My Dance History

October 23 2025, at 18h30
Biblioteca Camões • Lisboa

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.

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.

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.

28 March 2024, at 18h30
Espaço da Penha – Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to capacity.

An American dancer, choreographer, singer and teacher, he founded the I.D.A. Company in 1983. His way of making unidentified performance objects, mixing dance, music, song, text and video, has become his signature. Solos, group pieces, concerts and improvised performances are all elements of this journey, which began in the 1970s, with the complicity of set and costume designer Jean-Louis Badet in 1988. His passion for real-time composition has led him to collaborate with dancers, musicians, light designers and video makers. Recognised for his teaching, he travels all over the world. In 2008, he was awarded the SACD Choreography Prize for his work as a whole (Society of Dramatic Authors Composers).

Fascinated by the frictions and resonances between high and low entertainment, his shows are inspired by popular forms such as cabaret, music hall, musicals and burlesque, as well as themes of ambiguity and ambivalence. She sings and dances in the concerts of Sarah Murcia & musicians, NEVER MIND THE FUTURE and MY MOTHER IS A FISH, and collaborates with choreographer Mariana Tengner Barros in A POWER BALLAD and RESURRECTION. He recently published ONE SHOT dialogues on real time composition, with Meg Stuart and the images of Gilles Toutevoix at Editions L’œil d’or. His most recent performances: a solo STAYIN ALIVE (2018) and a trio CELEBRATION (2021).

Photo © Denise Luccioni

18 January 2024, at 18h30
Camões Library – Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to registration.

Choreographer, performing arts programmer and teacher. She is co-artistic director of Ágora’s Performing Arts Department (Teatro Municipal do Porto, DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva), having taken over as interim artistic director in July 2022, and the performing arts programme, under the artistic direction of Tiago Guedes, since 2019. In 2011, she was one of the initiators of the desNORTE meetings (2011-2017) and was a member of the Braga’27 consultancy group.

Her aggregative curatorial practice focuses on the development of sustainable creative formats, new narratives and caring relationships in the performing arts. She approaches her choreographic work as an act of resistance and affection, researching themes connected to social and political movements, and their relationship to the performing body in the intimacy of the theatre. She created The very delicious piece and The Very Boring Piece, with Jasmina Krizaj, bear me, FM [featuring mortuum] and UM [unimal], chosen as one of the best pieces in 2018 by JN and Expresso. In 2023 he premieres [O SISTEMA] in a co-production with 23 Milhas, TM Faro and TAGV.

Her work is documented in the RTP2 series Portugal que Dança. She has a degree in contemporary dance from ArtEZ, where she is a mentor and regular teacher. She teaches internationally, using a somatic and unconventional approach.

Photo © José Caldeira

2 November 2023, at 18h30
Camões Library – Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to registration.

Margarida Bettencourt was born in 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she started dance classes as a child while also taking part in sporting activities such as swimming, gymnastics and tennis. She moved with her family to Portugal in 1973. She is a dancer-choreographer and dance teacher who is considered one of the pioneers of Portuguese New Dance.

She attended the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s dance training courses and then joined the company where she danced from 1980 to 1993. She soon began working independently, solo and in collaboration with other artists, namely the dancer and choreographer João Natividade with whom she formed the group Aparte. She maintained a close creative relationship with composers Carlos Zíngaro and Constança Capdeville, with works commissioned by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Acarte Service, Culturgest, Forum Dança and the Danças na Cidade Festival.

Her solo work is characterised by an emphasis on the body as a potential for expression and communication – in 2009 the adaptation of ‘At Once’ by American choreographer Deborah Hay, in collaboration with artist João Tabarra, was another stage in this research.

From 1997 to 2012 she taught at various dance teaching institutions, namely the Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional, Escola Superior de Dança, Forum Dança, and was a member of various reflection groups on dance teaching in Portugal.

In 2006 she was a tutor on the Choreography Course organised by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

In 2007, she completed her training as a therapeutic chi kung instructor at the Escola Superior de Medicina Tradicional Chinesa – where she now regularly teaches this discipline in various contexts.
She has continued her research into the development of a relationship with the body as a potential transformative, therapeutic and inspiring force – exploring the integration of her personal history and experience as a dancer, training and practice with anatomy, the physiology of the body, processes and rituals of creation.

After accompanying her father during his last year of life, she trained as a volunteer to accompany people at the end of their lives – with AMARA, an association whose mission is dignity in life and death. All these experiences have fuelled the way she develops and shares her practice with passion and devotion for the body and movement as a vital force.

Photo © António Rebolo

12 October 2023, at 18h30
Camões Library – Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to registration.

Sofia Neuparth has a unique career in Contemporary Art in Portugal. It is her understanding of the body as an event in relationship that determines all her actions, from the training work she has been doing since the early 1980s to the programming of the professional structure she co-created and directs. This is how, at the end of the 1980s, he created a space for research, experimentation, training, creation and artistic documentation that supports practices in the study of the Body, Movement and the Common: c.e.m-centro em movimento. The c.e.m organisation’s regular programming includes the Experimental Space (in existence since 1993), the work with the city since 2005 (Pedras – practices with people and places), the research / creation / training programmes (such as O Risco da Dança, FIA or DEMORA) that have been taking shape since the late 1990s, and the constant side-by-side monitoring of paths of experimentation and creation.

A teacher, researcher and creator, she nurtures the continuous reflection to which she dedicates herself, exercising the generation of possible worlds and practising Art as a fundamental form of Knowledge. Active and critical in relation to the recurrent implementation of policies (not just cultural ones) that tend to stifle the vitality of existence, she was involved in the creation of APPD (Portuguese Association for Dance) and REDE (Association of Structures for Contemporary Dance), which she co-directed for several years, continuing to be attentive and involved in the generation of implicated and vibrant ways of being.

She keeps the experience of dance open in the encounter with other forms of knowledge such as embryology or philosophy, from which creations such as ‘mmm – a physical poem’ (2005), ‘practices for seeing the invisible and keeping it a secret’ (dance-book 2010), ‘1 or 2 comedidos contentments’ (2011), or ‘Sopro’ (2017 – with Margarida Agostinho and Bruno de Azevedo) or publications (‘written in a state of dance’) such as ‘movimento’ 2014 or ‘Criação’ 2020, the latter with Margarida Agostinho, have emerged.

For more information: www.c-e-m.org

Photograph © Valentina Parravicini

27 April 2023, at 18h30
Palácio Galveias Library – Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to registration.

Ligia Lewis (born in the Dominican Republic) lives and works in Berlin. As an experimental choreographer, her work is often marked by physical intensity and humour. In her work, sound and visual metaphors meet the body, materialising the enigmatic, the poetic and the dissonant.

Lewis has received the Tabori Award in the Distinction category (2021); the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants award (2018); a Bessie Award for Outstanding Production for minor matter (2017); a Factory artist residency at tanzhaus nrw (2017-19); and a Prix Jardin d ‘Europe from ImPulsTanz for Sorrow Swag (2015).

His work has been presented throughout Europe and in the United States, at venues such as HAU Hebbel am Ufer, in Berlin; Tanzquartier, in Vienna; Arsenic, in Lausanne; MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, in Chicago; Hammer Museum, in Los Angeles; Walker Art Centre, in Minneapolis; Kaaitheater, in Brussels; High Line Art, in New York; Performance Space, in New York; OGR Turin; Stedelijk, in Amsterdam; TATE Modern, in London, among others.

For more information: www.ligialewis.com

Photo © Luis Rodriguez

September 29, at 6h30 p.m.
Estúdios Victor Córdon • Lisbon

Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, upon registration in the following form available .

Bio

Susan Klein has been developing and teaching Klein Technique™ since 1972 teaching in daily classes New York City at her studio, The Susan Klein School of Movement and Dance, and during the last two years of the pandemic of Covid-19 on Zoom. Since 1989 she has been traveling throughout the world teaching intensive workshops in Klein Technique™.

Klein Technique™ is a result of a serious knee injury and developed out of Susan’s personal journey to get well. It serves as a way for people to work through their individual injuries, to understand and improve the workings of their bodies, to heal themselves and become better dancers. Her main influences in developing her work are Irmgard Bartenieff, Dr. Fritz Smith, and Professor J. R. Worsley.

Susan has a private practice as a Movement Therapist, Certified Zero Balancer, Senior Zero Balancing Teacher, and Traditional 5 Element Worsley Style Acupuncturist, L.Ac., B.Ac.(UK), M.Ac.,(USA),  Dipl. Ac.(NCCAOM)

For more information: www.kleintechnique.com

Photo © 

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
Participants in My Dance History: Ana Borralho & João Galante, André Lepecki, António Pinto Ribeiro, Christine de Smedt, Clara Andermatt, Cláudia Dias, Eszter Salamon, Gil Mendo, Gustavo Ciríaco, Francisco Camacho, Jennifer Lacey, Jeroen Peeters, João Fiadeiro, Joclécio Azevedo, La Ribot, Lia Rodrigues, Lisa Nelson, Loïc Touzé, Madalena Victorino, Marcela Levi, Marcelo Evelin, Mark Tompkins, Meg Stuart, Mette Edvardsen, Miguel Pereira, Nadia Lauro, Olga Roriz, Panaibra Gabriel Canda, Rui Horta, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz, Sónia Baptista, 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.

June 23 at 6:30 pm
Galveias Palace Library • Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, upon registration in the following form available .

Bio

Born in Lisbon, Rui Horta began dancing at the age of 17 in ballet courses at the Ballet Gulbenkian, having later lived for several years in New York, the city where he completed his training and developed his career as a performer and teacher. In 84 he returned to Lisbon, being one of the most important drivers of a new generation of Portuguese dancers and choreographers.

During the 90’s he lived in Germany where he directed the SOAP Dance Theater Frankfurt, his work being considered a reference of European dance and presented in the most important theaters and festivals around the world, namely at the Thêatre de la Vile, which co-produced his work over a decade.

In 2000 he returned to Portugal, having founded “O Espaço do Tempo” in Montemor-o-Novo, a multidisciplinary center for residencies and artistic experimentation.

In addition to his intense work as an independent creator, Rui Horta created, as a guest artist, a vast repertoire for renowned companies such as the Cullberg Ballet, the Gulbenkian Ballet, the Grand Ballet de l’Opera de Genéve, the Marseille, the Netherlands Dance Theatre, the Gothenburg Opera Dance Company, Icelandic Ballet, Scottish Dance Theatre, Random Dance, Carte Blanche, Ballet am Gartner Platz, Ballet de Roubaix, Ballet of the Opera of Linz, Ballet of the Opera of Nuremberg, Tanzmainz, &c.

Throughout his career he received important awards and distinctions such as the Grand Prix de Bagnolet, the Bonnie Bird Award, the Deutsche Produzent Preis, the Acarte Award, the Almada Award, the degree of Officer of the Ordem do Infante, the degree of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, by the French Ministry of Culture.

His choreographic creation has been classified as Heritage of German Dance. In the performing arts, his work as a director extends to theatre, opera, the new circus, and experimental music, as well as being a light designer and multimedia researcher, a universe he frequently uses in his works.

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
Participants in My Dance History: Ana Borralho & João Galante, André Lepecki, António Pinto Ribeiro, Christine de Smedt, Clara Andermatt, Cláudia Dias, Eszter Salamon, Gil Mendo, Gustavo Ciríaco, Francisco Camacho, Jennifer Lacey, Jeroen Peeters, João Fiadeiro, Joclécio Azevedo, La Ribot, Lia Rodrigues, Lisa Nelson, Loïc Touzé, Madalena Victorino, Marcela Levi, Marcelo Evelin, Mark Tompkins, Meg Stuart, Mette Edvardsen, Miguel Pereira, Nadia Lauro, Olga Roriz, Panaibra Gabriel Canda, Rui Horta, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz, Sónia Baptista, 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.

May 19 at 6:30 pm
Galveias Palace Library • Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, upon registration in the following form available .

Bio

Mette Edvardsen. Choreographer and performer. Although some of her works explore other media or formats, such as video, books, and writing, Edvardsen’s interest is always in relation to the performing arts as a practice and a situation. She has worked since 1994 as a dancer and performer for a number of companies and projects and develops her own work since 2002. She presents her works internationally and continues to develop projects with other artists, both as a collaborator and as a performer.

A retrospective of her work was presented at Black Box Theatre (Oslo, 2015), and in the focus programme Idiorritmias at MACBA (Barcelona, 2018). Her project “Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine” is ongoing since 2010, was presented twice at Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, 2013 and 2017), Sydney Biennale (2016), Index Foundation (Stockholm, 2019), Oslobiennalen First Edition (2019/2020), Trust & Confusion at Tai Kwun Arts (Hong Kong, 2021), and São Paulo Biennale (2021). Edvardsen will present several pieces at Amant, (New York, 2022), and develop a project in residence at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (Paris 2022/23).

Mette Edvardsen is structurally supported by Norsk Kulturråd (2021/2025) and BUDA Arts Centre Kortrijk (2017/2021). From 2019 to 2021, was an associated artist at Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (France). She is currently finalizing her research as a Phd candidate at Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

www.metteedvardsen.be  | www.timehasfallenasleepintheafternoonsunshine.be

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
Participants in My Dance History: Ana Borralho & João Galante, André Lepecki, António Pinto Ribeiro, Christine de Smedt, Clara Andermatt, Cláudia Dias, Eszter Salamon, Gil Mendo, Gustavo Ciríaco, Francisco Camacho, Jennifer Lacey, Jeroen Peeters, João Fiadeiro, Joclécio Azevedo, La Ribot, Lia Rodrigues, Lisa Nelson, Loïc Touzé, Madalena Victorino, Marcela Levi, Marcelo Evelin, Mark Tompkins, Meg Stuart, Miguel Pereira, Nadia Lauro, Olga Roriz, Panaibra Gabriel Canda, Rui Horta, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz, Sónia Baptista, 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.

20 February 2022, at 16h00
ESPAÇO DA PENHA – LISBON
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to registration.

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 Plataforma Demolition Incorporada, based at CAMPO, a space for Residency and Resistance in the Performing Arts in Teresina, Piaui.

Her 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 has been creating projects at universities and master’s programmes, 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 Piaui.

Photo © Marc Domage

This lecture has the support of Casa da Dança de Almada

13 November 2021, at 12.30 p.m. [Barcelona]
Auditori Meier | MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona – BARCELONA
Approximate duration: 90 min.

This talk takes place in partnership with La Poderosa – Espai per la dansa i ele seu contaminants, as part of the cycle HACER HISTORIA(S) VOL 4 . CYCLE OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE AND PERFORMANCE.

PRESENTIAL | Free entry, subject to prior enrolment.

ONLINE | Live broadcast to Portugal upon registration to access the link.

Eszter Salamon, artist, choreographer and performer. She lives and works between Paris, Berlin and Brussels. Since 2001, she has created solo and group works, presented at theatres and festivals around the world, including Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou Metz, Festival dʼAutomne, Avignon Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Holland Festival, The Kitchen New York, HAU Berlin , Berlin Documentary Forum, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater Brussels, Tanzquartier Wien, Kampnagel Hamburg, steirischer herbst, Dance Triennale Tokyo, Manchester International Festival, PACT Zollverein, Nanterre-Amandiers, FTA Montreal.
His work is frequently shown in museums such as MoMa, Witte de With, Fondation Cartier, Serralves, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Akademie der Künste Berlin and Museo Reina Sofia. The exhibition Eszter Salamon 1949 was presented in 2015 at Jeu de Paume, as part of ‘Satellite’ curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez.
Eszter Salamon uses choreography as an activating and organising agent for various media, such as image, sound, text, voice, body movement and actions.
In 2014, she began a series of works exploring both the notion of the monument and the practice of speculating about making history.
She won the Evens Prize in 2019.

Photo © Bea Borgers

4 November 2021, at 18h30
VICTOR CÓRDON STUDIOS – LISBON
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to prior registration.

Born in 1965, João Fiadeiro belongs to the generation of choreographers that emerged at the end of the 1980s and gave rise to New Portuguese Dance.
His career, whether as a choreographer or performer, or as a researcher or curator, has centred on creating conditions for experimentation, laboratory practice and interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation. This activity has been carried out both within the framework of directing artistic programming and research projects, which have included the Centro Cultural da Malaposta (1990-95), Espaço Ginjal (1995-1998), Lugar Comum (1999-2000), Espaço A Capital (2000-2002) and Atelier Real (2004-2019), and within the framework of his artistic practice, through the creations and research workshops organised around Composition in Real Time.
In all these different meeting platforms, João Fiadeiro has always been accompanied by artists who have actively participated as creators, performers, researchers and programme-makers, making a decisive contribution to the project’s existence over 30 years of uninterrupted activity.

Photo © Ana Viotti

10TH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE SERIES ‘MY DANCE STORY’

27 October 2021, at 18h30
PALÁCIO GALVEIAS LIBRARY – LISBON
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to prior registration.

10TH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE SERIES ‘MY DANCE STORY’
Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the lecture series ‘My History of Dance’, created from Lisa Nelson’s seminar for Forum Dança’s PEPCC course in 2009.

Lisa Nelson is a Tuning Scores practitioner and explorer of the role of the senses in performance and movement observation. She is interested in danced behaviour, systems of transmission and translation, patterns of survival in the face of culture, and the sense of imagination. Alongside dance, she has dedicated her life to publishing in various media, including video and the journal Contact Quaterly, since 1976. Her writing is available online at www.movementresearch.org and also at www.oralsite.be. He lives in Vermont, USA.

Photo © Mandoline Whittlesey