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Meg Stuart

5 to 8 May 2025 | 14h00 – 18h00
EVC | Estúdios Victor Córdon

This workshop will be conducted in English.

Registrations are now closed.

Oracular Bodies: Channeling Movement and Energy.
A Mystery School workshop, with Meg Stuart.

 

In this immersive workshop, you are invited to step into the liminal space where the body is a oracle, and movement a conduit for unseen forces. Drawing from somatic practices, improvisation, energy work, and divinatory traditions, Oracular Bodies explores how we can receive, interpret, and embody transpersonal messages beyond language.

 

Through guided improvisations, trance states, and collective lucid dreaming participants will playfully engage with movement as divination-channeling impulses from within and with each other. We will experiment with energetic transmissions, vocal resonance, and spontaneous composition, using the body as a site of revelation.

More information

Select each of the sections below to find out more about the workshop and the enrolment process.

Who is it for

This workshop is for dancers, performers, and seekers interested in merging movement with intuition, ritual, and altered states of presence. Please come with a willingness to listen, surrender, and move with the unknown.

Schedules

Dates: 5th to 8th May 2025
Times: 2pm to 6pm

Venue

EVC – Estúdios Victor Córdon
Rua Vítor Cordon, 20
1200-442 Lisboa

Participation fee

  • One workshop: 150€ (Meg Stuart or Keith Hennessy)
  • Two workshops: 250€ (Meg Stuart and Keith Hennessy)

 

Discounts

 

  • 20% on the registration fee for people who is taking or have taken part in Forum Dança’s long-term courses (PACAP or PEPCC) and other dance students.

Pre-registration

Pre-registration is done using the form available on our website and will be validated once proof of payment has been received and sent to our email address.

Registration process

 

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

Application form

All fields are mandatory.

Registrations are closed.

Bio

Meg Stuart

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

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

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

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

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

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

More informations: www.damagedgoods.be

Organisation and Support

Organisation: Forum Dança and Associação Parasita

Support: OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon

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Top image credits © Karolina Miernik

Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Justin F. Kennedy | Forum Dança

Justin F. Kennedy

26th March 2025, from 6pm to 8pm

As part of PACAP 8 / Mystery School, Forum Dança is hosting Justin F. Kennedy, an artist with a career that spans dance, dramaturgy and vocal performance. Kennedy investigates speculative ways of being in community, crossing science fiction operas, urban interventions and collective practices.

This talk will be conducted in English.

More information soon.

Justin F. Kennedy

Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Justin F. Kennedy | Forum Dança
Justin F. Kennedy

Justin F. Kennedy is a community dance and voice artist, teacher, DJ and playwright, born in St Croix, US Virgin Islands, and living in Berlin. His research focuses on transformation through dance and song, expanding into science fiction operas, urban interventions, film and installations. She has collaborated with artists such as Joy Mariama Smith and Ligia Lewis and presented projects in spaces such as the Hammer Museum, Galerie Wedding and Volksbühne. He has taught at SNDO Amsterdam and Bard College Berlin.

General information

Date

26th March 2025, from 18:00 to 20:00

 

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

 

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Top photo © Julie Nymann

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

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

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

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8
Forum Dança - João dos Santos Martins | PACAP 4

João dos Santos Martins

20 March 2025, at 18h30
Espaço da Penha – Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to capacity and prior enrolment here.

Bio

João dos Santos Martins (Santarém, 1989) is an artist whose work encompasses dance, exploring formats such as choreography, exhibition and publishing.
His practice articulates collaborative modes of making that focus on issues of transmission, memory, repertoire and paradoxes in the activity of dancing. He has created pieces such as ‘Projecto Continuado’ (2015) – SPA Authors Prize – and ‘Companhia’ (2018), with Ana Rita Teodoro, Clarissa Sacchelli, Daniel Pizamiglio, Filipe Pereira and Sabine Macher, ‘Antropocenas’ (2017) with Ritó Natálio or ‘Está Visto’ (2023) with Joana Sá, Ana Jotta and Filipe Pereira.
As a dancer he has performed works by Moriah Evans, Ana Rita Teodoro, Xavier Le Roy, Eszter Salamon, Boris Charmatz, Marcelo Evelin, Jérôme Bel, Rui Horta, among others.
Her interest in the genealogies of dance history led her to create, together with Ana Bigotte Vieira, a device to map dance in Portugal – ‘Para Uma Timeline a Haver’ – and to found a biannual journal – ‘Coreia’ – dedicated to writings by artists and about the arts. She occasionally writes and curates. In 2014 she founded Parasita, an artists’ association of which she is a member.

About the lecture cycle “My Dance History”

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Nina Lekic | Forum Dança

Nina Lekic

12th March 2025, from 6pm to 8pm

As part of PACAP 8 / Mystery School, Forum Dança is hosting Nina Lekic for a talk that delves into the unknown as a space for knowledge and creation. With a spontaneous approach, this session crosses influences from astrology, mythology and psychology, exploring the relationship between mystery, intuition and artistic practice.

This lecture will be conducted in English and the invited person will be present via video-conference.

Nina Lekic

Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Nina Lekic | Forum Dança
Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Nina Lekic | Forum Dança

I am Nina Lekic, born in Podgorica, Montenegro and this is also where I live.
I graduated Applied Computer Engineering, and I have never dreamed that I would be doing what I am doing now.
I was studying astrology for myself all my life. I was using it as a self-healing tool and as something that takes me deeper on the journey of the soul.
I started working with Moon Omens during pandemic, in 2020., and I am in the most amazing team of people since then.
I am writing big monthly horoscopes, yearly horoscopes and books. I am also recording New and Full Moon videos every two weeks.
I am combining Vedic astrology, western astrology, Hellenistic astrology, mythology, psychology, ancient teachings and occult teachings.

General information

Date

12th March 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

 

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

 

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Top photo © DR

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

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

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

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8
Forum Dança | CTR | TECER 2025 | João Fiadeiro

CTR_matrix

28th September to 31st October 2025

 

Applications closed. 

CTR_matrix is an advanced course in research and experimentation with the tool Composition in Real Time [CTR], a field of study that moves between the disciplines of performance, improvisation and creation. Through CTR we aim to reduce the distance (and distinction) of territories normally split between theory and practice; the fictional and the documentary; or observation and action. CTR is a practice driven by the desire to find strategies for suspending certainty; for activating ways of making action think and making thought act; and its ultimate goal is the experience of ‘not knowing together’.

 

This will be an advanced and immersive course, led by João Fiadeiro and some occasional guests, which will enable access to Real-Time Composition from the different angles and scales that make it up, with balanced and interconnected doses of thought, experimentation and action. The appropriation of its tools and concepts will take place through exercises designed to respond to each dimension of its multiple applications; through performative devices; and through the sharing of visual references (diagrams, videos of past practices and examples of works/proposals by artists who dialogue with this practice).

Information

Select each of the sections below to find out more about the course and the application process.

Programme

Herdade do Freixo do Meio

The first week of this five-week course will take place at Herdade do Freixo do Meio, an important Mediterranean ecosystem, about an hour from Lisbon, with almost 600 hectares of protected area, a biodiversity refuge recognised worldwide, where you can discover wildlife and domestic life as well as observe the integration of these two worlds in an agro-ecological model.

 

In this absolutely unique environment, our day-to-day life will be divided into three parts:

    • 9h30 às 12h30
      During the morning, we’ll have AI (Artisanal Intelligence) sessions with the estate’s employees, in practices ranging from prehistoric archaeology to syntropic agroforestry and olive picking.
    • 14h30 às 18h30
      In the afternoon, we’ll have sessions focused on the ‘matrix’ dimension of Real Time Composition (RTC), through sharing and studying its equations, premises and structuring principles; practices on the ‘board scale’ and the ‘body scale’; with exercises designed to address the different challenges and focuses of this proposal. This process will be accompanied, across the board, by peer feedback sessions, mediated by João Fiadeiro.
    • 21h00 às 22h30
      In the evening, there will be screenings of films and documentaries by artists and thinkers who have more or less directly influenced João Fiadeiro’s imagination, both as an artist and as a researcher. The viewing and subsequent discussion of the work of artistic proposals other than his own has proved extremely effective in sharing the issues, forces and affections that run through his CTR practice.

 

The meals that take place between the different activities are also important moments for socialising.

Lunch will be served by Herdade do Freixo do Meio, where you can savour a traditional Alentejo meal served in the rustic ‘Cabana dos Bois’ canteen. All the ingredients are fresh, grown and reared by them, following the sustainable practices of agroecology. Most of the dishes will centre on acorns, a symbol of the estate with a history as long as human presence in the region.

Dinner will be prepared by the group itself (in groups of 3 to 4 people per night) with ‘mystery’ ingredients (à la Masterchef) placed at the time of the meal.

 

At the start of the week

On Sunday 28 September, the conference-performance ‘I Was Here’ by/with João Fiadeiro will be presented, open to participants and the local community. ‘I Was Here’ (2014) revisits the piece “I Am Here” created in 2003, which in turn explores the universe of Portuguese artist Helena Almeida (1934-1918).

Forum Dança

The following four weeks – from 6 to 31 October – will take place at the Forum Dança facilities in Lisbon, where we will continue the study and practice of the CTR matrix in the morning – from 10:00 to 13:00 – and explore one synthesis and performance device per week in the afternoon – between 14:30 and 17:30. There will be informal presentations of processes at the end of each week – until 31 October.

Who it's for

This workshop is aimed at artists with experience in improvisation but is open to anyone who identifies with the premise of the proposal and feels available and comfortable experimenting with composition and improvisation practices with the body.

Schedule

From 28th September to 31st October 2025.

 

First week at Herdade do Freixo do Meio:

9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. | 2.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. | 9 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.

 

Following weeks at Forum Dança, Espaço da Penha, Lisbon:
10.00 a.m. to 13.00 p.m. | 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

Venue

Herdade do Freixo do Meio
7050-704 Foros de Vale Figueira
(on the border between Alto Alentejo and Ribatejo, near Montemor-o-Novo)

More informations here

 

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

Participation fee

Participation fees:

 

    • 350 € – CTR_Matriz programme;
    • 100 € – accommodation and one meal at Herdade do Freixo do Meio.

 

Please note:

Travelling, breakfast and dinner (to be held in collaboration between the participants) are not included in this price.

Applications

We ask that applications be written in English or Portuguese and include:

 

    • Motivation letter explaining why you are applying (max. 1 A4 .pdf page);
    • CV with photo and biographical note included;
    • Portfolio in pdf format and/or website with a history of creations, published texts or collaborations, with links to video recordings.

 

! IMPORTANT NOTE !
We do not accept links to download videos.
The links sent must give direct access to viewing the files online (Youtube, Vimeo, etc.).

Dates

The application process has the following dates and deadlines to fulfil:

 

    • Applications: until July 13th 2025
    • Selection: Online chat (Zoom), to be scheduled during the week of 23 June 2025;
    • Results: By the end of July 2025

Application form

All fields are mandatory.

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.

Forum Dança | CTR | TECER 2025 | João Fiadeiro

CTR_summer

From 25th to 30th August 2025

From 2pm to 7pm

In the last week of August, João Fiadeiro will lead an intensive CTR workshop with performer/choreographer Márcia Lança and architect/visual artist João Gonçalo Lopes, focusing on the concept of ‘prepared space’ (like John Cage’s ‘prepared piano’), which will function as a territory for exploring and experimenting with Real-Time Composition.

 

The prior preparation of the improvisation space creates a set of reliefs and restrictions in the place which, by producing ‘obstacles’ to the experience of improvisation, force it to happen in continuous negotiation with the environment in which it takes place, in an experience close to what it would be like to work in a site-specific environment. If we understand these obstructions as conditions rather than constraints, the space and the objects placed in it will themselves have agency, creating a relationship of dialogue and reciprocity between the performance and the place, the main object of study of this workshop.

Information

Select each of the sections below to find out more about the workshop and the enrolment process.

Who it's for

This workshop is aimed at artists with experience in improvisation but is open to anyone who identifies with the premise of the proposal and feels available and comfortable experimenting with composition and improvisation practices with the body.

Schedule

From 25 to 30 August 2025, from 14h00 to 19h00.

Venue

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

Participation fee

    • Registration: 150 €;

Pre-registration

Pre-registration is done using the form available on our website and will be validated once proof of payment has been received and sent to our email address.

Registration process

 

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

Application form

All fields are mandatory.

Bios

João Fiadeiro

Forum Dança | PACAP 5 - 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

Forum Dança | PACAP 5 - Márcia Lança
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 emergent collective compositions, thought as action and situated constructions.

João Gonçalo Lopes

João Gonçalo Lopes
João Gonçalo Lopes © Gustavo Ciríaco

João Gonçalo Lopes is an architect who works in various disciplines between art, design and education. Having had diverse experience in different parts of the globe, he currently works with a hands-on approach on scales ranging from urban design to art installations and furniture design.

With a context-based attitude, his work is rooted in processes of collaboration and community building, focusing on the ecology of materials as a means of achieving conscious and complex realities.

He values spaces and objects that exist as facilitators of experience. To do this, he uses a wide range of tools that come from different disciplines, be they social, political, artistic, constructive or spatial.

More information, here.

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.

TECER activities

Forum Dança | CTR | TECER 2025 | João Fiadeiro

CTR_expanded

5 one-week workshops

After work, from 6pm to 9pm

Between March and July, we will organise five workshops lasting one week each, facilitated by artist-researchers who have collaborated with João Fiadeiro for many years.

    • Carolina Campos / 28 April to 2 May
    • Daniel Pizamiglio / 26 to 30 May
    • Gustavo Sumpta / 23 to 27 June
    • Cláudia Dias / 28 July to 1 August
    • Márcia Lança / 22 to 26 September

 

Together, these artists cover three major periods of systematisation and processing of this tool over the last 25 years:

 

    • 2000s: Márcia Lança, Cláudia Dias and Gustavo Sumpta participated intensively in the first phase of experimentation and application of Real-Time Composition, at a time when the tool was mainly geared towards the practice of artistic creation;
    • First half of the 2010s: Carolina Campos and Daniel Pizamiglio were extremely involved in the second phase of research into Real-Time Composition, at a time when the tool was being worked on not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself.
    • Mid-2010s and early 2020s: Márcia Lança returns to join Carolina Campos and Daniel Pizamiglio to begin the third phase of this long investigation, at a time when, at the same time as returning to artistic creation, we began to devote a lot of attention to transmission and sharing processes.

 

Over time, each of us, in our own way, has appropriated this tool, expanding its applications and scope, producing different variables and ways of sharing and experimenting with this practice.

Proposals

Márcia Lança

Forum Dança | PACAP 5 - Márcia Lança
Márcia Lança

‘And now?’ This is the question I ask in my CTR practice when a gap opens up, a cliff, when that instant opens up in which it is no longer what we thought it was and it is not yet what it will be. I propose to study it by mapping the presence of that instant, when the ground disappears from under your feet, in relation to the possibilities of the direction of action.

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.

Carolina Campos

Forum Dança | PACAP 5 - Carolina Campos
Carolina Campos

This workshop is an invitation to exercise states of attention where listening and participation can lead us to the construction of collective artistic events. Using tools that I develop in accompaniment and dramaturgy processes, we will practice situations for: becoming aware of the groupings of vibrant materials in which we are already immersed; listening to the desire to enter into a relationship with these materials; and organising these events as an invitation to a specific path of attention. One of the starting points for this sharing will be the relationship between the word and performativity. Understanding the word as matter and as an interface for reorganising time and space collectively, we will practice situations that reflect the following questions: What fits inside a word? What words fit inside an image? How do words make place, presence and duration? What are the distances between what is seen, what is said and what happens?

 

I’ve been involved in research into Real-Time Composition since 2012, having worked with João Fiadeiro in workshops, creating pieces and researching and systematising the tool. I currently dedicate myself to artistic accompaniment, dramaturgy and experimentation with pedagogies, activities that are directly and indirectly crossed by CTR.

Carolina Campos is Brazilian and lives between Lisbon and Barcelona.
She completed the Independent Studies Programme at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.
In Brazil she worked with Lia Rodrigues Cia de Danças between 2008 and 2011.
Since 2013 she has collaborated intensively with João Fiadeiro in the training, creation and research of Real Time Composition.

Daniel Pizamiglio

Forum Dança | PACAP 5 - Daniel Pizamiglio
Daniel Pizamiglio © Matheus Martins

First nothing, then nothing
Stopping as a political act.
Slowing down as a gesture of resistance.
Paying attention as a way of opening up possibilities.
‘First nothing, then nothing’ is a privileged CTR immersion and expanded practice workshop led by Daniel Pizamiglio. This workshop will emphasise the power of waiting, the value of possibilities within a pre-action space and the work of being.

Daniel Pizamiglio is a Brazilian, queer, migrant choreographer, performer and researcher based in Lisbon. He works in the context of dance and the performing arts in Portugal, exploring notions and practices of encounter, concrete poetry and mourning. Since 2009, he has been researching Real Time Composition with João Fiadeiro, exploring different ways of studying, practising and transmitting this methodology internationally. In 2016 she completed the Study, Research and Choreographic Creation Programme at Forum Dança (Lisbon) with the solo ‘Dança Concreta’. She has collaborated with various artists such as Andreia Pires, Andréa Bardawil, Ana Rita Teodoro, Alex Cassal, Cláudia Dias, Filipe Pereira, Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti, Gustavo Ciríaco, João Fiadeiro, João dos Santos Martins, Luis Garay, Márcia Lança, Rita Barbosa, Romain Beltrão Teule and Vera Mantero. In 2023 he premiered the mourning performance ‘M’ at Rua das Gaivotas 6, in Lisbon.

Gustavo Sumpta

Gustavo Sumpta
Gustavo Sumpta © Adriana Molder

Gustavo Sumpta was born in Luanda (Angola) in 1970. He lives and works between Lisbon and Berlin. He studied History at the Faculty of Letters in Porto. He took the Professional Interpreter’s Course at the Ballet Teatro Contemporâneo do Porto. He worked as an assistant and actor in several films by Pedro Costa, including ‘Cavalo Dinheiro’ (2014), ‘Juventude em Marcha’ (2006) and ‘End of the love affair’ (2003). She wrote and performed with choreographer João Fiadeiro in the performances ‘Existência’ (2002) and ‘Para onde vai a luz quando se apaga’ (2006). She taught sculpture at Ar.co in Lisbon from 2009 to 2013 at the invitation of Rui Chafes, director of the school’s sculpture programme. He has been working as a visual artist and performer since 1999.

Cláudia Dias

Cláudia Dias 
© Adriano Miranda
Cláudia Dias © Adriano Miranda

Cláudia Dias was born in Lisbon in 1972. She is a choreographer, performer and teacher. She began her dance training at the Academia Almadense, was awarded a scholarship at the Companhia de Dança de Lisboa, completed the Contemporary Dance Performers Training Course at Forum Dança, and attended the Master’s Degree in Performing Arts at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She began her work as a performer with the Almada Dance Group. She was a member of the collective Ninho de Víboras. She collaborated with Re.Al and was a central interpreter in João Fiadeiro’s creative strategy and in the development, systematisation and transmission of the Real-Time Composition Technique. She created the pieces Feedback, E.U. (entrevista-me urgentemente), Juntem-se 2 a 2, As águias não geram pombas, Per Ti, Histo, One Woman Show, Visita Guiada, Das coisas nascem coisas, Vontade de ter Vontade, 23 + 1 and Nem tudo o que dizem tem de ser feito nem tudo o que fazemos tem de ser dito. She was an associate artist at Re.Al and Espaço do Tempo and a resident artist at Alkantara. She has published texts in the magazines Boa União and Woman On Scene and in the books Correspondencias.Bad and Escenas do Cambio. Awarded by the Portuguese Arts and Ideas Club in the Young Creators competition, 1998. Nominated for the Best Choreography Award in 2013 and 2017 by the Portuguese Society of Authors. Since 2016 she has been developing the project Sete Anos Sete Peças (Seven Years, Seven Pieces), accumulating functions of direction, creation, interpretation and training. She created the association Sete Anos.

Information

Select each of the sections below to find out more about the workshops and the enrolment process.

Who it's for

The workshops are primarily aimed at artists with some experience but are also open to 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

All workshops take place after working hours, from 18h00 to 21h00.

Venue

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

Participation fee

Entries will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Although participation in these workshops can take place independently, they have been designed to be articulated, like different sides of a cube. To have access to Composition in Real Time is, in a way, to have access to these different ways of thinking and practising it. That’s why we strongly advise you to enrol in more than one workshop by creating a registration fee that is inversely proportional to the number of workshops you enrol in.

 

    • 1 workshop = 80€
    • 2 workshops = 140€ (70€ each)
    • 3 workshops = 180€ (60€ each)
    • 4 workshops = 200€ (50€ each)
    • 5 workshops = 200€ (40€ each / fifth workshop free)

Pre-registration

Pre-registration is done using the form available on our website and will be validated once proof of payment has been received and sent to our email address.

Registration process

 

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

Application form

All fields are mandatory.

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.

TECER activities

Forum Dança | CTR | TECER 2025 | João Fiadeiro

TECER | CTR 2025

Real Time Composition [CTR] is mainly known (and transmitted) as a ‘tool’ for composition and improvisation, based on the principles and premises that João Fiadeiro has been developing since the 1990s, based on his practice as a choreographer, researcher and pedagogue. This dimension, which we can call the ‘matrix approach’, translates into the establishment of a work ethic and the systematisation of a language, with principles, premises and strict criteria that can be consulted here.

 

But it also manifests itself in multiple ways, through the way in which different artists, researchers and facilitators have appropriated it, emphasised certain aspects and not others, and extracted possibilities and ways of using it that result in different ways of experiencing it, as a result of their unique experiences and sensitivities to the proposal. This cohabitation of forces (centrifugal and centripetal) to approach the same body of work, as well as having the advantage of feeding back on each other, protects CTR from being ‘captured’ by the temptation to close itself off or fix itself as a ‘method’, in the etymological sense of ‘truth’ or a single path.

TECER | CTR

 

The TECER | CTR programme for 2025 will reflect this positioning by offering the artistic community different ways of accessing this tool, both in terms of its multiple contents and through its workloads.

Forum Dança | CTR | TECER 2025 | João Fiadeiro

CTR_expanded

One-week workshops, after working hours (18h00-21h00)

 

    • Carolina Campos / 28 April to 2 May
    • Daniel Pizamiglio / 26 to 30 May
    • Gustavo Sumpta / 23 to 27 June
    • Cláudia Dias / 28 July to 1 August
    • Márcia Lança / 22 to 26 September
Forum Dança | CTR | TECER 2025 | João Fiadeiro

CTR_summer

From 25th to 30th August (14h00-19h00)

 

With the participation of Márcia Lança and João Gonçalo Lopes, João Fiadeiro will lead an intensive CTR workshop focussing on the concept of ‘prepared space’ (like John Cage’s ‘prepared piano’), which will function as a territory for exploring and experimenting with Real-Time Composition.

Composição em Tempo Real, João Fiadeiro / Forum Dança

CTR open sessions

Every Monday (18h00-20h00)

 

Sessions open to the community, facilitated by João Fiadeiro and Márcia Lança.

Forum Dança | CTR | TECER 2025 | João Fiadeiro

CTR_matrix

From 29th September to 31st October 2025 (14h00-19h00)

 

Advanced research and experimentation course with the Real Time Composition tool.

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.

TECER activities

Maria José Arjona (1973) is a Colombian multidisciplinary performance artist whose
work proposes through radical poetic gestures a unique form of political resistance.
At a time when political art is understood primarily as political activism, Arjona instead
treats the body as a site for subtle and complex re- articulations and questionings of
normative conditioning and violence. She moves away from a focus on the identity of
the artist to highlight the organic, expansive shared potential of the body, a body that
in its centrality may not be individual or biographical, but collective and
unconditioned.
Arjona is currently a fellow at the DAAD in Berlin and was a visiting scholar at the
department of performance studies at NYU. Her upcoming and most recent
exhibitions, seminars and talks include: “All possible forests” (Seminar) Princeton
University, “Moving with Rocks” LASA 2025, “Rivers” Biennial Of Guatemala, “Silent
but together” at The Museum Of Contemporary Art Of Barcelona, “The good life" at
The Museum Of Modern Art Of Medellin, Zero Point Berlin , Art Basel Miami Beach,
The international Biennial Of Performance (Argentina), “The Body As Archive” a (Talk)
at Museum Of Latin American Art Of Buenos Aires (MALBA).

Maria Jose Arjona

26th February 2025, from 6pm to 8pm

This online seminar draws upon “As It Is Inside, So It Is Outside”, a project exhibited at NC Arte in Bogotá (COL) in the wake of the pandemic. Emerging from a network of encounters, transformations, and visions, it reflects on the radical generosity that arises in times of crisis and the formation of temporary communities willing to embrace the unknown as a space of possibility. Spanning from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to Bogotá, New York, and Berlin, the project reimagined interactions between non-human entities and a gathering of alchemists, biologists, dancers, sound artists, architects, oracles, anthropologists, chefs, and designers.

 

Building on these explorations, this seminar invites participants into a space of collective reflection and speculation, where mystery unfolds in the unspoken transmission of movement, the affective architectures emerging between bodies, the vibrational resonance of voices, and the invisible yet deeply felt shifts in molecular motion.

This lecture will be conducted in English and the invited person will be present via video-conference.

Maria Jose Arjona

Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Maria Jose Arjona | Forum Dança
Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Maria Jose Arjona | Forum Dança

Maria José Arjona (1973) is a Colombian multidisciplinary performance artist whose work proposes through radical poetic gestures a unique form of political resistance. At a time when political art is understood primarily as political activism, Arjona instead treats the body as a site for subtle and complex re- articulations and questionings of normative conditioning and violence. She moves away from a focus on the identity of the artist to highlight the organic, expansive shared potential of the body, a body that in its centrality may not be individual or biographical, but collective and unconditioned.

 

Arjona is currently a fellow at the DAAD in Berlin and was a visiting scholar at the department of performance studies at NYU. Her upcoming and most recent exhibitions, seminars and talks include: “All possible forests” (Seminar) Princeton University, “Moving with Rocks” LASA 2025, “Rivers” Biennial Of Guatemala, “Silent but together” at The Museum Of Contemporary Art Of Barcelona, “The good life” at The Museum Of Modern Art Of Medellin, Zero Point Berlin , Art Basel Miami Beach, The international Biennial Of Performance (Argentina), “The Body As Archive” a (Talk) at Museum Of Latin American Art Of Buenos Aires (MALBA).

General information

Date

26th February 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

 

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

 

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Top photo © DR

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

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

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

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8
Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Ezequiel Santos | Forum Dança

Ezequiel Santos

19th February 2025, at 16:30

Portuguese Dance as an Appeal to the Drive for Destiny – A Psychoanalytic Reading

As part of PACAP 8/‘Mystery School’, Ezequiel Santos gives a lecture that proposes a unique approach to dance in Portugal, exploring it as a territory where myth, history and the body intertwine. Through a reading inspired by psychoanalysis, this reflection invites us to think about dance beyond its chronologies and facts, highlighting it as a space of timeless resonances and cultural fictions that manifest themselves in dancing bodies.

As this is the inaugural lecture of the ‘Mystery School’, I propose a descent below the visible plane of facts and chronologies and revisit Portuguese dance through the mythology configured in the very history that the Portuguese have lived. This is a reading inspired by psychoanalysis, which calls for the recovery of the drive for destiny, the understanding of timeless resonances, the description of a mission that has been fulfilled through the spirit, materialised in active cultural fictions that are installed in dancing bodies. Bodies that, under the appearance of the present, carry antiquity within them. | Ezequiel Santos

This lecture will be conducted in English.

Ezequiel Santos

Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Ezequiel Santos | Forum Dança
Ezequiel Santos © Ricardo Bastos

Psychologist, psychotherapist, university lecturer in Social Sciences and Humanities, and researcher at INET-md (FMH). He has a PhD in Contemporary Art (CAUC) and has participated in research projects linking the performing arts, social sciences and digital technologies.

 

He completed CMD II at Forum Dança in 1992 and worked as a performer with choreographers Madalena Victorino, Rui Nunes and Francisco Camacho. Between 1996 and 2006 he was director of Forum Dança’s Choreographic Support Centre, with intense collaboration in international networks of artists and producers.

 

His interests span several disciplines, predominantly in the thematic areas of dance history, the phenomenology of aesthetic experience, Art Based Research and ecotopias.

General information

Date

19th February 2025, 16:30

 

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

 

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Top photo © Ricardo Bastos

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

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

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

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8
33.º CGPAE 2025 - Curso de Gestão/Produção das Artes do Espetáculo

33.º CGPAE

Performing Arts Management/Production Course

February 7 to December 20, 2025

Introduction

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

General Objectives

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

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

 

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

Pedagogical Coordination

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

Informações

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

A quem se destina

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

Corpo Docente / Estrutura Curricular

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

A estrutura curricular abrange:

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

Horários

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

Processo de Candidatura

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

 

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

Pagamentos

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

 

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

 

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

Testemunhos de ex-participantes

Regulamento

A.) PARTICIPANTES

A.1.) Deveres 

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

A.2.) Direitos 

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

 

B.) ENTIDADE FORMADORA

B.1.) Deveres

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

B.2.) Direitos

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

 

C.) AVALIAÇÃO

C.1.) Avaliação qualitativa

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

C.2.) Avaliação quantitativa

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

C.3.) Nota final

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

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

C.4.) Certificado de formação

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

 

D.) DURAÇÃO DA FORMAÇÃO

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

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

Formulário

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

Programa completo

História da Dança

Forum Dança - Ezequiel Santos
Ezequiel Santos

Conteúdos

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

 

Objetivos

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

 

Biografia

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

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

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

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

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

Música

Forum Dança - Rui Campos Leitão
Rui Campos Leitão

Conteúdos

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

 

Objetivos

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

 

Biografia

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

Teatro

Forum Dança - Miguel Castro Caldas
Miguel Castro Caldas

Conteúdos

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

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

Algumas linhas de força:

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

 

Biografia

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

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

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

Comunicação Cultural

Forum Dança - Inês Lampreia
Forum Dança - Inês Lampreia

Conteúdos

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

 

Objectivos

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

 

Biografia

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

Gestão Financeira

Forum Dança - Rita Guerreiro
Rita Guerreiro

Conteúdos

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

 

Objetivos

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

 

Biografia

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

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

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

Políticas Culturais

Forum Dança - Paula Varanda
Paula Varanda

Conteúdos

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

 

Biografia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Financiamento Europeu para a Cultura

Francisco Cipriano

Conteúdos

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Biografia

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

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

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

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

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

Direito na Cultura

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

Conteúdos

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

Objetivos

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

 

Biografias

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

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

 

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

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

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

Direção de Cena / Espaços Culturais

Forum Dança - Jonas Omberg
Jonas Omberg

Conteúdos

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

 

Objetivos

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

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

 

Biografia

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

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

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

Estratégias de Programação

Forum Dança - Elisabete Paiva
Elisabete Paiva

Conteúdos

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

 

Objetivos

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

 

Biografia

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

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

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

Arte e Sociedade

Forum Dança - Narcisa Costa
Forum Dança - Inês Lampreia

Objetivos

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

 

Biografia

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

Luz e Som (2 módulos)

Carlos Ramos
Forum Dança - Rui Campos Leitão
Rui Campos Leitão

Conteúdos

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

 

Objetivos

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

 

 

Módulo de Luz com Carlos Ramos

Biografia

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

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

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

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

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

Atualmente é o diretor técnico da Culturgest.

 

 

Módulo de Som com Rui Campos Leitão

(ver biografia no módulo de Música)

Projeto

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

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

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

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

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Forum Dança - Workshop Butoh 2024 - Yael Karavan

Workshop Butoh
Yael Karavan

14 and 15 of December 2024 | 11h00 – 17h00

Butoh fu – Composition with images, the mysterious language of Ankoku Butoh

 

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

Tatsumi Hijikata, the main Ankoku Butoh Dance Founder (Ankoku Butoh- dance of Darkness) used imagery to choreograph his dancers. Butoh-Fu is something that Yukio Waguri, one of his long time dancers, put together from his own notes of the words used by T.Hijikata when he choreographed his dancers at Asbestos-kan, the studio he led in Tokyo.

In this workshop, Karavan introduces, explores and gives experience of numerous original Butoh-Fu, taking us onto a journey through the origins researching for new ways of writing dance / movement scores. Butoh-Fu allows us to encounter the absurd, dadaist and obscure realms of Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno and Ankoku Butoh.

The main elements that will be explored in the workshop are metamorphoses, dance through imagery, presence, awareness, and the tension between opposites with the aim 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 Butoh is still extremely relevant nowadays, Karavan shares more than 25 years of Butoh experience, during which she had the opportunity to work with founders of Butoh in Japan, Kazuo Ohno and Motofuji San – wife of T. Hijikata – as well as with Tadashi Endo and MAMU dance theatre, Yumiko Yoshioka and Ten-Pen-Chi, Sankai Juku, Minako Seki, Carlota Ikeda, Akira Kasai, Ko Morobushi and Natsu Nakajuma among others.

 

Photo © Raul Bartolome

Informations

Select each of the sections below to find out more about the workshop and the enrolment process.

Who is it for

This cycle of workshops is aimed at professionals, students and people with or without previous experience in movement, dance and/or theatre.

Maximum number of participants: 20 people.

Schedule

Dates: 14th and 15th December (Saturday and Sunday) 2024
Times: 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Venue

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

Participation fee

    • Until the 7th of December 2024: 77,00 € (early bird discount)
    • As of 8th December 2024: 88,00 €
    • 10% discount: for people who attend or have attended Forum Dança long-term courses (PACAP/CGPAE/PEPCC/etc.).

Pre-registration

Pre-registration is done using the form available on our website and will be validated once proof of payment has been received and sent to our email address.

Registration process

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

Registration form

All fields are mandatory.

Registrations are now closed.

Bio

Yael Karavan

Yael Karavan
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 information: www.yaelkaravan.com

Composição em Tempo Real, João Fiadeiro / Forum Dança

Real Time Composition_Open Sessions_2024

Mondays from 6pm to 8pm

from October 6, 2025 to November, 2025

Facilitated by João Fiadeiro and Márcia Lança

We will continue with the Monday sessions (from 6pm to 8pm), 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.

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 from 18.00 to 20.00.

Venue

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

Bios

João Fiadeiro

Forum Dança | PACAP 5 - 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

Forum Dança | PACAP 5 - Márcia Lança
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.

Daniel Pizamiglio

Forum Dança | PACAP 5 - Daniel Pizamiglio
Daniel Pizamiglio © Matheus Martins

Daniel Pizamiglio is a Brazilian performer and creator based in Portugal.

In his work he seeks to materialise encounters between the word and the body, and how to activate the corporeality of affections and relationships.

He was João Fiadeiro’s assistant and co-curator of PACAP5 at Forum Dança.

In 2023, she premiered ‘M’, a performance that transforms mourning into a collective and political event.

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.

TECER activities

Forum Dança - Aulas Regulares 2024/25

Contemporary Dance
for Children

with Carla Ribeiro

from 7 to 12 year old

School year 2024/2025

Quarta-Feira | 18h30-19h30

The aim is to involve the student in an exploration that stimulates their technical and creative potential, giving them the intrinsic pleasure of dancing.

The freedom of contemporary dance, making use of the body, movement, gesture, voice, words, etc., makes it possible to develop interpretation, sensitivity and emotion through movement.

Through various exercises, improvisation, team spirit and stage presence, students discover and become aware of their bodies and their expressiveness.

It’s a space for collective creation!

Bio

Carla Ribeiro graduated from the Escola Superior de Dança in the field of performance and attended the Dance in the Community course at Forum Dança.

As a performer she has worked with Susana Vidal, Olga Roriz Companhia de Dança, Marina Nabais Dança, John Mowat, Paulo Ribeiro, Ricardo Pais, Pigeons International, O Útero, A Torneira, Nuno Carinhas, Paula Massano, Fernanda Lapa, João Lourenço and Teatro O Bando.

Alongside her work as a performer, she teaches Creative and Contemporary Dance at Colégio Cesário Verde and Body/Movement at AMA.

Pre-registration process

  1. Pre-register online using the form provided;
  2. Wait for our email with payment instructions;
  3. Pay for your registration as indicated in the email sent to you;
  4. Send us proof of payment to our email address;
  5. Your registration will only be validated once we have received your receipt.
Forum Dança - Aulas Regulares 2024/25

Creative
Dance

with Carla Ribeiro

from 3 to 6 year old

School year 2024/2025

Wednesday | 17h45-18h30

The experience of dance plays a fundamental role in the development of any child, stimulating imagination, the ability to manipulate materials and organize them into different forms, the capacity for abstraction, as well as self-esteem and relationships with others.

In this class, in a very playful way, we will discover the movements of our bodies through exercises, games and simple proposals.

We will explore shapes, rhythms, dynamics, levels, objects, etc., contributing to a greater perception of our own body, space/time and the world around us.

Bio

Carla Ribeiro graduated from the Escola Superior de Dança in the field of performance and attended the Dance in the Community course at Forum Dança.

As a performer she has worked with Susana Vidal, Olga Roriz Companhia de Dança, Marina Nabais Dança, John Mowat, Paulo Ribeiro, Ricardo Pais, Pigeons International, O Útero, A Torneira, Nuno Carinhas, Paula Massano, Fernanda Lapa, João Lourenço and Teatro O Bando.

Alongside her work as a performer, she teaches Creative and Contemporary Dance at Colégio Cesário Verde and Body/Movement at AMA.

Pre-registration process

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