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2 June, 2025

Keith Hennessy

4 june 2025, 18h00 to 20h00

Dancing as Political Healing

Hennessy will share ideas and stories that circle around the potential for experimental dance and improvisation practices to contribute to political healing. If the harm or trauma is political (structural, legal, normative), should the healing be entirely personal? Jewish anarchist Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) meets Black lesbian feminist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) in a Fake Healing clinic at Forum Dança in 2025. What is happening? What is possible?

Organização: Forum Dança e Associação Parasita

The lecture will be conducted in English.

Keith Hennessy

Keith Hennessy, is a frolicker, imperfectionist, and witch working in the fields of dance, performance, activism, affordable housing, and queer sexuality. Always learning through improvisation and collaboration, Hennessy’s work is interdisciplinary and experimental. Born in Canada, based in San Francisco (Yelamu) for over 40 years, Hennessy tours internationally. Collaborations include Ishmael Houston-Jones, Sarah Crowell, Snowflake Towers, Jassem Hindi, Meg Stuart, And Peaches. www.circozero.org

www.circozero.org

Informação geral

Data

25 de junho de 2025, das 18h00 às 20h00

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

Entrada livre, sujeita à lotação do espaço.

Top picture © Pat Mic

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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8

20 May, 2025

Participants PACAP 8

Biographies

Select each of the sections below to meet the people taking part in PACAP 8.

Ana Szopa (PL)

Ana Szopa

Ana (An): they/them/she/her – Born in 2000 in Silesia. Dance hostess, performer, choreographer, Reiki II healer, fuck the system sorcerer. Explores the possibilities of learning for oneself and others through dance and seeks methods of anonymization. Anonymous, meaning collective, rejects authorship and ownership of spoken and embodied content. By constructing queer personas in performance, engages in dialogue with them and learns from them, often allowing artistic practices to drift into entropy and explore the limits of control (raising questions about safety and consent).

António Bollaño (PT)

António Bollaño was born in 1998. He studied in the theatre school Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais and the dance and theatre school FOR Dance Theatre. He finished his degree in Acting in Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. As an actor and dancer worked with Bestiário, Olga Roriz, Nuno Carinhas, Pedro Ramos, Sara Carinhas, Carlos Avilez among others.

Arash Khakpour (IR)

Arash Khakpour (آرش خاکپور) is a dancer and choreographer from Tehran and is privileged to be a dance artist based in the Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver, Canada). Arash has been practicing dance and performance for the past 15 years and has been a company member of the EDAM Contact Improvisation ensemble since 2017. He tends to invest in the nuances of prejudices in the body as a way of inviting the unconscious to the conscious, and as a doorway to confront unknown emotions. He sees dance as a process of physical, emotional and spiritual discovery and a mode of transformation.

Emily da Silva (BR)

Emily da Silva is a Brazilian dancer and performer living in Lisbon. As a freelance artist, she collaborates with different artists and projects. She is interested in the idea of circularity – between tornadoes, whirlpools, black holes, somersaults and gyrations – exploring movements that destabilize, turn, reinvent the body and transfrom space.

Guillermo Tarasewicz (UY)

Guillermo Tarasewicz: Hartist, scenic/live. He is interested in the themes of popular culture and mass culture. His works are woven between dance, contemporary theater, and performance studies. He studied dance, social anthropology, and physical education. Based on this knowledge, he has created more than 15 pieces and developed some practices such as: ‘Danza tropical uruguaya’ and ‘Corporalidad Expandida’.

Isabela Rossi (BR/IT)

Isabela Rossi (BR) moves between dance, performance and creation. Trained in contemporary dance at RCPD Mariemma (Madrid, 2016), she has worked as a performer with various choreographers in Spain. In 2020, she received the AISGE Award for Outstanding Dancer for the piece LINGUA, by Natalia Fernandes. As a creator, she investigates the relationship between the wandering body, space and temporality. Since 2021, she has collaborated with Miguel Glez. on works such as Proceso de acomodación, awarded at the 34th CCM

iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo (EC)

iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo is an Ecuadorian choreographer, trans artist-activist and violinist based in Europe. Their Works engages with trans-feminist anti-colonialism and ritualism, exploring transdisciplinary constellations of participatory composition. As a mestizo of Spanish/Kichwa/Cañari ancestry, iSSiE currently fosters “SHELTER” a transatlantic social-artistic research project in collaboration with Kichwa indigenous communities of the Andes, cultivating movement for socio-ecological justice. They is the artistic director and founder of maiskind, a queer artistic community in Cologne and member of the Yachay Wasi – Quito, INTERFEMME* and SOFRA Queer Migrants communities.

Julia Kosałka (PL)

Julia Kosałka is a dance artist born in Kraków, Poland. She studied contemporary dance in Austria and Belgium, graduating from Conservatoire of Antwerp. She has worked in Germany with Iván Pérez at Dance Theatre Heidelberg and Alina Belyagina. She also collaborated with choreographers such as Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Claire Croizé, Inãki Azpillaga, Renan Martins, Ben Fury, and Agostina D’Alessandro.

Her practices are rooted in improvisation and real-time composition.

Kaya Freeman (PT)

Kaya: I was born in Brussels to a portuguese mother and united-staten father 25 years ago. My parents are performing artsts and have been transmitng their interest and passion for art in many of its forms to me ever since I was born. I started to play classical piano around 6 and then discovered Fado and clarinet which deconstructed my very formal view of music. My practice then became more experimental as I played with different bands revolving around contemporary and ambient electronic music as well as an interest for jazz. During these researches I also studied at La Cambre in Brussels, contemporary bookbinding, and have been experimenting with ceramics, textles crafs, baking and fashion as some of my main passions.

María Ibarretxe (ES)

María Ibarretxe del Val. Visual and performing artist. The body, voice and participation are central in her work. She is part of the collective Sra. Polaroiska with Alaitz Arenzana. Collaboration drives her practice, often working with other artists and in diverse socio-cultural contexts such as Japan, South Korea, Mexico, or Kurdistan, where she nourishes, learns, and constantly questions herself.

Martha Kotsia (GR)

Martha Kotsia (1996) is a multidisciplinary artist and activist based in Athens, Greece, born as a migrant in Malmö, Sweden. Reflecting on a “post”-colonial society and her childhood traumas her art varies between choreography, performance art, video, light design and poetry. After moving to Brussels to practice contemporary dance in her early adult years, she returned to Athens for architecture studies (National Technical University of Athens) as well as to later on attend the Academy of Choreography U(r)topias (Elefsina, Greece). While trying to contribute to re-wildness she’s publishing a research on Savage, Landscape and Walking.

Michiru Shin (JP)

Michiru Shin (she/they) is a dance artist from Tokyo. Holds a BA in Visual Communication from Brighton University, UK. As a performer, she has collaborated with Bosmat Nossan, Lilach Pnina Livne, and Yasmeen Godder, among others. Her personal project, “Abstracted Bodies” incorporates dance movement, hand-poked tattoos of her abstract drawings, and Ilan Lev method treatment involving voice and touch. The project offers tools for deconstructing our images, gender, and social and political roles, suggesting the way to become abstract-shaped entities.

Natacha Campos (PT)

Natacha Campos, the daughter of Angolan parents born in the late 1990s, has worked in the languages of dance, theater and performance. Her research focuses on the confrontation between the visible and the invisible, the intimate and the public, in an attempt to find the common denominators in the apparently antagonistic.

Raul Aranha (IN)

Raul Aranha: I was born and raised in India, and moved to Europe in 2018. I like a lot of things from dancing to cooking to sciences and philosophy.

Salomé Pham-Van-Hué (FR)

Salomé Pham-Van-Hué. It is about living in this world, in the most living way possible. Through experimentation, I’m finding a path. Dance field represents for me a dreamed space of exploration ; and it should remain that way. I encountered it only a few years ago, after meandering in different fields. Since then, I had the chance to learn and transform near great people, as a student, as an interpreter in various projects but also with friends inventing ways of living and moving in daily life. For the next few years, I would like to pursue this research. It is about playing with, redefining, blurring edges to open interstices of freedom, expression and struggle.

Sepideh Khodarahmi (SE/IR)

Sepideh Khodarahmi is an artist working in dance and theatre whose work explores the tensions between pleasure and disgust, construction and destruction. Combining rhythm-based movement, club dance, and hyper-gendered drag, Sepideh Khodarahmi creates visceral and boundary-pushing performances that explore self-objectification, power dynamics, and absurdity.

They hold a BA in Acting from University of Gothenburg aswell as studied at the Department of Mathematics at Stockholm University, Broadway Dance Center, and Mime at Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance.

Śomi Śniegocka (PL)

Śomi is an artist, sound poet and witch. Inspired by the surrealists and fascinated by psychogeography, she translates dreams into wa(l)king language. She connects with spirits and non-human creatures through visions and various embodiment practices.

Her research manifests itself in the murmuring sounds of the subconscious and expanding auditory perception by means of Deep Listening practices, Logomotion and Dreamwork.

She studied Performance Studies at the Jagiellonian University and Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, preparing her diploma in the Audiosphere studio. She has shown her performance Roe Deer Woman among others at Movement Research in New York City and in numerous underground places in Mexico, where she lived for a while. She currently teaches at the Institute of Art and Design UKEN in Krakow.

Devoted admirer of planets, cats and synchronicities.

www.somisni.pl

Therese Bendjus (DE)

Therese Bendjus is a performance maker and dancer originally from Dresden, Germany. After having traded her medical studies for an education in dance, she graduated from the BA Dance, Context, Choreography at HZT Berlin and was a fellow of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. In her works she challenges the measurable/diagnosable in order to access spaces of uncertainty and vagueness – building multi-sensorial spaces, that encourage people to be vulnerable, intimate and brave with one another and themselves.

As performer she worked a.o. with choreographers and theatre directors such as Kirill Savchenkov, Magdalena Weniger, Asya Ashman, Constanza Macras and Rolando Villazón.

Tiago Vieira (PT)

Tiago Vieira: A graduate of the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, he completed his training in various theater, dance and performance workshops, including Teatro Praga, Olga Mesa, Vera Mantero, Susana Vidal, Miguel Moreira, Meg Stuart, Marlene Freitas, Joana Craveiro, Amália Bentes, Vitor Roriz and Sofia Dias, Francisco Camacho. He has worked with Mónica Calle, Miguel Moreira, Vera Mantero, Carlota Lagido, Ana Borralho and João Galante, Ana Ribeiro, Rui Catalão, Miguel Bonneville, Ricci/forte, BLITZ THEATREGROUP (Greece), Vânia Rovisco, Mónica Garnel, Catarina Vieira, Teatro Praga.

PACAP 8 Activities

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

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

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

Forum Dança - Meg Stuart | PACAP 8/MyS no TBA

2 May, 2025

Astral on the Dancefloor

Pacap 8 / Mystery School of Choreography

Teatro do Bairro Alto

24 and 25 May, 2025 | Sat and Sun

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

How do we passionately integrate ancient knowledge in uncomfortable times?

At Teatro do Bairro Alto, a community of artists & dreamers will bring a multidimensional experience of their journey in a crystalline evening of MYS and guests.

The performance unfolds and shape-shifts through ceremonies of desire, and invitations of reconnection. Magical child meets queen of cups, interspecies songs are channelled for other possible worlds while the full moon howls through ruins of yesterday and tomorrow.

As above so below, through material and quantum activations, we set intention for a space where bodies meet imagination and reality.

Love is a mystery, and every practice is a ritual.

“Astral on the Dancefloor”, an encounter of fine lines between quantum feelings and quantum spaces.

Artistic direction & MYS concept Meg Stuart
Artistic colaboration Ana Rocha
Participants Ana Szopa, António Bollaño, Arash Khakpour, Emily da Silva, Guillermo Tarasewicz, Isabela Rossi, iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo, Julia Kosałka, Kaya Freeman, María Ibarretxe, Martha Kotsia, Michiru Shin, Natacha Campos, Raul Aranha, Salomé Pham-Van-Hué, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Śomi Śniegocka, Therese Bendjus, Tiago Vieira
Live Sound Pedro Melo Alves & Jari
Lights & Technical Direction Santiago Rodríguez Tricot
Production Forum Dança
Coproduction Teatro do Bairro Alto, Goethe-Institut Portugal, as part of the KULTURfest

Venue

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto
Rua Tenente Raul Cascais 1A | 1250-268 Lisboa

More info here

TBA online tickets online here

PACAP 8 Activities

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

Top image credits © Aline Belfort

Forum Dança - Marcelo Evelin | PACAP 9

Forum Dança | PACAP 9 - Marcelo Evelin

Forum Dança | PACAP 9 - Bruno Moreno

25 April, 2025

PACAP 9
2026

Performing Arts Advanced Programme

Curatorship by Marcelo Evelin

From 2nd February to 30th July 2026

Applications closed.

Presentation

PACAP 9 / One swallow doesn’t make a summer

Curatorship Marcelo Evelin
Artistic Collaboration Bruno Moreno

‘An undisciplined experimentation and training programme, focused on instances of group creation and conditions of collaborative performativity.

We will invest in collective processes to the detriment of individual projects, believing that it is possible to bring the singularities of the artists and their personal artistic interests into group experimentation. We are interested in negotiating with the other as a conceptual and procedural procedure, betting on shared autonomy as an exercise in alterity, in order to think of gathering and sharing as a performative act and device.

From February to July 2026, we are proposing a series of interventions in the form of creative residencies, with artists involved in collective practices that exercise a thought of the common as a choreographic situation: the game, the rite, the circle, the party. These practices will be reworked together, renegotiated as a group and eventually performed at different times during the programme.

The programme addresses three axes of experimentation with no distinction between theory and practice: body, dramaturgy, and choreography. We think of the body as a tactile and media spectacle, an artefact of an incorporated and changing time-space. We imagine dramaturgy as the activation of living matter and normative disobedience, as the apprehension and unfolding of empirical knowledge, and as an ethical and aesthetic positioning in the face of the life of forms. We invent choreography as unstable and flexible structures of grouping, repercussion, and dissolution, and as a vibration that precedes the constitution of movement as a scope for an event.

We want to approach the multiple and the rhizomatic, the diverse and the unfolded, the drift and the reconstitution, the bifurcated and the complementary. From a decolonial and non-hegemonic understanding of the world, we want to reaffirm the existence of the sensible and the utopian in the social and political spheres, in a horizon that expands and recognizes other paradigms for thinking about life and living.’

Marcelo Evelin

Information

Guest Artists

Ana Rita Teodoro, André Lepecki, Christine Greiner, Coletivo Piscina (Andrei Bessa, Bibi Dória, Bruno Brandolino, Josefa Pereira, Julián Pacomio, Lucas Damiani, Márcia Lança, Natália Mendonça, Nicole Gomes e Romain Beltrão Teule), Eleonora Fabião, Jocelyn Cottencin, Marine Sigaut, Miguel Pereira, Piny, Tieta Macau, Venuri Perera, Flavia Pinheiro.

Target audience

Artists with experience in the performing arts fields, who are interested in collective creation processes. The programme values collaborative practices, the ability to listen and negotiate in groups, and openness to joint experimentation. It is not aimed at those who want to develop individual authorial projects, but rather at those who want to integrate and contribute to a context of shared creation.

Language

English will be the official language of the programme.

Warning!
Applications can be sent in Portuguese and English.

Dates

- Closing date for applications 30.11.2025
- Results december 2025

Timetable

Monday to Friday from 10h00 to 17h00. This timetable is indicative only and may be subject to change.

An outline of the work schedule will be sent to the group of people selected before the programme begins.

Applications

Elements to send:

- A brief CV, a photo of yourself and a portfolio.
- A brief motivation letter

! IMPORTANT NOTE !

The links sent must provide direct access to online viewing of the files (Youtube, Vimeo, etc.).

Selection process

1. Application stage

- Fill in the application form on the Forum Dança website

2. Auditions stage

- Auditions can be held in person at Espaço da Penha or, if you are outside Europe, online via the Zoom app

Tuition fees

- Registration: 200€;
- Payment in full: 2000€; (€1,000 for scholarship recipients with a 50% discount)
- Payment in two instalments: 1100€ x 2.

Scholarships

Scholarships assigned:

2 scholarships offering a 50% reduction of the tuition fees.
1 scholarship offering 100% reduction of the tuition fees, aimed at artists from Portuguese Speaking African Countries or Black artists living in Portugal.
Artists residing in Portugal are eligible for up to 50% reduction of the tuition fees through scholarships given out by the GDA Foundation (In cases where the applicant is a member of the GDA this increases up to 75%).

Application form

Important!
Applications and all documentation can be sent in Portuguese and English.

All fields are mandatory.

Bios

Marcelo Evelin

Marcelo Evelin is a dancer, choreographer and researcher. He lives between Teresina and Amsterdam and works in Brazil, Japan and several European countries as an independent artist at the head of the Demolition Incorporada Platform, based at CAMPO, a space for Residence and Resistance in the Performing Arts in Teresina, Piaui. His shows ‘De Repente Fica Tudo Preto de Gente’, ‘Batucada’ and ‘A Invenção da Maldade’ are currently touring theatres and festivals around the world. He has been teaching at the Amsterdam School of Arts since 1999 and creates projects at universities and masterclasses, including ISAC (Brussels), Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), EXERCE (Montpellier) and CND (Paris). In 2019 he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Federal University of Piauí. In 2020 he created ‘And Yes, I sad Yes, I will Yes’ for Coroline Eckly/Compania Carte Blanche (Bergen, Norway), ‘Drama’ for La Manufacture (Lausanne, Switzerland), ‘La Nuit Tombe Quand Elle Veut’ (Rennes, France) in collaboration with Latifa Laabissi, and re-presented his solo ‘ai, ai, ai’ (1995) at the Festival d’Automne in Paris. In 2022 he recreated the performance event BARRICADA for the Transborda Festival (Almada, Portugal) and premiered UIRAPURU, the latest creation by Plataforma Demolition Incorporada.

Bruno Moreno

Bruno Moreno was born in 1988 in São Paulo. Since 2018 he has lived between the capital of São Paulo and Teresina/PI, where he is a resident artist at CAMPO arte contemporânea. He has a degree in performing arts from the University of São Paulo and is a performer and choreographer.

Since 2014 he has collaborated with the Marcelo Evelin/Demolition Incorporada platform. He has collaborated as a performer with choreographers Alejandro Ahmed, Luis Garay, Gustavo Ciríaco and was a member of [pH2]: estado de teatro, where he created works as a performer, director and choreographic director. His creations start from choreography and oscillate between performance, installation and video.

He has taken part in the residency programme at Espaço Alkantara (Lisbon), as well as performing at Mostra VERBO (São Paulo). His video works have been shown at the Tiradentes Film Festival (Brazil), the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), the Short Waves Festival (Poland), Short Out (Italy), the Accesos magazine of artistic practices at the Reina Sofia Museum (Spain), and are part of the collection of works at the Paraná Museum of Contemporary Art. He was one of the resident artists on the PIVÔ Research 2024 programme.

Participants

Abdulay Bragança Dias (ST), Bruna Danesi (BR), Camila Delgado (CH), Déborah Alessandra Soares (BR), Federico Brocal (UY), Johanna Szőke (HU), Julia Domínguez (ES), Manuela Libman (BR), Maria Ramalho (BR), Maria Tamarit (ES), Mel Paiva (PT), Parvin Saljoughi (IR), Paula Otero (BR).

PACAP 9 Activities

Support & Parternships

Coproduction: Teatro do Bairro Alto

Coproduction in Residency PACAP 9: O Espaço do Tempo

1 April, 2025

Márcio K. Canabarro

25th June 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

Auto-Fiction as Awareness Practice

(Auto-Ficção como Prática de Consciência)

This “lecture”, Auto-Fiction as Awareness Practice, explores storytelling, embodiment, and perception. It studies how writing and dance serve as tools for self-translation, allowing the artist to reshape identity, memory, and reality itself. As vision fades, the body becomes a living text—one that the audience reads, interprets, and possesses.

The “lecture” disturbs ideas of truth, proposing fiction as a deeper form of honesty. It teases the gaze, asking: Can vision divorce point of view? What is more real—the act of creation or the circumstances of the creator?

Through “science”, “dance”, and radical self-narration, the speaker performs an experiment in presence and disappearance, where seeing itself is queered by its biochemical origins. This is not just a talk; it is an invitation to surrender—to fiction, to movement, to heart brakes (because they can produce so much writing).

And afterwards? We’ll drink. Or we’ll talk. Or both.

This lecture will be conducted in English.

Márcio K. Canabarro

Márcio K. Canabarro © Michiel Keuper

Márcio K. Canabarro was born in 1985 in Brazil. He is a dancer and choreographer with a BA in Social Communication, a Performing Major from SEAD, and a certified Embodied Myoreflex Therapy Practitioner.

Márcio is interested in exploring the intersections of narratology, performance and mindfulness practices. His work focuses on the socio-emotional implications of cultural biases around vision in shaping the intimacy, self-esteem, and social roles of the blind, visually impaired, loosing eye-sight individuals.

He has a degenerative disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes progressive loss of peripheral vision and eventually blindness. Rather than treating it as an obstacle, he views it as a creative collaborator that requires adaptability, inventiveness, and connection. Reframing the experience of visual impairment not as an isolating one, but as an opportunity to mediate an alternative point of awareness.

Márcio also works as a freelance dancer for Hodworks (HU), CRANKY BODIES/ a company (DE) and Meg Stuart/ Damaged Goods (BE/DE). In the past he has collaborated with Benoit Lachambre, Sara Shelton Mann, Mark Thompkins, Keith Henessy and others.

General information

Date

25th June 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

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

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Top image © Pat Mic

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

1 April, 2025

CAConrad

7th May 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

First Light: Longevity of Practice with (Soma)tic Rituals

2025 is CAConrad’s 50th anniversary of writing poetry, and over the past half-century, they have known many brilliant artists who stopped doing their work for various reasons, from being overwhelmed by their new and growing families or jobs to disappointments with the reception of their art. Using (Soma)tic Rituals can keep us vibrating on the frequency of our talents no matter what challenges lie ahead.

We will focus on Intrusions, which vary from holding onto negative comments about our art to doubts that hinder moving forward with the things we want to create. These voices often come forward in times of crisis and shut many artists down. (Soma)tic Rituals can be used to remain focused, always treating our creativity like a vital organ.

Former US-Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith wrote in The New York Times, “CAConrad’s poems invite the reader to become an agent in a joint act of recovery, to step outside of passivity and propriety and to become susceptible to the illogical and the mysterious.”

This talk will be conducted in English.

CAConrad

CAConrad © Sarah White

CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975.

Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024).

They received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award.

The Book of Frank is now available in 9 different languages, and they coedited SUPPLICATION: Selected Poems of John Wieners (Wave Books).

They exhibit poems as art objects with recent solo shows in Tucson, Arizona, as well as in Spain and Portugal.

They teach at the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.

Please visit them here.

General information

Date

7th May 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 © DR

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

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

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

31 March, 2025

Viktória Kaslik

16 April 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

Eartnail, wild endive, witch gowan. Bitter in taste, detoxifying in effect, and protector of Gdansk (PL). Dandelion emerged for a co-creative artistic research trajectory hosted by Viktória Kaslik (HU), starting in 2022. Running for more than two years on the axis of the Carpathian basin and the Baltic seashores, making Viktória return to Gdansk twice, it was dandelions leading the inquiry on how contemporary human-made law is shaping the way we relate to land. The inquiry resulted in a protocol in which in her capacity as a jurist, as a performance act, she transferred the legal power she received from the nation-state as a practicing jurist.

The protocol invites the reader to establish their relation with dandelions, to eliminate the old legal structures, and to give space to the establishment of dandelion laws to emerge. The protocol was given a visual world by Edyta Majewska-Rosińska (PL), and the transfer of legal power was witnessed and co-performed by Gdansk citizens, and co-choreographed by Aleks Borys (PL).

In the lecture, I wish to share the research behind the protocol with you, the journey of working with plant spirits in legal reconfiguration. I invite you to drink dandelion tea together.

Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Viktória Kaslik | Forum Dança

“She is growing for the light, to reach the Sun and eventually to become the Moon, living in eternal cyclicality. She is traveling to places where her message needs to be heard, where her nurturing is needed, where water needs to be kept, where the condensed soil needs to be loosened, where the concrete needs to be cracked. Mniszek Lekarski is cracking the concrete with her timing. She came to retrieve our broken fabric. It is not about reclaiming any claim, yet it is sourced and pouring from beyond the physical plant body, from a field of the archetypal dandelion-ness. From the cosmos constituted of an invisible fabric, a semi-terrestrial fascia gluing us, together. She perhaps invites us to rejoin, to ask to see what is, and ask again what laws are.”

Quote from Dandelion Feast, a protocol to eliminate legal waste from Earth bodies

This lecture will be conducted in English.

Viktória Kaslik

Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Viktória Kaslik | Forum Dança

Viktória Kaslik (b. 1992) has a background in law, artistic research, and ancestral constellations. She was born and raised in the Carpathian Basin. She studied law (MA) in Budapest, and critical and conceptual design (MA) at Design Academy Eindhoven. In her work, she explores the terrain of nature-sourced laws through artistic and practice-based research, writing, artistic collaborations, and consultation. Since 2025, she has been practicing as an ancestral and systemic constellation facilitator.

General information

Date

16th April 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

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

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Top photo © DR

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

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

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

31 March, 2025

Nadia Lauro

9 April 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

In this talk as part of the PACAP 8 / MyS cycle, we welcome artist and set designer Nadia Lauro, whose work has been developed in scenic spaces, landscape architecture, museums and other contexts dedicated to the performing and visual arts.

Over the last few decades, Lauro has designed scenographies, environments and installations with strong dramaturgical power, collaborating with creators and performers from different countries and artistic areas. Her practice proposes ways of seeing and being together, generating experiences that call for sensitive attention to presence, space and the collective imagination.

Nadia Lauro’s participation in this cycle is in line with the thinking behind PACAP 8 / MyS, where choreographic practices, critical thinking, visual landscapes and research into the body and the scene intersect.

This lecture will be conducted in English.

Nadia Lauro

Nadia Lauro © Sophie Laly

Nadia Lauro is a visual artist and set designer. Her work has been developed over several decades in different contexts – from the stage to built landscapes, including museums and galleries. She has designed set designs, environments and installations with strong dramaturgical power, proposing new ways of seeing and being together.

She has collaborated with choreographers and artists such as Vera Mantero, Benoît Lachambre, Alain Buffard, Emmanuelle Huynh, Marcelo Evelin, Latifa Laâbissi, Meg Stuart and Jennifer Lacey, with whom he has developed numerous projects. In 2024, she created the Mirror Balls Garden set for Glitch Witch, a choreographic piece by Meg Stuart.

She was an associate artist at the Extension Sauvage festival (2014-2022) and has presented her work in various countries in Europe, the United States, Japan and Korea. Her career has been documented in publications such as Jennifer Lacey & Nadia Lauro – dispositifs chorégraphiques (Les Presses du Réel).

More info: https://nadialauro.com

General information

Date

9th April 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

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

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Top photo © DR

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

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

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

31 March, 2025

Mayfield
Brooks

2 April 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

As part of PACAP 8 / Mystery School, Forum Dança is hosting Mayfield Brooks, an artist who develops an artistic practice that crosses movement, voice, writing and cultivation of the land, intertwining creation, experimentation and ecology. Through improvisation, she investigates forms of listening, disorientation and transformation in the body and in the relationship with the world.

Based in Brooklyn, New York, and with a background rooted in pedagogy, performance and ancestral care, Mayfield Brooks has been developing the Improvising While Black methodology, exploring possibilities for embodied liberation and collective practices of presence.

This lecture will be conducted in English.

Mayfield Brooks

Mayfield Brooks © DR

A performance artist working in movement and voice, urban farmer, writer and pedagogue, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she develops the Improvising While Black (IWB) methodology, which explores improvisation as a practice of disorientation, dissidence and ancestral healing.

Her work encompasses dance, vocalisation, writing, pedagogy and ritual practices, and has been presented in contexts such as the Museum of Modern Art NYC, The New Museum, Tanzhaus Dusseldorf, Muzeum Susch and The Center for the Less Good Idea in South Africa.

He is a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and was a resident artist at the Danspace Project.

She received the Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and was nominated for a Bessie Award with the film Whale Fall.

General information

Date

2 April 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

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

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Top photo: Renewal Residency, December 2022, Danspace Project © Ian Douglas/courtesy Danspace Project.

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

28 March, 2025

Workshop
Keith Hennessy

This event has already taken place.

May 28 to 30, 2025 | 18h00 – 21h00
May 31 to June 1, 2025 | 10h00 – 13h00 and 14h00 – 17h00

Forum Dança, Espaço da Penha, Lisboa

This workshop will be conducted in English.

May 28 to 30, 2025 | 18h00 – 21h00
May 31 to June 1, 2025 | 10h00 – 13h00 and 14h00 – 17h00

Forum Dança, Espaço da Penha, Lisboa

This workshop will be conducted in English.

Prioritizing improvisation and collaboration, we will play with the possibilities of healing, politics, and dancing together.

I welcome your curiosity and concerns.

What inspires you or prevents you from dancing more freely, especially with others?
What activates or impedes your healing potential?
How is your body responding to new wars, precarity, and embodied traumas?
How can dancing be activated as anti-capitalism, as a new ethics of relationship, pleasure, and shared power?

I will invite the prophetic ancestors Gustav Landauer and Octavia Butler into the studio to renew our dancing.

Depending on interest, we will integrate performance practices throughout the week.

More information

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

Who is it for

This workshop is aimed at dancers, performers and people with experience in body practices.

Schedules

Dates and times:
28-30 May, from 18h00 to 21h00
31 May to 1 June, from 10h00 to 13h00 and from 14h00 to 17h00

Venue

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

Participation fee

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

Discounts

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

Pre-registration

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

Registration process

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

Application form

All fields are mandatory.

Bio

Keith Hennessy

Keith Hennessy, MFA, PhD, is a frolicker, imperfectionist, and witch working in the fields of contemporary dance, queer performance, affordable housing, sexual and political healing.

Raised in Canada, he has lived in Yelamu/San Francisco since 1982. Hennessy’s work is interdisciplinary and experimental, motivated by anti-racist, queer-feminist, and anarchist movements.

With a focus on the politics of relationship, Keith’s performance collaborators include Ishmael Houston-Jones, Sarah Crowell, Meg Stuart, Peaches, Nathaniel Moore, Jassem Hindi, and jose abad.

Keith’s 2024-25 teaching includes Lviv Ukraine, Cornell Univ, La Manzana de Paxton, ImPulsTanz, The Field Center.

More information: www.circozero.org

Organisation

Forum Dança and Associação Parasita

27 March, 2025

Workshop
Meg Stuart

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

This workshop will be conducted in English.

Registrations are now closed.

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

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

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

More information

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

Who is it for

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

Schedules

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

Venue

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

Participation fee

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

Discounts

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

Pre-registration

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

Registration process

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

Application form

All fields are mandatory.

Registrations are closed.

Bio

Meg Stuart

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

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

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

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

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

More informations: www.damagedgoods.be

Organisation and Support

Organisation: Forum Dança and Associação Parasita

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

10 March, 2025

Justin F. Kennedy

26th March 2025, from 6pm to 8pm

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

This talk will be conducted in English.

More information soon.

Justin F. Kennedy

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

General information

Date

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

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

Free entry, subject to capacity.

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

10 March, 2025

João dos Santos Martins

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

Free entry, subject to capacity and prior enrolment here.

Bio

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

About the lecture cycle “My Dance History”

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

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

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

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

10 March, 2025

Nina Lekic

12th March 2025, from 6pm to 8pm

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

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

Nina Lekic

Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Nina Lekic | Forum Dança

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

General information

Date

12th March 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

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

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Top photo © DR

PACAP 8 / Mystery School lectures

Support and Partnerships

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

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

Forum Dança | CTR | TECER 2025 | João Fiadeiro

7 March, 2025

CTR_matrix

28th September to 31st October 2025

Applications closed.

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

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

Information

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

Programme

Herdade do Freixo do Meio

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the start of the week

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

Forum Dança

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

Who it's for

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

Schedule

From 28th September to 31st October 2025.

First week at Herdade do Freixo do Meio:

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

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

Venue

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

More informations here

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

Participation fee

Participation fees:

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

Please note:

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

Applications

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

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

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

Dates

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

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

Application form

All fields are mandatory.

General Note

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

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

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