Calendar

20 February, 2026

Alex Cassal | Soluble Dramaturgy

August 31 to September 4, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Forum Dança

Registration open.

This workshop, led by playwright Alex Cassal, invites creators, performers, and artists of the body and word to embark on a somewhat bumpy journey behind the scenes of theatrical creation. Everyday anecdotes and extravagant inventions, implausible lies and personal memories, non-recyclable materials and organic waste: everything becomes raw material for a process that asserts itself as a journey, rather than a result. A process in which participants collaborate in the collective construction of fictions anchored in the reality of the present time, giving shape to a plot where diverse voices and perspectives intersect. More than a formal learning space, this encounter is proposed as a territory of sharing and risk, where writing intersects with performance and memory with imagination. Because, as Bertolt Brecht said, “it is beautiful to solve problems.” Or was it Donna Haraway?

Informations

Who is it for

For all audiences (+16)

Schedule

Dates: August 31 to September 4, 2026
Time: 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Venue

Forum Dança / Espaço da Penha

Travessa do Calado, 26B, 1170-070 Lisboa

Participation fee

€70

Discounts

10% discount when registering for more than 1 workshop
15% discount when registering for more than 3 workshops
20% discount when registering for more than 4 workshops
15% discount for people who are participating or have participated in Forum Dança long-term courses (PACAP or PEPCC)
10% discount for dance students

Application form

All fields are required.

Bios

Alex Cassal

Dramaturgy workshop with Alex Cassal from August 31 to September 4

Alex Cassal is a director, playwright, and performer. His works explore relationships with others and reveal the mechanisms of theater in creating spaces for artistic encounters and challenges. In Brazil, he is a member of the Foguetes Maravilha group, and in Portugal, he is part of the Má-Criação structure.

Top image credits © Renato Mangolin

Monumental, Jocelyn Cottencin, Macval © image Jocelyn Cottencin

5 February, 2026

Jocelyn Cottencin Workshop

April 20 – May 1, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. *
Forum Dança

Registration open.

At Forum Dança, we are once again opening up the PACAP training programme to the artistic community with several workshops throughout the year.

Jocelyn Cottencin’s performance piece Monumental explores how monuments and architecture shape our bodies and our shared narratives.

By involving students, residents or performers, Jocelyn Cottencin creates a dialogue between bodies, territories and narratives.

His work seeks not so much to produce objects as to open up spaces for thought, perception and encounter.

A performance piece created in 2016 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Monumental aims to activate a visual and collective memory resulting from representations of European history, in particular art history, or from the media and contemporary events. Monuments, architecture, statues and works of art form the basis of a visual score initially performed by a group of 12 performers within a defined spatial and temporal framework. Through the heritage of statuary, architecture and works in public spaces, the project, via this group, shifts the notions of figure, narrative and form.

Since 2017, Jocelyn Cottencin has been presenting this performance to art students and young dancers. Each re-enactment is an opportunity to question the structure of forms and images within a specific context. On this occasion, at the invitation of Marcelo Evelin and Dora Carvalho for Forum Dança, Monumental will form the basis of the workshop, exploring the specific history of Lisbon in relation to that of Brazil.

* Informal presentation on April 30 at 6.00 pm.

Informations

Who is it for

Students, residents, artists, anyone interested in the dialogue between bodies, territories, and narratives.

Schedule

Dates: April 20 – May 1, 2026
Time: 10.00 am to 5.00 pm (with a 1-hour break)

Informal Presentation: April 30, 6.00 pm

Venue

Forum Dança / Espaço da Penha

Travessa do Calado, 26B, 1170-070 Lisboa

Participation fee

- Marcelo Evelin: €150
- Christine Greiner: €40
- Jocelyn Cottencin: €230

Discounts

15% for the second and third workshops (Christine Greiner and/or Jocelyn Cottencin)
15% for people who participate or have participated in Forum Dança’s long-term courses (PACAP or PEPCC)
10% for dance students

Application form

All fields are required.

Bios

Jocelyn Cottencin

Jocelyn Cottencin is a visual artist working across performance, choreography, book, installation and film. His work examines how images, monuments and architecture shape bodies, power and collective narratives, opening shared spaces for perception, dialogue and embodied experience.

Support & Parternships

Coproduction: Teatro do Bairro Alto

Coproduction in Residency PACAP 9: O Espaço do Tempo

Top image credits [Monumental, Jocelyn Cottencin, Macval] © Jocelyn Cottencin

29 January, 2026

Christine Greiner Workshop

April 13 and 14, 2026 | 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Forum Dança

Registration open.

At Forum Dança, we are once again opening up the PACAP training programme to the artistic community with several workshops throughout the year.

Fabulations and Transcreations

“In recent decades, many artists have worked with the power of fabulations and the power of the false to approach plural realities. As Isabelle Stengers explained, fabulation is a way of narrating in another way; it is not a break with “reality.” The falsehood of fabulation is always a construction to deal with opacities.

In this conversation, I will draw parallels between these ideas and the proposal for transcreation by poet and translator Haroldo de Campos. In an expanded view, translating and fabulating are processes that teach us how to make worlds, dealing with narrative in the very materiality of bodies, images, and events.

The spectral turn of butoh and its promiscuous strategies

When Jacques Derrida wrote the book Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International (1993), he opened up ways for us to perceive how far beyond mystical entities, specters generated by devices of power continue to haunt us, such as capitalism and class struggles.

In this conversation, I propose that by triggering movements characterized by the ambiguity between catastrophe and creation, living bodies and dead bodies, subjects and objects, Tatsumi Hijikata (and other creators of the so-called butoh dance) also promoted a spectral turn in the late 1950s in Japan, establishing a choreographic logic as an intoxicating operation to erode power relations. More than a dance technique, a spectral power.”

[Christine Greiner]

Informations

Who is it for

Artists, students, researchers, curators, cultural producers, and people interested in dialogues between Japan and the West, body philosophy, and cosmopolitics.

Schedules

Dates: April 13 and 14 de abril de 2026
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Venue

KEF – Kees Eijrond Foundation

Rua de Santa Catarina, number 9

Ground Floor, Lisbon

Application form

All fields are required.

Participation fee

- Marcelo Evelin: €150
- Christine Greiner: €40
- Jocelyn Contencin: €230

Discounts

15% for the second and third workshops (Christine Greiner and/or Jocelyn Contencin)
15% for people who participate or have participated in Forum Dança’s long-term courses (PACAP or PEPCC)
10% for dance students

Bios

Christine Greiner

Christine Greiner © Christine Greiner

Christine Greiner is head of the Arts Department and professor at PUC-SP. Since 1998, she has coordinated the Center for Oriental Studies, teaching and supervising research in the Graduate Program in Communication and Semiotics and in the Body Arts course.

Support & Parternships

Coproduction: Teatro do Bairro Alto

Coproduction in Residency PACAP 9: O Espaço do Tempo

Top image credits © Fernando Saiki

27 January, 2026

Marcelo Evelin Workshop

March 2–6, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Forum Dança

Registration open.

At Forum Dança, we are once again opening up the PACAP training program to the artistic community with several workshops throughout the year.

Choreographer Marcelo Evelin shares some of his training tools, performance practices, and procedures used in processes and creations by the Demolition Incorporada platform over the last 30 years.

For this instance, an opening of his construction site for research into voice and movement, based on the idea of death and resurrection as a performance device.

The invitation is open to artists interested in collectively building an ethical condition to transform their own bodies into receptacles and who are interested in being touched by visible and invisible forces.

Informations

Who is it for

Schedules

Dates: March 2–6, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (with a 1-hour break)

Venue

Forum Dança / Espaço da Penha

Travessa do Calado, 26B, 1170-070 Lisboa

Participation fee

Marcelo Evelin: €150
Christine Greiner: €40
Jocelyn Contencin: €230

Discounts

15% for the second and third workshops (Christine Greiner and/or Jocelyn Contencin)
15% for people who participate or have participated in Forum Dança’s long-term courses (PACAP or PEPCC)
10% for dance students

Application form

All fields are mandatory.

Bio

Marcelo Evelin

Marcelo Evelin é bailarino, coreógrafo e pesquisador. Vive entre Teresina e Amsterdão e trabalha no Brasil, Japão e em vários países da Europa como artista independente à frente da Plataforma Demolition Incorporada, baseada no CAMPO, um espaço de Residência e Resistência das Artes Performáticas em Teresina, no Piaui. Os seus espetáculos “De Repente Fica Tudo Preto de Gente”, “Batucada” e “A Invenção da Maldade” circulam atualmente por teatros e festivais do mundo. Ensina na Escola Superior de Artes de Amsterdão desde 1999 e cria projetos em universidades e cursos de mestrado, entre eles ISAC (Bruxelas), Museu Reina Sofia (Madrid), EXERCE (Montpellier) e CND (Paris). Em 2019 recebeu o título de Doutor Honoris Causa pela Universidade Federal do Piauí. Em 2020 criou “And Yes, I sad Yes, I will Yes” para Coroline Eckly/Companhia Carte Blanche (Bergen,Noruega), “Drama” para La Manufacture (Lausanne, Suíça), “La Nuit Tombe Quand Elle Veut” (Rennes, França) em colaboração com Latifa Laabissi, e reapresentou o seu solo “ai, ai, ai” (1995) no Festival d’Automne em Paris. Em 2022 recriou o acontecimento performático BARRICADA para o Festival Transborda (Almada, Portugal) e estreou UIRAPURU a mais recente criação da Plataforma Demolition Incorporada.

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.

Créditos da imagem de topo © DR \ Marcelo Evelin

2 December, 2025

Lucia Giannoni & Rocío Bernardez

‘Que funcione’

Informal exhibition

Forum Dança | December 15, 2025 | 18h30

Sharing the residency process

FREE ENTRY

QUE FUNCIONE

What does a group of strangers do in a theater hall?

“Que funcione” [Make it work] is a sociological study, a research project that aims to build a possible counter-hegemonic, horizontal community, resulting from the gathering of a group of strangers coming together to see a performance. Once the audience enters the room, they become the protagonists and, based on a series of instructions, they have to find a way to be together. The project tests the concept of belonging: as an act of survival, as a process of identity construction.

“Que funcione” operates specifically depending on the territory where it takes place, observing each group within its social, economic, and political context. This project is taking shape as it is being experimented with and, in parallel, involves research and documentary recording in the city and the social context in which it takes place.

LUCIA GIANNONI. Choreographer, director and performer. Master in Choreographic Composition. Choreographer of “Vivir juntes es posponer el final” with the CNDC from Argentina. Director and performer of “El ángulo muerto”. Winner of the Biennial of Young Art with “Todxs tenemos un pelo”. New research project: Que funcione 2024 CAMPUS Porto; Festival PRÓXIMAMENTE, Bruxelles. 2025- Sounded Bodies Zagreb, Nau Ivanow Barcelona. Teacher at the National University of Arts from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

ROCÍO BERNARDEZ. She has a degree in Choreographic Composition with a specialization in Dance Theater from the National University of the Arts, Argentina. She directs and performs in “Yo me perdí en el sur” (I Lost Myself in the South) (Rojas Cultural Center, 2024). She collaborates artistically in “Que funcione” with Lucia Giannoni. Assistant director for El Ángulo Muerto by Lucía Giannoni (FIBA DANZA 2022). Assistant director and performer in Choclo, Choclo, Pochoclo by Marta Salinas.

Local
Forum Dança

Free Entry

Image © Victoriano Moreno

2 December, 2025

Lucia Giannoni & Rocío Bernardez

‘Que funcione’

Informal exhibition

Forum Dança | 27 november 2025 | 18h30

Sharing the residency process

FREE ENTRY

QUE FUNCIONE

What does a group of strangers do in a theater hall?

Location
Forum Dança

Free admission

Image © Victoriano Moreno

20 November, 2025

Carlota Lagido

December 4, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.
Forum Dança • Espaço da Penha • Lisbon

Carlota Lagido

Dancer, choreographer, costume designer, and visual artist. She is a designer of birds and other natural subjects. She studied drawing at the New York Academy of Arts. She has a postgraduate degree in Stage Design (costumes) from IPL – Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. She attends the Nature Drawing and Scientific Illustration Course at MHN in Lisbon, with Pedro Salgado. She studied classical and modern dance at the Gulbenkian Ballet Professional School and in New York at the Peridance School.

She danced with Meg Stuart, Francisco Camacho, Rui Horta, and Joana Providência. Her work as a choreographer has transdisciplinary characteristics, combining drawing and video with performance practice. Her notable works include notforgetnotforgive (1999-2025), Monster (2009), The importance of nothing (2012), Ro.Ger (2014), 50 Toneladas (2015), Jungle Red (2018), MINA (2020/2021), Mina, song of myself (2022), Silvestre (2022), and Atlas (2024), projects supported by Dgartes and GDA. She curates the cycle of exhibitions of dancers and performers who draw – Brain, eyes, hands, and paper at Estudios Victor Cordon/Opart, in Lisbon.

She has been a costume designer for dance, theater, and cinema since 1988. She has collaborated with Francisco Camacho, Tiago Cadete, Albano Jerónimo, Francisca Manuel, Clara Andermatt, Vera Mantero, Companhia da Chanca, Paulo Ribeiro, Nuno M Cardoso, Aldara Bizarro, Lúcia Sigalho, Rita Vilhena, Bruno Senune, Yael Karavan, Amélia Bentes, Francisca Manuel, Jo Castro, Maurícia Barreira Neves, Rui Catalão, Teresa Coutinho, Carlos Pessoa/Teatro da Garagem, and Marco António Rodrigues/Teatrão, Teatro Mosca. She programmed artistic activities at the Eira space in Lisbon between 2003 and 2011, including training courses, residencies, and public presentations. In 2022, he founded O Lugar do Meio, a cultural and environmental association in Alfafar.

17 November, 2025

Butoh Workshop
Yael Karavan

17 e 18 january 2026 | 11h00 – 17h00

Butoh workshop – The body as a vessel of metamorphoses with Yael Karavan

Butoh is an avant-garde dance form, a philosophy, and a method that was created in Japan in the late 1950s by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. It is not a technique, but rather a method and approach to dance that arises from within us and connects us to our essence, nature, the universe, and the cycles of life and death.

Karavan is proposing an intensive exploration of Butoh, starting from the philosophy of its founding members until its current relevance, as a tool of creation, rebirth and transformation.

“Again and again we are reborn. It is not enough simply to be born of the mother’s womb. Many births are necessary. Be reborn always and everywhere. Again and again.” [T. Hijikata Founder of Butoh.]

What is butoh? An exotic performance style based on spectacular effects, white body makeup, grotesquely distorted limbs and faces, and a grueling slow speed of motion? Or is it a form of physical training that releases and brings forth primordial memory in the body that has been suppressed by contemporary society? It is both and neither and something completely else all together. As a simple man from the street once tried to explain:

All movements and dances, whose origins are unknown, are butoh.
Butoh is that which knows no rules or taboos.
When one person says “no” and the others say “yes”, then it’s butoh.

In contrast with other dance styles, butoh does not require learning a fixed vocabulary of dance movements. It draws its inspiration and power from internalised imagery: Buto is a “state of continual emptiness” in which transformation is limitless, and it is ‘possible’ to become any other thing. From another perspective, it is the continual process of self-erasure.

This workshop will work on the elements of metamorphosis, presence, readiness, contrast, dance through images, and tension between opposites. The aim is to free the body from its preconceived mundane set of gestures and movements and thus allow 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 Butoh is not only relevant but extremely vital today.

Yael shares nearly 3 decades of Butoh Dace experience, having worked and studied with Butohists from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation, in Japan and Europe.

Informations

Select each of the sections below to learn about all the workshop specifications and the registration process.

Who is it for?

This workshop is aimed at professionals, students, and people with or without previous experience in movement, dance, and/or theater.

Maximum number of participants: 20 people.

Schedule

Dates: January 17 and 18 (Saturday and Sunday) 2026
Time: From 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Local

Forum Dança / Espaço da Penha
Travessa do Calado, 26B
1170-070 Lisboa

Participation fee

- Until January 10, 2026: €80.00
- From January 10, 2026: €90.00
- 10% discount: for people who attend or have attended long-term courses at Forum Dança (PACAP/CGPAE/PEPCC/etc.);

Pre-registration

Pre-registration is done using the form available on our website and will be validated after receipt of proof of payment, which should be sent to our email address.

Processo de inscrição

Faça a sua pré-inscrição on-line no formulário indicado para o efeito;
Aguarde o nosso email com as instruções de pagamento;
Proceda ao pagamento da sua inscrição, conforme indicado no email enviado;
Envie-nos o respetivo comprovativo de pagamento para o nosso email;
A sua inscrição só é validada após a receção do seu comprovativo.

Form

All fields are required.

Bio

Yael Karavan

Yael Karavan, award-winning performer, dancer, and Director, In her dance research, she traveled across Japan, Russia and Europe searching for a physical language of expression that bridges between East and West, Dance and theatre. She studied and worked with Butoh masters such as Kazuo Ohno, Tadashi Endo, Carlotta Ikeda, Yumiko Yoshioka, Akiko Motofuji, Ko Morobushi, and Katsura Kan, Yuko Kaseki, Yuko Kawamoto, Natsu Nakajima, Sankai Juku, Akira Kasai, amongst others. She was a member of Tadashi Endo’s MAMU Dance Theatre for nearly 8 years and of Ten-Pen-Chi led by Yumiko Yoshioka for 3 years.

Mais informações: www.yaelkaravan.com

Top image credits © Socrates Mitsos

14 November, 2025

Natacha Campos

‘Ma’

Informal exhibition

Forum Dança | 27 november 2025 | 18h30

Sharing the residency process

FREE ENTRY

MA is one of two works selected for “Núcleo 2025,” an annual project by Forum Dança.

“Ma investigates the deconstruction of gender and how context shapes identities. Based on the unfolding of the word ‘Ma,’ bodies cross text, sound, and movement in a journey between the intimate and the collective.” [Natacha Campos]

Natacha Campos (1997, Amadora) is of African descent, the daughter of Angolan parents. A graduate of the Escola Superior de Dança (2018), she attended the Performact program (2018-2020) and graduated in Show Production with Patrícia Pires. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Performing Arts at FCSH/NOVA and PACAP 8 at Fórum Dança, curated by Ana Rocha and Meg Stuart. She has worked with Pietro Romani, Beatriz Cantinho, Rui Catalão, Cláudia Semedo, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, Kiluanji Kia Henda, among others, highlighting Escala (2021), Ivone (2022), Casa com Árvores Dentro (2022), and Coral de Corpos sem Norte (2025). She co-curated the program Ecossistema.danças.corpos with Cláudia Galhós. As a creator, she has signed THEFRUIT, Other than you, you (2020), Faded (2019), Mechanical Animal (2023), and Íla (2023).

Location
Forum Dança

Free admission

Image © DR / Natacha Campos

2 October, 2025

Luís Guerra

October 23 2025, at 18h30
Biblioteca Camões • Lisbon

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Luís Guerra [Lisbon, 1985] studied dance, choreography, relaxation massage, reiki, and visual arts, completing the advanced course at ArCo, where he received the Vera Futscher scholarship. A dancer, performer, teacher, thinker, and choreographer, he has been part of several pieces by Tânia Carvalho and has collaborated with various artists, including Vera Mantero, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz, Simon Vincenzi, Emio Greco|PC, Claudia Castellucci, Elisabete Francisca, Mariana Tengner Barros, David Marques, Meg Stuart, among others. He was a DanceWeb program scholarship recipient and, as a choreographer and improviser, has presented works in conventional theaters. In recent years, he has devoted himself mainly to works based on improvisation and the invocation of trance states, usually presented in less conventional spaces, such as art galleries, outdoor spaces, gardens, etc. His most recent works include an improvisation based on the life of Almada Negreiros, presented on the steps of the Gulbenkian Foundation; a dance and narrated text solo in the garden of Casa da Cerca; improvisations at the Silvestre Festival; and a durational performance with audience participation at MAAT. He teaches movement at the Cascais Professional Theater School and facilitates various workshops. She currently resides in Brussels, where she conducts various training courses, mainly in the area of improvisation in the context of performing arts.

1 October, 2025

Exhibitions CTR_matrix

Training takes place between Herdade do Freixo and Forum Dança

Informal presentations of the research process at Forum Dança

The CTR_matriz intensive course group, created and facilitated by João Fiadeiro, presents parts of the process of a residency that began at Herdade do Freixo, in Alentejo, and continues at Forum Dança, in Lisbon.

Until October 30, every week at Forum Dança, we will open the studio doors to host informal presentations for the entire community, resulting from the Real-Time Composition exercises.

Thursdays | 5:30 p.m.

We invite everyone to join us for this opportunity to learn a little about the practice of Real-Time Composition!

General Note

For those wishing to take part in any of our CTR transmission and practice programmes

Even though we are committed to creating a safe place of practice, sustained by a work ethic based on principles of care and mutual respect, the experience of improvisation and performance, by definition, can take performers to places of intense sharing, often vulnerable and emotionally charged, where doubt and error have a prominent place. When signing up, bear in mind that in this practice you may find yourself in situations of experimentation that shake up your comfort zones, even if only temporarily.

Participants

Ali Ahmed Talaat Nagiub (EG), Ana Catarina Oliveira Brito Real (PT), Chloé Saffores (FR), Filipa Carloto Matta e Silva (PT), Kat Freya (EUA), Lucia Giannoni (Buenos Aires), Marise Dinis Sousa (BR), Nia Lejander (AT), Polina Fenko (RU), Rafael Arribas Hernandez (ES), Rocio Barrenechea (AR) Bernardez, Tim Winkler (UK), Valentina Gallo (BR), Vera Yin (EUA)

Real Time Composition activities

9 September, 2025

Real Time Composition_Open Sessions

Mondays | 6pm

[no prior registration required]

Facilitated by João Fiadeiro and Márcia Lança

We will continue with the Monday sessions (from 6pm to 7.30pm), which are free and open to anyone, with or without experience in CTR or even in artistic practices. These sessions have proved to be extremely rich as they create a spontaneous community of study and sharing of this tool, in an informal and inclusive way, slowly establishing itself as the backbone of CTR’s presence at Forum Dança. The sessions will be led by João Fiadeiro and Márcia Lança.

Runs until November 24, 2025

Information

Select each of the sections below to find out more about the open sessions.

Contextualisation

During the period in which REAL (a structure run by João Fiadeiro from 1990-2019) ran Atelier Real, open sessions were organised for the community to practice Real Time Composition, free of charge. These were unpretentious sessions, somewhere between a jam and a master class, which had an important impact on the community of artists at the time and on research into (and around) this tool. They were also very important sessions as a meeting place and for the creation of professional and emotional networks that continue to this day.

Over the next months, as part of the programme of activity developed within the framework of Forum Dança’s Resident Research Artist position, we will replicate these sessions to share our experience, but also to allow ourselves to be contaminated by discourses, perspectives and practices outside our comfort zone. These sessions are open to anyone – artist or non-artist, with or without experience of improvisation, with a background in practice or theory – as long as the premises and principles of this practice arouse curiosity.

“The ‘object of study’ of Real Time Composition is the interval that emerges when linear time is interrupted and the sense of continuity is suspended (via accident, incident or ‘just because’). The space that opens up as a result of this interruption is where Real Time Composition research takes place. Within this space, time has that rare quality of being simultaneously ‘no more’ and ‘not yet’. Within this space, time is not linear (or even circular), but ‘twisted’ (like the topological surface of the ‘Möbius Tape’), governed by laws that do not respect the conventional notions of before and after, inside and outside or far and near.”

João Fiadeiro

Who it's for

The sessions are aimed at anyone who identifies with the premises of the proposal and feels available and comfortable to experiment with composition and improvisation practices with the body.

Schedule

Every Monday until November 24, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.

Venue

Forum Dança / Espaço da Penha
Travessa do Calado, 26B
1170-070 Lisboa

Bios

João Fiadeiro

João Fiadeiro © Ana Viotti

João Fiadeiro (1965) is a Portuguese performer, choreographer, researcher, teacher and curator.
He belongs to the generation of artists that emerged at the end of the 1980s in Portugal and gave rise to the New Portuguese Dance movement.
In the 1990s he studied and practised Contact-Improvisation intensively, which led him to pursue and systematise his own research into improvisation under the name Real-Time Composition. This research has led him to coordinate workshops in master’s and doctoral programmes at various schools and universities around the world.
He has toured extensively in Europe, North America and South America with his solo and group works.
His career, whether as a choreographer or performer, or as a researcher or curator, has centred on creating conditions for experimentation, laboratory practice and interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation.
This activity has been carried out both within the framework of directing artistic programming and research projects, which have included the Centro Cultural da Malaposta (1990-95), Espaço Ginjal (1995-1998), Lugar Comum (1999-2000), Espaço A Capital (2000-2002) and Atelier Re.AL (2004-2019), and within the framework of his artistic practice, through creations and research workshops organised around Real-Time Composition.
Atelier Re.AL was a structure that played a leading role in the development of contemporary dance and transdisciplinary initiatives in Portugal.
In all these different meeting platforms, João Fiadeiro was always accompanied by artists who actively participated as creators, performers, researchers and programme-makers, making a decisive contribution to the existence of this project over 30 years of uninterrupted activity.

Márcia Lança

Márcia Lança was born in Beja and lives in Lisbon. In 2008 she founded VAGAR, of which she is artistic director. She has worked as a choreographer and performer in various collaborative configurations.

She moves in territories where the boundaries between the fictional and the real are tenuous and diffuse. Her interest in the poetic materiality of concrete actions and tasks is at the centre of her creative processes.

She is passionate about emerging collective compositions, thought as action and situated constructions.

General Note

For those wishing to take part in any of our CTR transmission and practice programmes

TECER activities

Imagem © Márcia Lança

3 September, 2025

Regular Classes | +16

Adults

School year 2025/26

The regular classes at Forum Dança in Espaço da Penha cover various aspects of interpretation and movement. With options such as Contemporary Dance, Choreographic Laboratory, and Interdisciplinary Movement Practices, the teaching staff, always engaged in constant artistic research, uses accessible teaching strategies that are suitable for all profiles.

Forum Dança offers two scholarships for regular classes throughout the school year. For access and further information, please contact: forumdanca@forumdanca.pt

See the General Regulation for more information.

Informations

Select each of the sections below to find out all the specifics of these activities.

Calendar

Registration: September 1, 2025

Start: September 15, 2025

End: June 30, 2026

Regular studio classes will be suspended during the Christmas period (from December 20, 2025, to January 5, 2026) and on Shrove Tuesday.
In September, monthly fees will be reduced by 50% due to the reduced number of classes.
Regular classes will not be held on public holidays, including Shrove Tuesday.

Preliminary notes

Do not forget to consult and carefully read our General Regulations. After completing the form, do not forget that:

1. The registration fee is mandatory and valid until the end of the academic year, and a new registration fee must be paid at the beginning of each academic year.
2. The payment of the registration fee is made simultaneously with the payment of the first monthly fee.
3. Payments are made by bank transfer to the Forum Dança account indicated in the General Regulations.
4. The calculation of the monthly fee is based on the number of classes per week.

Payment

Proof of bank transfer must always be sent to our general email: forumdanca@forumdanca.pt

Only in this way will your registration be validated and you will be able to attend classes.

Discounts

Registration Fee: for residents of Penha de França Parish, upon presentation of proof of address.

Monthly fees: 50% discount on tuition for people who are already enrolled in courses taking place at Forum Dança (PACAP, CDC or CGPAE).

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.

Registration form

Timetables

19h30-21h00

From Body to the Body

Interdisciplinary Movement Practices [+16 y.o.]

Gisela Dória

19h30 – 21h30

Contemporary Dance [+16 y.o.]

Josefa Pereira

Bárbara Faustino

17h45 – 18h30

Creative Dance [3/6 y.o.]

Sérgio Matias

18h30 – 19h30

Contemporary Dance [7/12 y.o.]

Sérgio Matias

19h30 – 21h30

Choreographic Laboratory [+16 y.o.]

Maria Ramos

19h30 – 21h30

Contemporary Dance [+16 y.o.]

Josefa Pereira

Bárbara Faustino

Registration Fee

25 € (Normal Fee)
15 € (People who attended regular classes in the previous school year or long-term courses) (2)
15 € (Resident at Penha de França) (1)

15 € (Normal Fee)
10 € (People who attended regular classes in the previous school year or long-term courses) (2)
10 € (Resident at Penha de França) (1)

10 €

Renewal: when regular class attendance is interrupted for one or more months in the same school year, and then the intention is to resume regular class attendance.

Monthly Fees

1x/week – 40 €

2x/week – 50 €

3x/week – 60 €

4x/week – 70 €

Experimental Class – 7 € (3)

Single lesson – 12 € (4)

1x/week – 30 €

Experimental Class – Free of charge

1x/week – 35 €

Experimental Class – Free of charge

NOTES

(1) – Residents of Penha de França must provide proof of address.

(2) – People who have attended Forum Dança long-term courses (PACAP, CDC or CGPAE) and people who attended Regular Classes in the immediately preceding school year.

(3) – Amount subsequently deducted from the Registration Fee.

(4) – The renewal fee is paid if there is a one-month break in which only one or two individual classes are taken.

(5) – People who are enrolled in Forum Dança’s long-term courses (PACAP, CDC or CGPAE) taking place this year will receive a 50% discount on the monthly fee.

Regular Classes

25 August, 2025

Contemporary Dance | Children

Com Sérgio Matias

From 7 to 12 years old

School Year 2025/26

Wednesday | 18h30-19h30

” In these classes, we will intertwine technique and imagination, awakening the body as an instrument of discovery. We begin by waking it up, stretching it, and activating it to activate the energy that dwells within it.

We will explore technical notions while opening space for liberation and expansion. Each proposal is an invitation to challenge attention, refine coordination, give voice to expression, and unleash creativity. Here, questions arise with each movement: How do I move? How do I feel? How can I create my own body? The body ceases to be a presence and becomes language. ”

[Sérgio Matias]

Note: Come try it out on September 17! Classes start on October 1.

Bio

Sèrge, Sérgio Diogo Matias (1985) began his studies in the visual arts and in 2008 and 2010 enrolled in the Performance/Creation degree program at the Escola Superior de Dança (Higher School of Dance). In the final year of his degree, he attended ArteZ Hogeeschool in Arnhem on an Erasmus scholarship. In 2013/2014, he took the Forum Dança course at PEPCC. As a performer, he has collaborated with Amélia Bentes, Miguel Pereira, Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, Vânia Rovisco, Henrique Furtado, among others. His creations and collaborations include Insólido (2014), MASS | MESS (2018), GEMINIS (2019), and LOOP (2019). During the 2020/2021 academic year, he was a student on the Composition and Musical Performance course at Restart, which culminated in the presentation/concert of original themes developed throughout the course. In 2023, he played the role of Mário de Sá Carneiro in the play “A Morte do Corvo” (The Death of the Raven), directed by Nuno Moreira, with actors directed by Ana Padrão and choreography by Bruno Rodrigues. In 2024, he is once again a student on the Fórum Dança course, PACAP, under the artistic direction of Miguel Pereira and Nuno Lucas. In the same year, he is the performer-creator of the play “O que é que é para fazer?” (What is there to do?), with the CIC-Rumo group, under the artistic direction of Yana Suslovets.

Pre-registration process

Pre-register online using the form provided;
Wait for our email with payment instructions;
Pay for your registration as indicated in the email sent to you;
Send us proof of payment to our email address;
Your registration will only be validated once we have received your receipt.

MORE INFORMATION

21 August, 2025

Creative Dance ’25

With Sérgio Matias

From 3 to 6 years old

School Year 2025/26

Wednesday | 17h45-18h30

” Open the doors of imagination and explore the flavors, dynamics, colors, and textures of movement. This will be the theme for creative dance classes!

We will activate the senses through playful exercises with the aim of developing physical skills and awareness of the parts of the body and the body as a whole. Combining fun with thought and emotions. We will explore scales from the “giant to the microscopic.” Being with myself, being with the other, and being with others. ” [Sérgio Matias]

Note: Classes start on October 1.

Pre-registration process

Pre-register online using the form provided;
Wait for our email with payment instructions;
Pay for your registration as indicated in the email sent to you;
Send us proof of payment to our email address;
Your registration will only be validated once we have received your receipt.

MORE INFORMATION

Bio

Sèrge, Sérgio Diogo Matias (1985) began his studies in the visual arts and in 2008 and 2010 enrolled in the Performance/Creation degree program at the Escola Superior de Dança (Higher School of Dance). In the final year of his degree, he attended ArteZ Hogeeschool in Arnhem on an Erasmus scholarship. In 2013/2014, he took the Forum Dança course at PEPCC. As a performer, he has collaborated with Amélia Bentes, Miguel Pereira, Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, Vânia Rovisco, Henrique Furtado, among others. His creations and collaborations include Insólido (2014), MASS | MESS (2018), GEMINIS (2019), and LOOP (2019). During the 2020/2021 academic year, he was a student on the Composition and Musical Performance course at Restart, which culminated in the presentation/concert of original themes developed throughout the course. In 2023, he played the role of Mário de Sá Carneiro in the play “A Morte do Corvo” (The Death of the Raven), directed by Nuno Moreira, with actors directed by Ana Padrão and choreography by Bruno Rodrigues. In 2024, he is once again a student on the Fórum Dança course, PACAP, under the artistic direction of Miguel Pereira and Nuno Lucas. In the same year, he is the performer-creator of the play “O que é que é para fazer?” (What is there to do?), with the CIC-Rumo group, under the artistic direction of Yana Suslovets.

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Calendar

August 31 to September 4, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Forum Dança

Registration open.

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Alex Cassal

April 20 – May 1, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. * Forum Dança

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Jocelyn Cottencin

Support & Parternships

April 13 and 14, 2026 | 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Forum Dança

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Christine Greiner

Support & Parternships

March 2–6, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Forum Dança

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Marcelo Evelin

Bruno Moreno

‘Que funcione’

Informal exhibition

Forum Dança | December 15, 2025 | 18h30

‘Que funcione’

Informal exhibition

Forum Dança | 27 november 2025 | 18h30

December 4, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. Forum Dança • Espaço da Penha • Lisbon

17 e 18 january 2026 | 11h00 – 17h00

Butoh workshop – The body as a vessel of metamorphoses with Yael Karavan

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Local

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Yael Karavan

‘Ma’

Informal exhibition

Forum Dança | 27 november 2025 | 18h30

October 23 2025, at 18h30 Biblioteca Camões • Lisbon

Training takes place between Herdade do Freixo and Forum Dança

General Note

Participants

Real Time Composition activities

Mondays | 6pm

Facilitated by João Fiadeiro and Márcia Lança

Information

August 31 to September 4, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Forum Dança

April 20 – May 1, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. *
Forum Dança

December 4, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.
Forum Dança • Espaço da Penha • Lisbon

October 23 2025, at 18h30
Biblioteca Camões • Lisbon