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Forum Dança - Workshop Butoh 2023 - Yael Karavan

29 November, 2022

Workshop Butoh
Yael Karavan

21 and 22 of January | 11h00 – 17h00

Butoh and Metamorphoses – the Poetry of Images

“Inside this one body, there are various mythic things that are still sleeping intact… The work is how to excavate them…” – Tatsumi Hijikata, founder of Butoh

Poetic imagery is one of the greatest powers of Butoh dance. Exploring the present body, empty body, body as a vessel and the transformation of our physical states thanks to images.

Butoh is an avant-garde dance of transformation created at the end of the 50 in Japan. Butoh is not a technique but a method and philosophy, an approach to dance that is born within us and connects us to our essence, nature, universe and the cycles of life and death.

The main elements that will be explored in the workshop are metamorphoses, dance through imagery, presence, awareness, and the tension between opposites. The aim is to free the body from its mundane preconceived set of gestures and movements and thus allowing us to access a deeper and more authentic essence of movement and archetypal expression. Questioning how Butoh can be translated into a European Body and why is Butoh not just relevant but extremely vital nowadays.

Yael Karavan has more than 25 years of experience in Butoh, during which he had the opportunity to work with the founders of Butoh in Japan: Kazuo Ohno and Motofuji San – wife of Tatsumi Hijikata – as well as with Tadashi Endo and the MAMU dance theatre, Yumiko Yoshioka and Ten-Pen-Chi, Sankai Juku, Atsushi Takenuchi, Minako Seki, Carlota Ikeda, Yuko Kawamoto, Akira Kasai, Natsu Nakajuma among others.

Foto © Anna Warner

General Information

Dates: 21 and 22 of January 2023
Schedule: From 11h00 to 17h00
Venue: Forum Dança – Espaço da Penha, Lisboa
Recipients: Professionals, students, and people with previous experience in movement, dance and/or theater.
Maximum number of participants: 20

Pre-registration

Registration is carried out using the form available on our website and will be validated after receipt of proof of payment, which you should send to our email.

Procedure

Make your pre-registration online in the form indicated for this purpose.
Wait for our email with payment instructions.
Proceed with the payment of your registration, as indicated in the email sent.
Send us the proof of payment to our email.
Your registration will only be validated after we receive your proof of payment.

Participation fee

Early bird until January 14: 75,00 €
Normal price after January 14: 85,00 €
10% discount for:
- Students and former students of Forum Dança’s long-term courses (PACAP / CGPAE / PEPCC / etc.).

Bio

Yael Karavan

International performer, dancer and Artistic director of the Karavan Ensemble, Yael was born in Israel and grew up in Florence, Paris and London. In her dance research she travelled across Europe, Japan, Russia and Brazil searching for a physical language of expression bridging between East and West dance and theatre. Her work is often described as visual poetry, drawing on elements of Butoh, dance, mime, clown, physical and visual theatre she explores themes of Memory, Metamorphosis, the invisible and the notion of repetitive cycles, as well as current urgent socio-political issues such as climate change, immigration, diversity and inequality. Karavan’s work is presented worldwide in theatres, galleries and museums, often in a site-specific context. She studied and worked with Butoh masters such as Kazuo Ohno, Tadashi Endo, Carlotta Ikeda, Yumiko Yoshioka, Akiko Motofuji, Ko Morobushi, Natsu Nakajima, Akira Kasai, Yuko Kaseki, Minako Seki, Atsushi Takenuchi and sankai Juku amongst others. She was a member of Tadashi Endo’s MA-MU Dance Theatre for nearly 8 years and of Ten-Pen-Chi led by Yumiko Yoshioka for 3 years and has been teaching workshops internationally since 1999.

More informations: www.yaelkaravan.com

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11 October, 2022

Experimental
Erotica Laboratories

Experimental Erotica Laboratories
14 and 21 October, 18h-20h

Free Workshop gratuito | Registrations are open

Participation is free, with prior registration to our email.

This laboratory will be supervised by Katarina Lanier and is part of the research process she is developing within the scope of her artistic residency “Dances of Desire”, taking place at Forum Dança.

“The purpose of these laboratories is to open up the material I have been investigating in the context of the creation of my piece Call Me Three Times, developed within PACAP 5. *
Over the next few weeks of residency, I aim to pull out materials from the constructed piece, blow them up, touch their edges, and dislocate the erotic elements I was focused on sharing as completed images.” – Katarina Lanier

About the workshop

The labs will be divided into two parts: one body (which could be considered a warm-up) which will lead to a video exploration with the use of devices we have available (cell phones, cameras, computers, etc.)
During the two sessions, we will be engaged in individual and collective body practices with the goal of opening up the participants to sensations and their potential expressions. We will use these body practices and the conversations around them to experiment with their translation into short videos focused on producing desire, poetics, and attraction.
This laboratory is welcome to everybody.
Please come in loose clothing to move, and a few objects/elements that you consider to be potentially erotic (possible examples: songs that make you want to dance, clothes that make you want to touch yourself, objects that make you want to touch others, etc.)

Bio
Katarina Lanier (EUA). Bosnian-American / dancer-baker-video-maker. She has a degree in Dance from Université Paris 8 and a master’s in visual arts from Haute École des Arts du Rhin in 2020. She has a background in philosophy, dance and social sciences. Her interests lie in collaborative processes, in the possible relationships between image production and body practices and experimental uses of social codes.

*Performing Arts Advanced Programme, curated by João Fiadeiro in collaboration with Márcia Lança, Carolina Campos, and Daniel Pizamiglio and promoted by Forum Dança.

Stretch and Placing- Klein Technique™ - Forum Dança

21 September, 2022

Stretch and Placement
– Klein Technique™

With Gisela Dória

Member of the Klein Technique™ Training Program

Thursday | 18h00-19h20

From October 6 to November 24, 2022

“Klein Technique™ is an ongoing process of discovery. It requires a constant articulation of theoretical information and experiential practice. Like nature, it is ordered and infinite in its discovery. The goal of Klein Technique™ is education at a deep level of understanding the total use of the body to maximize each individual’s unique movement potential. It is a technique that honors the individual. It aims to teach movement from the individual perspective of internal knowledge and understanding. Students at all levels of Klein Technique™ practice will gain insight into their movement patterns and habits and gain a greater internal understanding of their bodies.

It is a process-oriented practice of great value to people of all proficiency levels, dancers and non-dancers alike.

In this workshop we will work from simple exercises and slow stretches that seek to align our bone architecture so we can find connection with our deeper postural support musculature. Because these muscles are intimately connected to the bones, they are also intimately related to movement. Klein Technique™ is a deep and ongoing investigation aimed at bringing learning, good positioning, stretching, strengthening and healing to the body in a connected and integrated way.”

/ Gisela Dória

Bio

Gisela Dória (BR) is a choreographer, researcher, teacher and dancer. Graduated in London from the College of the Royal Academy of Dance, she has a specialization in Pilates from CGPA/ SP and from the Kane School in New York. She is trained in GYROKINESIS® and is a member of the Klein Technique® Certification program. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon. She holds a PhD in Performing Arts from the Institute of Arts at Unicamp, Brazil.

Stretch and Placing- Klein Technique™ - Forum Dança | Gisela Doria

Gisela Doria © Gustavo Vicente

Pre-registration

Registration is carried out through the form available on our website and will be validated after receipt of proof of payment, which you must send to our email.

Recipients: For people of all proficiency levels, amateurs and professionals.

Maximum number of participants: 20 people

Registration process

Pre-register online using the form provided bellow.
Wait for our email with payment instructions.
Pay your registration, as indicated in the email sent.
Send us the respective payment receipt to our email.
Your registration will only be validated after we receive your proof of payment.

Participation fee

8 classes: 70,00 € (October 16 to November 24, 2022)
4 classes: 40,00 €

Single classes: 12,00 €/each

Discount: 10% students and former students of Forum Dança courses.

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Palestra "A Minha História da Dança", por Susan Klein

8 September, 2022

My Dance History,
by Susan Klein

September 29, at 6h30 p.m.
Estúdios Victor Córdon • Lisbon

Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, upon registration in the following form available .

Bio

Susan Klein has been developing and teaching Klein Technique™ since 1972 teaching in daily classes New York City at her studio, The Susan Klein School of Movement and Dance, and during the last two years of the pandemic of Covid-19 on Zoom. Since 1989 she has been traveling throughout the world teaching intensive workshops in Klein Technique™.

Klein Technique™ is a result of a serious knee injury and developed out of Susan’s personal journey to get well. It serves as a way for people to work through their individual injuries, to understand and improve the workings of their bodies, to heal themselves and become better dancers. Her main influences in developing her work are Irmgard Bartenieff, Dr. Fritz Smith, and Professor J. R. Worsley.

Susan has a private practice as a Movement Therapist, Certified Zero Balancer, Senior Zero Balancing Teacher, and Traditional 5 Element Worsley Style Acupuncturist, L.Ac., B.Ac.(UK), M.Ac.,(USA), Dipl. Ac.(NCCAOM)

For more information: www.kleintechnique.com

Photo ©

About the lecture cycle “My Dance History”

“All of us, dancers, choreographers or performers, have received in some way and by some route, more academic or more self-taught, an idea of the History of Dance, or the History of the Performing Arts, from which we feel “descended” (and perhaps we feel descended from several Histories at the same time!). There were certainly choreographic or scenic creators who made us understand the art we make the way we understand it today. Each one has a specific idea of how that History unfolded, and for each one there are certain creators and certain movements and artistic currents that contributed to configure the idea of dance that you have and practice and that, in some way, is responding to that History. These lectures will give us the opportunity to know the History of Dance that each one has created within themselves.”
Vera Mantero

Participants
Participants in My Dance History: Ana Borralho & João Galante, André Lepecki, António Pinto Ribeiro, Christine de Smedt, Clara Andermatt, Cláudia Dias, Eszter Salamon, Gil Mendo, Gustavo Ciríaco, Francisco Camacho, Jennifer Lacey, Jeroen Peeters, João Fiadeiro, Joclécio Azevedo, La Ribot, Lia Rodrigues, Lisa Nelson, Loïc Touzé, Madalena Victorino, Marcela Levi, Marcelo Evelin, Mark Tompkins, Meg Stuart, Mette Edvardsen, Miguel Pereira, Nadia Lauro, Olga Roriz, Panaibra Gabriel Canda, Rui Horta, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz, Sónia Baptista, Vânia Rovisco, Vera Mantero, Xavier Le Roy.

The lecture series My Dance History is a project developed since 2011 by O Rumo do Fumo and Forum Dança. The project, initially implemented in Lisbon, was also presented in Viseu, Funchal and Barcelona, in partnership with: Teatro Viriato, Dançando com a Diferença and La Poderosa. The cycle has been hosted by: Edifício (LX Factory), Espaço da Penha, Lisbon Library Network and Victor Córdon/OPART Studios.

Rumo do Fumo and Forum Dança are structures financed by the Portuguese Republic – Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts. Project supported by the program contract with the Lisbon City Council / Municipal Directorate of Culture / Division of the Library Network.

1 August, 2022

Regular Classes
2022/23 Registration

Beginning on September 19
Registration from August 15th

This next school year, Forum Dança’s regular studio classes, for adults and children, will start earlier and start on the 19th of September.

For this reason, enrollment for the 2022/23 academic year will open on the 15th of August.

As usual, you can pre-register online, simply fill out the form available on our website and make the respective payment.

Your registration will be validated as soon as we receive proof of payment, which you should send to our email forumdanca@forumdanca.pt.

You should read all the information that we have made available on our website, as well as consult our General Regulation to be aware of all the conditions.

Registration process

Pre-register online using the form provided bellow.
Wait for our email with payment instructions.
Pay your registration, as indicated in the email sent.
Send the respective payment receipt to our email.
Your registration will only be validated after we receive your proof of payment.

Children

Extracurricular activities can (and should) include other forms of knowing-doing, such as developing bodily expression through dance, to stimulate the creativity of the younger ones in an alternative way.

As part of the regular training aimed at groups of different ages and levels of knowledge, Forum Dança will be holding various creative dance and contemporary dance activities for children throughout the school year. The trial class is free.

See the General Regulation for more information

PRE-REGISTRATION ON-LINE

Adults

Forum Dança’s regular classes at Espaço da Penha address the diverse facets of interpretation and movement.

Contemporary Dance and Choreographic Laboratory for adults are, at different times, guided by a teaching body constantly doing artistic research and combined with effective pedagogical strategies.

See the General Regulation for more information.

PRE-REGISTRATION ON-LINE

REGULAR STUDIO CLASSES | TIMETABLE AND PRICES

Timetables | 2022/23 School Year

17h45 – 18h30

Creative Dance | 3/5 y.o.

Maria Radich

18h30 – 19h30

Contemporary Dance | 6/9 y.o.

Maria Radich

19h00 – 20h30

From Body to Body | Interdisciplinary Movement Practices

Gisela Dória

19h30 – 21h30

Contemporary Dance

Josefa Pereira
Alina Ruiz Folini
Bárbara Faustino
Natália Mendonça

19h30 – 21h30
Choreographic Laboratory

Maria Ramos

19h30 – 21h30

Contemporary Dance

Josefa Pereira
Alina Ruiz Folini
Bárbara Faustino
Natália Mendonça

Registration Fee | 2022/23 School Year

25 € (Normal Fee)
15 € (Former Student) (2)
15 € (Resident at Penha de França) (1)

15 € (Normal Fee)
10 € (Former Student) (2)
10 € (Resident at Penha de França) (1)

10 € – equal value for all users: former students and/or residents of Penha de França.

Monthly Fees | 2022/23 School Year

1x/week – 40 €

2x/week – 50 €

3x/week – 60 €

4x/week – 70 €

Experimental Class – 7 € (4)

1x/week – 30 €

Experimental Class – Free of Charge

1x/week – 35 €

Experimental Class – Free of Charge

NOTES

(1) – Upon presentation of proof of address.

(2) – Former students of Forum Dança’s long-term courses (PACAP, CDC or CGPAE) and students of Regular Classes attended in the immediately preceding academic year.

(3) – Renewal: when regular attendance at classes is interrupted, for one or more months, in the same academic year, and then you wish to resume regular attendance.

(4) – The amount will be deducted from the Registration Fee.

10 Trabalhos | Forum Dança/PACAP 5 - Bloco III | No TBA de 15 a 24 Julho

6 July, 2022

10 Works

Forum Dança / PACAP 5

15-24 July | TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto

FREE ENTRANCE | More information at Teatro do Bairro Alto website, here

After R|EXISTÊNCIA last December, PACAP 5 – an artistic training programme by Forum Dança curated by João Fiadeiro – returns to TBA to present the individual projects of the students/researchers. They will use the tools developed and tested in the early stages of the course, attempting to match the initial question-affect with this public gesture. It is often only when the gesture is concluded and becomes public that we clearly see if what we have said/done is exactly what we wanted to say/do. It rarely is. And that is a good thing.

Conception Andrei Bessa, Bruno Levorin, Francisco Thiago, Katarina Lanier, Leonor Lopes, Leonor Mendes, Nazario Díaz, Nicole Gomes, Roberto Dagô, Ves Liberta
Artistic counsel João Fiadeiro, Carolina Campos and Daniel Pizamiglio
Light design Leticia Skrycky e Santiago Rodriguez Tricot
Technical direction Leticia Skrycky and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot
Produced by Forum Dança
Coproduced by Teatro do Bairro Alto
Photography Lucas Damiani

DATE AND PLACE OF PRESENTATION
Teatro do Bairro Alto

Fri 15, Sat 16 and Sun 17 Jul
Fri 22, Sat 23 and Sun 24 Jul

Times to be announced

More info about TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto here

PROGRAME

July 15/16/17

Katarina Lanier (US) – Call Me Three Times | 35′

Leonor Lopes (PT) – FEARFANFIC | 40′

Leonor Mendes (PT) – até amanhẽ | 35′

Nazario Díaz (ES) – Amanecer. Alto. Cielo. | 55′

Nicole Gomes (BR) – Cinza | 60′

July 22/23/24

Andrei Bessa (BR) – Projeto Urso-Unicórnio | 35′

Bruno Levorin (BR) – olhar para os olhos de quem anda | 50′

Francisco Thiago (BR) – TAMBÉM SE MATAM CAVALOS | 60′

Roberto Dagô (BR) – TEMPESTADE EM CORPO D’ÁGUA | 35′

Ves Liberta (PT) – enquanto me lago | 45′

For more information and timetables, consult the TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto website.

10 Trabalhos | PACAP 5 – Bloco III

Forum Dança | PACAP 5 - Bloc 2 Presentations | Giovanna Monteiro | Nazario Díaz | Roberto Dagô

PACAP 5 Activities

Support and Partnerships

Coproduction PACAP 5: TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto

PACAP 5 support: O Rumo do Fumo, Alkantara, OPART | Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Espaço do Tempo, Fundação GDA, Piscina

Palestra "A Minha História da Dança", por Rui Horta

24 May, 2022

My Dance History,
by Rui Horta

June 23 at 6:30 pm
Galveias Palace Library • Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, upon registration in the following form available .

Bio

Born in Lisbon, Rui Horta began dancing at the age of 17 in ballet courses at the Ballet Gulbenkian, having later lived for several years in New York, the city where he completed his training and developed his career as a performer and teacher. In 84 he returned to Lisbon, being one of the most important drivers of a new generation of Portuguese dancers and choreographers.

During the 90’s he lived in Germany where he directed the SOAP Dance Theater Frankfurt, his work being considered a reference of European dance and presented in the most important theaters and festivals around the world, namely at the Thêatre de la Vile, which co-produced his work over a decade.

In 2000 he returned to Portugal, having founded “O Espaço do Tempo” in Montemor-o-Novo, a multidisciplinary center for residencies and artistic experimentation.

In addition to his intense work as an independent creator, Rui Horta created, as a guest artist, a vast repertoire for renowned companies such as the Cullberg Ballet, the Gulbenkian Ballet, the Grand Ballet de l’Opera de Genéve, the Marseille, the Netherlands Dance Theatre, the Gothenburg Opera Dance Company, Icelandic Ballet, Scottish Dance Theatre, Random Dance, Carte Blanche, Ballet am Gartner Platz, Ballet de Roubaix, Ballet of the Opera of Linz, Ballet of the Opera of Nuremberg, Tanzmainz, &c.

Throughout his career he received important awards and distinctions such as the Grand Prix de Bagnolet, the Bonnie Bird Award, the Deutsche Produzent Preis, the Acarte Award, the Almada Award, the degree of Officer of the Ordem do Infante, the degree of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, by the French Ministry of Culture.

His choreographic creation has been classified as Heritage of German Dance. In the performing arts, his work as a director extends to theatre, opera, the new circus, and experimental music, as well as being a light designer and multimedia researcher, a universe he frequently uses in his works.

About the lecture cycle “My Dance History”

“All of us, dancers, choreographers or performers, have received in some way and by some route, more academic or more self-taught, an idea of the History of Dance, or the History of the Performing Arts, from which we feel “descended” (and perhaps we feel descended from several Histories at the same time!). There were certainly choreographic or scenic creators who made us understand the art we make the way we understand it today. Each one has a specific idea of how that History unfolded, and for each one there are certain creators and certain movements and artistic currents that contributed to configure the idea of dance that you have and practice and that, in some way, is responding to that History. These lectures will give us the opportunity to know the History of Dance that each one has created within themselves.”
Vera Mantero

2 May, 2022

Arte Jovem 2022

Our Art Workshops are back!

Dance, Voice, Music, Theater and Video for children from 7 to 12 years old.

We finally return to Arte Jovem and the activities that mark the beginning of the summer holidays.

With these artistic workshops you will be able to learn, create, think, interpret and share creative experiences with new friends.

This year’s activities will have Sound, Music and Silence as their theme and we will count on the help of the book “Alto, Baixo, Num Sussurro”, by Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv, from the Orfeu Mini collection, by the publisher Orfeu Negro.

At the end of the week, you’ll show your family and friends everything you’ve learned while playing, in a small presentation.

Activities from 4th to 8th of July

Dance and Voice with MARIA RADICH (from 10:15 am to 11:15 am)
Music with NUNO CINTRÃO (from 11:45 to 13:00)
Theater with MANUELA PEDROSO and Video with JOÃO PINTO (from 2:30 pm to 5:15 pm)

Important informations

Arte Jovem takes place from the 4th to the 8th of July, with activities between 10:15 and 17:15.
The age group of the participants is between 7 and 12 years old.
All participants must have completed at least the 1st year of compulsory school education.
We welcome participants from 9:30 am and they can stay until 6:30 pm.
Every day there will be a break for lunch and play, which takes place between 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm.
Participants bring lunch and snacks from home (don’t forget: bring cutlery too). Forum Dança ensures the heating of meals and monitoring of children/young people.
Friday, July 8th at 5:00 pm: invitation to family members to attend the presentation of the work developed throughout the week.

Participation Fee

Full day – €130.00
Morning periods – €75.00 (midday)
Afternoon periods – €75.00 (half-day)

Discount

Minus 10% for siblings, residents of Penha de França and Forum Dança students in the current academic year (2021/22).

Registration and more information

Subscriptions to our email.

Activities Calendar

10:15 – 11:15

Dance and Voice Atelier,

with Maria Radich

11:45 – 13:00

Music Atelier,

with Nuno Cintrão

LUNCH AND PLAYGROUND

14:30 – 15:45 / 16:00 – 17:15

Theater and Video Workshops,

With Manuela Pedroso and João Pinto

10:15 – 11:15

Dance and Voice Atelier,

with Maria Radich

11:45 – 13:00

Music Atelier,

with Nuno Cintrão

LUNCH AND PLAYGROUND

14:30 – 15:45 / 16:00 – 17:15

Theater and Video Workshops,

With Manuela Pedroso and João Pinto

10:15 – 11:15

Dance and Voice Atelier,

with Maria Radich

11:45 – 13:00

Music Atelier,

with Nuno Cintrão

LUNCH AND PLAYGROUND

14:30 – 15:45 / 16:00 – 17:15

Theater and Video Workshops,

With Manuela Pedroso and João Pinto

10:15 – 11:15

Dance and Voice Atelier,

with Maria Radich

11:45 – 13:00

Music Atelier,

with Nuno Cintrão

LUNCH AND PLAYGROUND

14:30 – 15:45 / 16:00 – 17:15

Theater and Video Workshops,

With Manuela Pedroso and João Pinto

10:15 – 11:15

Dance and Voice Atelier,

with Maria Radich

11:45 – 13:00

Music Atelier,

with Nuno Cintrão

LUNCH AND PLAYGROUND

14:30 – 15:45 / 16:00 – 17:00

Theater and Video Workshops,

With Manuela Pedroso and João Pinto

17:00

Final presentation.

ARTE JOVEM 2022

About the book

“Alto, Baixo, num Sussurro

by Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv

BOLOGNA RAGGAZZI AWARD 2018 | non-fiction

“Where is music born? What is a decibel? What does an acoustic engineer, a DJ or a sound designer do? How do people who cannot hear any sound communicate? Here is the illustrated encyclopedia that today’s readers, students, teachers or just lovers of music and the invisible world of sounds were missing. Alto, Baixo, Num Sussurro tells us about the different sounds that exist, but also about the importance of silence, and of listening and listening to the other. Often without using words.”

ORIGINAL TITLE голосно, тихо, пошепки / Loudly, Soflty, in a Whisper

TRANSLATION FROM ENGLISH João Berhan

COLLECTION Orfeu Mini

EDITION YEAR 2018 | PP No. 64 | FORMAT 26.5 x 28.5 cm | EAN 978989886833

Book cover "Alto, Baixo, Num Sussurro"

Buy the book

Teachers

João Pinto

João Pinto, (aka PTV), director, editor & image manipulator.

Completed the film school in 1993.

With a path always linked to the image:

He has collaborated with numerous creators in the field of contemporary dance, music, theater and cinema;
He promoted his works and signed many original video creations;
He carried out video art projects, documentaries and video clips;
Pioneer of videojamming (VJ) from 1996 to the present.

Participated in educational and innovative art projects in public schools:

Respira Project (2009/10);
Arte Jovem: Video/theatre workshops for children and teenagers (Fórum Dança 2003/20) in partnership with Manuela Pedroso.

He has worked on several development and social inclusion projects with minorities:

Alkantara Festival and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2008/11.

Manuela Pedroso

Manuela Pedroso © Estelle Valente

Manuela Pedroso, graduated in Theater (Actors and Directors) by ESTC, in Lisbon. She attended the Dance Monitors for the Community Course organized by Fórum Dança, in 1992/93.

Trainer accredited by the Scientific Pedagogical Council for Continuing Education, University of Minho.

She has worked since 1986 as a professional actress in several theater companies (Teatro Espaço, Teatro da Malaposta, Teatro do Século, Teatro Meridional, Casa Conveniente, among others), having been directed by the following directors: Águeda Sena, José Martins, Figueira Cid, Rui Mendes , Mário Feliciano, Inês Câmara Pestana, Miguel Seabra, Layla Ripol, Mónica Calle, Inês Barahona and Giacomo Scalisi.

She participated as an interpreter in the area of Dance in choreographic projects by Margarida Pinto Coelho, Paulo Henrique and Madalena Victorino.

She has worked since 1991 as a trainer in the field of Theater and Creative Dance with several official entities promoting artistic education in Portugal: Primary and Secondary Schools, Professional School of Education for Development, Grupo de Teatro da Nova, Lisbon City Council, City Council de Cascais, C.E.N.T.A., Casa de Serralves, Forum Dança, Centro Cultural de Belém, A.P.C.C., Teatro Aveirense, Teatro Viriato, Artemrede.

She has been working as a storyteller since 2003, collaborating with the Livraria “Ler para quer”, General Direction of Books and Libraries, Teatro Maria Matos, Casa das Histórias – Museu Paula Rego, among other institutions.

Maria Radich

Maria Radich is a singer, choreographer and dancer devoted to transdisciplinarity, who has been working in the field of improvised music, working simultaneously in dance and theater, as a choreographer for her own shows or working with other creators.

With a background in performance, dance and choreography, she gradually began to explore the fertile intersections between dance, music and theatre.

She attended music workshops with Nuno Rebelo, Carlos Zíngaro, José Menezes and Paulo Curado, singing lessons with Cristina de Castro (2004) and Barbara do Canto Lagido (2006) and voice workshops with specialists such as Ute Wassermann, Inês Nogueira, Luís Castanheira , Margarida Mestre and Sonia Gómez.

Nuno Cintrão

Nuno Cintrão, Musician, Guitarist, Composer, Performer. He divides his professional activity between performance and education. Its artistic and pedagogical activity has been guided by the search for points of contact between different forms of artistic and creative expression and the realization of projects in different contexts.

He is interested in the experimentation and construction of sound objects and the design of collaborative and multidisciplinary shows. He has a degree in classical guitar from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa and in Music Education from the Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa. In 2017 he completed the Master in Music Teaching at ISEIT-Almada.

Throughout his career he has had the opportunity to collaborate with artists from different areas of artistic expression. Since 2010, he has been composing music for theater, video and dance, having collaborated with several companies and artists. Of these collaborations, Byfurcação Teatro, Companhia da Esquina, Musgo, Créme de La Créme and Aldara Bizarro stand out.

He has conceived and performed workshops, training courses and shows with various entities, including: Fábrica das Artes-CCB, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Associação Portuguesa de Música nos Hospitals, Fórum Dança, Fundação do Gil, Operação Nariz Vermelho, CFMI-Universidade March Bloch Strasbourg, APEM-Portuguese Association of Music Education.

He was part of the project “Music in Hospitals” with which he worked as a musician and trainer until 2013, performing musical interventions in Hospitals and different social institutions.

He divides his interest between the guitar and other sound objects, looking for his musical language in the universe of improvised and experimental music, passing through world music, classical, jazz and rock.

As a guitarist he has collaborated with different projects, among which are: Trama, Ana Barroso and more recently with Teresa Salgueiro (ex-Madredeus).

In addition to Portugal, he had the opportunity to present his projects in Cape Verde, Macau, Belgium, Hungary, Germany, Brazil, Italy and Spain.

Forum Dança - PACAP 5 | Workshops Abertos

28 April, 2022

PACAP 5 | Bloc 3
Open Workshops

Block III: Individual investigation processes of each participant

WORKSHOPS within the scope of PACAP 5 open to external students.

About the workshops

“During the course of the third bloc of PACAP 5, the participants will be visited by five artists – Gustavo Sumpta, Mette Edvardsen, Eleonora Fabião and the duo Luara Raio/Acauã El Bandide Sereya – who will share with the group their composition processes and strategies for the development of their projects. They are artists who share similar premises in the relationship they develop with the artistic gesture, especially in terms of their work ethic and radical commitment to the present. They also have in common a critical position in relation to their disciplines, not letting themselves be captured by any kind of artificial and manipulative cataloging. We make sure that they were artists who were quite different from each other, both at the formal level and at the geographical and generational level.” – PACAP 5 curatorial team

Guest artists and dates

16 to 20 May | 10 am to 1 pm – Mette Edvardsen;
30 May to 3 June | 10 am to 1 pm – Luara Raio & Acauã El Bandide Sereya;
13 to 17 June | 10 am to 1 pm – Gustavo Sumpta;
27 June to 1 July | 10 am to 2 pm – Eleonora Fabião;

Registration and more information

Limited spots.
Subscriptions to our email.
Participation fee: €70 per workshop.
10% discount for students and alumni of long-term courses at Forum Dança (PACAP/CGPAE/PEPCC).

PACAP 5 Activities

Support and Partnerships

PACAP 5 Coproduction: Teatro do Bairro Alto

PACAP 5 Support: O Rumo do Fumo, Alkantara, OPART | Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Espaço do Tempo, Fundação GDA, Piscina

23 April, 2022

Pelvic
Dance

With Luiza Cascon

From 9:30 am to 10:30 am on the following dates

May: 3, 5, 10, 12, 24, 26
June: 7, 9, 21, 23

“PELVIC DANCE arises from the investigation of pelvic movements through dance and body awareness practices. In this workshop we will work on the mobility of the pelvis and the activation of energy flows that are directly linked to creativity and sexuality.
The pelvic area was our first home, and the origin of life. Dancing with the hips is, in many cultures, a ritual to celebrate fertility, as well as the cycles of life. Unfortunately, in patriarchal society, this area of the body is seen as a taboo, and little is taught about self-care with our health and sexuality in general.
Through somatic practices, music and DANCE of different styles, we activate the awareness of our body as a house that houses our stories, emotions and patterns. Through dance we access pleasure and joy in movement, and let the vital energy flow through the body, from the inside out.
Anyone can participate in the classes, regardless of gender, age or previous experience with movement practices.”

/ Luiza Cascon

General information

Recipients: For people of all proficiency levels, amateurs and professionals.

Maximum number of participants: 20 people

Registration: Participation in these classes is completely free and is open to all types of publics. It will only be necessary to register in advance, sending your request with the days you want to attend to our email.

Bio

Luiza Cascon is a dance artist, massage therapist, doula and DJ. She was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and has lived in Lisbon since 2017. She studied Fine Arts, Dance and Ayurvedic Massage, and recently completed her training as a Doula.

She created the PELVIC DANCE project in 2020, where she teaches dance classes that work on awareness and mobility of the pelvis and the energetic activation of our creative and sexual center, considering the therapeutic and ritual aspects of dance. This research started two years earlier while she was collaborating on the RABA POWER project in partnership with Flora Mariah.

Its influences are contemporary dance, somatic practices, meditation, yoga, kung fu, twerk, funk, vogue, among others.

She is currently a dancer and creator in the musical shows PLANO V in partnership with singer Joanadágua and VJ Astronauta Mecanico. This project was in residence during the last month of March at Casa Independente (Lisbon), where, in addition to performing their copyright shows, they signed the curatorship and program of the month, composed of queer artists, Afro-descendant women and immigrants.

She collaborates with the carnival group Colombina Clandestina, giving dance classes that aim to prepare the corps de ballet for the carnival parade and other processions in celebration or demonstration events in the streets of Lisbon.

www.luizacascon.com | www.planov.org
Pelvic Dance: Instagram | Facebook

Luiza Cascon

Forum Dança | Workshop Intensivo de Klein Technique™, com Susan Klein e Fabio Tavares

22 April, 2022

Workshop with Susan Klein
Klein Technique™

in collaboration with Fabio Tavares

Estúdios Victor Córdon, Lisbon | Portugal
26 to 30 of September 2022 | 12h00 – 17h00

“In this very special 5-hour workshop in Klein Technique™, Susan Klein (USA) and Fabio Tavares (USA/Brazil) will co-teach this workshop focusing on both the theory and practice of Klein Technique™. Susan will start each day with some movement and then focus on a unique theoretical principle of Klein Technique™ each day. After a break, Fabio will teach a full Stretch and Placement Class. During the classes there will be plenty of time for questions and individual attention.

This workshop will emphasize the pivotal principle of Klein Technique™, the concept of moving from our deepest structural and energetic tissue, the bone, the connections at the level of the bones and how the body coordinates to improve movement and reduce and heal injuries.

Through an interweaving of theory and practice we will work on the muscles of deep postural support: the psoas, the hamstrings, the pelvic floor muscles, and the external rotators. We will work with a body-felt understanding of how these muscles bring the bones into alignment, a place of connectedness, which leads to true power and efficiency of movement. Klein Technique™ is a process-oriented practice of great value to people of all proficiency levels, dancers, and non-dancers alike. Our goal is to teach movement from the individual perspective of internal knowing and understanding. Students of all levels of practice in Klein Technique™ will gain insight into their movement patterns and habits and gain a greater internal understanding of their bodies.

All are welcome. Come! Breathe, Stretch, and Connect with us!!”

/ Susan Klein

General Information

Dates: September 26th-30th 2022
Schedule: From 12:00 to 17:00
Venue: Estúdios Vitor Córdon, Lisbon, PORTUGAL – more info here
Recipients: Professionals, students, and people with previous experience in movement, dance and/or theater.
Maximum number of participants: 25

Covid-19 Notice

It will be necessary to do a rapid antigen test, provided by Forum Dança, only on the first day of the workshop.

Registration

Participation Fee

Pre-registration is made through a form available on our site and will be validated after receipt of proof of payment, which should be sent to our email.

Procedure

Make your pre-registration online in the form indicated for this purpose.
Wait for our email with payment instructions.
Proceed with the payment of your registration, as indicated in the email sent.
Send us the proof of payment to our email.
Your registration will only be validated after we receive your proof of payment.

Early-Bird, until ~~July 30 / 15~~ 29 of August: 300,00 €
Normal price, after ~~July 30 / 15~~ 29 of August: 330,00 €
10% discount for:
- Students and former students of Forum Dança’s long-term courses (PACAP / CGPAE / PEPCC / etc.).
- Participants of the Stretch and Placement – Klein Technique™ sessions led by Gisela Dória currently taking place in Forum Dança.

Bios

Susan Klein

Has been developing and teaching Klein Technique™ since 1972 teaching in daily classes New York City at her studio, The Susan Klein School of Movement and Dance, and during the last two years of the pandemic of Covid-19 on Zoom. Since 1989 she has been traveling throughout the world teaching intensive workshops in Klein Technique™.

For more information: www.kleintechnique.com

Fabio Tavares

A Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. He hasn’t stopped working since. In 1999, Mr. Tavares moved to NYC to study Klein Technique™ with Susan Klein and became a Klein Technique™ Certified Instructor in 2009. He taught weekly Klein Technique™ classes at the Susan Klein School of Movement and Dance and at Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) between 2008-2014.

Mr. Tavares has collaborated and performed with an incredible group of artists including Laurie Anderson, Anne Bogart, Circus Amok, SITI company and the STREB Extreme- Action Company where he danced and taught for over 14 years. He has also taught at Pace University between 2014 and 2017. Mr. Tavares currently teaches the David Geffen School of Drama at the Yale University.

Mr. Tavares’ one-man show, “The Ex-Body,” is based on the text of “The Hamletmachine” by Henier Müller and, since 2010, has been performed in Brazil, Europe and the U.S. in several different festivals.

Mr. Tavares is also an AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher and a certified Zero Balancing practitioner.

For more information: www.healthandpoise.com

Registration form

Palestra "A Minha História da Dança", por Mette Edvardsen

22 April, 2022

My Dance History,
by Mette Edvardsen

May 19 at 6:30 pm
Galveias Palace Library • Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, upon registration in the following form available .

Bio

Mette Edvardsen. Choreographer and performer. Although some of her works explore other media or formats, such as video, books, and writing, Edvardsen’s interest is always in relation to the performing arts as a practice and a situation. She has worked since 1994 as a dancer and performer for a number of companies and projects and develops her own work since 2002. She presents her works internationally and continues to develop projects with other artists, both as a collaborator and as a performer.

A retrospective of her work was presented at Black Box Theatre (Oslo, 2015), and in the focus programme Idiorritmias at MACBA (Barcelona, 2018). Her project “Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine” is ongoing since 2010, was presented twice at Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, 2013 and 2017), Sydney Biennale (2016), Index Foundation (Stockholm, 2019), Oslobiennalen First Edition (2019/2020), Trust & Confusion at Tai Kwun Arts (Hong Kong, 2021), and São Paulo Biennale (2021). Edvardsen will present several pieces at Amant, (New York, 2022), and develop a project in residence at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (Paris 2022/23).

Mette Edvardsen is structurally supported by Norsk Kulturråd (2021/2025) and BUDA Arts Centre Kortrijk (2017/2021). From 2019 to 2021, was an associated artist at Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (France). She is currently finalizing her research as a Phd candidate at Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

www.metteedvardsen.be | www.timehasfallenasleepintheafternoonsunshine.be

About the lecture cycle “My Dance History”

“All of us, dancers, choreographers or performers, have received in some way and by some route, more academic or more self-taught, an idea of the History of Dance, or the History of the Performing Arts, from which we feel “descended” (and perhaps we feel descended from several Histories at the same time!). There were certainly choreographic or scenic creators who made us understand the art we make the way we understand it today. Each one has a specific idea of how that History unfolded, and for each one there are certain creators and certain movements and artistic currents that contributed to configure the idea of dance that you have and practice and that, in some way, is responding to that History. These lectures will give us the opportunity to know the History of Dance that each one has created within themselves.”
Vera Mantero

Participants
Participants in My Dance History: Ana Borralho & João Galante, André Lepecki, António Pinto Ribeiro, Christine de Smedt, Clara Andermatt, Cláudia Dias, Eszter Salamon, Gil Mendo, Gustavo Ciríaco, Francisco Camacho, Jennifer Lacey, Jeroen Peeters, João Fiadeiro, Joclécio Azevedo, La Ribot, Lia Rodrigues, Lisa Nelson, Loïc Touzé, Madalena Victorino, Marcela Levi, Marcelo Evelin, Mark Tompkins, Meg Stuart, Miguel Pereira, Nadia Lauro, Olga Roriz, Panaibra Gabriel Canda, Rui Horta, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz, Sónia Baptista, Vânia Rovisco, Vera Mantero, Xavier Le Roy.

Forum Dança - Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz | PACAP 6 | © Joana Linda

7 April, 2022

PACAP 6
2023

Performing Arts Advanced Programme

Curated by Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz

From February 16 to July 30, 2023

APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED

Open until June 20, 2022

Presentation

In each epoch there are voices coming from the future that demand urgent and necessary changes in the present. The voices that reach us today from the future seem to suffer from that almost mute hoarseness of someone who, for years, repeats the same thing to exhaustion. Despite the countless declinations and formulations, more or less prosaic and poetic, that message from the future comes in a question as simple as this: “if you already know what needs to be done, why don’t you do it?” And it is not the apparent aphonia that makes these voices inaudible, but the voluntary effort to minimize, ignore or postpone them. Camus, in The Myth of Sisyphus, comes to a synthesis that seems to us linked to the root of this deafness “…practical consent and simulated ignorance, (…) makes us live with ideas that, if we actually felt them, should transform our whole lives.” This contradiction between ideas and practice is a fertile place of artistic questioning for what it reveals of the futility of the barriers between the desire for transformation and action or the difficulty of some communities in letting go of the “bone” of privilege, not only over other communities, but over nature itself.

Alongside the unpredictability of what is to come, the obsolescence of some of the tools of thought and action that characterize our society, the voices that announce it, the resistance to hear them, there is a future to be imagined and to which we are already contributing actively or passively. PACAP is one of these places of imagination and experimentation where the circumstances of the world are in dialogue with the specificities and subjectivities of each artist and, therefore, a special place for the debate of our contradictions. The work of each artist communicates more or less directly with the multiple temporalities that constitute reality, influencing and absorbing it, being part of it and sometimes distancing themselves to create parallel worlds that guarantee a critical perspective on what goes on around us. In the curious balance between the particular and the universal, we see how the approach to what is most singular and specific in each artist has the capacity, not infrequently, to affect more people than those who are part of their usual circle. And in these successive affections we contribute to the diversity of imaginaries about the body, identity and relationships.

The PACAP, as a provisional community, is also a place for the composition of relationships between each participant, for the articulation between the individual and the collective, for experimentation with other interaction dynamics that overlap with those of privilege and power, such as care, generosity, attention, collaboration.

The PACAP calls for intensity simply because it is a long-term community. This awareness of the end gives the added energy and urgency needed to spark unusual relationships and excesses that escape control but are indispensable to the imagination. We can use this energy of being together to provoke either a re-centering or a slight shift in our ways of thinking/doing.

For all this, we know that beyond the incredible group of artists we invite to be with us, what makes the PACAP experience unique is the constellation of participants that will integrate this Program. We would like, therefore, to invite 16 people with the desire and the pleasure of experimentation, to imagine with us multiple futures through projects whose starting points can be a simple quality of movement, an urgent and current concept, a banal idea, an intuition to name, an object out of place, or any other thing that provokes the necessary restlessness to create.

Structure

PACAP 6 is structured in five moments:

Moment 1 – Temporary community, from 16 February to 10 March;
Moment 2 – Laboratories, meetings and conversations, from March 13 to May 19;
Moment 3 – Research and Creation, from May 22 to July 2;
Moment 4 – Public Presentation, from the 3rd to the 23rd of July;
Moment 5 – Reflection/feedback, production and finishing, from the 24th to the 29th of July.

Access the tabs to find out more information about each of these moments that make up the program’s structure.

MOMENT 1

Temporary Community

[from February 16 to March 10]

PACAP 6 is a temporary community with a fixed duration of six months. And as a community we need to find ways of coexistence where the combination of the heterogeneities of each artist translates into a greater capacity for action. The way we constitute ourselves as a community, although in large part random and involuntary, depends on particular attention to the composition of relationships so that no way of thinking/doing is disqualified and so that the diversity of perspectives and freedom of action is preserved. This will be an unstable composition in continuous mutation throughout the six months, but to which we dedicate ourselves in this first moment.

Residency
PACAP 6 begins with a six-day residency with Sofia and Vítor. In this residency, we will start by sharing the projects with which each artist applied to this program, as well as their references and personal practices. Simultaneously we will explore a series of methodologies of collaboration and collective reflection in a logic of reciprocity, care, and circulation of ideas.

Laboratory with Sofia & Vítor
During eight days, Sofia and Vítor will share some of their research tools, while accompanying each artist in the preparation and presentation of a short performance/rehearsal from the individual projects. To watch these performances/essays we will invite the circle of accomplices of PACAP. This will be the first and still intimate opening of this temporary community to the outside world, in a movement of expansion and aggregation.

Visits to local structures
In these first weeks we will visit several spaces of presenting, researching, and experimenting in the performance arts in Lisbon and can talk with the people who coordinate them. These visits are a first contribution for the mapping of Lisbon by each artist and intend to make easier their communication with these structures as potential partners.

MOMENT 2

Laboratories, meetings, and conversations

[from March 13 to May 19]

The second moment of PACAP will be a moment of critical incorporation of influences, practices, perspectives and wishes of a group of invitees in different types of encounters.

Research laboratories
We have tried to congregate an eclectic group of 8 artists who, during twelve weeks, will share their ways of research and creation in laboratories that will last from 5 to 10 days.
Confirmed artists: Alex Cassal, Christine de Smedt, João Fiadeiro, Ligia Lewis, Marcelo Evelin, Sheena McGrandles, Simone Aughterlony and Vera Mantero.

Creative response
The research labs will finish with a moment of creative/critical response from each participant. This response is intended to return a look or feedback to the guests to sediment the experience of the laboratory and put into dialogue elements of this research with the individual projects. The creative/critical response will be an opportunity to experiment with different presentation/performance formats.

Occasional Encounters / Crash Meetings
Among the eight research laboratories there will be occasional meetings with artists living or passing through Lisbon. The duration of these meetings varies from just a few hours to a day, and their format is open and flexible. Crash Meetings are an opportunity to include local artists and expand the temporary community of PACAP 6. Besides the curatorial choices, there is room for suggestions from participants of PACAP 6, to meet collective interests and needs.
Confirmed artists: François Chaignaud.

Conversations/seminars
For PACAP6 we invited a few people to broaden and deepen the reflection and discussion on the themes/subjects we want to address in this program, namely, creative appropriation, the tension between form/content, the relationship of artistic creation with ecology, identity, and activism, among others. There will be a particular focus on the concept of “bridging the divide” which could be freely understood as to “bringing together those who are divided”. Here representatives of two projects that operate according to this concept will share their experience, particularly in trying to bring together people from radically different political spectrums. The concept of “bridging the divide” along with the search for tools for dialogue with those we consider to be at odds with our convictions (not only political but also artistic) are a fundamental axis in the reflection and action of PACAP 6. In these conversations/seminars there will also be room for the suggestions of each participant.
Confirmed guests: Hanna Israel (Europe Talks).

Parallel Program
A program of shows and performances in different cultural spaces in Lisbon will be proposed to the group of participants of PACAP 6. Collective viewing makes it possible to create a common reflection plan not only on the shows, but also, by mirror effect, on the practices of each PACAP participant. It is easier to discuss and apply some concepts with a performance as a common reference. This parallel program takes place outside PACAP hours, and attendance is optional.

MOMENT 3

Research and Creation

[from May 22 to July 2]

For 6 weeks, each PACAP participant will work on individual creation projects. It is a period accompanied by Sofia and Vítor, by peers of PACAP and by local instigators chosen by each participant. A collaboration methodology will be proposed where each participant puts herself at the service of one or more projects so that this creative process is as closely monitored as possible and to take advantage of the main resource of this program: the pairs.

At the beginning of this process, a production plan will be made in collaboration with the Forum Dança team to adapt the existing resources or find others necessary for the realization of the project. In the fourth week of creation there will be an informal presentation and feedback session. During the last phase of the creative process, technical support will be guaranteed for the implementation of the project at Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest.

Documentation
A documentation project of the creative process of each participant will be developed in collaboration with an artist and graphic designer. In a first phase, materials will be collected to create a personal archive. This archive will then serve as a field of experimentation for the creation of a documentary object that can dialogue directly with the “studio” work or go in an autonomous direction.
Marta Ramos will collaborate during this process.

MOMENT 4

Public Presentation

[from July 3 to 23]

The six-week creative process will culminate with public presentations of each participant’s projects at the Bairro Alto Theater (TBA) and Culturgest in Lisbon. One of the partners will mainly host projects that fit into the theatrical space while the other will host projects for unconventional spaces, namely outdoor space (gardens, street, open-air auditorium, etc.). 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.

Sharing of Documentation
The period of the public presentation will also be the opportunity to share, in one of the spaces of the Bairro Alto Theater, a collective composition of the personal archives, showing the lines of force, specificities, approximations and distances between each project. This temporary composition serves both as an introduction to the projects and as a support point for later reflections and discussions.

Register
A complete photographic and video recording of each presentation will be made. These records will be given to the participants for the documentation and/or dissemination of the project.

MOMENT 5

Reflection/feedback, production, and finishing

[from July 24 to 29]

Reflection and feedback
Back to the intimacy of Forum Dança studios, this final moment of PACAP 6 is dedicated to reflection and feedback on the journey of each participant during the six months of the Program, with special focus on the creation process and the public presentation. In this reflection/feedback we will count on the presence of the instigators of each project.

Production support
Parallel to this reflection and feedback moment, each participant will have production and dissemination support. Depending on the stage each project is at, this support may consist of the elaboration of a production and/or dissemination dossier; research for and contact with institutional partners for the development and/or presentation of the project; application to residencies, support and grants for creation and/or circulation; clarifications about the Portuguese context of support to the arts and the status of the arts worker; among others.

Finishing Documentation
In this last moment of the Program, we are going to create a collective documentary object that tries to integrate and put into dialogue the elements of individual research, with the experience of different laboratories, occasional meetings, seminars and performances presented at Teatro do Bairro Alto and at Culturgest.

Temporary community
In the same way that at the beginning of the six months special attention is given to the formation of this temporary community, at this moment of the Program it will also be fundamental to take care of its end.

Informations

Target audience

Dancers, choreographers, performers and other artists with performance, body, and movement practices, older than 23 (with no upper age limit).

The program is open to applications from individual and duet artists.

Note
PACAP will have English and Portuguese as its working language, according to the Program participants.

A minimum knowledge of these languages is required, although this is not a determining criterion for the selection of candidates.

Guests

Invited artists and structures:

Moment 2 | Research Labs

Moment 2 | Occasional Encounters/Crash Meetings

François Chaignaud
and more to come

Moment 2 | Talks/Seminars

Hanna Israel (Europe Talks)
and more to come

Moment 3/4

Marta Ramos (documentation collab)

Selection Process

The selection process will be carried out by the curators of PACAP 6 and the direction of Forum Dança.

It will take place in 2 distinct Phases:

Phase 1 – Applications;
Phase 2 – Auditions.

Candidates must present a synopsis of a project to be developed within the scope of PACAP 6. This synopsis is nothing more than a starting point, an unfinished idea, an unsolved problem.

Phase 1

Applications

The submission of applications is done through an online form (further down this page) until June 20, 2022. Applications will be accepted in Portuguese, English or French.

Please Include the following documents:

Motivation letter (max. 1 page A4 .pdf format) or video (link max. 3 minutes);
CV with photo and short biographical note (max. 2 pages A4 .pdf – not to exceed 1MB);
Candidate’s Portfolio Link with texts, images and links to videos (max. 10 pages A4, in .pdf format);
Synopsis of a project to be developed within the scope of PACAP 6 (max. 1 page A4, pdf).

Candidates selected for an audition will be contacted by June 30, 2022 by email.

! IMPORTANT NOTE !

Please do not send links to download videos and photos.

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

We only accept as downloadable files the CV, the motivation letter, and the project/synopsis.

Phase 2

Auditions

This second phase will only be for the candidates selected in the first phase.

Audition Dates: 5 to 10 September 2022
Place: Forum Dança, Lisbon, Portugal.

Communication of results: all selected candidates will be contacted by email until 30 September 2022.

Note

For foreign residents unable to travel to Lisbon, an audition and online interview will be held between September 5 and 10, 2022 at a time to be arranged with each candidate.

Tuition fees

Registration: 120€.
Payment in full: 1800€.
Payment in two instalments: 950€ x 2.

Attention: The tuition fees are payable by each participant, even if they apply as an artist duo.

Please apply even if the tuition fee is an impediment.
If the amount of the tuition fee is an impediment, please attach a letter explaining your financial condition to your application.

Scholarships

Four scholarships will be awarded:

1 scholarship with 100% reduction of the total fee, exclusively addressed to artists from Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP);
1 scholarship with 75% reduction of the total fee, exclusively addressed to black artists living in Portugal;
2 scholarships with a reduction of 50% of the total fee, for 2 artists who can assure the simultaneous translation of the PACAP sessions for small groups.

Please apply even if the tuition fee is an impediment.
If the tuition fee is an impediment, please attach a letter explaining your financial condition to your application.

Schedules

Monday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm.

This schedule is only indicative and may change.

A detailed program plan will be delivered to each PACAP 6 participant.

Application

Form

Applications are closed.

Curatorship

Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz

Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz are a duo of artists collaborating since 2006. The hybrid nature of their research, connected to a strong curiosity and need for experimentation, led them to the create several shows, performances, videos, podcasts and installations, crossing different contexts and blurring limits between artistic fields.

Their performances conceived for stage, mainly performed by the duo, summon up a particular choreographic language in relation to text and voice, as manifested in the pieces A gesture that is nothing but a threat 2011 (Prix Jardin d’Europe and 1ºAerowaves Spring Forward) and What does not happen 2018, both still touring. Besides their shows in duet, Sofia and Vítor have been also creating with and for other performers, invited by companies, such as Companhia Instável 2010, or Companhia Maior 2019; and in their own productions such as Satellites (2015), Escala (2021) or their first piece for children, Sons Mentirosos Misteriosos 2020 [Misterious Lying Sounds].

"Arremesso IX", Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, 2021 © Musiberia

With approximately 30 projects conceived over the last 16 years, Sofia and Vítor spread their research to other mediums and contexts. As in the radio piece De olhos fechados [With eyes closed] for OSSO (2021), the video work Contorno [Contour] created for the third edition of Traça (2020), the sound piece Gas pier in Lisbon by Sound (2014), or in the series of performances for non-conventional spaces presented since 2011, Arremesso. A series that counts already with nine different performances that search for reactivating and re-signifying the archive of gestures, movements, texts, musics, soundscapes, voices and “states of presence” they have been collecting throughout their collaboration.

Although the artistic creation is a mark in the path of this duo, their first collaboration, in 2006, was Project MOLA – Movimento latente – a project of informal artistic education for children and adults from different social and economic backgrounds that kept active till 2010. The duo’s educational activity continued in the professional context after an invitation by Companhia Instável in Porto to teach a workshop. Since then, Sofia and Vítor regularly run workshops and classes in Portugal and abroad, in the context of the festivals where they present their works, or in formal and informal institutions of education/training/research, like C.e.m. – Centro em movimento (Lisbon), La Place de la Danse CDCN (Toulouse) and ESAD (Caldas da Raínha). Since 2010 they keep a close relationship with Fórum Dança (Lisboa), where they were invited to make the curatorship of the second edition of PACAP – Advanced Program of Creation in Performing Arts (2018/19) and by whom they were challenged for the curatorship of the 6th edition of the same Program in 2023.

The growing interest for forms of sharing and reflection among pears, lead them to develop and take part, since 2012, of various residencies and meetings between artists, highlights include AWARE in the context of Alkantara Festival. Sofia and Vítor are usually requested for “feedback sessions” and “outside view” for multiple performative arts’ projects.

"António e Cleópatra", from Tiago Rodrigues with Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, 2014 © Magda Bizarro.

As a duo, they were invited to collaborate with several artists, such as Catarina Dias (Potlach), Lilia Mestre (Beyond Mary and Joseph), Lara Torres (An impossible wardrobe for the invisible), Gonçalo Waddington and Carla Maciel (At most mere minimum), Marco Martins and Clara Andermatt (Durações de um Minuto), Marco Martins (Two maybe more), Mark Tompkins (improvisation based on In C), Tim Etchells (The exhibition of a film), Felipe Hirsch (Opera Orphée). They have been collaborating regularly with Tiago Rodrigues as performers in Antony and Cleopatra 2014 (still on tour in its Portuguese, French and English versions) and Sopro 2017. In 2020 they did movement assistance for the piece Catarina e a beleza de matar fascistas, by the same author.

Since the beginning of their collaboration they are supported by many different structures: O Espaço do Tempo, being associate artists between 2009 and 2016, the former Bomba Suicida in the period from 2006 to 2009 and Materiais Diversos that, between 2012 and 2016 took charge of the production, diffusion and administration of all artistic activity of the duo. They can not fail to mention Alkantara and Devir/CAPA for the support given to their creative work. They have collaborated with the structures of production and cultural diffusion SUMO and Something Great and currently they rely with the production of Agência 25.

Along these years they have enjoyed the significant support of the European networks Looping, TRANSFER, Aerowaves, Open Latitudes, Modul Dance, ONDA and Départs.

"Fora de qualquer presente", Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, 2012 © Paulo Pacheco.

In 2020, they’ve developed the project Infiltration at Teatro do Bairro Alto that concluded with the piece Escala.

In 2022 they were Featured Artists at GUIDance Festival.

In 2022/2023 Sofia and Vítor will be “Novos Inquilinos” [New tenants] at Teatro Viriato in Viseu.

Their next piece, NEVERODDOREVEN, in collaboration with Filiz Sizanli and Mustafa Kaplan will premiere in November at Alkantara Festival and will be presented in Viseu, Paris and Porto.

Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz are associate members of REDE – Associação de Estruturas para a Dança Contemporânea [Contemporary Dance Structure’s Association].

More info at www.sofiadiasvitorroriz.com

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) e Victor Lattaque (FR).

BIOGRAPHIES

PACAP 6 activities

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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.

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6

5 April, 2022

One and three ways
to touch something

Bruno Levorin (BR) and Rosa Sijben (NL)

Piece length 40 min (aprox.)

Espaço da Penha | 12 and 13 of April | 19h00

In “one and three ways to touch something”, Sijben Rosa and Bruno Levorin share the question: how to make the absence tactile? They are taken by imagination and use it as a tool to sustain the conversation betweenthe two of them and things. The work invites the audience to look at what is no longer there.

Concept, creation, direction, dramaturgy, and performance Sijben Rosa and Bruno Levorin

Choreographer Bruno Levorin (Campinas, 1985) has as principle to occupy the spaces with questions and produce systems so that these are sustained in time. His works are also situated within dramaturgy and critical theory, producing, along with choreography, a triad of meanings to say and do with attention and care. [website]

Visual artist Sijben Rosa (1988, Alkmaar, NL, she/her) makes sculptures and choreographs situations around them using performative means. Her artistic practice deals with the social, economic, and aesthetic status of objects, contemplating the interplay between objecthood and personhood – a practice that essentially seeks to encourage awareness of one’s position amongst other subjects and other objects. [website]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This project has the support of Stichting Niemeijerfonds, Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds, Stichting Stokroos and the Mondriaan Fund.

PACAP 5 | Bloc 2 Presentations

Splinter

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Bolo

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delirium, deviations

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Sweets & Emotions

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FRESH

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5 April, 2022

Splinter

Andrei Bessa (BR), Leonor Mendes (PT),
Lucas Damiani (UY) and Vicente Antunes Ramos (BR)

Piece Length 50 min (aprox.)

Espaço da Penha | 12 and 13 of April | 19h00

Going through the gap. Going through the fall. Going through the excess.
Covering eyes with hands and trying to see in between the fingers. As if recalling that last image. Like a shadow, a detour.
To erase, to withdraw, to take away, to decompose, to disappear, to subtract, to dissipate, to cover, to exhaust, to extinguish, to hide, to disappear, to end.
Gap. Fall. Excess.
And the shadow to come may depend on a small gesture.

Concept and performance Andrei Bessa, Leonor Mendes, Lucas Damiani and Vicente Antunes Ramos

Andrei Bessa (Fortaleza, Brazil, 1987) is a performer, a dramaturg, and a professor, holding a master’s degree in Arts at the Federal University of Ceara (Brazil), and an artist at the Inquieta Cia. group. With focus on dramaturgy in progress, Andrei’s work has emphasis in performance and in theater, with creations that entangle dance, literature and audiovisual. Currently investigating his fat body as a material for artistic expansion and expression. In this perspective, his recent obsession is the fable of the mystical creature unicorn-bear.

Leonor Mendes,Torres Novas, 1999. Works as a performance artist since 2017. Holds a BA in Dance from Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa (2020), and has worked with Joan Jonas (US), John Romão (PT) e Sílvia Costa (IT), Henrique Furtado Vieira (PT) and Marcelo Evelin (BR). Leonor interpreted and was part of the creation of the pieces velã, by Leonor Lopes (2020) and Sonho que não se pode quebrar e não se pode quebrar e não se…, by A ves (2020). Created the piece À sombra de mais cabels, with Susana Gaspar (2021) and Que nos seja perdoada esta tentação with Carolina Inácio.

Lucas Damiani is a Uruguayan artist working-researching in the intersections between Visual and Performing Arts, with background studies in photography, psychology and contemporary dance. Born and raised by the sea in Montevideo, Lucas has lived and trained in Madrid, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Lucas’ photographic work has been exhibited individually and collectively in Uruguay, Italy, Spain and Bulgaria. In performance, has worked with Guillermo Weickert (SP), Lee Mingwei (TW), Marcelo Evelin (BR), among others. [website]

Vicente Antunes Ramos (São Paulo, 1993) develops his artistic research in the fields of theatre, dance, and performance, with the use of the voice and documents on stage as main creation lines. Vicente graduated in Scenic Arts (USP-SP), and founded, among other artists, the Comitê Escondido Johann Fatzer, an interdisciplinary collective, dedicated to scenic investigation. In 2021, Vicente moved to Lisbon, to participate in PACAP 5, at Forum Dança.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Caro, Márcia, Pablito, Miguel, Santi, Chichi, Dora, Carolina, Eduardo and Mafalda. To the pacapetes.

PACAP 5 | Bloc 2 Presentations

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PACAP 5 Coproduction: Teatro do Bairro Alto

PACAP 5 Support: O Rumo do Fumo, Alkantara, OPART | Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Espaço do Tempo, Fundação GDA, Piscina

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