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Forum Dança - Aulas Regulares 2023/24

Regular
Classes

Adults

School Year 2023/24

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

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

See the General Regulation for more information.

Informations

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

Calendar

Start: September 18, 2023

End: June 28, 2024

This year the Choreographic Laboratory classes will only start in October.

 

    1. Regular studio classes will have breaks during the Christmas period (from 15/12/2023 to 02/01/2024) and Carnival Tuesday (13/02/2024);
    2. In the months of September and December, the modalities will have a 50% reduction in the monthly fee due to the reduced number of classes;
    3. Regular classes are not open on public holidays, including Carnival Tuesday (13/02/2024);

Preliminary notes

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

 

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

Registration process

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

Payment

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

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

Discounts

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

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

Registration form

Registration are closed.

Timetables

19h30-21h00

From Body to the Body

Interdisciplinary Movement Practices [+16 y.o.]

Gisela Dória

09h30 – 10h30

Yoga [+16 y.o.]

Francisca Pinto

19h30 – 21h30

Contemporary Dance [+16 y.o.]

Josefa Pereira

Bárbara Faustino

Natália Mendonça

17h45 – 18h30

Creative Dance  [3/6 y.o.]

Carla Ribeiro

18h30 – 19h30

Contemporary Dance [7/12 y.o.]

Carla Ribeiro

19h30 – 21h30

Choreographic Laboratory [+16 y.o.]

Maria Ramos

09h30 – 10h30

Yoga [+16 y.o.]

Francisca Pinto

19h30 – 21h30

Contemporary Dance [+16 y.o.]

Josefa Pereira

Bárbara Faustino

Natália Mendonça

 Registration Fee

  • 25 € (Normal Fee)
  • 15 € (People who attended regular classes in the previous school year or long-term courses) (2)
  • 15 € (Resident at Penha de França) (1)
  • 15 € (Normal Fee)
  • 10 € (People who attended regular classes in the previous school year or long-term courses) (2)
  • 10 € (Resident at Penha de França) (1)
  • 10 €

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

Monthly Fees

1x/week – 40 €

2x/week – 50 €

3x/week – 60 €

4x/week – 70 €

Experimental Class – 7 € (3)

Single lesson – 12 € (4)

1x/week – 30 €

Experimental Class – Free of charge

1x/week – 35 €

Experimental Class – Free of charge

NOTES

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

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

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

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

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

(6) – People who have attended one of Forum Dança’s PACAP courses get a 50% discount on the monthly fee.

Regular Classes 2023/24

Forum Dança | 8 Trabalhos: Vanessa Lonau - AS IF I WAS A ROAD | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto

Vanessa Lonau

As If I Was a Road

Duration 40 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Main Auditorium

22 and 23 July | sat 20h00 and sun 19h00

‘as if I was a road’ is a guided tour through familiar landmarks misplaced in time. It asks, how can we move inside of earth that is not fertile? Dust mingles with wet dreams of desert inhabitants. The spatiotemporal distance between dwelling, resting, longing, and overwhelm are polarizing forces of light and darkness. Dreams, or mirages appear, and darkness becomes almost visible.

Choreography and Concept Vanessa Lonau

Interpreters Estrellx Supernova, Sofia Kafol, Rafaela Santos, Camilla Morello, María Ibarretxe and Vanessa Lonau

Music Artur Pispalhas
“Oh, Lovely Appearance of Death” by efdemin

Lighting and scenography Leticia Strycky, Vanessa Lonau

Vanessa Lonau (she/her) is a performing artist from Moldova/ raised in Germany. She works with the entities of gestures and the architectural body in space. She explores different ways of communication and symbols through dream like states which interplay between movement, text, voice, and electronic soundscapes. In her work she’s constantly researching on the relation between body and mind. Her aim is to create a sense of empowerment through the celebration of the body and social practices.

Image Credits © DR

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

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Forum Dança | 8 Trabalhos: Lorea Burge - B FIELD | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto

Lorea Burge

B Field

Duration 60 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 6+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Stage of the Main Auditorium (reduce seating capacity – 63 seats)

22 and 23 July | sat 21h00 and sun 16h30

If I were a musician, what sort of music would I like to make? With what I have, what sort of music can I make?
B Field brings these questions to an enquiry into solo making, led by desire and inspired by the absurd and insistent masc self-sufficiency of ‘one-man bands’. A live excavation of sounds and beats reveals an attempt to build a song worthy of a night-club dance floor, thus creating my very own ‘one-(wo)man band’.

Lorea Burge

Choreography and Performance Lorea Burge

Sound Design in collaboration with Bobby Brim

Lorea is a dance artist trained at Laban (2011-2014), and is informed by improvised performance, doing as practice, live music and singing, and most recently House. She is one of Unbaptised Infants (est. 2015) with Hannah Parsons (UK) and Josefina Rozenwasser (AR), creating experimental sound-dance shows, and in 2022 were resident artists at MACBA & LCE. As a performer, Lorea has worked with Charles Linehan (UK), Seke Chimutengwende (UK), J N Harrington (UK) and Ehryn Torrell (CA) among others.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to the sound wizards Bobby and Pedro for the support and lessons on Ableton, to Sofia, Vítor, Alex, Chichi and Santi for the accompaniment, to all of PACAP 6 for the collective thinking and all-round good vibes, and to the team at Forum Danca for the care and all the logistical support.

Image Credits © Lorea Burge (2023)

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

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Forum Dança | 8 Trabalhos: Camilla Morello, Tarlie Lumby e Victor Lataque - PTHST’ N | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto

Camilla Morello, Tarlie Lumby
and Victor Lattaque

Pthst’ N

Duration 60 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Stage of the Main Auditorium (reduce seating capacity – 42 seats)

21 and 22 July | fri 21h00 and sat 16h30

This is a synopsis. This synopsis starts where your eyes decide to land. The land is the unsettled place of nowhere. Nowhere is where anything can be everywhere in any time. Time begins where story ends. Ends are not the opposite of anything. Anything might appear in an un-named land. Land inhabited only by the innocent nobody. Nobody are corpses and fools moved by enigma and expansion. Expansion through otherness. Otherness being just. Just enough separateness to prompt us into longing, just enough longing to remind us we are separate.

Created and performed by Anatoli Collective

External eye Catarina Saraiva

Anatoli is a collective based in Lisbon born from and through multiple biographies. Created in forms of togetherness that centres tenderness, unknown qualities and the reconfiguration of kinship.

 

Camilla Morello’s artistic research, the result of eclectic interests and training, builds on the interdisciplinarity between theatrical language, dance and performance, having also been related with video, photography and installation. Graduated at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Rome as actress, after a degree in Anthropology (La Sapienza University, Rome) and studies of art, philosophy, and aesthetics (Univesité Paris 8) moves to Lisbon where he specializes in the biennial course of Olga Roriz’s dance- theater and attends workshops with various artists. Worked with Tamara Cubas, Miguel Moreira, Miguel Pereira, Catarina Câmara, Maurícia Neves, Mickaël de Oliveira and Nuno M. Cardoso among others.

 

Tarlie Lumby is a British dance artist and choreographer currently based in Berlin. With a BA in Art and Visual Culture and many years training and working in dance they have developed a rich interdisciplinary practices focused on contemporary dance and live art. Preoccupied with the exploration of altered states, spirit and mystery; Their choreographic works aim to create immersive sites of encounter where deep states of connection, fantasy and the transpersonal expose the body as an archive of human dreams.

 

Victor Lattaque Bio
I no longer want to say by courage
I want to present myself to space, to time, to the object, to others through what I am,
I no longer want to walk by will
But to celebrate life out of necessity
I no longer want my good understanding of what I see, what I hear
I want a more unfathomable/penetrating/essential relationship to the living and to all that is attempted
I want to have regards for reality when she is stands beneath my eyes and when I speak about her
I want to hold in esteem the living, the dead and the unborn

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Endless gratitude to all PACAP 6 artist. All choreographers and artist that worked with us during PACAP 6. Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz. Leticia Skrycky and Santi. Forum Dança team – Dora Carvalho, Carolina Martins, Mafalda Sustelo & Ezequiel Santos. Elio, Ana Correa, Catarina Saraiva, Holly Stoppit, Restaurante Bolos Caseiros.

Image Credits © Anatoli Collective (2023)

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

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Forum Dança | 8 Trabalhos: Lucas Damiani - HYDRA | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto

Lucas Damiani

Hydra

Duration 50 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Stage of the Main Auditorium (reduce seating capacity – 76 seats)

21 and 23 July | fri 19h00 and sun 20h30

HYDRA is a choreographic de-installation that explores an intimate encounter with materials in a state of transformation. The space unfolds from an initial sculpture in its inevitable collapse.
Through bodies, sounds, and materials that pour into one another, the entanglement of desires and their oscillations are revealed. Entities and creatures emerge and (con)fuse in a liquid, vibrant, and ever-changing landscape.

Direction Lucas Damiani

Artistic accompaniment & collaboration Mariana Catalina Iris

Co-creation e performance Andrei Bessa, Nicole Gomes, Lucas Damiani and Mariana Catalina Iris.

Dramaturgical assistance Bibi Dória

Costume designer Natalia Castañola

External eye João Fiadeiro

Lucas Damiani (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1994) is an artist working at the intersections of performing and visual arts, with a background in photography, psychology, contemporary dance, and performance. His work intertwines installations with performance and choreography, exploring strategies of (dis)/ (re)recognition and transformation, encounters, touch, and intimacy.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Noumissa Sidibé, Carolina Canteli, Nazario Díaz, Bruno Brandolino, Marcelo Evelin, Katarina Lanier, Simone Aughterlony, María Ibarretxe, Roberto Dagô, Tamara Catharino, Carolina Mendonça, Vicente Antunes Ramos, Giovanna Monteiro, Bárbara Cordeiro, Márcia Lança, Era Jajá Rolim, José Cirilo Neto, Daniel Pizamiglio, Santiago Rodríguez Tricot, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz, the team of Forum Dança: Dora Carvalho, Carolina Martins, Eduardo Quinhones Hall and Mafalda Sustelo, and everyone who makes up PACAP6.

Image Credits © R. Biker (2014)

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

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Forum Dança | 8 Trabalhos: Bobby Brim - THE INFRASTRUCTURES OF CAVITIES | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto

Bobby Brim

The Infrastructures of Cavities

Duration 60 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Stage of the Main Auditorium (reduce seating capacity – 60 seats)

15 and 16 July | sat 21h00 and sun 19h00

Cavities are defined as the empty spaces inside solid bodies. Yet they are often filled with organs, fluids, electromagnetic frequencies and other ever-changing, versatile agents.
Infrastructures are sets of interdependent elements that support all or part of a structure or network. The prefix infra means below, lower down, but also evokes the invisible. Invisible of this world* : the concept of the void may here give way to the extreme, turbid materiality that makes up hollows and underground passages. This moving matter organizes itself to the rhythm of an infrabass that organizes itself to the rhythm of moving matter, the infinite logic of distorted feedback.
The multiple, non-essential body emerging from the darkness becomes images, interactions, forces and bastardized interstices. Matter imagines itself, but never on its own, and, full of desire, spews out its distorted echoes.

 

* ici-bas in french, would be translated literally by down-here.

Artistic direction, sound creation and live technical set Bobby Brim

Performance Victor Lattaque, Lorea Burge, María Ibarretxe del Val, Lucas Damiani and Bobby Brim

External-eye and dramaturgical accompaniment Mariana Catalina Iris

Co-creation Lorea Burge, Victor Lattaque, María Ibarretxe del Val and Lucas Damiani

Performance support Tarly Lumby, Connor Scott and Silvana Ivaldi

Costume support Silvana Ivaldi

Bobby Brim is a transdisciplinary artist who composts their soul according to the cyborg entities they meet on their way.
Fluid, creator of images, installations, sounds and digital troubles, they are working on producing data-producing monsters and exploring autonomous worlds.
Pixels, decibels, waves, bodies and collectives are the concrete materials that allow them to probe the transgressive spaces in a post-conspiratorial world.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THANKS

to the precious and generous external eyes of Jaja Rolim and Joao Fiadeiro, as well as those of Bruno Brandelino, Romain Beltrão Teule, Connor Scott, Fillipa Cordeiro, Carol, Frederic and Tamara. Thank you also for the web of friendship that sustains the possibility of creation.

to Sofia Dias and Victor Roriz for their guidance and rich pedagogy, and to Leticia Skrycky and Santi.

to the Forum Dança team and their dedication for enabling these situations to emerge in all their singularity.

to the wonderful artist-participants of PACAP 6 and to the ecology of our relationships.

to the guest choreographers, for the intensity and depth of the sharing of connected research and its multiple futures. I’d especially like to thank Marcelo Evelin for the joyful ethical, situational and relational explosives he sows in his path.

to Luara Raio for the moving solidity, tenderness and deep sharing of what a family of friendship, a network of political bodies and situated creations can be.

Thanks also to Acaua Sheyrera, Daniel Lulhman and Geoffrey Badel for their support in the early stages of this adventure.

to Timothé Pellissier and Mo Lar for the slow, daily design of this profound facial presence, so particular and so meaningful today.

to l’Antre-Peau, especially Isabelle Carlier and David Legrand, for supporting the possibility of a deviant, transdisciplinary and joyfully troubled creative space.

to Anaïs Cabandé, Micha Gorlitz, Chloé Desmoinaux and AV-NET, JoL, OOOOO, the transhackfeminist network, the Porn Process, and many others, thanks to whom narratives are in perpetual mutation, dynamic, collective, possible.

to Nina Botkay, Carol Goulards and Meiga for their real estate and, in a way, moral support. to Maddie Tait-Jamieson for co-creating existence.

Image Credits © Bobby Brim (2023)

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

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Forum Dança | 8 Trabalhos: Rafaela Santos - SORRY I MISSED SOME PARTS | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto

Rafaela Santos

Sorry I Missed Some Parts

Duration 25 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Main Auditorium

15 and 16 July | sat 20h00 and sun 16h30

DAY
ONE DAY
ONE MORE DAY
NOT ONE MORE DAY
TE
WAS
TE
WASTE
WASTE NOT ANOTHER DAY

Creation and interpretation Rafaela Santos

Support for dramaturgy Alex Cassal

Movement Support Yola Pinto

Special Participation PACAP 6 participants

Rafaela Santos was born in Lisbon, in 1972. She is an Actress, Director and Theater Trainer and thinks she has a certain talent for dance. She co-founded Amarelo Silvestre in Canas de Senhorim where she is co-artistic director, together with Fernando Giestas. She has a son and a daughter. Is happy. Often.
She took a Bi-Stage Degree in Theater and Education_ 2007 and a bachelor’s degree in Actors’ Training _1995, at ESTC in Lisbon, after the Actors’ Training Course, IFICT_ 1991. She debuted professionally in 1994 with Jorge Silva Melo, later working with Rogério de Carvalho, John Mowat, Ana Nave, Sandra Faleiro, Bruno Bravo, Maria Gil, Victor Hugo Pontes, Lígia Soares, among others. Receives the award for Best Actress – Teatro na Década_1996.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Amarelo Silvestre and Fernando Giestas.

Image Credits © Amélia Giestas (2023)

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

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Forum Dança | 8 Trabalhos: Mariana Catalina Iris - ENTRE UMA BRISA E UMA SUDESTADA | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto

Mariana Catalina Iris

Entre uma Brisa e uma Sudestada

Duration 60 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Stage of the Main Auditorium (reduce seating capacity – 76 seats)

14 and 15 July | fri 21h00 e sat 16h30

A moment that repeats itself over and over again, a reunion with what once was and asks for passage to still be. A subtle and resistant territory that exists in permanent recomposition. A community that remains in the intent and practices enchantment as an act of tenderness, invention and reconnection. What do we do with the remains? Bring wind from the south.

Director Mariana Catalina Iris

Artistic accompaniment and collaboration Lucas Damiani

Creation and performance Carolina Canteli, Tamara Catharino, Lucas Damiani, Bibi Dória, Andrei Bessa and Mariana Catalina Iris

Sound Composition Bobby Brim

Costume Designer Natalia Castañola

Light design Mariana Catalina Iris and Leticia Skrycky

Mariana Catalina Iris (UY, 1991) graduated in Contemporary Dance from the Escuela Nacional de Danza SODRE (UY) and in Plastic and Visual Arts from UdelaR (UY). She is a transdisciplinary researcher and creator of performing arts – installations. Manager and producer at the Center for Contemporary Practices CROMA (Montevideo, UY).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Alex Cassal, João Fiadeiro, Leticia Sckryky, Bruno Brandolino, Roberto Dagô, Barbara Cordeiro, Renato Rocha, Daniel Pizamiglio, Ramon Lima, Sofía Díaz, Vitor Roriz, and the PACAP 6 group. To the Forum Dança team, Dora Carvalho, Carolina Martins e Mafalda Sustelo. Lucas Damiani, Carol Canteli, Bibi Dória, Tamara Catharino, Bobby Brim, Andrei Bessa y Natalia Castañola thank you for the party.

Image Credits © Lucas Damiani (2023)

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

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Forum Dança | 8 Trabalhos: Marcelo Castro - O AMOR DA RUA | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto

Marcelo Castro

O Amor da Rua

Duration 60 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 6+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Main Auditorium

14 and 16 July | fri 19h00 and sun 20h30

Amor da Rua is an ode to those who live in the breach, dancing between worlds, breaking the pattern and subverting in the chill of time.
This work proposes to reinvent affections for invisible people by building doors to the openness of the street, that place of astonishment, that place of the unexpected.
It is a movement towards the other. In search of the other as mystery, as desire, the other as hell.

Conception and Direction Marcelo Castro

Creator Interpreters Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti and Marcelo Castro

Special Participation Victória dos Santos

Artistic Collaboration Gaya de Medeiros, Gustavo Ciríaco and João Fiadeiro

Marcelo Castro is a scene artist. He is currently investigating walking as an aesthetic practice. He is interested in the poetics of space, encounter, and chance. In the theater, he developed his work in partnership with several artists and theater companies. He was a founding member of Grupo Espanca! where he remained for 13 years, acting, and directing.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Carolina Fenati, Daniel Ribão, Eduardo Quinhones Hall, Flavia Regaldo, Júlia Hansen and Luísa Rabello.

Image Credits © Flavia Regaldo (2023)

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

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Forum Dança | Inside Out: Estrellx Supernova - Animate, Intimate (AI): Cycle 1 - Points of Encounter/Puente de Encuentros or [[Before Wonderland Fell, We Fell in Touch]] | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / Culturgest

Estrellx Supernova

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

Duration 7h48 min (aprox.) | M/16

Culturgest | Culturgest / Garden of the Galveias Palace Library

9 July, from 12h12 to 20h00 (durational performance)

Attention: Capacity limited to 40 people simultaneously.

it is also an inheritance.
the sweetest of desserts.
racism/pleasure.
it hurts.
I. AM. SO. PROUD. OF.
an attempt to open your heart.
all you have to do is remember.
take up all of the space.
i repeat: WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU WAS NOT YOUR FAULT! (x3)
they watch over me too because I am also you. i love you.
reincarnated: at this time, for this time.
a light filled spring with roses sprinkled all around,
held by angels whispering holy water frequencies into your ear.
curved up or curved down?
curved up: it will massage the prostate better that way.
handle w/ aftercare.
before before before.
after after after.
a letter of acknowledgment.
my landma$$.
running into bedazzled Glory Holes.
i consume them all w/ no regrets.
what do you call something that changes you forever?
there/here.
are you from here?
no, i am from over there.
do you cum here often?
no, i mostly enjoy cumming on my own body.
spit or swallow?
it depends.
more time.
more context.
ready.
finally: at the after party of the aftermath.
no come down.

Lead Choreographer/Creative Director Estrellx Supernova

Performance Activators/Cosmic Angels Ana Victoria Andres, Maria Ibarretxe, Mariana Catalina Iris, Silvana Ivaldi, Vanessa Lonau, Connor Scott, Estrellx Supernova, Camilla Morello, Bobby Brim, Tarlie Lumby, Lorea Burge, Marta Ramos, producers – Forum Dança team members and front of house from Culturgest

Sonic designer Lorea Burge

Dramaturgs/Thought Partners Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz, Santiago Rodriguez Tricot, Sheena McGrandles, Alex Cassal, David Marques and Christine de Smedt

Estrellx (they/them/elle) is a queer, Afro-Central-American-American choreographer, performer, curator, writer and somatic entrepreneurial brujx. Choreographically, Estrellx integrates club spaces as sites of generative dissonance and asks, “Are we celebrating or mourning or both?” They implement Qi Energetic principles, divination, improvisation, and club dancing into their ritualistic performative language and conceive of choreography as an intimate practice of embodied excavation.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would love to say a tremendous thank you to the entire team at Forum Dança and Culturgest for supporting me with bringing this vision to life and to all of the phenomenal guest artists who were curated into PACAP 6. Sofia & Vitor you two are a match made in heaven and so grateful to finally engage with you and your presences. It took a few years, but I finally made it.

I would love to say a second tremendous thank you to all of my collaborators for showing up to co-creating and activating this work and for trusting me.

I would love to say a final tremendous thank you to my energetic-spiritual constellation of care, ancestors, and loved ones supporting me from near and far.

Image Credits © Elyse Mertz (2022). Fall Movement.

Culturgest | Inside Out: Novas Criações PACAP 6

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

Apoios e Parcerias

Coprodução PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto e Culturgest.

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Forum Dança | Inside Out: Connor Scott - POOF | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / Culturgest

Connor Scott

POOF

Duration 1h15 min (aprox.)

Culturgest | Culturgest Garage

6 and 8 July, 20h30

Everyone is briefly suspended from the floor, simultaneously going up and coming down. A disappearance of the self occurs whilst suspended and our hope not to return to the ground appears

 

‘POOF’ hypnotises itself through continually shifting its ground. Shapeshifting between fictioning, labouring and dancing, the work invokes a slippery place of (non) arrival in the body as a tool to disappear.

 

Through a practice of minding and mining our presence, we attend to the periphery by putting our attention into drag. ‘POOF’ behaves as a mirage dancing from gesture to jump and dwells on the ephemerality of the dance whilst rhythmically reminding us of our tethers to memories and histories that we feel but don’t know

 

It is a work built and fuelled on notions of not naming in order to see. ‘POOF’ is a word used to describe a sudden disappearance or in British slang, it is a term to describe an effeminate homosexual

 

7.6.23

Created and Directed by Connor Scott

Creative collaborators and performers Bibi Dória, Inês Pinheiro, Victor Lattaque, Lorea Burge, Emily Da Silva, Estrellx Supernova and Bruno Brandolino

Music Original score with Ana Ferreira & Francisco Silva

Translation Inês Zinho Pinheiro

Costumes Ana Silva

Connor is a performer and dance maker born and raised in the northeast of England. They’re background in movement stems from their studies in martial arts, breakdance and most prominently Latin and ballroom dances. Their practice is shaped through various intersections of performance from choreographic and movement research to texts, interviews, and archives. In their own dances they often work with the notion of people as an already existing choreography, looking at how to generate a collective energetic event departing from the hope in which dance instils within them. They are currently investigating how to disappear and reappear in the act of dancing…

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Duarte Amado, Yagiz Akin, João Dos Santos Martins, Alex Cassal, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz, Forum Dança and PACAP 6 artists.

Image Credits © DR “The Newbiggin sword dancers in 1925”

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

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

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Forum Dança | Inside Out: Silvana Ivaldi - PLEASE KICK ME OUT BEFORE I GET IN | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / Culturgest

Silvana Ivaldi

Please Kick Me Out Before I Get In

Duration 50 min (aprox.) | M/16

Culturgest | Culturgest garden pond

6 and 8 July, 19h00

The tragedy is rather distant and brusque, as if poking fun at the protagonist. The spatial arrangement raised the question of commitment. Their medium: sited awareness. Io non credo a nulla, credo soltanto che sai un bene tradire, credo che sai bene trasgredire qualcosa negli ordini. Or what precisely it is that they drive? Dominar o mercado espectacular. É aqui que se faz a prova de vida? She’szzzz seizing something though.*

 

 

 

*This text is an assemblage by Silvana Ivaldi from: Frédéric Gros; Claire Bishop; Peggy Phelan; McKenzie Wark; Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins; Fleur Jaeggy; Judith Butler; Guy Debord and Silvana Ivaldi.

By Silvana Ivaldi

With Silvana Ivaldi e Tarli Lumby

Bordighera, 1987. Graduated in Fashion and Master in Image Design, she makes use of the heterogeneity of her path to think, explore and create poetic forms through visual, performative, and spectacular means. She is a creator, performer, actress, costume designer, art director and graphic designer. She is the founder of Sr. João e Activo Tóxico. She is an associate artist of Cão Solteiro.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Armando Carvalho, Bobby Brim, Camilla Morello, Connor Scott, Diana Niepce, Estrellx Supernova, Lorea Burge, Lucas Damiani, Marcelo Castro, María Ibarretxe, Mariana Catalina Iris, Patrícia Soares, Pedro Barreiro, Rafaela Santos, Vanessa Lonau and Victor Lattaque.

Image Credits © Pedro Barreiro. Editing: Silvana Ivaldi

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

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

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Forum Dança | Inside Out: María Ibarretxe - STUDY 9/VERMELHO | Sculpturing the darkness | Apresentações finais PACAP 6 / Culturgest

MarÍa Ibarretxe

VERMELHO BEATS / Sculpturing the white

Duration 45 min (aprox.) | M/16

Culturgest | Room 1 and Foyer of Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium

6 and 8 July, 17h00 and 18h00

This site-specific work is part of the choreographic investigation “The Spontaneous Breath of Enthusiasm”, driven by the threefold Ancient Greek concept of enthusiasm: “In”, “Theo”, and “Asthma” which combine to mean “inner breath of God”.
Ibarretxe adopts this definition, changes the gender, and transforms it into “Inner Blow of the Goddess”, as in the engine that starts (or activates) bodies after times of mourning and grief.

Concept and direction María Ibarretxe del Val

Collaboration and performers Lucas Damiani and Victor Lattaque

Artistic accompaniment Carolina Mendoça and Silvana Ivaldi

María Ibarretxe is a visual and performing artist who combines various mediums including film, sound, installation and choreography. Her live performances and installations simulate cinematographic experiences in which the audience becomes part of the action. Her work is driven fundamentally by artistic research–inspired by the culture and context of each individual project.
She studied drama art in Basque Country and direction at the EICTV/Cuba. In 2002 she co-funded with Alaitz Arenzana the artistic collective Sra Polaroiska, obtaining awards such as Gure Artea for best creative activity in Basque Country 2017, Ertibil 2012, Choreographic Contest of Madrid 2012 or INJUVE 2003 (Ministry of Culture of Spain). They were associated artists in Azkuna Zentroa 2019-2021. Parallel, Ibarretxe collaborated with Koen de Preter in Belgium, Renate Keerd in Estonia and Miriam Sedacca in Japan.
Since 2014, Ibarretxe has developed a project-process that reflects on states of mourning throughout different residencies in Belgium, South Korea, Japan, up state New York and Kurdistan Irak.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Robert Jackson, Elena Oguiza, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz Gisela Dória, Alex Cassal, Márcia Lança, Filipe Lemos, artistas PACAP 6 e equipa Forum Dança.

Image Credits © María Ibarretxe (2023)

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

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

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

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

PACAP 6 Presentations

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

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz

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

Artistic accompaniment Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz

Light and Technical Direction Leticia Skrycky and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot

Producer Forum Dança

Coproducer TBA-Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

COMPLETE PROGRAM

Culturgest | Inside Out

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

More information at Culturgest website here

July 6

17h00 e 18h00

Room 1 and Foyer of Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium

Maria Ibarretxe

VERMELHO BEATS/Sculpturing the white

 

19h00

Culturgest garden pond

Silvana Ivaldi

Please Kick Me Out Before I Get In

 

20h30

Culturgest Garage

Connor Scott

POOF

July 8

17h00 e 18h00

Room 1 and Foyer of Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium

Maria Ibarretxe

VERMELHO BEATS/Sculpturing the white

 

19h00

Culturgest garden pond

Silvana Ivaldi

Please Kick Me Out Before I Get In

 

20h30

Culturgest Garage

Connor Scott

POOF

July 9

12h12 – 20h00

Culturgest/Garden of the Galveias Palace Library

Estrellx Supernova

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

 

Attention: Capacity limited to 40 people simultaneously.

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | 8 Works

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

More information at TBA website here

July 14

19h00

Marcelo Castro

O Amor da Rua

 

21h00

Mariana Catalina Iris

Entre uma Brisa e uma Sudestada

July 15

16h30

Mariana Catalina Iris

Entre uma Brisa e uma Sudestada

 

20h00

Rafaela Santos

Sorry I Missed Some Parts

 

21h00

Bobby Brim

The Infrastructures of Cavities

July 16

16h30

Rafaela Santos

Sorry I Missed Some Parts

 

19h00

Bobby Brim

The Infrastructures of Cavities

 

20h30

Marcelo Castro

O Amor da Rua

July 21

19h00

Lucas Damiani

Hydra

 

21h00

Camilla Morello, Tarlie Lumby e Victor Lattaque

Pthst’ N

July 22

16h30

Camilla Morello, Tarlie Lumby e Victor Lattaque

Pthst’ N

 

20h00

Vanessa Lonau

As If I Was a Road

 

21h00

Lorea Burge

B Field

July 23

16h30

Lorea Burge

B Field

 

19h00

Vanessa Lonau

As If I Was a Road

 

20h30

Lucas Damiani

Hydra

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

Top banner image credit © Lucas Damiani

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 6
Real Time Composition, João Fiadeiro / Forum Dança

Workshop II
CTR

Immersive Real Time Composition practice

August 28th to September 1st

Invited guest: Márcia Lança

This proposal will privilege the access to this tool through an immersive practice, mediated by a set of “performative devices” that provide different speeds, sensibilities, and intensities. These devices are, in many cases, extracted from performative experiences that João Fiadeiro has been developing over the years, where he used the theatrical apparatus (in the architectural and ideological sense) to investigate the limits and perceptual protocols of what we call “real” or “fiction”; “private” or “public”; “inside” or “outside”.

 

During this week the ambition will be to “grow into” this practice in order to access a quality of presence (and participation) dear to Real Time Composition: to understand how to relinquish control and orientation (indispensable to access what affects us) without losing rigor and lucidity (indispensable to share what affects us).

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 who emerged in the late eighties in Portugal and gave rise to the New Portuguese Dance movement.

 

In the 90’ João Fiadeiro studied and practiced intensively Contact-Improvisation which led him to pursue and systematize his own research on improvisation under the designation of Real Time Composition. This research has led him to coordinate workshops in Masters and PhDs programs in several schools and universities throughout the world.

 

He has toured extensively throughout Europe, North America and South America with his solo and group works.

 

His path, whether as a choreographer or performer, as a researcher or curator, was centered on creating conditions for experimentation, laboratory practice and interdisciplinary intersection.

 

This activity was carried out both as part of the management of programming and artistic research projects, which included the Malaposta Cultural Center (1990-95), Espaço Ginjal (1995-1998), Lugar Comum (1999-2000), Espaço A Capital (2000-2002) and by Atelier Re.AL (2004-2019), as well as within the framework of his artistic practice, through creations and research workshops organized around Real Time Composition.

 

Atelier Re.AL was a structure that played a major role in the development of contemporary dance and transdisciplinary initiatives in Portugal.

 

On all these different meeting platforms, João Fiadeiro was always accompanied by artists who actively participated as creators, performers, researchers and programmers, making a decisive contribution to the existence of this project during 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 the artistic director.

 

She has worked as a choreographer and performer in a variety of collaborative settings. 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 heart of her creative processes. She is passionate about emerging collective compositions, thinking as action, and situated constructions. More info here

Real Time Composition, João Fiadeiro / Forum Dança

Performer: Gustavo Sumpta

Informations

Select each of the sections below to learn about all the specifications of the application and selection process.

Who is it for

This cycle of Workshops in Composition in Real Time is made up of two different weeks, each one of them aimed at people with different practices:

 

    • Workshop I / Introduction – artists-researchers with experience in improvisation (in dance, performance, or theater). It is open to anyone but we will prioritise applications from those who have not yet had contact with João Fiadeiro’s Real Time Composition;

 

    • Workshop II / Immersive Practice – artists-researchers with previous experience with João Fiadeiro’s Real Time Composition.

 

You can apply for the two-week frequency (Introduction and Immersive Practice), or for just one of them (Introduction or Immersive Practice), bearing in mind that:

 

    • Anyone who attends Workshop I / Introduction can later attend Workshop II / Immersive Practice, but must submit now the application for the two weeks;
    • If you already have previous experience with Real Time Compositing (you must indicate in your CV or Motivation Letter where, when and with whom you had this prior contact), you can apply directly for the Workshop II / Immersive Practice.

 

Maximum number of participants: 16 people.

Timetable

Workshop I / Introduction: From the 21st to the 25th of August 2023, from 2:30 pm to 7:30 pm.

Workshop II / Immersive Practice: From August 28th to September 1st, from 2:30 pm to 7:30 pm.

Venue

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

Participation fee

    • Until July 15: One week: €90 (ninety euros) / Two weeks: €150 (one hundred and fifty euros);
    • After July 15th: One week: €120 (one hundred and twenty euros) / Two weeks: €180 (one hundred and eighty euros);
    • Discount: 25% discount on the total amount, for people who have already attended any edition of PACAP – Advanced Program for Creation in Performing Arts;
    • Scholarship: A scholarship will be awarded for free attendance of the workshop, to those who provide logistical support to the workshop (opening and closing of doors, preparation of studios, etc.). If you wish to apply for the scholarship, indicate this information in your Motivation Letter.

Applications

The application is made using the form available on this page.

 

You must submit your Curriculum Vitae with updated data and a Letter of Motivation, stating your reasons for attending this workshop (not to exceed one A4 sheet). If you wish to apply for the scholarship, indicate this information in your motivation letter. If you wish to apply for the scholarship, indicate this information in your Motivation Letter.

 

If you are one of the selected persons, only after receiving proof of payment, which you must send to our email, will your registration be considered validated.

Application process

 

      1. Make your application online using the form indicated for this purpose, until the 4th of August;
      2. Do not forget to attach your curriculum vitae and motivation letter in PDF format to the form;
      3. All selected persons will be contacted by the 11th of August;
      4. Wait for our email indicating that you were one of the selected persons, along with the payment instructions;
      5. Proceed to pay your registration, as indicated in the email sent, by the 15th of August;
      6. Send us the respective proof of payment to our email;
      7. Your participation is only validated after receipt of proof of payment.

Application form

All fields are required. You must send your CV and Motivation Letter in “.pdf” format.

Files cannot exceed 1 MB/each.

Do not forget

 

      1. Applications with a submission deadline of August 4th;
      2. Results communicated to all selected persons by August 11;
      3. Payment must be made by August 15th, after completing the selection process and being accepted to the workshop.

Applications are closed.

© Uncredit photos from João Fiadeiro.

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