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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

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8

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

Top image credits © Keith Hennessy & Ishmael Houston-Jones in Closer, ImPulsTanz 2023

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

Meg Stuart © Camille Blake

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

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

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

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

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

More informations: www.damagedgoods.be

Organisation and Support

Organisation: Forum Dança and Associação Parasita

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

Top image credits © Karolina Miernik

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.

Top photo © Julie Nymann

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

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

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.

7 March, 2025

CTR_summer

From 25th to 30th August 2025

From 2pm to 7pm

In the last week of August, João Fiadeiro will lead an intensive CTR workshop with performer/choreographer Márcia Lança and architect/visual artist João Gonçalo Lopes, focusing on the concept of ‘prepared space’ (like John Cage’s ‘prepared piano’), which will function as a territory for exploring and experimenting with Real-Time Composition.

The prior preparation of the improvisation space creates a set of reliefs and restrictions in the place which, by producing ‘obstacles’ to the experience of improvisation, force it to happen in continuous negotiation with the environment in which it takes place, in an experience close to what it would be like to work in a site-specific environment. If we understand these obstructions as conditions rather than constraints, the space and the objects placed in it will themselves have agency, creating a relationship of dialogue and reciprocity between the performance and the place, the main object of study of this workshop.

Information

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

Who it's for

Schedule

From 25 to 30 August 2025, from 14h00 to 19h00.

Venue

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

Participation fee

- Registration: 150 €;

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.

Bios

João Fiadeiro

João Fiadeiro (1965) is a Portuguese performer, choreographer, researcher, teacher and curator.
He belongs to the generation of artists that emerged at the end of the 1980s in Portugal and gave rise to the New Portuguese Dance movement.
In the 1990s he studied and practised Contact-Improvisation intensively, which led him to pursue and systematise his own research into improvisation under the name Real-Time Composition. This research has led him to coordinate workshops in master’s and doctoral programmes at various schools and universities around the world.
He has toured extensively in Europe, North America and South America with his solo and group works.
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 Re.AL (2004-2019), and within the framework of his artistic practice, through creations and research workshops organised around Real-Time Composition.
Atelier Re.AL was a structure that played a leading role in the development of contemporary dance and transdisciplinary initiatives in Portugal.
In all these different meeting platforms, João Fiadeiro was always accompanied by artists who actively participated as creators, performers, researchers and programme-makers, making a decisive contribution to the existence of this project over 30 years of uninterrupted activity.

Márcia Lança

She moves in territories where the boundaries between the fictional and the real are tenuous and diffuse. Her interest in the poetic materiality of concrete actions and tasks is at the centre of her creative processes.

She is passionate about emergent collective compositions, thought as action and situated constructions.

João Gonçalo Lopes

João Gonçalo Lopes is an architect who works in various disciplines between art, design and education. Having had diverse experience in different parts of the globe, he currently works with a hands-on approach on scales ranging from urban design to art installations and furniture design.

With a context-based attitude, his work is rooted in processes of collaboration and community building, focusing on the ecology of materials as a means of achieving conscious and complex realities.

He values spaces and objects that exist as facilitators of experience. To do this, he uses a wide range of tools that come from different disciplines, be they social, political, artistic, constructive or spatial.

More information, here.

General Note

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

TECER activities

7 March, 2025

CTR_expanded

5 one-week workshops

After work, from 6pm to 9pm

Between March and July, we will organise five workshops lasting one week each, facilitated by artist-researchers who have collaborated with João Fiadeiro for many years.

- Carolina Campos / 28 April to 2 May
- Daniel Pizamiglio / 26 to 30 May
- Gustavo Sumpta / 23 to 27 June
- Cláudia Dias / 28 July to 1 August
- Márcia Lança / 22 to 26 September

Together, these artists cover three major periods of systematisation and processing of this tool over the last 25 years:

- 2000s: Márcia Lança, Cláudia Dias and Gustavo Sumpta participated intensively in the first phase of experimentation and application of Real-Time Composition, at a time when the tool was mainly geared towards the practice of artistic creation;
- First half of the 2010s: Carolina Campos and Daniel Pizamiglio were extremely involved in the second phase of research into Real-Time Composition, at a time when the tool was being worked on not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself.
- Mid-2010s and early 2020s: Márcia Lança returns to join Carolina Campos and Daniel Pizamiglio to begin the third phase of this long investigation, at a time when, at the same time as returning to artistic creation, we began to devote a lot of attention to transmission and sharing processes.

Over time, each of us, in our own way, has appropriated this tool, expanding its applications and scope, producing different variables and ways of sharing and experimenting with this practice.

Proposals

Márcia Lança

‘And now?’ This is the question I ask in my CTR practice when a gap opens up, a cliff, when that instant opens up in which it is no longer what we thought it was and it is not yet what it will be. I propose to study it by mapping the presence of that instant, when the ground disappears from under your feet, in relation to the possibilities of the direction of action.

Márcia Lança was born in Beja and lives in Lisbon. In 2008 she founded VAGAR, of which she is artistic director. She has worked as a choreographer and performer in various collaborative configurations.
She moves in territories where the boundaries between the fictional and the real are tenuous and diffuse. Her interest in the poetic materiality of concrete actions and tasks is at the centre of her creative processes.
She is passionate about emerging collective compositions, thought as action and situated constructions.

Carolina Campos

This workshop is an invitation to exercise states of attention where listening and participation can lead us to the construction of collective artistic events. Using tools that I develop in accompaniment and dramaturgy processes, we will practice situations for: becoming aware of the groupings of vibrant materials in which we are already immersed; listening to the desire to enter into a relationship with these materials; and organising these events as an invitation to a specific path of attention. One of the starting points for this sharing will be the relationship between the word and performativity. Understanding the word as matter and as an interface for reorganising time and space collectively, we will practice situations that reflect the following questions: What fits inside a word? What words fit inside an image? How do words make place, presence and duration? What are the distances between what is seen, what is said and what happens?

I’ve been involved in research into Real-Time Composition since 2012, having worked with João Fiadeiro in workshops, creating pieces and researching and systematising the tool. I currently dedicate myself to artistic accompaniment, dramaturgy and experimentation with pedagogies, activities that are directly and indirectly crossed by CTR.

Carolina Campos is Brazilian and lives between Lisbon and Barcelona.
She completed the Independent Studies Programme at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.
In Brazil she worked with Lia Rodrigues Cia de Danças between 2008 and 2011.
Since 2013 she has collaborated intensively with João Fiadeiro in the training, creation and research of Real Time Composition.

Daniel Pizamiglio

First nothing, then nothing
Stopping as a political act.
Slowing down as a gesture of resistance.
Paying attention as a way of opening up possibilities.
‘First nothing, then nothing’ is a privileged CTR immersion and expanded practice workshop led by Daniel Pizamiglio. This workshop will emphasise the power of waiting, the value of possibilities within a pre-action space and the work of being.

Daniel Pizamiglio is a Brazilian, queer, migrant choreographer, performer and researcher based in Lisbon. He works in the context of dance and the performing arts in Portugal, exploring notions and practices of encounter, concrete poetry and mourning. Since 2009, he has been researching Real Time Composition with João Fiadeiro, exploring different ways of studying, practising and transmitting this methodology internationally. In 2016 she completed the Study, Research and Choreographic Creation Programme at Forum Dança (Lisbon) with the solo ‘Dança Concreta’. She has collaborated with various artists such as Andreia Pires, Andréa Bardawil, Ana Rita Teodoro, Alex Cassal, Cláudia Dias, Filipe Pereira, Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti, Gustavo Ciríaco, João Fiadeiro, João dos Santos Martins, Luis Garay, Márcia Lança, Rita Barbosa, Romain Beltrão Teule and Vera Mantero. In 2023 he premiered the mourning performance ‘M’ at Rua das Gaivotas 6, in Lisbon.

Gustavo Sumpta

Gustavo Sumpta was born in Luanda (Angola) in 1970. He lives and works between Lisbon and Berlin. He studied History at the Faculty of Letters in Porto. He took the Professional Interpreter’s Course at the Ballet Teatro Contemporâneo do Porto. He worked as an assistant and actor in several films by Pedro Costa, including ‘Cavalo Dinheiro’ (2014), ‘Juventude em Marcha’ (2006) and ‘End of the love affair’ (2003). She wrote and performed with choreographer João Fiadeiro in the performances ‘Existência’ (2002) and ‘Para onde vai a luz quando se apaga’ (2006). She taught sculpture at Ar.co in Lisbon from 2009 to 2013 at the invitation of Rui Chafes, director of the school’s sculpture programme. He has been working as a visual artist and performer since 1999.

Cláudia Dias

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. She created the association Sete Anos.

Information

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

Who it's for

The workshops are primarily aimed at artists with some experience but are also open to anyone who identifies with the premises of the proposal and feels available and comfortable to experiment with composition and improvisation practices with the body.

Schedule

All workshops take place after working hours, from 18h00 to 21h00.

Venue

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

Participation fee

Entries will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Although participation in these workshops can take place independently, they have been designed to be articulated, like different sides of a cube. To have access to Composition in Real Time is, in a way, to have access to these different ways of thinking and practising it. That’s why we strongly advise you to enrol in more than one workshop by creating a registration fee that is inversely proportional to the number of workshops you enrol in.

- 1 workshop = 80€
- 2 workshops = 140€ (70€ each)
- 3 workshops = 180€ (60€ each)
- 4 workshops = 200€ (50€ each)
- 5 workshops = 200€ (40€ each / fifth workshop free)

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.

General Note

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

TECER activities

6 March, 2025

TECER | CTR 2025

Real Time Composition [CTR] is mainly known (and transmitted) as a ‘tool’ for composition and improvisation, based on the principles and premises that João Fiadeiro has been developing since the 1990s, based on his practice as a choreographer, researcher and pedagogue. This dimension, which we can call the ‘matrix approach’, translates into the establishment of a work ethic and the systematisation of a language, with principles, premises and strict criteria that can be consulted here.

But it also manifests itself in multiple ways, through the way in which different artists, researchers and facilitators have appropriated it, emphasised certain aspects and not others, and extracted possibilities and ways of using it that result in different ways of experiencing it, as a result of their unique experiences and sensitivities to the proposal. This cohabitation of forces (centrifugal and centripetal) to approach the same body of work, as well as having the advantage of feeding back on each other, protects CTR from being ‘captured’ by the temptation to close itself off or fix itself as a ‘method’, in the etymological sense of ‘truth’ or a single path.

TECER | CTR

The TECER | CTR programme for 2025 will reflect this positioning by offering the artistic community different ways of accessing this tool, both in terms of its multiple contents and through its workloads.

CTR_expanded

One-week workshops, after working hours (18h00-21h00)

- Carolina Campos / 28 April to 2 May
- Daniel Pizamiglio / 26 to 30 May
- Gustavo Sumpta / 23 to 27 June
- Cláudia Dias / 28 July to 1 August
- Márcia Lança / 22 to 26 September

More information

CTR_summer

From 25th to 30th August (14h00-19h00)

With the participation of Márcia Lança and João Gonçalo Lopes, João Fiadeiro will lead an intensive CTR workshop focussing on the concept of ‘prepared space’ (like John Cage’s ‘prepared piano’), which will function as a territory for exploring and experimenting with Real-Time Composition.

More information

Composição em Tempo Real, João Fiadeiro / Forum Dança

CTR open sessions

Every Monday (18h00-20h00)

Sessions open to the community, facilitated by João Fiadeiro and Márcia Lança.

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CTR_matrix

From 29th September to 31st October 2025 (14h00-19h00)

Advanced research and experimentation course with the Real Time Composition tool.

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General Note

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

TECER activities

Maria José Arjona (1973) is a Colombian multidisciplinary performance artist whose
work proposes through radical poetic gestures a unique form of political resistance.
At a time when political art is understood primarily as political activism, Arjona instead
treats the body as a site for subtle and complex re- articulations and questionings of
normative conditioning and violence. She moves away from a focus on the identity of
the artist to highlight the organic, expansive shared potential of the body, a body that
in its centrality may not be individual or biographical, but collective and
unconditioned.
Arjona is currently a fellow at the DAAD in Berlin and was a visiting scholar at the
department of performance studies at NYU. Her upcoming and most recent
exhibitions, seminars and talks include: “All possible forests” (Seminar) Princeton
University, “Moving with Rocks” LASA 2025, “Rivers” Biennial Of Guatemala, “Silent
but together” at The Museum Of Contemporary Art Of Barcelona, “The good life" at
The Museum Of Modern Art Of Medellin, Zero Point Berlin , Art Basel Miami Beach,
The international Biennial Of Performance (Argentina), “The Body As Archive” a (Talk)
at Museum Of Latin American Art Of Buenos Aires (MALBA).

25 February, 2025

Maria Jose Arjona

26th February 2025, from 6pm to 8pm

This online seminar draws upon “As It Is Inside, So It Is Outside”, a project exhibited at NC Arte in Bogotá (COL) in the wake of the pandemic. Emerging from a network of encounters, transformations, and visions, it reflects on the radical generosity that arises in times of crisis and the formation of temporary communities willing to embrace the unknown as a space of possibility. Spanning from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to Bogotá, New York, and Berlin, the project reimagined interactions between non-human entities and a gathering of alchemists, biologists, dancers, sound artists, architects, oracles, anthropologists, chefs, and designers.

Building on these explorations, this seminar invites participants into a space of collective reflection and speculation, where mystery unfolds in the unspoken transmission of movement, the affective architectures emerging between bodies, the vibrational resonance of voices, and the invisible yet deeply felt shifts in molecular motion.

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

Maria Jose Arjona

Palestras PACAP 8 / MyS | Maria Jose Arjona | Forum Dança

Maria José Arjona (1973) is a Colombian multidisciplinary performance artist whose work proposes through radical poetic gestures a unique form of political resistance. At a time when political art is understood primarily as political activism, Arjona instead treats the body as a site for subtle and complex re- articulations and questionings of normative conditioning and violence. She moves away from a focus on the identity of the artist to highlight the organic, expansive shared potential of the body, a body that in its centrality may not be individual or biographical, but collective and unconditioned.

Arjona is currently a fellow at the DAAD in Berlin and was a visiting scholar at the department of performance studies at NYU. Her upcoming and most recent exhibitions, seminars and talks include: “All possible forests” (Seminar) Princeton University, “Moving with Rocks” LASA 2025, “Rivers” Biennial Of Guatemala, “Silent but together” at The Museum Of Contemporary Art Of Barcelona, “The good life” at The Museum Of Modern Art Of Medellin, Zero Point Berlin , Art Basel Miami Beach, The international Biennial Of Performance (Argentina), “The Body As Archive” a (Talk) at Museum Of Latin American Art Of Buenos Aires (MALBA).

General information

Date

26th February 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

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