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August 5 – 9, 2026

Forum Dança, Espaço da Penha, Lisbon

Registration open.

Ambiguous Intensities

A workshop with Harald Beharie

In the last years Harald Beharie has been engaged in exploring the body as a site of ambivalence. A site where opposing forces, desires, and mechanics coexist and collide. The workshop draws on materials and methodologies developed across a trilogy of works (Batty Bwoy, Undersang and Sweet Spot, 2022 – 2026) , where the body is approached as something unstable, excessive, and exposed in its constant negotiation with its surroundings. Fragments, practices, and scores from these works will function as starting points and shared references. Not as fixed choreographies, but as material to be reactivated, distorted, and reimagined within the group. Together, we will form a temporary collective. A space for delving into ways of being, for channeling and manifesting attitudes and energetic states. Beginning with specific somatic and vocal practices, we will move into more open sessions, working with both voice and movement. The workshop explores how ambiguity can be sustained as a generative force, allowing a collective body to emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure. We will explore how playfulness and uncanniness can produce layers of magic, confusion, and slippage. How to remain in confusion, together and also leaning into awkwardness and silliness as a productive state. How ambiguity can be embodied through form, sensation, and duration. How something lingers and leaks.
The workshop includes elements of contact work and is open to professional performers and students within the performing arts.

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Forum Dança & Associação Parasita

September 30 to October 4, 2026

Forum Dança, Espaço da Penha, Lisboa

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dancing with the invisible or dancing with your whole body

Workshop with Luís Guerra

During these days of exploration, I will share approaches, strategies, and tools that I have been developing over more than twenty years of continuous work as a performer and improviser in the fields of dance, performance, and the visual arts. The proposal involves immersing ourselves in the body as one of the richest territories and one of the privileged instruments for the expression of creative impulse, activating dimensions that are often dormant or uninhabited, seeking to reawaken consciousness to all that dwells or hides in the darkness of the unconscious. We will work primarily with sensory stimuli that extend beyond the visual field, prioritizing listening and hearing, but also internal archaeology, opening space for transcendental dives that may stray beyond the scripts of control and predictability. Above all, it will be a space for exploration, experimentation, spontaneous composition, and improvisation, where the body of each day will become the primary guide and conductor. We will seek states of presence that are more detached from preconceived notions of right and wrong, good and evil, and valid and invalid, without, however, compromising our standards regarding form or content. In this way, we will create space for intense experiences—sometimes akin to or evoking altered states of consciousness—that reveal bodies that are more receptive, sensitive, and alive. Above all, this will be an encounter to be built together, with the hope that for each participant it will be a nourishing moment that propels the expansion of the physical, psychic, and emotional realms.

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Workshop with Marcela Levi and Lucía Russo.

From May 27 to May 31, 2026, at Forum Dança.

This workshop will be conducted in Portuguese and Spanish.

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Assemble, disassemble, reassemble

A workshop with Marcela Levi and Lucía Russo

‘A few years ago, Improvável Produções, founded by choreographers Marcela Levi and Lucía Russo, set out with a series of questions that call for work to be done: how to embody, that is, materialize, in conversation with the poet Édouard Glissant, the desire for “a world of many worlds”? What strategies are needed to disrupt the frontal architecture and unidirectional visuality of an Italian stage? How can we bridge distances without crushing the gaps, that is, how can we coexist with differences in a non-separatist way? What strategies are needed to sustain the continuity of collective research work, that is, how can we gain time?

Loaded with these questions, in a gesture that seeks crossovers, we will share some fundamental aspects of the artistic issues that (dis)orient our research.

In the first part of this workshop, aimed at professionals and students of the performing arts, we will practice the multifaceted nature of the body through the multidirectional conduction of bone masses (skull, pelvis, ribs, shoulder blades, calcaneus, and metatarsus), activated by the force of thrust and the pull of magnetization forces.
In a second moment, we will dedicate ourselves to searching for and fabricating connections between subjects distant in time and space. Recognizing resonances and echoes, in the search for commonalities between distinct visible and invisible subjects, will help us weave this field of forces in tension. Assemble, disassemble, reassemble, disassemble, reassemble…’
[Levi and Lucía Russo]

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Forum Dança and Associação Parasita

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