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2 December, 2025

Lucia Giannoni & Rocío Bernardez

‘Que funcione’

Informal exhibition

Forum Dança | December 15, 2025 | 18h30

Sharing the residency process

FREE ENTRY

QUE FUNCIONE

 

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

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

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

Local
Forum Dança

Free Entry

 

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2 December, 2025

Lucia Giannoni & Rocío Bernardez 

‘Que funcione’

Informal exhibition

Forum Dança  |  27 november 2025  |  18h30

Sharing the residency process

FREE ENTRY

QUE FUNCIONE

 

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

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

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

Location
Forum Dança

Free admission

 

Image © Victoriano Moreno

14 November, 2025

Natacha Campos

‘Ma’

Informal exhibition

Forum Dança  |  27 november 2025  |  18h30

Sharing the residency process

FREE ENTRY

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

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

 

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

 

Location
Forum Dança

Free admission

 

Image © DR / Natacha Campos

Três performers de pé no centro do palco
16 June, 2025

Marusya Byzova, Jakob von Kietzell & Renan Capivara

By Chance of Circumstances

Informal Exhibition

Casa da Dança  |  18 june 2025  |  19h00

Process sharing

FREE ENTRY

By Chance of Circumstances is one of the three works selected for “Support for Creation 2025”, a partnership between Forum Dança and Casa da Dança.

By Chance of Circumstances is an ongoing investigation into scenic space as raw, plastic and mutable matter. The creators Jakob von Kietzell, Marusya Byzova and Renan Capivara began this project as part of Forum Dança’s 7th PACAP and have been exploring speculative imagination as a choreographic tool ever since. Instead of focusing on a specific theme (what), they investigate speculation and imagination as tools (how), asking themselves: How does fiction become an action verb? Under a shared pact, performers and audience collectively speculate around time, space and bodies and thus create what Johan Huizinga calls the “Magic Circle”, a suspended space where the rules of reality are replaced by the provisional laws of an invented world.

 

Renan Capivara, Jakob von Kietzell and Marusya Byzova are performers and collaborators based in Lisbon and Europe.

Renan (BR) is a dancer, actor and teacher with a degree in Dance, with creative work in movement research, factual/fictional narratives and collective creation.

Jakob (DE) is a multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Design, passionate about collaboration, research and site-specificity in performing arts and design.

Marusya (UK) works at the intersection of visual arts, contemporary dance and performance. She has a degree in Architectural Environment Design and her research explores transitional states, symbolism and layered storytelling.

The trio met during PACAP7 (Fórum Dança) and continue to research performance in collaboration.

 

 

Venue
Casa da Dança / Almada

Free entry

 

Image © Joana Linda

11 October, 2022

Experimental
Erotica Laboratories

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

Free Workshop gratuito | Registrations are open

Participation is free, with prior registration to our email.

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

 

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

 

About the workshop

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

 

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

 

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

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