the detriment of individual projects, believing that it is possible to bring the singularities of the artists and their personal artistic interests into group experimentation. We are interested in negotiating with the other as a conceptual and procedural procedure, betting on shared autonomy as an exercise in alterity, in order to think of gathering and sharing as a performative act and device.

 

From February to July 2026, we are proposing a series of interventions in the form of creative residencies, with artists involved in collective practices that exercise a thought of the common as a choreographic situation: the game, the rite, the circle, the party. These practices will be reworked together, renegotiated as a group and eventually performed at different times during the programme.

 

The programme addresses three axes of experimentation with no distinction between theory and practice: body, dramaturgy, and choreography. We think of the body as a tactile and media spectacle, an artefact of an incorporated and changing time-space. We imagine dramaturgy as the activation of living matter and normative disobedience, as the apprehension and unfolding of empirical knowledge, and as an ethical and aesthetic positioning in the face of the life of forms. We invent choreography as unstable and flexible structures of grouping, repercussion, and dissolution, and as a vibration that precedes the constitution of movement as a scope for an event.

 

We want to approach the multiple and the rhizomatic, the diverse and the unfolded, the drift and the reconstitution, the bifurcated and the complementary. From a decolonial and non-hegemonic understanding of the world, we want to reaffirm the existence of the sensible and the utopian in the social and political spheres, in a horizon that expands and recognizes other paradigms for thinking about life and living.’

 

Marcelo Evelin

Information

Invited guests

Ana Rita Teodoro, André Lepecki, Christine Greiner, Coletivo Piscina (Andrei Bessa, Bibi Dória, Bruno Brandolino, Josefa Pereira, Julián Pacomio, Márcia Lança, Natália Mendonça and Romain Beltrão Teule), Eleonora Fabião, Jocelyn Cottencin, Marine Sigaut, Miguel Pereira, Piny, Tieta Macau, Venuri Pereira, Flávia Pinheiro.

Target audience

Artists with experience in the performing arts fields, who are interested in collective creation processes. The programme values collaborative practices, the ability to listen and negotiate in groups, and openness to joint experimentation. It is not aimed at those who want to develop individual authorial projects, but rather at those who want to integrate and contribute to a context of shared creation.

Language

English will be the official language of the programme.

 

Warning!
Applications can be sent in Portuguese and English.

Dates

    • Closing date for applications 31.07.2025
    • Auditions September
    • Results announcements September
    • Programme dates 02.02.2026 – 31.07.2026

Timetable

Monday to Friday from 10h00 to 17h00. This timetable is indicative only and may be subject to change.

An outline of the work schedule will be sent to the group of people selected before the programme begins.

Applications

Elements to send:

 

    • A 3–5-minute video in which you appear telling a story about someone else, as if it were your own. A story that the other person told you or that you witnessed them living. The story must be true.
    • Describe a show, performance or group choreography that you have invented in all its conceptual, aesthetic, dramaturgical and choreographic details. Imagine that you have no budget limits and don’t need to convince any programme/curator of your project in order to realise it.
    • Name 3 works by artists who are important references for your work. They can be from any artistic language and any period in the history of art.
    • A brief CV, a photo of yourself and a portfolio.
    • A brief motivation letter

! IMPORTANT NOTE !

 

The links sent must provide direct access to online viewing of the files (Youtube, Vimeo, etc.).

Selection process

1. Application stage

    • Fill in the application form on the Forum Dança website

 

2. Auditions stage

    • Auditions can be held in person at Espaço da Penha or, if you are outside Europe, online via the Zoom app

Tuition fees

    • Registration: 200€;
    • Payment in full: 2000€;
    • Payment in two installments: 1100€ x 2.

Scholarships

There are a few scholarships available:

 

  • 2 scholarships offering a 50% reduction of the tuition fees.
  • 1 scholarship offering 100% reduction of the tuition fees, aimed at artists from Portuguese Speaking African Countries or black artists living in Portugal.
  • Artists residing in Portugal are eligible for up to 50% reduction of the tuition fees through scholarships given out by the GDA Foundation (In cases where the applicant is a member of the GDA this increases up to 75%).

Application form

Important!
 Applications and all documentation can be sent in Portuguese and English.

All fields are mandatory.

 

Bios

Marcelo Evelin

Forum Dança | PACAP 9 - Marcelo Evelin
Marcelo Evelin

Marcelo Evelin is a dancer, choreographer and researcher. He lives between Teresina and Amsterdam and works in Brazil, Japan and several European countries as an independent artist at the head of the Demolition Incorporada Platform, based at CAMPO, a space for Residence and Resistance in the Performing Arts in Teresina, Piaui. His shows ‘De Repente Fica Tudo Preto de Gente’, ‘Batucada’ and ‘A Invenção da Maldade’ are currently touring theatres and festivals around the world. He has been teaching at the Amsterdam School of Arts since 1999 and creates projects at universities and masterclasses, including ISAC (Brussels), Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), EXERCE (Montpellier) and CND (Paris). In 2019 he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Federal University of Piauí. In 2020 he created ‘And Yes, I sad Yes, I will Yes’ for Coroline Eckly/Compania Carte Blanche (Bergen, Norway), ‘Drama’ for La Manufacture (Lausanne, Switzerland), ‘La Nuit Tombe Quand Elle Veut’ (Rennes, France) in collaboration with Latifa Laabissi, and re-presented his solo ‘ai, ai, ai’ (1995) at the Festival d’Automne in Paris. In 2022 he recreated the performance event BARRICADA for the Transborda Festival (Almada, Portugal) and premiered UIRAPURU, the latest creation by Plataforma Demolition Incorporada.

Bruno Moreno

Forum Dança | PACAP 9 - Bruno Moreno
Bruno Moreno

Bruno Moreno was born in 1988 in São Paulo. Since 2018 he has lived between the capital of São Paulo and Teresina/PI, where he is a resident artist at CAMPO arte contemporânea. He has a degree in performing arts from the University of São Paulo and is a performer and choreographer.

Since 2014 he has collaborated with the Marcelo Evelin/Demolition Incorporada platform. He has collaborated as a performer with choreographers Alejandro Ahmed, Luis Garay, Gustavo Ciríaco and was a member of [pH2]: estado de teatro, where he created works as a performer, director and choreographic director. His creations start from choreography and oscillate between performance, installation and video.

He has taken part in the residency programme at Espaço Alkantara (Lisbon), as well as performing at Mostra VERBO (São Paulo). His video works have been shown at the Tiradentes Film Festival (Brazil), the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), the Short Waves Festival (Poland), Short Out (Italy), the Accesos magazine of artistic practices at the Reina Sofia Museum (Spain), and are part of the collection of works at the Paraná Museum of Contemporary Art. He was one of the resident artists on the PIVÔ Research 2024 programme.

Participants

Beatriz Baião (PT), Carlota Mantecón (ES), Damien Najean (FR), Giulia Romitelli (IT), Guillermina Gancio (UY), Hernie Harmon (DE), Jakob von Kietzell (DE), Joana Duvet (PT), Katerina Giannouli (GR), Luna Anais (CH), Marina de Moraes (BR), Marusya Byzova (RU), Maud Buckenmeyer (FR), Minjin Lee (KR), Renan Capivara (BR) and Sérgio Diogo Matias (PT).

PACAP 9 Activities

Support and Partnerships

Co-production PACAP 9: Teatro do Bairro Alto

Co-production in Residence PACAP 9: O Espaço do Tempo

Support PACAP 8: Alkantara | Casa da Dança – Almada | Fundação GDA | OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 9
33.º CGPAE 2025 - Curso de Gestão/Produção das Artes do Espetáculo

33.º CGPAE

Performing Arts Management/Production Course

February 7 to December 20, 2025

Introduction

With an established track record spanning more than three decades, Forum Dança’s Performing Arts Management/Production Course is an essential reference in the training of performing arts professionals in Portugal. This course is recognised for its integrated approach, combining practical and theoretical foundations in training that continually adapts to the demands of the cultural sector.

 

The 33rd edition, which will run from 7 February to 20 December 2025, will take place at Espaço da Penha in Lisbon, providing participants with a dynamic learning environment connected to the artistic pulse of the sector. The course has been an engine of professional transformation, with former participants joining teams producing shows, running cultural venues and developing their own projects, standing out as references in the cultural sector.

 

With a teaching staff made up exclusively of professionals working in the sector, this course ensures a direct link to the market, reflecting the current reality of the performing arts and cultural structures.

 

This course is taught in Portuguese only. If you would like more information, please visit the page in that language.

General Objectives

The main mission of this training is to professionalise cultural agents, enabling them to:

  • Plan and implement management, production, programming and financing strategies in cultural projects.
  • Apply knowledge directly in the context of the performing arts, promoting effective integration into the labour market.
  • Foster an interdisciplinary vision that allows them to approach cultural challenges with innovation and creativity.

 

In addition, the course’s pedagogical structure emphasises the development of practical skills, providing tools to meet the specific challenges of the field.

Pedagogical Coordination

Dora Carvalho is in charge of the pedagogical coordination, ensuring the rigour and quality that have marked every edition of the CGPAE.

Informações

Selecione cada uma das secções abaixo para tomar conhecimento de todas as especificações do curso e dos processos de candidatura e seleção.

A quem se destina

Este curso é direcionado a agentes culturais que desejam aprofundar os seus conhecimentos e competências na área da Gestão/Produção das Artes do Espetáculo, por forma a desenvolver os seus projetos ou carreiras no setor. Além disso, destina-se igualmente a quem busca uma formação sólida e profissionalizante neste setor.

Corpo Docente / Estrutura Curricular

O corpo docente deste curso é composto por profissionais experientes, todos eles com uma ligação ativa ao setor cultural e às disciplinas que lecionam. Essa característica garante um ensino atualizado, com aulas sempre ligadas às tendências e práticas mais recentes, e que também promove uma ligação direta ao mercado de trabalho, facilitando o desenvolvimento de redes profissionais.

A estrutura curricular abrange:

      • História da Dança (18h), com Ezequiel Santos
      • Música (21h), com Rui Campos Leitão
      • Teatro (21h), com Miguel Castro Caldas
      • Comunicação Cultural (28h), com Inês Lampreia
      • Gestão Financeira (28h), com Rita Guerreiro
      • Políticas Culturais (21h), com Paula Varanda
      • Financiamento Europeu para a Cultura (7h), com Francisco Cipriano
      • Direito na Cultura (21h), com Madalena Zenha
      • Direção de Cena / Espaços Culturais (49h), com Jonas Omberg
      • Estratégias de Programação (21h), com Elisabete Paiva
      • Arte e Sociedade (9h), com Narcisa Costa
      • Som (7h), com Rui Campos Leitão
      • Luz (7h), com Carlos Ramos
      • Projeto (28h)

Horários

Às sextas-feiras das 18h30 às 22h e aos sábados das 10h30 às 14h00.
Alguns sábados poderão ter horário até às 17h00. Interrupção para férias em agosto.

Processo de Candidatura

As pessoas interessadas devem submeter o formulário disponível aqui, anexando o Curriculum Vitae atualizado, uma Carta de Motivação (máximo uma página A4) que detalhe as razões para frequentar o curso, e uma foto tipo passe.

 

    • Data limite de Candidaturas 20 janeiro de 2025;
    • Entrevistas  27 e 28 de janeiro de 2025 (presenciais, no Espaço da Penha, ou on-line, via Zoom).
    • Comunicação de resultados 29 de janeiro.

Pagamentos

Taxa de Inscrição: 130 €. Pagamento até ao dia 5 de fevereiro de 2025, após terminar o processo de seleção e ser aceite no curso.

 

Existem três modalidades de pagamento: mensal, trimestral e único.

 

  • Pagamento mensal: 185 € x 9 meses. A primeira mensalidade deve ser paga até dia 5 de fevereiro, as mensalidades restantes até ao dia 8 de cada mês. Não se paga o mês de agosto nem o mês de dezembro. Valor total: 1665 €.
  • Pagamento trimestral: 530 € x 3. Os três pagamentos deverão ocorrer nas seguintes datas: 1.º até dia 5 de fevereiro, 2.º até dia 8 de abril e 3.º até dia 8 de julho. Valor total: 1590 €.
  • Pagamento único: 1498,50 € x 1. Desconto de 10% nas mensalidades no pagamento da totalidade do curso, até dia 26 de janeiro.

Testemunhos de ex-participantes

Regulamento

A.) PARTICIPANTES

A.1.) Deveres 

  1. Frequentar com assiduidade e pontualidade a ação de formação. A presença e participação em todas as atividades do curso são consideradas condições necessárias para a prossecução de um elevado nível pedagógico.
  2. Participantes que ultrapassem o limite de 58 horas de faltas (20% das horas totais) não terão direito ao Certificado de Frequência e Aprovação final do curso. A chegada às aulas 15 minutos depois do seu início corresponde a 1 hora de falta;
  3. Utilizar com cuidado e zelar pela conservação dos equipamentos e demais bens que lhe sejam confiados para efeitos de formação;
  4. Cumprir com os pagamentos;
  5. O atraso no pagamento da mensalidade implicará o pagamento de uma multa de 3€ por cada mês de atraso;

A.2.) Direitos 

  1. Receber a formação em conformidade com os programas estabelecidos;
  2. Obter gratuitamente, no final da acção, o Certificado comprovativo da frequência e aproveitamento (caso estes se verifiquem) no curso;
  3. Beneficiar de um seguro de acidentes pessoais no decurso da formação;
  4. Receber informação e orientação profissional no decurso da ação de formação;
  5. Receber informação mensal sobre os horários do curso;
  6. Reclamar junto da coordenação da formação, em horário a acordar, e ainda, se a natureza da queixa o justificar, por escrito junto da entidade de formação, a qual responderá apropriadamente e do mesmo modo

 

B.) ENTIDADE FORMADORA

B.1.) Deveres

  1. Respeitar e fazer respeitar as condições de higiene e segurança do local em que decorre a formação;
  2. Não exigir tarefas não compreendidas nos objectivos e âmbito do curso;
  3. Actuar no respeito das normas nacionais de proteção de dados pessoais, nomeadamente mantendo para uso estrito da ação de formação os dados constantes da ficha de formando e dos curricula vitae.

B.2.) Direitos

  1. O cumprimento do regulamento e normas de funcionamento por parte das pessoas participantes;
  2. O tratamento com correção de representantes do Forum Dança e colaboradores;
  3. Efetuar as alterações consideradas necessárias aos horários pré-estabelecidos, comunicando-os atempadamente.

 

C.) AVALIAÇÃO

C.1.) Avaliação qualitativa

  1. Participação e aproveitamento da formação;
  2. Assiduidade e pontualidade.

C.2.) Avaliação quantitativa

  1. No final dos seminários com duração superior a 14 horas;
  2. No projecto final;
  3. No final do curso;
  4. Será utilizada a escala numérica de 0 a 20;
  5. A avaliação só será feita em caso de presença em pelo menos 70% das horas totais de cada seminário.

C.3.) Nota final

  1. Na atribuição da nota final, a valorização de cada seminário será feita de forma ponderada, sendo-lhe atribuída uma nota quantitativa;
  2. A nota final será expressa na escala de 0 a 20. Esta nota será o resultado da ponderação das avaliações dos seminários e da avaliação do projeto final.
  3. A nota final obedecerá à seguinte fórmula:

[ ( Teatro+ Música+ Dança + Comunicação x 3 + Gestão Financeira x 3 + Direção de Cena x 3 + Políticas Culturais + Direito na Cultura + Estratégias de Programação ) / 15 ] x 0,7 + Projeto x 0,3

C.4.) Certificado de formação

No final da ação de formação será entregue um certificado comprovativo da frequência e do aproveitamento obtido.

 

D.) DURAÇÃO DA FORMAÇÃO

O período curricular do curso decorrerá de 7 de fevereiro a 20 de dezembro de 2025, num total de 294h de formação.

O horário de frequência será às sextas das 18h30 às 22h00 e sábados das 10h30 às 14h00. Alguns módulos poderão prolongar os horários de sábados até às 17h00. Interrupção para férias em agosto. O plano anual do curso será entregue no início do mesmo (podendo ocorrer algumas alterações pontuais que serão atempadamente comunicadas).

Formulário

Todos os campos são de preenchimento obrigatório. Deve enviar o CV e a Carta de Motivação digitalizados e em formato “.jpeg” ou “.pdf”. A foto tipo passe deve ser enviada em formato “.jpeg” – os ficheiros não podem ultrapassar 1 MB por cada um deles.

Programa completo

História da Dança

Forum Dança - Ezequiel Santos
Ezequiel Santos

Conteúdos

  1. Panorama da História da Dança Ocidental;
  2. A Nova Dança Portuguesa;
  3. Crítica e Estética na Dança Contemporânea.

 

Objetivos

  • Fixar os eixos históricos da Dança Ocidental;
  • Conferir léxico de Dança Contemporânea ao aluno;
  • Utilização da linguagem e ferramentas críticas no âmbito da produção em Dança.

 

Biografia

Ezequiel Santos, psicólogo e psicoterapeuta, docente na Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril na área de ciências sociais e humanidades, docente convidado na Escola Superior de Dança em Lisboa em 2005/2006.

Concluiu o CMDC II do Forum Dança, em 1993, desenvolvendo desde então a sua atividade como pedagogo nas áreas da psicologia, comunicação, dança criativa e ainda como crítico de dança.

Foi intérprete dos coreógrafos Madalena Victorino, Rui Nunes e Francisco Camacho até 1996 apresentando-se em várias cidades europeias.

Entre 1996 e 2006 trabalhou no Forum Dança como diretor do Núcleo de Apoio Coreográfico.

Leciona regularmente as disciplinas de “História da Dança” e “Teoria da Dança” e tem apresentado várias comunicações sobre dança na Europa e no Brasil.

Música

Forum Dança - Rui Campos Leitão
Rui Campos Leitão

Conteúdos

  1. Aquisição de um vocabulário terminológico específico à música;
  2. Desenvolvimento das capacidades auditivas referentes à deteção, definição e caracterização das principais componentes constituintes do fenómeno musical;
  3. Desenvolvimento da acuidade da escuta;
  4. Desenvolvimento da capacidade de distinguir estilos musicais;
  5. Familiarização com situações específicas à prática musical;
  6. Reconhecimento de relações entre a música e as outras artes do espetáculo;
  7. Desenvolvimento da capacidade de dissertação sobre o fenómeno musical.

 

Objetivos

  • Saber detetar e caracterizar as principais componentes técnicas constituintes de uma música;
  • Conhecer e aplicar o léxico de termos musicais elementar;
  • Distinguir e caracterizar alguns dos principais estilos musicais do passado e dos nossos dias;
  • Saber construir um discurso de carácter genérico sobre música.

 

Biografia

Licenciado em Ciências Musicais, obteve em 2007 o grau de Mestre na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas com a dissertação intitulada «A Paisagem Musical e Sonora da Cidade de Lisboa no Ano de 1890». Em 2024 obteve o Diploma de Estudos Avançados pela conclusão do curso de Doutoramento em Estudos Artísticos – Arte e Mediações, na mesma faculdade. Prossegue, entretanto, a elaboração da sequente tese com base no projeto de investigação intitulado «A Explicitação Conceitual do Exercício da Escuta Musical». Entre 1996 e 2002 desenvolveu a atividade artística de compositor e ator em espetáculos de Dança e Teatro, assim como em Instalações Artísticas. Enquanto docente, foi professor na Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra, entre 2000 e 2010, e na Escola Profissional Metropolitana, entre 2008 e 2010. É Assistente Convidado na Licenciatura em Dança do Departamento de Educação, Ciências Sociais e Humanidades da Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, onde leciona o Módulo de Movimento e Expressão Musical no âmbito da disciplina Dança e Práticas Expressivas. Desde 1996, é formador no curso de Gestão e Produção das Artes do Espectáculo promovido pela associação cultural Forum Dança. Desde 2007, exerce a profissão de Mediador Cultural / Musicólogo na Associação Música, Educação e Cultura – O Sentido dos Sons (Metropolitana), onde realiza conteúdos destinados ao funcionamento e à divulgação pública da atividade da Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa e dos outros agrupamentos musicais tutelados por esta instituição. Também aí, desenvolve projetos diversos, tais como concertos comentados, ações de formação junto dos Centros de Formação do IEFP (desde 2014), a autoria do livro «Metropolitana 30 Anos – Memória e Futuro» (publicado em 2023) e a coordenação do projeto MUSICAR – Prática Musical para Pessoas com Cegueira ou Baixa Visão e Pessoas Surdas (2023), com apoio da MusicAIRE, ação cofinanciada pela União Europeia para apoio à Indústria da Música.

Teatro

Forum Dança - Miguel Castro Caldas
Miguel Castro Caldas

Conteúdos

Com este curso pretende-se apresentar e discutir alguns modos variados de fazer e ver teatro – hoje e ao longo dos tempos.

Como esses modos podem ser parecidos com aqueles a que se opõem e como também os da mesma família podem estar afinal nos antípodas uns dos outros.

Algumas linhas de força:

O teatro e o antiteatro; o texto dramático e o espetáculo; o teatro e a performance; artes plásticas e artes do espetáculo; encenação e dispositivo; ser personagem ou ser o que se é; ver ou estar dentro.

 

Biografia

Miguel Castro Caldas escreve peças de teatro que antigamente entregava a um encenador, mas agora prefere ser ele a colocá-las em cena com a ajuda de amigos. Fez dramaturgia de espetáculos, traduz ocasionalmente e dá aulas na licenciatura de Teatro na ESAD e na Pós-Graduação em Artes da Escrita na FCSH. Tem o título de Especialista em Artes do Espetáculo e está a preparar um doutoramento no programa em Teoria da Literatura na FLUL. Alguns dos seus textos estão publicados na coleção Livrinhos de Teatro dos Artistas Unidos, na editora Ambar, na Douda Correria, na Mariposa Azual, na Culturgest, na Primeiros Sintomas, e nas revistas Artistas Unidos, Fatal e Blimunda.

Recentemente publicou a Antologia Se eu vivesse tu morrias e outros textos, publicado na Imprensa Universitária de Coimbra e Enseada, na Douda Correria.

Ganhou uma Menção Honrosa em 2005 pela atividade de dramaturgo pela Associação de Críticos de Teatro e o prémio SPA 2017 para melhor texto português representado com Se Eu Vivesse Tu Morrias. Alguns dos seus textos estão traduzidos em espanhol, francês, húngaro, inglês e italiano.

Comunicação Cultural

Forum Dança - Inês Lampreia
Forum Dança - Inês Lampreia

Conteúdos

  • A importância da comunicação e da estratégia de comunicação aplicada às atividades culturais;
  • Caracterização da identidade do evento, avaliação de público-alvo e seus comportamentos, posicionamento artístico e objetivos do projeto artístico a comunicar, benchmarking;
  • Ferramentas de mapeamento e planeamento estratégico para a comunicação;
  • Identidade visual e linguagem na estratégia de comunicação;
  • Partilha de casos práticos e aplicação de ferramentas de plano estratégico de comunicação;
  • Ferramentas para desenvolvimento de campanhas de comunicação em assessoria de imprensa, digital & redes, indoor & outdoor, ações de visibilidade.

 

Objectivos

  • Compreender o lugar da comunicação no sector cultural e as suas relações com diferentes projetos de diferentes escalas – institucionais e independentes;
  • Obter competências de planeamento e de estratégia em comunicação;
  • Desenvolver mecanismos de análise de projetos artísticos, segmentação de públicos e de meios para a execução de um plano estratégico de comunicação;
  • Conhecer instrumentos e ferramentas para desenvolver a comunicação de um projeto cultural.

 

Biografia

Inês Lampreia é diretora de comunicação da Materiais Diversos, desde março de 2019 e colaboradora em comunicação editorial na Culturgest, desde 2023. Mestre em Comunicação, Cultura e Tecnologias da Informação (ISCTE), coordenou a comunicação da Agência 25 (2019-2021), dirigiu a comunicação da exposição Festa. Fúria. Femina. – Obras da Coleção FLAD (2020) e o Ciclo de Cinema Outsiders (2021). Entre 2016 e 2019 foi diretora de comunicação da estrutura dedicada às artes performativas Alkantara e, em 2018, do programa Hospitalidade (SCML). Coordenou a comunicação do projeto de artes participativas Dentes de Leão (2022-24, EEGrants), desenvolveu consultoria de comunicação para a Companhia Maior, a coreógrafa Cláudia Dias (projeto A Coleção do meu pai), a coreógrafa Sofia Silva, para a produtora de exposições Terra Esplêndida e para o Centro Cultural de Cascais/Fundação D. Luís. Na área do jornalismo, foi editora da revista VEGA (2004-2008), jornalista da Lanetro.pt (2000-2002) e colaboradora da National Geographic, Diário de Notícias e Fotomagazine.
É professora assistente convidada na Escola Superior de Dança (IPL), desde 2022, onde leciona a unidade curricular de Comunicação em Artes; é formadora de comunicação cultural da Academia Gerador e do curso de produção de espetáculos da World Academy. Desenvolve formação na área da comunicação cultural em diferentes municípios e estruturas institucionais e independentes, um pouco por todo o país.
Em produção cultural foi diretora executiva do MONSTRA – Festival de Animação de Lisboa (2009-2011), coordenadora executiva da APORDOC – Associação para o Documentário (2013), produtora no Festival Alkantara (2012-2016) e no CITEN – Centro de Imagem e Técnicas Narrativas, da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (2003-2004).
Enquanto autora, foi premiada pela Casa do Alentejo na categoria de conto, em 2011, foi publicada pela Edições Pasárgada, Centro de Estudos Mário Cláudio, pela Kultivera (SE), Universidade de Uppsala (SE) e Editora Urutau.

Gestão Financeira

Forum Dança - Rita Guerreiro
Rita Guerreiro

Conteúdos

  1. A Gestão Financeira no contexto das artes do espetáculo;
  2. Instrumentos de Gestão Financeira;
  3. Financiamento de Projetos Artísticos.

 

Objetivos

  • Reconhecer a utilidade da gestão financeira, no contexto das artes do espetáculo;
  • Utilizar os instrumentos da gestão financeira para analisar e procurar a viabilidade económico-financeira do projeto artístico;
  • Conduzir corretamente pedidos de financiamento para projetos artísticos.

 

Biografia

Rita Guerreiro, licenciada em Gestão pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa. É gestora na Cassefaz e na Academia de Produtores Culturais.

Foi Diretora de Marketing/Financeira no Teatro Municipal Maria Matos e autora do capítulo de Gestão Financeira do Guia das Artes Visuais e do Espetáculo.

É formadora do módulo de Gestão Financeira no CGPAE/ Forum Dança. Deu aulas na Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Gestão Cultural), ETIC (Gestão e controle orçamental) e na Universidade Católica (Gestão de Empresas Media).

Políticas Culturais

Forum Dança - Paula Varanda
Paula Varanda

Conteúdos

  1. O conceito de políticas culturais: significado, progressão, âmbito e escalas, em Portugal e no limite da Europa;
  2. O papel do Estado: o Ministério da Cultura como entidade normativa e operadora das políticas culturais nacionais promovidas pelo governo central, e a iniciativa autónoma ou complementar do governo local;
  3. Apoio às artes do espetáculo: medidas operacionalizadas pela Direção-Geral das Artes para a concretização das políticas públicas de cultura e instrumentos disponibilizados aos agentes culturais para financiamento da atividade profissional;
  4. Enquadramentos e referências: diretivas e iniciativas europeias e estudos e relatórios estatísticos nacionais.

 

Biografia

Paula Varanda, Lisboa, 1970. Investigadora doutorada em 2016 pela Middlesex University em Humanidades e Estudos Artísticos, concluiu o Master of Arts em Coreografia e Artes Performativas na mesma universidade em 2003 e é licenciada pela Escola Superior de Dança do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa.

Foi Diretora-Geral da Direção-Geral das Artes (Ministério da Cultura) em comissão de serviço (2016-2018) e assessora do Instituto das Artes (2004-2007).

É autora dos livros Dançar é Crescer – Aldara Bizarro e o Projecto Respira (caleidoscópio 2012) e 70 Críticas de Dança (caleidoscópio 2020).

Escreve sobre artes e cultura em várias publicações académicas e culturais e colaborou como crítica com o jornal Público de 2004 a 2016.

Entre 1994 e 2005 profissionalizou-se na produção, gestão e coordenação de projetos artísticos nacionais e internacionais em entidades como Danças na Cidade/Alkantara, Re.Al – João Fiadeiro, Danse Bassin Mediterranée e Body-Data-Space.

Em 2008, criou o Dansul – dança para a comunidade no sudeste alentejano – realizado em parceria com 4 autarquias, assumindo a direção artística e de gestão até dezembro 2015.

Foi professora adjunta na Escola Superior de Dança (2010-2011) e convidada da Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, da ALSUD e do Forum Dança.

Desde 2020 é professora auxiliar convidada no Mestrado em Artes Cénicas da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa e desde 2019 investigadora integrada do Instituto de História da Arte da mesma faculdade.

Interessam-lhe temáticas da inclusão, descentralização e desenvolvimento pela arte e pela educação; as práticas e teorias sobre corpo e novos média na sociedade contemporânea; e as políticas culturais para o acesso e sustentabilidade das artes.

Financiamento Europeu para a Cultura

Francisco Cipriano

Conteúdos

A formação pretende proporcionar motivação, conhecimento e a capacidade de detectar oportunidades de financiamento para projetos artísticos e culturais.

 

Num primeiro momento, pretende apresentar de forma sintética o panorama global dos programas comunitários que estão ao dispor de Portugal e que potencialmente podem financiar projetos no domínio das artes e da cultura, fazendo a distinção entre o que são os programas em regime de subsidiariedade – isto é: o que foi/é o Portugal 2020; o que será o novo Portugal 2030; que Programas Operacionais? Como funciona a organização regional? Qual o papel das Comunidades Intermunicipais, como se articulam com o novo Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência? –  e os programas em regime direto com a Comissão Europeia, cuja gestão é direta entre o beneficiário e a Comissão Europeia.

 

Num segundo momento, pretende-se dar os elementos específicos de como transformar uma ideia num projeto, os principais elementos a ter em conta que antecipam a formalização da candidatura: a lógica dos avisos de abertura de concurso, onde apresentar as candidaturas, como fazer os registos nas bases de dados europeias e todas as formalidades necessárias.

 

Por fim, dar a conhecer algumas dicas e truques práticos para encontrar as parcerias certas e inspiração em projetos “campeões” no setor das artes e cultura, na esperança de motivar e dar a compreender como outras instituições acederam aos financiamentos comunitários, fomentando o diálogo e a troca de experiências.

 

Biografia

Francisco Cipriano, mestre em Geografia e Planeamento Regional e Local, está atualmente no Serviço de Planeamento e Estratégia da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, onde é responsável por encontrar e acompanhar as oportunidades de cofinanciamento por fundos comunitários e outras iniciativas e programas europeus que possam enquadrar as várias atividades da fundação.

A sua vida profissional está ligada à execução e acompanhamento, avaliação e controlo de instrumentos de apoio às políticas públicas, sobretudo no âmbito do desenvolvimento regional e da política de coesão.

A sua experiência profissional tem vindo a criar sólidas ligações com a gestão e a implementação dos programas e projetos estruturais da União Europeia e dos Fundos Comunitários em Portugal, designadamente, nos setores artísticos e culturais.

É ainda o impulsionador do projecto Laboratório de Candidaturas, Fundos Europeus para a Arte, Cultura e Criatividade, um espaço de confluência de ideias e pessoas em torno das principais iniciativas de financiamento europeu para o setor cultural.

Para além disso é homem para muitas atividades. É coautor do primeiro guia nacional de surf, Portugal Surf Guide e host no documentário Movement, a journey into Creative Lives.

Direito na Cultura

Forum Dança - Madalena Zenha
Madalena Zenha
Anabela de Almeida Rodrigues
Anabela de Almeida Rodrigues

Conteúdos

  1. Introdução ao léxico e enquadramento legal nas Artes do Espetáculo;
  2. Direitos de Autor e Direitos Conexos – tipologia, jurisprudência e resultado da transposição de diretivas comunitárias;
  3. O Direito e a Prática;
  4. Obrigações legais da atividade profissional na Produção de Espetáculos;
  5. Noções Elementares do Direito do Trabalho e do contrato de prestação de serviços;
  6. Noção do processo de constituição de associações e sociedades comerciais;
  7. Caracterização do Estatuto do Trabalhador Independente.

Objetivos

  • Identificar e prevenir os processos legais inerentes à atividade de Produção e Promoção de Espetáculos;
  • Ter conhecimento da legislação vigente no que concerne aos Direitos de Autor e Direitos Conexos;
  • Ter noção da relação contratual por conta de outrem e da prestação de serviços;
  • Apreender o processo de constituição de sociedades e associações.

 

Biografias

Madalena Zenha, licenciada em Direito na Universidade de Coimbra. Desde 1989, exerce advocacia, prestando, entre outros, serviços na área da propriedade intelectual, direito civil e direito da família e sucessões, tendo participado em diversas conferências, workshops e congressos, enquanto participante e/ou conferencista.

Tem os cursos de mediadora familiar e de formadora, tendo exercido a atividade de mediadora no Gabinete de Mediação Familiar de Lisboa.
A par da advocacia, de 1989 até 1997, exerceu atividade profissional na área de produção, agência e marketing de espetáculos musicais e representação de artistas.
Desde 2011, pertence ao Conselho Regional de Lisboa da Ordem dos Advogados.
Leciona o módulo de Direito na Cultura desde 2002, no Curso de Gestão/Produção das Artes de Espetáculo do Forum Dança.

 

Anabela de Almeida Rodrigues, licenciada pela Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa em 1988. Estágio de advocacia realizado com o Dr. Edgar Valles.

Inscrita na Ordem dos Advogados em 1991, pelo Conselho Distrital de Lisboa, iniciando prática forense nessa mesma data.

Áreas de Prática: Direito das Obrigações; Direito Laboral; Direito de Família; Direito das Sucessões (inventários, habilitações e partilhas) e Direito Societário e Associativo.

Direção de Cena / Espaços Culturais

Forum Dança - Jonas Omberg
Jonas Omberg

Conteúdos

  1. História fundamental do drama e dos Teatros;
  2. A constituição técnica do Teatro;
  3. Princípios fundamentais de Direção de Cena;
  4. Iluminação e Som em Cena;
  5. Cenografia e Figurinos;
  6. Segurança em cena e na sala de espetáculos;
  7. Projeto e materiais em Direção de Cena;
  8. Especificidades técnicas de Dança, Teatro, Cinema e Música;
  9. O papel da direção de cena no processo criativo e em cena.

 

Objetivos

  • Dominar o léxico fundamental das estruturas teatrais;
  • Gerir e administrar as variáveis do palco: figurinos, camarins, cenografia e montagem, segurança; desenho de luz, som e vídeo;

Aptidões básicas e fundamentais na direção de palco: gestão da cena.

 

Biografia

Jonas Omberg é sueco e passou a sua infância na Suécia e a adolescência em Portugal. Entre 1991 e 1996 residiu nos EUA, onde tirou a licenciatura em Teatro, especialização em Representação e Direção de Cena / Produção com estudos complementares em línguas estrangeiras, na Bennigton College em Vermont.

Entre 1997 e 2015 trabalhou como Diretor de Cena no Centro Cultural de Belém, tendo acumulado funções como Coordenador do Departamento da Direção de Cena entre 2008 e 2015.

É desde 2014 Professor Assistente na Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema onde leciona Técnicas de Palco II no curso da licenciatura em Teatro: Ramo Produção. Desde 2014 também lecciona Direção de Cena no Curso de Gestão/Produção das Artes de Espetáculo no Forum Dança. Desde 2016, trabalha como freelancer em direção de cena e produção.

Estratégias de Programação

Forum Dança - Elisabete Paiva
Elisabete Paiva

Conteúdos

  1. A programação cultural enquanto campo específico de atuação;
  2. Panorâmica sobre a programação cultural em Portugal em relação com o espaço europeu;
  3. Elementos em jogo na constituição de uma programação: autoria, contexto e economia; programadores, criadores, públicos e críticos;
  4. Práticas artísticas contemporâneas e sua relação com conceitos e estratégias de programação;
  5. A relação com os públicos: relevância e participação, tempos e lugares;
  6. Formatos, ritmos e escalas de programação: eventos, ciclos, festivais, programação regular, etc.;
  7. Programação em rede e outras formas de cooperação: exemplos nacionais e internacionais;
  8. Programação em perspetiva: análise comparada de estratégias.

 

Objetivos

  • Compreensão do papel do programador no campo da produção cultural;
  • Aquisição de ferramentas de análise crítica sobre a programação cultural e sua relação com as políticas culturais, a produção artística, a produção de conhecimento e as dinâmicas societais;
  • Reconhecimento de estratégias contemporâneas na área da programação cultural, em particular no caso das artes do espetáculo;
  • Desenvolvimento de sensibilidade e capacidade de diálogo com os vários intervenientes numa programação cultural;
  • Desenvolvimento de competências básicas de conceção e planeamento de uma programação.

 

Biografia

Elisabete Paiva é licenciada em Produção Teatral e mestre em Estudos de Teatro. Trabalhou como produtora com Luís Castro, Teatro do Vestido e Pedro Sena Nunes.

Foi responsável pelo Serviço Educativo do Centro Cultural Vila Flor (2006 a 2014), na sequência de experiências marcantes de cruzamento entre criação, educação e território no CENTA – Centro de Estudos de Novas Tendências Artísticas (2003–2005).

Concebeu e programou o Serviço Educativo de Guimarães 2012 CEC e atualmente é Diretora Artística do Festival Materiais Diversos.

Arte e Sociedade

Forum Dança - Narcisa Costa
Forum Dança - Inês Lampreia

Objetivos

  • Refletir sobre o poder da arte como um agente de transformação social, com foco na sua capacidade de contribuir para sociedades mais justas;
  • Compreender conceitos-chave como: acesso à cultura, democratização da arte, democracia cultural, arte participativa e arte comunitária, explorando as suas implicações para a construção de uma cultura mais equitativa;
  • Analisar exemplos práticos de projetos de arte participativa, discutindo sobre como essas iniciativas podem promover a transformação social e o envolvimento das comunidades na criação artística e na prática cultural;
  • Discutir as implicações das práticas de participação para as formas de produção artística, investigando como elas alteram a relação entre artistas, instituições e públicos;
  • Refletir sobre o impacto e as mudanças que as práticas participativas podem provocar nas entidades artísticas e nas instituições culturais, influenciado o seu posicionamento social;
  • Desenvolver competências práticas para a criação e produção de projetos culturais participativos ou liderados pelas comunidades.

 

Biografia

Narcisa Costa é gestora de projetos de Arte Participativa e Acesso à Cultura, na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Formada pela Escola Superior de Dança (Lisboa) e pela Hoogeschool voor the Kunsten/ European Dance Development Center (Arnhem), desenvolveu grande parte da sua atividade profissional como produtora e gestora de projetos artísticos e culturais, tais como: Festival Danças na Cidade, Companhia Re.Al/João Fiadeiro, Espaço do Tempo, Companhia Clara Andermatt, Alkantara Festival, Arena Ensemble, Festival de Música de Setúbal, entre outros. Nos últimos anos, o seu interesse orientou-se para a promoção da participação e do acesso às artes e cultura, fundamentais para a criação de sociedades mais justas.

Luz e Som (2 módulos)

Carlos Ramos
Forum Dança - Rui Campos Leitão
Rui Campos Leitão

Conteúdos

  1. Introdução às questões técnicas de Luz e Som, aplicadas à produção nas artes performativas:
    • Meios técnicos;
    • Léxico específico.

 

Objetivos

  • Conferir o domínio básico do léxico técnico de luz e som aplicados às artes performativas.

 

 

Módulo de Luz com Carlos Ramos

Biografia

Carlos Ramos possui o curso de Luminotécnico, IFICT – 1991 e o curso de Cinema, Área de Produção, ESTC – 1995.

Como desenhador de luz destaca o seu trabalho com os criadores Clara Andermatt, Francisco Camacho, Tiago Guedes, Real Pelágio, Vítor Rua, Miguel Pereira, Aldara Bizarro, Filipa Francisco, Rui Chafes, Raiz di Polon, Jonas & Lander, Diana Niepce, Teresa Silva e Elizabete Francisca.

Integrou a direção técnica dos Festivais Mergulho no Futuro/EXPO 98, Ponti 2001/TNSJ, Festival Danças na Cidade/Alkantara (2002 a 2012), Artemrede (2005 a 2008), Festival Citemor desde (2008 a 2022), Festival Materiais Diversos (2013 a 2017), BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts (2017 a 2021), Teatro Nacional São Carlos (2017 a 2022).

Integrou a equipa técnica como diretor técnico e operador de luz de vários espetáculos em tour desde 1996, trabalhando entre outros com Vera Mantero, Francisco Camacho, Clara Andermatt, Real Pelágio, Rui Catalão, Teatro do Vestido e John Romão.

Integrou o corpo docente da Unidade Curricular de Produção da Escola Superior de Dança/Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa entre 2007 e 2012.

Atualmente é o diretor técnico da Culturgest.

 

 

Módulo de Som com Rui Campos Leitão

(ver biografia no módulo de Música)

Projeto

As matérias apreendidas no curso ganham corpo e são aplicadas na elaboração de um projeto de âmbito cultural.

Deve contemplar todas as vertentes de planeamento e gestão de um projeto artístico e é acompanhado pela coordenadora pedagógica do Forum Dança (Dora Carvalho) e pelas formadoras de Gestão Financeira (Rita Guerreiro), Estratégias de Programação (Elisabete Paiva) e Comunicação Cultural (Inês Lampreia).

Realiza-se uma sessão de Projeto a cada final dos seguintes módulos:

  • Comunicação Cultural (28h), com Inês Lampreia
  • Gestão Financeira (28h), com Rita Guerreiro
  • Estratégias de Programação (21h), com Elisabete Paiva

Imagem © DR

Forum Dança | Ciclo de Apresentações PACAP 7 | TBA - Teatro do Bairro Alto

PACAP 7 presentations

11 to 14 July | TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto

PACAP – Advanced Creation Programme in Performing Arts – is a creation/training project organised by Forum Dança and aimed at professionals and students in artistic fields who invest in a period of advanced experimentation, combining research, creation and presentation to the public.

In this seventh edition, PACAP is curated by the artists Miguel Pereira and Nuno Lucas, who propose to publicly show a series of choreographic, performative and installation experiments based on collaboration.

Above all, it will be a time for sharing works in progress, rather than a final presentation, a space open to different formats and configurations.

The intention is to compress all these works into a single weekend, allowing the public to immerse themselves more intensely in the different proposals, while also promoting a potential contamination between them.

The focus of this edition was on the processes, research times and meetings it promoted between the participants and guest artists, trying to create a community of thought and action that goes beyond the six-month duration of the programme.

 

Miguel Pereira and Nuno Lucas, PACAP 7 curators

Creation (PACAP 7 Participants) Beatriz Baião (PT), Carlota Mantecón (ES), Damien Najean (FR), Giulia Romitelli (IT), Guillermina Gancio (UY), Hernie Harmon (DE), Jakob von Kietzell (DE), Joana Duvet (PT), Katerina Giannouli (GR), Luna Anaïs (CH), Marina de Moraes (BR), Marusya Byzova (RU), Maud Buckenmeyer (FR), Minjin Lee (KR), Renan Capivara (BR) and Sérgio Diogo Matias (PT)

Artistic accompaniment Miguel Pereira and Nuno Lucas

Lighting and technical direction Leticia Skrycky and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot

Production Forum Dança

Co-production Bairro Alto Theatre

Co-production in Residence O Espaço do Tempo

Support Alkantara, Casa da Dança – Almada, GDA Foundation, OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Rumo do Fumo, Piscina

COMPLETE PROGRAMME

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto

Tickets: 3€ for each block (Ticket office)

For more information, visit the TBA website here

11 July [Thursday]

17h | BLOCK I

(tickets here)

  • Beatriz Baião e Sérgio Diogo Matias
  • Joana Duvet
  • Luna Anaïs, Carlota Mantecón e Guillermina Gancio
  • Marina de Moraes
  • Marusya Byzova

 

20h | BLOCK II

(tickets here)

  • Beatriz Baião e Sérgio Diogo Matias
  • Guillermina Gancio, Katerina Giannouli e Minjin Lee
  • Jakob von Kietzell, Marusya Byzova e Renan Capivara
  • Joana Duvet
  • Marina de Moraes

 

At the foyer

Katerina Giannouli publication

12 July [Friday]

17h | BLOCK II

(tickets here)

  • Beatriz Baião e Sérgio Diogo Matias
  • Guillermina Gancio, Katerina Giannouli e Minjin Lee
  • Jakob von Kietzell, Marusya Byzova e Renan Capivara
  • Joana Duvet
  • Marina de Moraes

 

19h30 | BLOCK I

(tickets here)

  • Beatriz Baião e Sérgio Diogo Matias
  • Joana Duvet
  • Luna Anaïs, Carlota Mantecón e Guillermina Gancio
  • Marina de Moraes
  • Marusya Byzova

 

At the foyer

Katerina Giannouli publication

13 July [Saturday]

16h | BLOCK III

(tickets here)

  • Beatriz Baião e Sérgio Diogo Matias
  • Carlota Mantecón, Damien Najean, Luna Anaïs e Renan Capivara
  • Joana Duvet
  • Marina de Moraes
  • Marusya Byzova
  • Maud Buckenmeyer, Beatriz Baião, Damien Najean, Giulia Romitelli e Jakob von Kietzell

 

19h30 | BLOCK IV

(tickets here)

  • Beatriz Baião e Sérgio Diogo Matias
  • Damien Najean
  • Giulia Romitelli e Jakob von Kietzell
  • Henri Kirsch / Hernie Harmon
  • Joana Duvet
  • Marina de Moraes
  • Marusya Byzova

 

At the foyer

Katerina Giannouli publication

14 July [Sunday]

16h | BLOCK IV

(tickets here)

  • Beatriz Baião e Sérgio Diogo Matias
  • Damien Najean
  • Giulia Romitelli e Jakob von Kietzell
  • Henri Kirsch / Hernie Harmon
  • Joana Duvet
  • Marina de Moraes
  • Marusya Byzova

 

19h | BLOCK III

(tickets here)

  • Beatriz Baião e Sérgio Diogo Matias
  • Carlota Mantecón, Damien Najean, Luna Anaïs e Renan Capivara
  • Joana Duvet
  • Marina de Moraes
  • Marusya Byzova
  • Maud Buckenmeyer, Beatriz Baião, Damien Najean, Giulia Romitelli e Jakob von Kietzell

 

At the foyer

Katerina Giannouli publication

Top image credits © Guillermina Gancio

Support and Partnerships

PACAP 7 co-producer:  Teatro do Bairro Alto.

PACAP 7 co-producer in Residency: O Espaço do Tempo

PACAP 7 support: Alkantara, Casa da Dança – Almada, Fundação GDA, OPART, E.P.E./Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Rumo do Fumo and Piscina.

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 7
Performers dancing against a white wall

PACAP 8
2025

Performing Arts Advanced Programme

Meg Stuart

From 10th of February to 26th of July 2025

Applications closed.

“Every new beginning
leads you to a mystery.
Every beginning carries
that potential of the unknown.
It relates to how we move,
how we hear, how we listen,
how we spend time with something,
how we see what is around us.”
Meg Stuart

Introduction

PACAP 8 / Mystery School of Choreography
Concept and Artistic Direction: Meg Stuart
Artistic Collaboration: Ana Rocha

Proposal

Forum Dança invites choreographer Meg Stuart as a curator for the 8th edition of PACAP to take place in Lisbon, 2025, who proposes her concept and project Mystery School of Choreography. For this edition, Meg Stuart has invited Ana Rocha as artistic collaborator.

 

Mystery School of Choreography (MyS) is an unconventional experimental studies programme for performing artists. It’s a place where fascination for the metaphysical will be intertwined with composition, choreography, and art making.

 

During these six months, from February to July 2025, we will work in the studio at Forum Dança, in the theatre space at Teatro do Bairro Alto, in the galleries at Culturgest, surrounded by nature and far from the Portuguese capital at O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo, and in São Miguel Island, Azores, in Walk&Talk Biennial. From the indoor space to the street, we will go through these residencies together for reflection and practice.

 

MyS will consist of encounters with artists who will share their personal cosmology, expertise, and process. Participants will approach MyS themes through moments of reflection and, above all, through collective moments of performance and dialogue. MyS proposes to create a space that is not about converting or indoctrinating, but about revealing and creating structures for the process of sharing.

 

How can we connect to that knowledge more precisely? By starting from a position of not-knowing. MyS seeks to cultivate the attitude of the beginner, letting go and shedding expectations. By starting from what fascinates us, we are also practicing a sense of wonder, a lucid dreaming together. We will be guided by nature, cause and effect, energetic transformation, disorientation and divination, sacred geometry, rhythmic visions and voice, alchemy, love and politics, non-locality and quantum physics, deep and inner contemplation.

 

MyS takes transmission of hidden knowledge and insights, which are not accessible through conventional means, as a foundation of learning and creating art through a shared exploration.

 

MyS will focus on questions that go beyond purely physical practices and can be explored in a collective dimension, such as:

 

How can we foster imagination in ourselves in correlation with our surroundings?
How can we (re)align our research processes within an interdimensional wonder?
How can we negotiate and learn from indeterminacy, non-defined corporeal spaces, and invisible realms as much as fictional futures?
How can we create a more holistic, compassionate understanding of it?
How do we share fascination?
How do we value different functions and forms, different kinds of material and research?
How do we develop and cultivate a fountain of creative collaboration with energies, seen and unseen forces?

 

MyS is a step towards a deeper understanding of learning, practice, and activation of knowledge that is often present in performing arts but not directly addressed. In MyS we will sketch possibilities for the future of dance and community.

Participants

PACAP 8 / MyS programme is designed as a transformative journey. At MyS, we will work together: environmentally aware, socially engaged, going through metaphysical access to transform deep learning into a political act. We will work together with the body and the voice, with critical perceptive thinking.

 

We are looking for experienced professional performance artists open to work in a collective art programme. Makers and dreamers who have a strong interest in the interweaving of the metaphysical and art, with a generosity of spirit, free-thinkers, open for a shared, rigorous and playful exploration of the unknown. MyS programme looks for participants who have done inner emotional work, grounded, nonconformist, sensitive to other’s processes and highly motivated. Participants are required to be flexible, passionate about improvisation, open to chance procedures and experimental structures.

 

During the MyS programme, be ready to let go of preconceived notions, be willing to trust a collective process and design other possible futures through an experimental, intensive, and rigorous process. Participants will have the opportunity to research and compose in various formats and settings. MyS is a six-month collaborative programme, where participants will be co-creators and collaborators with nature, forces unknown and invited artists.

Information

Invited guests

  • Benoît Lachambre
  • CAConrad
  • Doug Weiss
  • Gaya de Medeiros
  • Isabela Santana
  • Justin F. Kennnedy
  • Keith Hennessy
  • Márcio Kerber Canabarro
  • Maria F. Scaroni
  • Mariana Tengner Barros
  • Mayfield Brooks
  • Mieko Suzuki
  • Odete
  • Renan Martins
  • Sigal Zouk
  • Xullaji

 

… and others to be confirmed.

Language

English will be the official language of the programme.

 

Please note!
Applications must be sent in English.

Dates

  • Applications deadline 31.05.2024
  • Results Pre-selection 17.06.2024
  • Audition Workshop 29.07.2024 – 03.08.2024
  • Final Results 30.09.2024
  • Programme dates 10.02.2025 – 26.07.2025

Schedule

Intensive and flexible schedule. An overview of the working hours will be sent before the beginning of the programme.

Applications

Elements to be sent:

 

  • CV + 1 photo
  • 3 short video works of your artistic work, including as maker & collaborative projects (Vimeo/ YouTube link)
  • 1 video of something you never did before
  • 1 motivation letter + 1 MyS score in the form of: e.g. texts or images (2 pgs. max.), inspired by the questions below:

 

    • What do you dream of learning at MyS?
    • Who are your heroes, ancestors, and artistic influences?
    • What does mystery / magic mean to you? Define it.
    • What spiritual experiences inform your artistic work?
    • It will be a collective space. What skills can you offer a group? What are your special powers? What kind of daily practice do you have, how do you organize yourself?
    • What keeps you up at night? What topics obsessed you? What do you need to let go of?
    • Are you comfortable with silence?
    • What’s love got to do with it?

! IMPORTANT NOTE!

We do not accept links that require downloading videos.

The links sent must give direct access to the online visualization of the files (YouTube, Vimeo, etc).

The only files that require downloading that we will accept are the Curriculum vitae, the photo and the motivational letter.

Tuition fees

    • Registration: 200€;
    • Payment in full: 2000€;
    • Payment in two installments: 1100€ x 2.

 

Please do not let financial concerns prevent you from applying.

If the tuition is a cause of concern for you, please include a letter in your application explaining your financial situation.

Scholarships

There are a few scholarships available:

 

    • 2 scholarships offering a 50% reduction of the tuition fees.
    • 1 scholarship offering 100% reduction of the tuition fees, aimed at artists from Portuguese Speaking African Countries or Black artists living in Portugal.
    • Artists residing in Portugal are eligible for up to 50% reduction of the tuition fees through scholarships given out by the GDA Foundation (In cases where the applicant is a member of the GDA this increases up to 75%).

Application

Until 31st May 2024

Form

Please note!
Applications and all documentation must be sent in English.

 

Applications are closed.

Bios

Meg Stuart

Forum Dança | PACAP 8 - Meg Stuart
Meg Stuart © Camille Blake

Choreographer, director, and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. With her company, Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, ranging from solos and duets to group pieces, video works, site-specific creations and improvisation projects.

Stuart’s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines.

Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she explores dance as a source of healing and a way to transform the social fabric.

Improvisation is an important part of Stuart’s practice, as a strategy to move from physical and emotional states or the memory of them.

Meg Stuart has received many awards for her work, notably the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018, and she was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023.

More informations: www.damagedgoods.be

Ana Rocha

Forum Dança | PACAP 8 - Ana Rocha
Ana Rocha

Curator, choreographer, performer, playwright, and a teacher. She has been a producer of visual arts, music and performing arts (theatre/contemporary dance), and also works as a production manager for cultural projects.

 

She mediates in the field of Culture and the Arts, creating a research language of artistic and socio-political action engaged in the potential development of the creative process and its context.

 

Ana operates in fields of multiplicity and cultural diversity, co-relating points of reflection and transition, by accompanying and consulting institutions, non-profit organizations, artistic collectives, and national and international creators.

Participants

Ana Szopa (PL), António Bollaño (PT), Arash Khakpour (IR), Emily da Silva (BR), Guillermo Tarasewicz (UY), Isabela Rossi (BR/IT), iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo (EC), Julia Kosałka (PL), Kaya Freeman (PT), María Ibarretxe (ES), Martha Kotsia (GR), Michiru Shin (JP), Natacha Campos (PT), Raul Aranha (IN), Salomé Pham-Van-Hué (FR), Sepideh Khodarahmi (SE/IR), Śomi Śniegocka (PL), Therese Bendjus (DE) and Tiago Vieira (PT).

PACAP 8 Activities

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

Co-Production PACAP 8: Culturgest | Teatro do Bairro Alto | Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk | Goethe-Institut Portugal, in the scope of Kulturfest festival.

Co-producer in Residency PACAP 8: O Espaço do Tempo

Support PACAP 8: Alkantara | Casa da Dança – Almada | Fundação GDA | Kees Eijrond Foundation | OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8

Top image credits © Vitorino Coragem

[“Archives for future Spells”, Culturgest 2025]

Forum Dança - Meg Stuart | PACAP 8

PACAP 8
soon

Performing Arts Advanced Programme

Curated by Meg Stuart

Edition to take place in 2025

Forum Dança has invited choreographer Meg Stuart to curate the 8th edition of PACAP, which will take place in 2025.

American choreographer and dancer Meg Stuart works from Brussels and Berlin with her company Damaged Goods. Stuart’s oeuvre, which comprises over thirty creations, is situated on the border between dance and theatre. Stuart has been at the forefront of numerous improvisation projects and regularly collaborates with artists in the fields of visual arts, music and dance.

More information about this next edition and the application process will be available soon.

 

More information about Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods here.

PACAP 8 Activities

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

Co-Production PACAP 8: Culturgest | Teatro do Bairro Alto | Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk | Goethe-Institut Portugal, in the scope of Kulturfest festival.

Co-producer in Residency PACAP 8: O Espaço do Tempo

Support PACAP 8: Alkantara | Casa da Dança – Almada | Fundação GDA | Kees Eijrond Foundation | OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8

Top image credit © Edouard Jacquinet (2018)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7

PACAP 7
Participants

Biographies

Select each of the sections below to meet the artists participating in PACAP 7.

Beatriz Baião (PT)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Beatriz Baião (PT)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Beatriz Baião (PT)

Beatriz Baião, 2001, Setúbal. She began her artistic life with ballet classes at Vitória FC’s gymnastics centre, where she stayed for 8 years.

However, the search for something more led her to the theatre.

With a degree in Theatre from the Caldas da Rainha School of Arts and Design, she is now looking to discover herself more and more as an actress/dancer, director and perhaps artist.

Carlota Mantecón (ES)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Carlota Mantecón (ES)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Carlota Mantecón (ES)

Carlota Mantecón (Tenerife, Spain).

In my artistic practice I relate to the sound or the tactile, developing somatic and perceptive sensitivities as a starting point from which to explore other ways of coexisting.

I fabulate with choreographies between the singular and the plural, in an attempt to displace the normative individualistic gaze.

Damien Najean (FR)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Damien Najean (FR)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Damien Najean (FR)

Damien Najean. Trained as an architect, I turned away from conventional project management to seek alternative paths in architecture.

Joining architectural collectives, I experimented various connections between architecture, urban planning, events and open construction sites.

Learning raw earth masonry enabled me to link the hand that designs to the hand that builds, while integrating a criticism of relationships of domination.

Today I’m convinced that it’s through dance that I can connect and makes my approaches of architecture evolves in order to nourish a freedom that takes power over our livelihoods and interdependencies.

Giulia Romitelli (IT)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Giulia Romitelli (IT)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Giulia Romitelli (IT)

With background studies in dance and architecture, Giulia Romitelli is fascinated by merging movement, visual, and plastic arts.

Her current research delves into the body as a repository of memories and probes the existential features of humankind.

Guillermina Gancio (UY)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Guillermina Gancio (UY)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Guillermina Gancio (UY)

Guillermina Gancio Bertoletti. Born in Uruguay in 1994. Graduated from the National School of Dance of Uruguay in its contemporary dance division.

She has participated in seminars with national and foreign artists.

She works as a teacher and choreographer with children, young people and adults; as a photographer of scenic projects, and since 2013, she has been working professionally as a performer of pieces that combine dance and performance.

Hernie Harmon (DE)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Henri Kirsch (DE)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Henri Kirsch (DE)

Hernie Harmon is a multidimensional artist, exploring life through the expressive body of performance, nature and Butoh.

Jakob von Kietzell (DE)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Jakob von Kietzell (DE)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Jakob von Kietzell (DE)

Jakob von Kietzell is a multidisciplinary creative at the intersection of movement, visual arts, and design, based in Berlin and around Europe.

He is passionate about cross-collaborations, exploring human interactions and site-specific work.

Joana Duvet (PT)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Joana Duvet (PT)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Joana Duvet (PT)

Joana Duvet began in visual arts at the Artistic School António Arroio.

Later, curious about textile plasticity, she dedicated herself to handcrafted embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework.

In Portugal, Joana graduated in fashion and textile design.

Her fascination with dance led her to classical ballet and contemporary dance.

Currently, she explores body practices.

Katerina Giannouli (GR)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Aikaterini Giannouli (GR)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Aikaterini Giannouli (GR)

Katerina Giannouli (she/her) is a performance artist and choreographer based in Athens. She has graduated in Psychology (UK) and Dance Studies (Greece).

Her artistic practice is often fueled by introspection and personal challenges, interweaving autobiographical elements to deepen her exploration of the self and the threshold between the personal and the collective. Her thematic explorations include among others, internal dialogues on fear and loss, the complex process of transformation, and the delicate interplay between pleasure, intimacy, and the struggles of caregiving. In crafting her creative vision, she utilizes a variety of tools and media, such as the body and its senses, movement, found objects, writing, and drawing. In her choreographies, she frequently integrates elements of repetition, linearity, and bouncing to establish structure and rhythm.

She is a founding member of M54 Collective, an independent space that aims to support the Athenian dance community and art scene, by hosting performances, workshops, and interdisciplinary art projects.

As an independent artist, she has choreographed and performed in solo pieces and duets, while also presenting site-specific and improvisational performances. Namely, 4/1 Capriccio (2015), Lamento (2016), Moving Sound (2017), Red Ghost (2018), Having One No Idea (2018), and The Other Things That You Say (2018).

Αs a member of the Underscore Collective, an independent dance group, she has collaborated on research projects, such as Open Field (2021) and Caring as Pleasure: Brush Me Before I Go To Bed (2022).

As a teacher, she delivers improvisation classes. Through this shared experience she aims to empower participants to develop their connection to their bodies, self-expression, and each other.

Luna Anaïs (CH)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Luna Anais (CH)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Luna Anais (CH)

I am dedicated to creation, production, and performance, actively participating in various projects and collectives in Montevideo, such as TIGRE, HYPED, RAREO, among others.

My explorations are influenced by music, celebration, and sensitive experiences.

My creative process unfolds through collaboration, curiosity, discovery, and intuition, engaging in artistic endeavours that manipulate ideas to create scenic experiences and foster communal interactions.

I am part of the FIDCU team and firmly believe that art is a state of encounter – a way for me to connect with others.

When I create, I engage in a dialogue with my inner darkness, beasts, and places. I pour myself into the performance, allowing what moves me to manifest.

Marina de Moraes (BR)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Marina de Moraes (BR)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Marina de Moraes (BR)

Marina de Moraes. Artist and Researcher in the Arts of the Body, with an emphasis on Creation Processes and Dramaturgies in Dance and Decolonial, Feminist and Political-Cognitive Studies.

She currently is studying for a master’s degree in Dance at PRODAN-UFBA in the line of Artistic Experiences, Production and Management in Dance, where her research has been awarded a Fabesp research grant and also a PIBEXA 2023 notice (for the production of the piece she has been developing); she has a degree in Visual Arts from the Institute of Arts – UFRGS, and has undertaken ANDIFES academic mobility in Visual Arts at the Centre for Art, Humanities and Letters – UFRB.

Marusya Byzova (RU)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Mariia Byzova (RU)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Mariia Byzova (RU)

Marusya Byzova (born in 1998) was raised in Saint Petersburg, Russia, before moving to Yerevan, Armenia, in 2022.

A dancer and performer with diverse backgrounds, she began with ballroom dance competitions, then explored contemporary dance, theatre, somatic practices, and vogue.

Over the past year, ballroom culture has been a significant influence and main focus for her.

Maria holds a BA degree in architectural environment design (2016-2021).

Currently, she is intrigued by exploring movement through an ironic lens, incorporating elements of games, pop-culture references, and personal memories into her artistic expression.

Maud Buckenmeyer (FR)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Maud Buckenmeyer (FR)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Maud Buckenmeyer (FR)

Maud Buckenmeyer (France, 1996) navigates through different performative layers and mediums in order to create narrations where dance, storytelling, voicing and burlesque can merge.

She is dealing with the topics of loss and grief and is interested in dance as a place of invocation and imaginary.

She studied literature, theatre, and clown before graduating from the inter-university of dance in Berlin (HZT) in July 2022.

Minjin Lee (KR)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Minjin Lee (KR)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Minjin Lee (KR)

Minjin Lee (1995) is a dance artist based in Seoul, Korea. After finishing her studies in dance at Kookmin University, she started her practice as a dancer by performing with Lee K. Dance company. She also collaborated in depth with choreographers such as Lyon Eun Kwon (KR) and Mårten Spångberg(SE).

Recently her research is about the authorship of dance and body as a political statement. Based on her experience and memories as a dancer and a performer, she is reinvestigating the role and the position of being a dancer as a mediator between the viewer (audience, choreographer and more) and the dance itself, which no one owns and cannot be owned.

She explores dancing with (the) others to capture the moment when the dynamic of hierarchy reverses in the process of making dance.

She also cofounded Femifloor, which is a feminist community organization based in Seoul. We organize events such as lectures, workshops, and festivals to create a continuous discourse of feminism within the dance scene in Korea.

Renan Capivara (BR)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Renan Capivara (BR)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Renan Capivara (BR)

Renan Capivara (Brazil, 1993) is a body and stage artist, yoga instructor and dancer with a degree in Dance Education from the Federal University of Ceará (BR).

He directs his research, creation, and pedagogical sharing around the body in movement, states of presence and dramaturgical composition.

He works on creative projects of collective and solo authorship that focus on choreographic research, bodily practices, and imaginative and fictional elaborations.

Sérgio Diogo Matias (PT)

Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Sérgio Diogo Matias (PT)
Forum Dança - PACAP 7 - Sérgio Diogo Matias (PT)

Sèrge, Sérgio Diogo Matias (1985) began his studies in the visual arts and in 2008 and 2010 he took a degree in Interpretation/Creation at the Escola Superior de Dança.In the final year of his degree, he attended the ArteZ Hogeeschool in Arnhem on an Erasmus scholarship. In 2013/2014 he took the Forum Dança PEPCC course.

As a performer, he has collaborated with Amélia Bentes, Miguel Pereira, Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, Vânia Rovisco and Henrique Furtado, among others.

His creations and collaborations include Insólido (2014), MASS|MESS (2018), GEMINIS (2019) and LOOP (2019).

During 2020/2021 he was a student on the Composition and Musical Performance course at Restart, which culminated in the presentation/concert of the original themes developed during the course.

In 2023 he played the role of Mário de Sá Carneiro in the play “A Morte do Corvo”, directed by Nuno Moreira, with actors by Ana Padrão and choreography by Bruno Rodrigues.

He is currently a student on the PACAP7 course, directed by Miguel Pereira and Nuno Lucas, at FORUM DANÇA.

Actividades PACAP 7

Support and Partnerships

PACAP 7 co-producer:  Teatro do Bairro Alto.

PACAP 7 co-producer in Residency: O Espaço do Tempo

PACAP 7 support: Alkantara, Casa da Dança – Almada, Fundação GDA, OPART, E.P.E./Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Rumo do Fumo and Piscina.

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 7
32.º CGPAE 2024 - Algarve - Curso de Gestão/Produção das Artes do Espetáculo

32.º CGPAE | Algarve

Performing Arts Management/Production Course | Algarve

From 22nd February to 24th October 2024
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Online edition with face-to-face classes, aimed at the Algarve.

Introduction

The Performing Arts Management/Production Course has thirty editions, being responsible for the training and integration of professionals in the performing arts in Portugal.

With a pedagogical curriculum that covers the practical and theoretical parameters of professionalization in the cultural area, it is composed of a teaching staff that is active within the sector.

This characteristic gives it a constant updating and approximation to the reality of the environment and the artistic structures that compose it.

The course takes place annually at Espaço da Penha, in Lisbon, and editions may occasionally be organized in other regions of the country.

This edition of the course is especially aimed at people living in the Algarve region, will have an online component and occasional face-to-face meetings in the region, for talks, debates and visits to cultural and artistic structures based in the Algarve.

General Objectives

To professionalize cultural agents through the acquisition of skills such as: planning and outlining management, production, programming and financing strategies within the scope of the Performing Arts.

Integration and professionalization throughout the course, with its structure being pedagogically oriented towards the application of knowledge in the performing arts sector.

Coordenação Pedagógica

Dora Carvalho

Debate Mediation and Project Monitoring

Nelson Guerreiro

31.º CGPAE 2024 - Curso de Gestão/Produção das Artes do Espetáculo

31.º CGPAE | Lisboa

CGPAE

Performing Arts Management/Production Course 2024

February 2 to December 14 2024

Introduction

The Performing Arts Management/Production Course has thirty editions, being responsible for the training and integration of professionals in the performing arts in Portugal.

With a pedagogical curriculum that covers the practical and theoretical parameters of professionalization in the cultural area, it is composed of a teaching staff that is active within the sector.

This characteristic gives it a constant updating and approximation to the reality of the environment and the artistic structures that compose it.

The course takes place annually at Espaço da Penha, in Lisbon, and editions may occasionally be organized in other regions of the country.

General Objectives

To professionalize cultural agents through the acquisition of skills such as: planning and outlining management, production, programming and financing strategies within the scope of the Performing Arts.

Integration and professionalization throughout the course, with its structure being pedagogically oriented towards the application of knowledge in the performing arts sector.

Pedagogical Coordination

Dora Carvalho

Forum Dança | Ciclo de Apresentações PACAP 6 | Culturgest | TBA - Teatro do Bairro Alto

PACAP 6 Presentations

6, 8 and 9 of July | Culturgest (Inside Out)

14 to 16 and 21 to 23 of July | TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto (8 Works)

After an intense creative process, we arrived at the public presentations of the projects of each participant in this sixth edition of PACAP – Performing Arts Advanced Programme, which is curated by the artist duo Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz. In this edition, the presentations take place in two different cycles, in two cultural institutions in Lisbon: a first cycle within the scope of the “Inside Out” program by Culturgest and a second cycle at TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto, with the program “8 Works PACAP 6 / Forum Dança”.

 

Culturgest | Inside Out
Four projects developed with unconventional spaces in mind are presented, namely outdoor spaces (gardens, street, open-air auditorium, etc.).
Projects of María Ibarretxe (ES), Silvana Ivaldi (PT/IT), Connor Scott (UK) and Estrellx Supernova (EUA/GUAT).

 

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | 8 Trabalhos PACAP 6
Eight projects that fit into the theatrical space are presented.
Projects of Bobby Brim (FR), Lorea Burge (UK/ES), Lucas Damiani (UY), Marcelo Castro (BR), Mariana Catalina Iris (UY), Rafaela Santos (PT), Vanessa Lonau (DE) e o coletivo de Camilla Morello (IT), Tarlie Lumby (UK) and Victor Lattaque (FR).

 

“This diversity of presentation contexts and the respective technical and logistical support of the teams of these cultural institutions seeks to meet the diversity and specificity of the proposals of each participant. Thus, the presentation formats depend exclusively on the creation process and the artistic intentions of each participant, which can either result in a show or performance or in a lecture, collective practice, installation, sound experience, guided tour, among many other options. PACAP’s public presentations are a moment of celebration, of expanding the relations of this temporary community and of collective reflection.”

Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz

Creation (PACAP 6 participants) Bobby Brim (FR), Camilla Morello (IT), Connor Scott (UK), Estrellx Supernova (US), Lorea Burge (UK/ES), Lucas Damiani (UY), María Ibarretxe del Val (ES), Marcelo de Castro Pereira (BR), Mariana Catalina Iris (UY), Rafaela Santos (PT), Silvana Ivaldi (PT), Tarlie Lumby (UK), Vanessa Lonau (DE) and Victor Lattaque (FR).

Artistic accompaniment Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz

Light and Technical Direction Leticia Skrycky and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot

Producer Forum Dança

Coproducer TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

COMPLETE PROGRAM

Culturgest | Inside Out

Several venues | Free admission to all presentations with ticket pick-up from 4:30pm (box office)

More information at Culturgest website here

July 6

17h00 e 18h00

Room 1 and Foyer of Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium

Maria Ibarretxe

VERMELHO BEATS/Sculpturing the white

 

19h00

Culturgest garden pond

Silvana Ivaldi

Please Kick Me Out Before I Get In

 

20h30

Culturgest Garage

Connor Scott

POOF

July 8

17h00 e 18h00

Room 1 and Foyer of Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium

Maria Ibarretxe

VERMELHO BEATS/Sculpturing the white

 

19h00

Culturgest garden pond

Silvana Ivaldi

Please Kick Me Out Before I Get In

 

20h30

Culturgest Garage

Connor Scott

POOF

July 9

12h12 – 20h00

Culturgest/Garden of the Galveias Palace Library

Estrellx Supernova

Animate, Intimate (AI): Cycle 1 – Points of Encounter/Puente de Encuentros or [[Before Wonderland Fell, We Fell in Touch]]

 

Attention: Capacity limited to 40 people simultaneously.

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | 8 Works

Main auditorium | Tickets: 2 € for each presentation (box office)

More information at TBA website here

July 14

19h00

Marcelo Castro

O Amor da Rua

 

21h00

Mariana Catalina Iris

Entre uma Brisa e uma Sudestada

July 15

16h30

Mariana Catalina Iris

Entre uma Brisa e uma Sudestada

 

20h00

Rafaela Santos

Sorry I Missed Some Parts

 

21h00

Bobby Brim

The Infrastructures of Cavities

July 16

16h30

Rafaela Santos

Sorry I Missed Some Parts

 

19h00

Bobby Brim

The Infrastructures of Cavities

 

20h30

Marcelo Castro

O Amor da Rua

July 21

19h00

Lucas Damiani

Hydra

 

21h00

Camilla Morello, Tarlie Lumby e Victor Lattaque

Pthst’ N

July 22

16h30

Camilla Morello, Tarlie Lumby e Victor Lattaque

Pthst’ N

 

20h00

Vanessa Lonau

As If I Was a Road

 

21h00

Lorea Burge

B Field

July 23

16h30

Lorea Burge

B Field

 

19h00

Vanessa Lonau

As If I Was a Road

 

20h30

Lucas Damiani

Hydra

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | PACAP 6 / Forum Dança: 8 Works

Top banner image credit © Lucas Damiani

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

Support PACAP 6: Casa da Dança – Almada, Fundação GDA, O Rumo do Fumo, Alkantara, OPART | Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Espaço do Tempo, Piscina.

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Forum Dança - Miguel Pereira & Nuno Lucas | PACAP 7

PACAP 7
2024

Performing Arts Advanced Programme

Curated by Miguel Pereira and Nuno Lucas

From 7th of February 2024 to 23rd of July 2024

APPLICATIONS CLOSED

Until 31st of July 2023 | Extension of applications until September 10

Introduction

We consider that having time for studying is a privileged moment that allows us to experimentat and reflect upon artistic practises. Our intent is that this experience creates a space for sharing, learning, meeting and research, beeing a possibilty for new connections and creating new ties.

 

In this programme we intend to plunge into some core principles that guide our artistical pratice: working on performativity skills and stage presence, the urgency and discipline in the act of artistic creation, the relationship between entertainment and reflection, composition and dramaturgy as central axes in the construction of a work and the crossing between different artistic disciplines. We will be present throughout the duration of the all programme and at the same time we will count with the cumplicity of a wide range of artists, that have influenced our paths, and who will contribute with new perspectives and that will enrich this experience.

 

The focus of the programme is in the process and in the encounters that it can create, with a view to creating a space where artistic relationships expand and influence our identity. To promote a creative experience in an expanded period of time that allows each person to consolidate their needs and discover new impulses that will feed each future artistic project. Without undermining the importance of (a) public performances and the sharing of one’s work, as an inherent and necessary gesture of artistic practice, we want to nurture a space of reflection and experimentation, to reconsider the way we see what we do and how we do it.

 

Collaboration is one of the fundamental foundations of our work, as such we also intend to propose different forms of artistic collaboration, defying the need for the individual signature in favour of the place of the “other”. The one that challenges us, confronts and compels us to look at things from a different point of view. We will also promote the circularity of roles inside of an artistical process by consciously beeing able to play different roles in it (dramaturg, assistant, performer, producer, etc).

 

A programme that lasts six months is inevitably a compact format. We believe that this will be a countainer of possibilities that will reveal some of them during the duration of the course, but as well to create a resonance that goes beyond that time. Sometimes experiences are not immediately digested and because of that our priority is to create a community of action and thinking, one that defies the finite time that this programme allows.

Outline

  • Introduction: Forum Dança, Lisbon – 3 days
  • Residency: O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-novo – 1 week
  • First block: Workshops and seminars with artists* – 4 weeks
  • First Research Period: 2 weeks
  • Second block: Workshops and seminars with artists* – 4 weeks
  • Second research period: 2 weeks
  • Descampado”: Undefined terrain – 1 week
  • Third Block: Workshops and seminars with artists* – 3 weeks
  • Third research period: – 4 weeks
  • Occupation: A moment to share and showcase work at TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto and other spaces TBC – 2 weeks.

 

*Artists: Eleonora Fabião, João Fiadeiro, Jonathan Burrows, Joris Lacoste, Leticia Skrycky & Santiago Rodriguez Tricot, Loïc Touzé, Luara Raio & Acauã Shereya El_Bandide, Marcelo Evelin, Mark Tompkins (to be confirmed), Marlene Monteiro Freitas (to be confirmed), Pedro Paiva e Vera Mantero.

 

The programme begins with the participants’ welcoming at Forum Dança to introduce the cultural associations and spaces in Lisbon.

 

Afterwards there will be a weeklong residency at O Espaço do Tempo, in Montemor-o-Novo, to deepen the participants’ connection and solidify the group. Here, the participants will show each other their work and begin taking part in joint exercises, sharing experiences and motivation.

 

Once back in Lisbon, we will enter into an outline that alternates between approximately four weeks of workshops and seminars, followed by two weeks dedicated to research. We believe that this time dedicated to research not only helps digest and internalise the experiences that the participants have during the preceding workshops and seminars, but also acts as a space in which to explore and create from any questions that come up either during, or that may have come up before, the programme.

 

At the midpoint of the programme, we come to a point that we call DESCAMPADO: a period of time in which nothing is defined. A chance to go off course; the chance to create new, spontaneous work and connections. This idea of an open terrain filled with opportunity to explore is central to this moment in the course.

 

Before we get to the moment where we celebrate this whole experience, what we call the OCCUPATION, we still have four more weeks of research. During those four weeks, not only will we welcome several guests who make up the training programme as well as new accomplices, and we encourage the group to invite external people to the training.

 

The OCUPATION, which will take place in Teatro do Bairro Alto, is a moment for sharing far more than a showcase of the group’s final presentations. It’s a free space, open to all possible formats; from classes given by the group’s participants, conferences and demonstrations, the sharing of ideas, demonstrations of work both finished and unfinished, as well as proposing experiences to the public, etc.

 

A partnership with the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin (Paris, France) provides the possibility of creating an extension of PACAP 7 in October 2024 for the duration of CAMPING. This experience which lasts one week, is a place to encounter different artistic fields (prop design, visual arts, dance, theatre, etc) and from different parts of the world. Furthermore, it also allows, on the one hand, to come into contact with different types of approach, taking part in workshops, conferences, attending shows, and on the other, to be a platform for showcasing work and meetings that will provide new partnerships and future collaborations.

 

NOTE: All travel, lodging and food expenses associated with CAMPING are the participant’s own responsibility.

Information

Who should apply

People, with 23 years of age or over (there is no older age limit), interested in:

 

  • Artistic practices where the body is present,
  • Furthering artistic creation methods,
  • Incorporating physical practices,
  • Collaborative processes,
  • Developing different stage performance skills,
  • A space for research and choreographic creation.

Please note

PACAP functions primarily in English as its working language.

Invited Guests

Process of Selection

The process of selection will be done by the curators of PACAP 7 and the direction of Forum Dança.

 

It will take place in two separate phases:

 

  • Phase One – Applications, open until 31st of July 2023 | Extension of applications until September 10;
  • Phase Two – Auditions, which will take place in October 2023.

Phase 1

Applications

 

The submission of applications will take place through the online application form (link to the form can be found below) until the 31st of July 2023 | Extension of applications until September 10. Applications can be submitted in Portuguese or English.

 

Components to include in the application:

 

  • Curriculum Vitae with a photograph and a brief biography (max. 2 pages A4. Pdf – no larger than 1MB),
  • Link to portfolio of works, with texts, images and links to videos,
  • Motivation Letter that answers the question: “What do I expect from this kind of training programme?” (max. 1 page A4 format .pdf),
  • A video (max. 3 minutes in length) that answers the following question “My body and my work” (this can be made up of excerpts from previous work or improvisational works that illustrate how you use your body on stage.).

 

Phase One results

All candidates will be contacted via email by the 11th of September 2023 | 11th of September 2023.

! IMPORTANT NOTE!

We do not accept links that require downloading videos or photographs.

The links sent must give direct access to the online visualization of the files (YouTube, Vimeo, etc).

The only files that require downloading that we will accept are the Curriculum vitae and the motivational letter.

Phase 2

Auditions

 

Two available options:

 

  • Online: 7 and 8 of October 2023,
  • In person at Forum Dança: 9 and 10th of October 2023,
  • Interviews: 11th and 12th of October 2023 (online).

 

Phase Two Results

All candidates will be contacted via email by the 18th of October 2023.

Tuition fees

  • Registration: 150€,
  • Payment in full of tuition: 1900€,
  • Payment in two instalments: 975€ x 2.

 

Please do not let financial concerns prevent you from applying.

If the tuition is a cause of concern for you, please include a letter in your application explaining your financial situation.

Scholarships

There are a few scholarships available:

 

  • 2 scholarships offering a 50% reduction of the tuition fees,
  • 1 scholarship offering 100% reduction of the tuition fees, aimed at artists from Portuguese Speaking African Countries or Black artists,

 

Other support suggestions:

 

  • Artists residing in Portugal are eligible for up to 50% reduction of the tuition fees through scholarships given out by the GDA Foundation (In cases where the applicant is a member of the GDA this increases up to 75%);
  • Artists residing in countries that are part of Creative Europe may apply for the Culture Moves Europe program.

 

Please do not let financial concerns prevent you from applying.
If the tuition is a cause of concern for you, please include a letter in your application explaining your financial situation.

Schedule

Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm.

This timetable is only indicative and may suffer alterations.

A detailed calendar of the course will be sent to the selected group.

Application – until September 10

Form

Applications are now closed.

Curatorship

Miguel Pereira

Forum Dança | PACAP 7 - Miguel Pereira
Miguel Pereira

Miguel Pereira, attended The National Conservatory Dance School and the Higher School of Dance (ESD), in Lisbon.

He received a scholarship from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture to continue his studies in Paris (Théâtre Contemporain de la Danse) and in New York.

As a performer Miguel worked with, among others, Filipa Francisco, Francisco Camacho and Vera Mantero. He was part of the theatre play and film “António um rapaz de Lisboa” by Jorge Silva Melo, worked with Jerôme Bel in the piece “Shirtologia/Miguel” in 1997, and as a performer in “Les Inconsolés” by Alain Buffard, in the remake of 2017.

Of his choreographic work special mention goes to: the esteemed work “Antonio Miguel” for which he received the Revelation Prize José Ribeiro da Fonte/Ministry of Culture and an honour for the prize of Acarte/Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão (2000), “Notes for an invisible show” (2001), the performance that is only announced by date and place (2002), “Corpo de Baile” (2005), “Karima meets Lisboa meets Miguel meets Cairo” a collaboration with the Egyptian choreographer Karima Mansour (2006), “Doo” (2008), “Antonio & Miguel” (2010) a collaboration with Antonio Tagliarini, “Op. 49” (2012), “WILDE” (2013) a collaboration with Jorge Andrade/mala voadora, “Repertoire for chairs, costumes, and extras” (2015) for Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte and “Piece for business” and “Happy piece” (2017), “Era um peito só cheio de promessas” (2019), “False Friends” (2021) a collaboration with Guillem Mont de Palol, and “Miquelina and Miguel” (2022) based on the relationship between Miguel and his mother, of 87 years of age diagnosed with dementia.

In 2003, 2007 and 2014 Miguel created for the repertoire of Transitions Dance Company/Laban Centre the pieces “Transitions”, “Transitions II” and “Transitions III” that integrated the national and international tour of the company (2003/2004, 2007/2008 and 2014/2015).

His work has been shown across Europe and Brazil, Uruguay and Chile and in 2003 he was the subject of a mini-retrospective in Caldas da Rainha, as part of the cycle “Mapas”” organized by Transforma-AC in collaboration with ESTGAD.

Miguel is regularly invited to teach in composition labs and workshops in Portugal and abroad.

In 2000 Vera Mantero, invited him to become an associated artist of the company O Rumo do Rumo, which he continues to be involved in.

Nuno Lucas

Forum Dança | PACAP 7 - Nuno Lucas
Nuno Lucas

Nuno Lucas. Born in Portugal, Nuno now lives between Paris, Lisbon and Seoul.

He works as a choreographer, actor, author, dancer and teacher. From an early age Nuno began taking part in amateur theatre groups where he discovered a love for comedy. He began his musical studies at the age of eight on the Island of Madeira and later went on to study at the musical conservatory in Caldas da Rainha where he studied classical guitar and singing. Nuno moved to Lisbon in 1998 where he got a Master’s in Economics from the Nova University of Lisbon. It was during his studies that he got his debut working with choreographer Miguel Pereira at the Dona Maria II National Theatre in 2001. He would later be invited by João Fiadeiro to begin working on his first works as a choreographer at LAB10 in 2003.

Pesquisa e Criação Coerográfica at Forum Dança (2003) stands out amongst Nuno’s training as a choreographer as well as EXERCE at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier (2007) under the tutelage of Mathilde Monnier and Xiavier le Roy which he attended as recipient of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian bursary.

As an actor and dancer Nuno collaborated with several artists such as: Joris Lacoste, Philippe Quesne, Miguel Pereira, Rita Nunes, Leonardo Mouramateus, Ivana Müller, Jorge Andrade (Mala Voadora), João Fiadeiro.

As a solo artist he created the following works: “Self-portrait as a dancer” and “What can be shown cannot be said” (2007 – Festival Ùzes, France); “I Could Write a Song” (2015 – Théâtre de Vanves, France).

Nuno has also collaborated and co-created the following works with the following artists: Hermann Heisig “Pongo Land” (2008 – Théâtre L’usine, Switzerland); “What comes up, Must go up” (2009 – Festival Tanz im August, Germany) and “Schwerkraft leicht gemacht” (2019 – Schillertheater, Germany); with Márcia Lança “Trompe le Monde” (2010 – Culturgest) and “Por esse Mundo Fora” (2016 – Teatro Maria Matos); with Pieter Frédéric Danos & Geoffrey Carey “Ma vie va changer” (2019 – Festival Circular); with Joana Brandão, Paulo Quedas, Aurélien Vieira Lino and Hugo Coelho “Eu Cá, Tu Lá” (2022 – LU.CA Teatro Luís de Camões).

Nuno’s work has been shown in Portugal, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Romania, Spain, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Argentina and South Korea.
He regularly teaches composition and performance in several countries, for adults as well as children.

Participants

Beatriz Baião (PT), Carlota Mantecón (ES), Damien Najean (FR), Giulia Romitelli (IT), Guillermina Gancio (UY), Hernie Harmon (DE), Jakob von Kietzell (DE), Joana Duvet (PT), Katerina Giannouli (GR), Luna Anaïs (CH), Marina de Moraes (BR), Marusya Byzova (RU), Maud Buckenmeyer (FR), Minjin Lee (KR), Renan Capivara (BR) and Sérgio Diogo Matias (PT).

PACAP 7 Activities

Top image credits: Miguel Pereira © Fernanda Ruiz | Nuno Lucas © Rita França.

Support and Partnerships

PACAP 7 co-producer:  Teatro do Bairro Alto.

PACAP 7 co-producer in Residency: O Espaço do Tempo

PACAP 7 support: Alkantara, Casa da Dança – Almada, Fundação GDA, OPART, E.P.E./Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Rumo do Fumo and Piscina.

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