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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

20th October 2021, at 18h30,
PALÁCIO GALVEIAS LIBRARY – LISBON
Approximate duration: 2 hours

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Cláudia Dias was born in Lisbon in 1972. She is a choreographer, performer and teacher. She began her dance training at the Academia Almadense, was awarded a scholarship at the Companhia de Dança de Lisboa, completed the Contemporary Dance Performers Training Course at Forum Dança, and attended the Master’s Degree in Performing Arts at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She began her work as a performer with the Almada Dance Group. She was a member of the collective Ninho de Víboras. She collaborated with Re.Al and was a central interpreter in João Fiadeiro’s creative strategy and in the development, systematisation and transmission of the Real-Time Composition Technique. She created the pieces Feedback, E.U. (entrevista-me urgentemente), Juntem-se 2 a 2, As águias não geram pombas, Per Ti, Histo, One Woman Show, Visita Guiada, Das coisas nascem coisas, Vontade de ter Vontade, 23 + 1 and Nem tudo o que dizem tem de ser feito nem tudo o que fazemos tem de ser dito. She was an associate artist at Re.Al and Espaço do Tempo and a resident artist at Alkantara. She has published texts in the magazines Boa União and Woman On Scene and in the books Correspondencias.Bad and Escenas do Cambio. Awarded by the Portuguese Arts and Ideas Club in the Young Creators competition, 1998. Nominated for the Best Choreography Award in 2013 and 2017 by the Portuguese Society of Authors. Since 2016 she has been developing the project Sete Anos Sete Peças (Seven Years, Seven Pieces), accumulating functions of direction, creation, interpretation and training. He created the association Sete Anos.

Photo © Alípio Padilha

15th July 2021, 6.30pm, Alcântara Library
Approximate duration: 2 hours

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António Pinto Ribeiro
With a degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Cultural Studies, his professional activity is divided between cultural programming and research. He began his essay work in the area of the ‘Arts of the Body’ at the Escola Superior de Dança, followed by his role as programme assistant at ACARTE. He was a dance critic for Expresso, a contributor to Forum Dança and was, since its foundation, the artistic director of Culturgest (1993-2004) and director of programmes at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2004-2015), including the Gulbenkian Next Future Programme dedicated to the arts and cultures of the global south. The curator responsible for several international exhibitions, he was also the commissioner-general of ‘Lisbon Ibero-American Capital of Culture 2017’. He is currently a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, as part of the ERC project ‘MEMOIRS – Children of Empire and European Post-Memories’ and is an international programmer. He has published dozens of articles and sixteen books, including: ‘Dance in the age of cinema’, ‘Temporary contemporary dance’, ‘History of dance in Portugal’ (with José Sasportes), ‘Body to Body, possibilities and limits of criticism’. His latest publication is entitled ‘Peut-on Décolonizer les musées?’ (2019).

Online lecture, video conference via APP ZOOM*
20 April 2020, at 18:30 | Approximate duration: 2 hours

*Prior installation of the APP is required to access the online video conference.

Christine de Smedt (1963). Her artistic work ranges from dance/performance to choreography, coordination, organisation and curation of artistic projects.
She was a member of the company Les Ballets C. de la B. (Ghent, Belgium) from 1991 to 2012; he has created his own work since 1993: the solo ‘La force fait l’union, fait la force’; ‘Escape Velocity’ an itinerant project in the Balkans (1998), ‘9×9’ a large-format, large-scale choreography (2000-2005); and ‘Four Choreographic Portraits’ (2012) a series of performance portraits of different artists, entitled ‘I would leave a signature’, ‘The son of a priest’, ‘A woman with a diamond’ and ‘Self-reliance’.
She collaborated for several years with Meg Stuart – Damaged Goods (1995-1999) and with Mårten Spångberg, Mette Edvardsen, Philipp Gehmacher, Vladimir Miller, Jan Ritsema, Myriam Van Imschoot, Xavier Le Roy, among others.
Since 2003 she has collaborated and performed in Xavier Le Roy’s ‘Low Pieces’ and ‘Temporary Title, 2015’ projects, and in Mette Ingvartsen’s ‘Artificial Nature Project’ choreography (2013-2014). In 2014 she presented ‘spatial confessions’ with Bojana Cvejic at the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern (London, UK). Since 2005 she has realised projects with Eszter Salamon, such as ‘Nvsbl’, ‘dance#1/driftworks’, the group project ‘Transformers’ and ‘Dance#2’. In 2018 she collaborated with Myriam Van Imschoot on the participatory performance ‘Splash!’ in the swimming pool presented at Mimosa (Kortrijk, Belgium).
She curated a Summer Intensive artist residency project in 2010 and 2011. She was the Pedagogical Coordinator of the Performing Arts Training Studios – P.A.R.T.S. (2013-2016), where she continues to be involved as a mentor and member of the teaching staff. Since 2016 she has also been teaching at KASK (Ghent, Belgium).
She currently collaborates with Xavier Le Roy, does artistic assistance for Mette Ingvartsen in ‘Moving In Concert’, and for Eszter Salamon in ‘Heterochrony, Manifestations’, and is developing a project on violence, based on interviews and performative reflections from different areas of society.

Photo: © Chris Van Der Burght

Acknowledgements: João dos Santos Martins.
Forum Dança is supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.