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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

 

Image © Victoriano Moreno

Atlas | Carlota Lagido | © Nuno Patinho
20 November, 2025

Carlota Lagido

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

Carlota Lagido

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

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

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

Workshop Butoh 2025_ Outro_Lado
17 November, 2025

Butoh Workshop
Yael Karavan

17 e 18 january 2026  |  11h00 – 17h00

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

This workshop will work on the elements of metamorphosis, presence, readiness, contrast, dance through images, and tension between opposites. The aim is to free the body from its preconceived mundane set of gestures and movements and thus allow us to access a deeper and more authentic essence of movement and archetypal expression. Questioning how Butoh can be translated into a European body and why Butoh is not only relevant but extremely vital today.

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

Informations

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

Who is it for?

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

Maximum number of participants: 20 people.

Schedule

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

Local

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

Participation fee

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

Pre-registration

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

Processo de inscrição

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

Form

All fields are required.

Bio

Yael Karavan

Yael Karavan
Yael Karavan

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

Mais informações: www.yaelkaravan.com

Top image credits © Socrates Mitsos

14 November, 2025

Natacha Campos

‘Ma’

Informal exhibition

Forum Dança  |  27 november 2025  |  18h30

Sharing the residency process

FREE ENTRY

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

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

 

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

 

Location
Forum Dança

Free admission

 

Image © DR / Natacha Campos

2 October, 2025

Luís Guerra

October 23 2025, at 18h30
Biblioteca Camões • Lisbon

Free entry, subject to capacity.

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

1 October, 2025

Exhibitions CTR_matrix

Training takes place between Herdade do Freixo and Forum Dança

Informal presentations of the research process at Forum Dança

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

 

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

 

Thursdays | 5:30 p.m.

 

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

General Note

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

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

Participants

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

Real Time Composition activities

Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods | Let’s Not Get Used To This Place
14 August, 2025

Book Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods

Let’s Not Get Used To This Place

 

Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods 2008-2023

Let’s Not Get Used To This Place is a publication dedicated to the work of choreographer Meg Stuart and the company Damaged Goods, marking over a decade of choreographic creation.

Edited by Julie De Meester, Astrid Kaminski, and Jeroen Versteele, Let’s Not Get Used To This Place brings together an extensive collection of materials – reflections, interviews, scores, process notes, essays, poetry, photographs, and performance texts – that span Stuart’s work between 2008 and 2023.

 

As a memorial gesture for PACAP 8, a program directed by Meg Stuart in 2025, Forum Dança is offering a limited number of copies for sale.

[limited to the available stock]

Informations

About the book

Let’s Not Get Used to This Place // Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods

Since the early nineties, Meg Stuart, born 1965 in New Orleans, USA, and her Brussels-based dance company Damaged Goods, have produced a remarkable and audacious body of choreographic work. Ten years ago, Damaged Goods published Are we here yet? (ed. Jeroen Peeters), which spans the first twenty years of Meg Stuart’s career. 

 

In Let’s Not Get Used to This Place, the choreographer dives into more than a decade of works through reflections, interviews, scores and exercises, and notes on the practice of creating, performing, teaching and living dance. These are mixed with reports, essays and poetry by close collaborators and intimate strangers, photos, performance texts and archive material. The book’s title, gleaned from one of Stuart’s recent video works, ties together these multifaceted sources in a desire to discard tried and tested strategies, explore new contexts, and transgress the edge of what we (do not) know.

 

This publication also coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of Damaged Goods: a perfect way to celebrate this remarkable legacy.

Excerpt

‘For years, I have been calling out the word ‘change’ to dancers, so that they move from one improvised state to another without attachment or preparation. The more I propose this task, the more I discover that what remains is more significant than the change itself. The change reinforces not only the quality of letting go, but also the commitment of the attention we give to the state or physical idea we let go of. Abrupt changes mark where we are, what we have to leave, and what it takes to let go and open up again.

In another exercise, we hold a person tightly, and keep holding onto the trace of this physical contact after we let go of them; then we move with the trace and shape of this person. You can also do this with objects. Every lived experience leaves a mark. By tracing the shape of this mark, we take the experience with us to the next place. I believe that time is not one singular flow. You can always retrace and reframe. Past events are not fixed; they are a process that is still unfolding. You can write letters to people who have died, for example. It shifts your relationship with them. I have done this.’

 

Meg Stuart

+ Info

Edited by: Astrid Kaminski, Jeroen Versteele, Julie De Meester

Graphic design: Sean Yendrys with Björn Giesecke

Contributions: Jean-Marc Adolphe, Márcio Kerber Canabarro, Tim Etchells, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Philipp Gehmacher, Ezra Green, Astrid Kaminski, André Lepecki and Eleonora Fabiano, Jeroen Peeters, Gerald Siegmund, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Maria F. Scaroni, Meg Stuart, Jeroen Versteele, Jozef Wouters and many others.

 

Distributed by: les presses du réel

Language: English 528p., 16.5 x 23.5 cm

ISBN: 9782960320718

Price:

€45 regular price

€38 discount for former students of long-term courses at Forum Dança

 

More information and pre-orders at forumdança@forumdança.pt

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

Top image credits © Book cover: photo by Eva Würdinger, design by Sean Yendrys

Activities PACAP 8

Lectures PACAP 8 / Mystery School

Patrícia Costa
14 August, 2025

Direção de Cena / Espaços culturais

Com Patrícia Costa

Seminários Abertos CGPAE | 2025

Curso de Gestão/Produção das Artes do Espetáculo

Informações

Direção de Cena / Espaços Culturais

Patrícia Costa
Patrícia Costa

Objetivos gerais

  • Conhecer as principais funções da Direção de Cena.
  • Desenvolver noções teóricas e práticas sobre as diferentes áreas de trabalho da Direção de Cena
  • Adquirir noções teórico-práticas sobre o trabalho da direção de cena

 

Conteúdos programáticos

  1. Breve apontamento sobre a história da arquitetura e sua influência na ação teatral
  2. Tipologias de salas e Infraestruturas: implantação de palcos e outros tipos de estruturas
  3. Equipamentos e Acessórios
  4. Segurança e Acessibilidades
  5. Organização de estruturas – Noções básicas sobre Direção Técnica | Direção de Produção | Direção de cena
  6. Noções básicas sobre Iluminação Cénica, sonoplastia e vídeo e a sua implicação direta no trabalho na Direção de Cena
  7. Nomenclatura sobre os diversos tipos de equipamentos utilizados nas diferentes áreas (teatro/dança/música/outros)
  8. Contra-regra, cenografia e figurinos
  9. Análise de rider técnico
  10. Construção de um guião de direção de cena

 

Biografia

Licenciada em Dança pela FMH – UTL, Pós-graduada em Dança na Comunidade pela FMH – UL e Mestre em Estudos do Teatro pela FLUL.

Iniciou a sua atividade profissional na área de produção em 1999, com o espetáculo “1/2h do Almoço”. Entre fevereiro de 2000 e julho de 2001 fez um estágio curricular seguido de um estágio profissional em Direção de cena no CCB. De julho de 2001 a maio de 2002 integra a equipa de direção de cena do CCB, como assistente de direção de cena. De junho de 2002 a abril de 2003 fez produção executiva e direção de cena na Cooperativa Teatro da Garagem. De abril a dezembro de 2003 fez produção executiva no Espaço do Tempo – Montemoro-Novo. Em outubro de 2003 funda A Menina dos meus olhos, associação cultural com a Marina Nabais onde faz parte da direção, com a responsabilidade direção de produção e de gestão financeira, até dezembro de 2005. De abril de 2004 a janeiro de 2007 fez parte da equipa de Direção de Cena do Teatro Camões/CNB.

Ao longo destes 23 anos colaborou pontualmente em várias estruturas, tanto na área de direção de cena com na área de produção, a destacar: Truta, associação cultural; Pato Profissional e Mala Voadora. Em agosto de 2015 funda HomemBala, associação cultural com Tónan Quito, fazendo parte da direção executando a gestão financeira e a direção de produção até dezembro de 2017.

Desde 2006 trabalha regularmente como formadora, dando vários workshops a profissionais do espetáculo e em várias escolas da área do espetáculo. A destacar o módulo de direção técnica e de cena no curso de técnicos de espetáculos na Restart – Instituto de Criatividade Artes e Novas Tecnologias em 2013 e Produção de espetáculos na Escola Superior de dança no ano curricular 2018/2019 e 2019/2020.

Desempenha a função de diretora de cena no CCB desde janeiro de 2007.

A quem se destina

Agentes culturais que pretendam desenvolver o seu trabalho/projeto na área de Gestão/Produção das Artes do Espetáculo.
Público em geral com o objetivo de profissionalização.

Horários

Este seminário é composto por 8 sessões que acontecem através da plataforma Zoom nos dias:

  • 2, 4, 9, 16, 18, 23 e 25 de setembro das 18h30 às 21h30 (terças e quintas)
  • Presencial no Forum Dança no dia 20 de setembro (sábado) das 10h30 às 14h

Inscrição

Enviar para o nosso email o Curriculum Vitae com os dados atualizados e um texto que indique qual a sua motivação para frequentar este seminário, uma demonstração de interesse.

Após a aceitação da sua inscrição, deverá submeter também o comprovativo de pagamento pela mesma via.

Pagamentos

Assim que a sua inscrição seja aceite, deverá proceder ao pagamento e enviar o comprovativo do mesmo para o nosso email.

Existem diferentes modalidades de pagamento, de acordo com a duração do seminário:

  • Valor 195€

Regulamento

NOTA:

Com as devidas adaptações, o regulamento dos Seminários Abertos aplica-se o mesmo que é usado no curso completo do CGPAE.

 

 

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 7 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.4.) Certificado de formação

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

Outros seminários

PREMIERE 2025
5 August, 2025

PREMiERE Open Days in Oporto

As artes do espetáculo encontram-se com a tecnologia

19 a 21 de setembro de 2023

O PREMiERE é um projeto de investigação e inovação do Horizon Europe que visa modernizar as artes do espetáculo, desenvolvendo e validando um ecossistema abrangente de aplicações digitais, alimentado por tecnologias de ponta de IA, XR e 3D. Para tal, reúne parceiros de academias de arte, salas de espectáculos, centros de investigação e do sector empresarial, de seis países europeus diferentes.

 

Durante os Open Days do PREMIERE, o IDlab da Academia de Teatro e Dança e o ICK Space for Dance Art co-organizarão reuniões abertas, uma mesa redonda e um evento de discurso público com e para a comunidade local das artes performativas e o público em geral, a fim de apresentar o trabalho em curso do projeto, interagir com estudantes, antigos alunos e profissionais e refletir em conjunto sobre as potencialidades criativas e os aspectos éticos das relações entre a tecnologia, as artes performativas e o conhecimento intuitivo incorporado.

 

Serão três os eventos Open Day co-organizados e acolhidos pela IDlab ATD Academy of Theatre and Dance & ICK Space for Dance Art:

 

Terça-feira, 19 de setembro

Apresentações da Premiere – MEET & GREET
Apresentação dos quatro projectos-piloto e mostra do trabalho em curso relativo à captura e análise de movimentos, ensaios em RV, tecnologias de linguagem e criação de ontologias para as artes performativas.
17:00-18:30 | AHK Culture Club Marineterrein
Kattenburgerstraat 5, 27E, 1018 JA Amesterdão

 

Quarta-feira, 20 de setembro

Arquivar para o futuro – Mesa redonda
Mesa redonda pública com especialistas em artes performativas sobre as práticas de arquivo numa dimensão europeia.
14:00 – 18:00 | AHK Culture Club Marineterrein 
Kattenburgerstraat 5, 27E, 1018 JA Amesterdão

 

FRA: IA, Criatividade e o Corpo em Revolta
Potenciais criativos e aspectos éticos das relações entre a tecnologia, as artes performativas e o conhecimento intuitivo incorporado.
19:00-21:00 | ICK Space for Dance Art – WestBeat /Rhino Space 
Rijnlandlaan 3, Gebouw Westbeat 
Este evento será transmitido em direto.

 

Quinta-feira, 21 de setembro

Encontro de caminhadas
Apresentação do workshop de tecnologia interactiva do Instituto Stocos para ex-alunos/estudantes/artistas.
17:00 – 19:00 | ATD IDlab Studio 
Jodenbreestraat 3, 1011 NG Amesterdão

Registe-se aqui.

 

Todos os eventos terão lugar no local e são gratuitos. Descarregar o programa completo aqui. Toda a informação em inglês no site do projeto PREMiERE, aqui.

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Performing weeding with two brides
14 July, 2025

Arquives for Future Spells

PACAP 8 / Mystery School of Coreography

Culturgest

17 a 19 july 2025 | Sat and Sun (19h)

MYS
Mystery School of Choreography
Escola mistério de coreografia
L’école chorégraphique du mystère
Escola Misteriosa de Coreografia
Tajymnŏ szkōła choreografije
Schule der Mysterien in der Choreografie
Μυστηριώδες σχολείο χορογραφίας
Tajemnicza Szkoła Choreografii
Escuela Mística de Coreografía
مدرسه رمز و راز طراحی رقص
Mysterium Skola för Koreografi
Escuela Coreográfica del Misterio
コレオグラフィーのミステリースクール

As a closing gesture of a six-month program of experimentation and co-creation, PACAP 8 | Mystery School of Choreography (MYS) spills and installs its studies at Culturgest.  In residency, MYS will reflect, move, nest and digest together, and share a fountain of spells over three durational evenings. Meg Stuart, Ana Rocha, Márcio Canabarro, Santiago Tricot, Mieko Suzuki, Xullaji, and PACAP 8 | MYS artists Ana Szopa, António Bollaño, Arash Khakpour, Emily da Silva, Guillermo Tarasewicz, Isabela Rossi, iSSiE – iSaAc, Julia Kosałka, Kaya Freeman, María Ibarretxe, Martha Kotsia, Michiru Shin, Natacha Campos, Raul Aranha, Salomé Pham-Van-Hué, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Śomi Śniegocka, Therese Bendjus and Tiago Vieira, offer their real and fictional archive with spirited intention for our common futures.

How can we instigate and elevate community through its multiple dimensional legacy? Can mysticism be a crack in the real, so we may step into an archive of becoming? What if embodied mysticism is a radical political act? What is the revolution of our nervous system? By not looking at dance as spectacle but as spell, can we re-arrange our relational field with the many realities rapidly changing around us? Embodying the shared archive forward and back, visitors will enter a collective journey of oracular encounters, visions and dreams. MYS invites you to immerse into its inner architecture. MYS taps into remembrance as a contextual container. Here, you are not a spectator. You are a fragment of the divine in rebellion, so proceed accordingly.  Because archiving the future is a form of hope.

Artistic director & MYS concept : Meg Stuart
Artistic collaboration PACAP8 | MYS : Ana Rocha
Artistic collaboration Archives for Future Spells: Márcio K. Canabarro and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot
Live music: Mieko Suzuki and Xullaji
Technical direction: Santiago Tricot
Special thanks: Aline Belfortm, Pedro Azevedo

 

Duration 4h | public entry and exit is allowed freely

 

PACAP 8 participants: Ana Szopa (PL), António Bollaño (PT), Arash Khakpour (IR), Emily da Silva (BR), Guillermo Tarasewicz (UY), Isabela Rossi (BR/IT), iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo (EC), Julia Kosałka (PL), Kaya Freeman (PT), María Ibarretxe (ES), Martha Kotsia (GR), Michiru Shin (JP), Natacha Campos (PT), Raul Aranha (IN), Salomé Pham-Van-Hué (FR), Sepideh Khodarahmi (SE/IR), Śomi Śniegocka (PL), Therese Bendjus (DE) e Tiago Vieira (PT).

Production: Forum Dança Co-production PACAP 8: Teatro do Bairro Alto, Culturgest, Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk, Goethe-Institut Portugal, as part of the Kulturfest festival Co-production in Residency: O Espaço do Tempo PACAP 8 Support: Alkantara, Casa da Dança – Almada, Fundação GDA, Kees Eijrond Foundation, OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Rumo do Fumo, Piscina

Venue

Cultugest

R. Arco do Cego 50, 1000-300 Lisboa

More information here

Actividades PACAP 8

Lectures PACAP 8 / Mystery School

Apoios e Parcerias

Coprodução PACAP 8: Culturgest | Teatro do Bairro Alto | Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk | Goethe-Institut Portugal, no âmbito do festival Kulturfest.

Coprodução em Residência PACAP 8: O Espaço do Tempo

Apoios 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

Top image © Vitorino Coragem

© António Poppe
16 June, 2025

António Poppe

June 18th, 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

the mystery of invention during the creative act

GEMEAMENTE: to merge the word into many voices. Passing it through a ring of inventions.
The invention, as it travels through memory, generates the presence that leads any magnetisms to the ends of this voice: GEMEAMENTE

António Poppe

António Poppe © António Poppe
António Poppe © António Poppe

Poet, visual artist, performer, lives and works in Lisbon. He completed the advanced visual arts course at Ar.Co, in Lisbon, and studied drawing and sculpture at the Royal College of Arts, London. He completed a master’s degree in Performance Art and Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso American Development Foundation.

He is the author of a hybrid work between the visual arts, performance and poetry, which he has presented since 1996 in various cultural institutions and galleries such as the Serralves Museum, MAAT, Culturgest, Gulbenkian, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Soares dos Reis Museum, ZDB Gallery, 111 Gallery, Casa Fernando Pessoa, GIAJG, among others. He has published five books: Torre de Juan Abad (Assírio e Alvim), Livro da Luz (Documenta), Medicin (Douda Correria), Come Coral (Douda Correria), O Agitador e a Corrente (written with Mumtazz and published by Mariposa Azual).

General information

Date

June 18th, 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

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

 

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Top picture © António Poppe

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
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

A person with their entire face covered in a black cloth, holding a white scarf, sitting on a chair
11 June, 2025

Maria F. Scaroni

11 june, 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

The lecture will be conducted in English.

Maria F. Scaroni

Lecture PACAP 8/MyS, by Maria F. Scaroni. Espaço da Penha, June 4, 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00.

Maria F. Scaroni (IT/DE) has been active in the Berlin scene since 2004, both interpreting and choreographing works and building community through teaching workshops and hosting events. She worked with Meg Stuart, Tino Sehgal, Jeremy Wade, Wilhelm Groener, Manuel Pelmus and several others. Between 2004 and 2014 in San Francisco she met, trained and collaborated with artists such as Sara Shelton Mann, Stephanie Maher, Keith Hennessy, Jess Curtis, a.o., these encounters deeply shaped her physical and performative practice, where dance is intertwined with healing, queer methodologies, social justice and radical play. Her workshops and curated events swell beyond the dance field and include dancers, queers, theater makers, visual artists, academics, social workers, ravers, activists.

General Information

Data

June 11, 2025, 18h00 – 20h00

 

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

 

Entrada livre, sujeita à lotação do espaço.

Top photo © YA

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
4 June, 2025

Victor Hugo Pontes

June 6, 2025, 18h30
Biblioteca Palácio Galveias • Lisbon

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Victor Hugo Pontes, teacher, director, set designer and best known as a choreographer, was born in 1978 in Guimarães and lives in Porto. His work reflects his multidisciplinary training in fine arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and in theater at the Balleteatro Professional School, complemented by further training in dance, in the Research and Choreographic Creation course at Fórum Dança. His work has been widely presented in Portugal, at theaters such as the Teatro Nacional São João, Teatro Municipal do Porto – Rivoli, Centro Cultural de Belém, and internationally in countries such as Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Russia.

He was nominated for the SPA Awards in the category of Dance – Best Choreography, with the shows A Ballet Story and Os Três Irmãos and, in 2019, he won in this category with the show Margem. He was part of the DanceWeb 2017 program at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna, with a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Since 2009, he has been artistic director of Nome Próprio, which he founded in 2000.

3 June, 2025

Núcleo 2025

Núcleo emerges as a project that fulfils one of Forum Dança’s objectives: to host artistic residencies and the informal presentations that result from them, under the care of a specific programme line.

It has a self-reflexive impulse in Forum Dança’s history, referencing the Núcleo de Apoio Coreográfico (NAC) – Choreographic Support Centre -, which in the 1990s was an important platform for supporting the creation and internationalization of Portuguese dance.

It is a place of experimentation, where the craft of creating, showing, reflecting, creating circularity with the artistic community and its public side in the creation and mediation of audiences is taken care of.

Artistic Residencies 2025

 

Open Call deadline: July 31st (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

As one of Forum Dança’s objectives is to support residencies, in accordance with the programmatic lines set out by its artistic direction, the Residency Program is designed to create a space that enables a period of experimentation and research through action, linking creation with transmission to the artistic community.

 

This edition of the Program will support two projects in the area of contemporary dance or performance that are in the initial stages of conception and development. 

 

The Program offers rehearsal space, artistic supervision by Forum Dança’s associate artist-researcher – João Fiadeiro – and a support grant of €750 (seven hundred and fifty euros). 

Periods

  • Residency 1: November 17 – 28, 2025
  • Residency 2: December 2 – 15, 2025

Conditions

1. Support for 2 projects selected by Forum Dança’s management;

2. A grant of €750 (seven hundred and fifty euros) per residency, upon submission of a recibo-verde or equivalent (in the case of artists not resident in Portugal*);

3. Support for publicizing the project in Forum Dança’s media;

4. Final public sharing, in the residency space, in the form of an informal show, talk or similar, mediated by João Fiadeiro;

5. Mandatory mention of “Support for Creation – Forum Dança” and insertion of the logo in all the project’s promotional material;

6. Provision of the record of the presentation of the supported project, when applicable, for archiving in the Forum Dança Documentation Center;

7. The organization of travel, accommodation, meals and medical assistance during the residency period is the sole responsibility of those taking part.

 

*Artists who are not resident in Portugal must present a tax residency certificate issued by the authorities in their country of residence.

Artistic supervision

These artistic residencies will be overseen by João Fiadeiro.

Forum Dança | PACAP 5 - João Fiadeiro
João Fiadeiro © Ana Viotti

Born in 1965, João Fiadeiro is part of a generation of choreographers that emerged in the late 1980’s and gave rise to the Nova Dança Portuguesa (New Portuguese Dance).

His career, both as a choreographer or performer and as a researcher or curator, has centered on creating conditions for experimentation, for laboratorial practices and for the intersection between artistic and scientific research. This activity was developed as much by coordinating programming and artistic research projects at Centro Cultural da Malaposta [1990-95], Espaço Ginjal [1995-98], Lugar Comum [1999-2000], Espaço A Capital [2000-2002] and Atelier Real [2004-2019] as by his artistic practice through his choreographies and the research workshops on and around Real Time Composition.

In all these different platforms João Fiadeiro was always accompanied by artists that participated as creators, performers, researchers and programmers, contributing in a decisive manner to the existence of this project through thirty years of non-stop activity.

Process

Applications must be submitted until (23h59), 31st July

 

– Fill in the form below and the project form – completed and in pdf format (up to 2 MB):

 

Project Sheet | Application Núcleo

Application form

All fields marked with * are mandatory.

Results

The results will be announced in August 2025 by email.

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