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22 April, 2026

EMILY DA SILVA, ISABELA ROSSI AND MARÍA IBARRETXE

COWBOYS CORNER

Forum Dança | May 8, 2026 | 6.30 pm

‘ Amid encounters with the invisible—as if we were herding a herd of oxen that only our eyes can see – COWBOYS CORNER summons ghosts, haunts itself, and plays with the audience, as if we were all being herded toward a land about to be invaded by those who seek a sense of belonging in society, in life, in the world. We gather in a suspended space-time, where word, body, and symbol begin to weave a shared tapestry. ‘

Concept, direction and performance Emily da Silva, Isabela Rossi, María Ibarretxe

Dramaturgy Ana Rocha

Photo © Vitorino Coragem

Biographies

Emily da Silva

Emily da Silva is a Brazilian dancer, performer, and choreographer based in Lisbon. In her work, she explores the body’s use of circularity, spirals, swaying, and swaying as tools for vibrating and transforming space-time. She is interested in black holes, tornadoes, and giant waves.

Isabela Rossi

Isabela Rossi moves between dance, performance, and creation. Driven by the curiosity of a wandering body, it is through this physical experience that she explores how the body reconfigures itself in relation to space, revealing tensions and deviations while opening pathways to new imaginaries, encounters, and perspectives.

María Ibarretxe del Val

María Ibarretxe del Val is a visual and performing artist. She combines film, audiovisual creation, sound installations, and choreography, in which the body, the voice, and the participation of others take center stage. She explores cycles of life and death and the colors of the rainbow through site-specific experiences and research in diverse cultural contexts.

22 April, 2026

TIAGO VIEIRA

PAGAN POETRY

Forum Dança |  May 8, 2026 | 6.30 pm

PAGAN POETRY stems from a desire to inhabit a choreographic landscape—a space for forging connections and giving rise to rituals—as well as from the two notebooks I kept during the Mysthery School process, which, going beyond a mere diary, serve as a kind of cartography of aphorisms, memories, thoughts, ideas, and the powers of the imagination.
The aim is to create an encounter where ritual language breaks down the boundaries between the divine and the profane. I am interested in the intimate relationship between Love and Resistance . Poetry as a political gesture, seeking to dignify marginalized bodies—absolute symbols of Difference, Freedom, and Resistance against all fascist systems.

[Tiago Vieira]

Choreography, soundscape, text, costumes, set design, performance: Tiago Vieira

Photo © DR

Biography

Tiago Vieira

A graduate of the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, he furthered his training through various theater, dance, and performance workshops.

He combines directing with teaching theater and dance. In 2019, he completed a master’s degree at the RITS School in Brussels, where he danced *The Rite of Spring* for 12 hours, undertook a walk that began at a concentration camp near Berlin and ended at Pina Bausch’s grave, and presented his show on the main stage of the KVS THEATRE. In 2020, the show WE MUST ALWAYS FORGIVE COWARDS, BUT NEVER BE LIKE THEM was named by the newspaper Expresso as one of the best shows of the year. In 2024, he launched the company Tiago Vieira e os melancólicos tropicais with the performance Dói mas você goza. In 2025, he began teaching at the Escola Profissional de Cascais and was part of the PACAP project directed by Meg Stuart.

22 April, 2026

BELMON / THERESE BENDJUS

MONSTROSITY STUDIES // STAGING INNOCENCE

Forum Dança |  May 29, 2026 | 6.30 PM

Monstrosity Studies // Staging Innocence investigates mythological archetypes – monster, beast and devil — as entry points to question what we perceive as evil, dangerous or unsettling. Drawing on my own biography and that of my ancestors, the work traces the intergenerational wounds of predator societies such as Germany between lingering obedience, violence, spiritual and communal disconnect and its residue that remains and informs behavior, emotionality and moral understanding until today. This work is a storm, an unsettling site that collapses structure and unleashes disorientation. A monster awakens – not as single figure but as a collective state.

[Belmon / Therese Bendjus]

Direction and performance Belmon / Therese Bendjus

Photo © Raul Aranha

Biography

Belmon / Therese Bendjus

Belmon / Therese Bendjus is an artist working at the intersection of dance, voice and
material-based research. Building multi-sensorial environments, their work encourages people to be vulnerable and brave with one another. Belmon uses intuitive, improvisational processes to engage with discomfort, togetherness and accountability.
In 2024 they co-founded DESTRUCTION BUREAU together with Asya Ashman – a research on the potentiality of destruction. They hold a BA in Dance, Context and Choreography from HZT Berlin.

10 April, 2026

Cartografias #6

Presentation cycle

2026 | Forum Dança

Four residencies will be organized at the Núcleo and subsequently presented as part of Cartografias. These residencies are intended for artists who participated in PACAP 8, curated by Meg Stuart, whose works were initiated during that program and are currently in the development phase. The aim of this initiative is to provide ongoing support to artists who participated in previous editions of the program. Selection will be made following an Open Call directed at this group. The residencies will last three weeks, and the presentations will take place in pairs at Espaço da Penha, followed by discussions with the audience.

Programme

May 8

Friday, 6.30 pm

 

Emily da Silva, Isabela Rossi, María Ibarretxe

Cowboys Corner

 

Tiago Vieira

Pagan Poetry

May 29

Friday, 6.30 pm

 

Belmon / Therese Bendjus

Monstrosity Studies // Staging Innocence

 

Isabela Rossi e Julia Kosalka

Lento

Informations

 

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'Slow' by Isabela Rossi and Julia Kosalka
ISABELA ROSSI AND JULIA KOSALKA
'Slow' by Isabela Rossi and Julia Kosalka
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Cartografias #6 @ Forum Dança.
Cartografias #6
Cartografias #6 @ Forum Dança.
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'Monstrosity Studies // Staging Innocence' by Therese Bendjus
BELMON / THERESE BENDJUS
'Monstrosity Studies // Staging Innocence' by Therese Bendjus
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Pagan Poetry | Tiago Vieira
TIAGO VIEIRA
Pagan Poetry | Tiago Vieira
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10 April, 2026

Cartografias #6

Series of presentations

2026 | Forum Dança

We bring back Cartografias cycle with four works that together create a space for reflecting on the body as a living archive, a field of contention and transformation. Their constellation traces a territory where choreographic creation asserts itself as an act of radical listening, symbolic friction and ethical reinvention. Each work opens a distinct fissure, yet all share the impulse to map liminal zones – between the visible and the spectral, the intimate and the political, the mythical and the biographical – building on the atmosphere created by these artists during their participation in PACAP 8, directed by Meg Stuart.

 

Thus, in COWBOYS CORNER, the stage becomes a field of active haunting, where bodies and words guide the audience through a landscape of contested belonging. The dramaturgy summons the invisible as choreographic material, producing a suspended space-time that questions who may occupy the commons. PAGAN POETRY shifts this investigation towards ritual and the power of language. Drawing on cartographic notebooks, the work proposes an insurgent poetics that dignifies marginalised bodies and affirms love as resistance, dissolving boundaries between the divine and the profane.

 

In Monstrosity Studies // Staging Innocence, monstrosity emerges as a critical tool. The work draws upon myths, genealogies and intergenerational wounds to expose the residues of violence that shape contemporary behaviours and moralities, unleashing a storm that disorients in order to reveal. Finally, LENTO explores queer intimacy through deceleration as a political strategy. Slow-motion movement opens up micro-perceptions where lesbian love breaks away from normative narratives and claims new ways of inhabiting affection.

 

These four proposals emerge from three-week artistic residencies at Forum Dança and invite us to bear witness to their emergence and to exchange with the artists after each performance, so that, together, we may craft thoughts that inspire action and help transform the world.

Programme

May 8, 6.30 pm

Emily da Silva, Isabela Rossi, María Ibarretxe

Cowboys Corner

 

Tiago Vieira

Pagan Poetry

May 29, 6.30 pm

Belmon / Therese Bendjus

Monstrosity Studies // Staging Innocence

 

Isabela Rossi e Julia Kosalka

Lento

Informations

 

forumdança@forumdança.pt

Cowboys corner at Forum Dança
EMILY DA SILVA, ISABELA ROSSI AND MARÍA IBARRETXE
Cowboys corner at Forum Dança
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Pagan Poetry | Tiago Vieira
TIAGO VIEIRA
Pagan Poetry | Tiago Vieira
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'Monstrosity Studies // Staging Innocence' by Therese Bendjus
BELMON / THERESE BENDJUS
'Monstrosity Studies // Staging Innocence' by Therese Bendjus
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'Slow' by Isabela Rossi and Julia Kosalka
ISABELA ROSSI AND JULIA KOSALKA
'Slow' by Isabela Rossi and Julia Kosalka
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9 April, 2026

ISABELA ROSSI AND JULIA KOSALKA

LENTO

Forum Dança |  May 29, 2026 | 6.30 pm

‘LENTO is a project that explores intimacy as a space for negotiation and resistance, drawing on the experiences of two queer women. Through choreography that focuses on slow-motion movement, LENTO examines how lesbian love is shaped by social expectations, patriarchal memories, and heteronormative scripts, and how it can be reinvented outside of these frameworks. Slowing down becomes a political and sensory strategy, allowing us to inhabit micro-sensations, contradictions, and vulnerability. Who feels entitled to intimacy, visibility, or belonging?’

[Isabela Rossi & Julia Kosalka]

Concept, creation and performance: Isabela Rossi e Julia Kosalka

Image © Vitorino Coragem

Biographies

Isabela Rossi

Isabela Rossi moves between dance, performance, and creation. Driven by the curiosity of a wandering body, it is through this physical experience that she explores how the body reconfigures itself in relation to space, revealing tensions and deviations while opening pathways to new imaginaries, encounters, and perspectives.

Julia Kosalka

Julia Kosalka moves between dance, performance, and choreography. She has collaborated with Dance Theater Heidelberg, Alina Belyagina, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Renan Martins, and others. In dance, she is interested in collectivity, in queering time and space, and in blending reality with fantasy and fiction.

12 March, 2026

Núcleo 2026

Núcleo emerges as a project that fulfills one of the objectives of Forum Dança: to host artistic residencies and informal presentations under the care of a specific programmatic line.

It has a self-reflective impulse from the history of Forum Dança, referencing the Núcleo de Apoio Coreográfico (NAC), which in the 1990s was an important platform for supporting the creation and internationalization of Portuguese dance.

It is a place of experimentation, where the craft of creating, showing, reflecting, and creating circularity with the artistic community and its public aspect in the creation and mediation of audiences is taken care of.

Open Call | Residencies 2026

 

Applications are now closed

One of the objectives of Forum Dança is to support artistic creation, in accordance with the programme guidelines established by its management. The Núcleo 2026 Residency Programme was created to provide a space that enables a period of experimentation and research through action, linking creation with transmission to the artistic community.

 

This edition of the Programme will support three projects in the field of contemporary dance or performance that are at any stage of conception and development, provided they have not yet premiered.

 

The Programme offers rehearsal space for two weeks and the possibility of sharing with the public.

 

Applications must be submitted by March 25, 2026.

The results will be announced by March 27, 2026, by email.

Periods

  • Residency 1: August 3 to 14
  • Residency 2: August 10 to 21
  • Residency 3: August 17 to 28

Conditions

  1. Support for three projects selected by the Forum Dança management;
  2. Support for the promotion of the project in Forum Dança’s media channels;
  3. Possibility of public sharing, in the form of an informal showcase, open rehearsal, conversation, or similar, to be confirmed and defined with the Forum Dança team;
  4. Mandatory mention of “Support for Creation – Forum Dança” and inclusion of the logo in all promotional material for the project.

Dates

Applications must be submitted by March 25, 2026.

The results will be announced by March 27, 2026, via email.

Application form

Atlas | Carlota Lagido | © Nuno Patinho
20 November, 2025

Carlota Lagido

December 4, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.
Forum Dança • Espaço da Penha • Lisbon

Carlota Lagido

Dancer, choreographer, costume designer, and visual artist. She is a designer of birds and other natural subjects. She studied drawing at the New York Academy of Arts. She has a postgraduate degree in Stage Design (costumes) from IPL – Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. She attends the Nature Drawing and Scientific Illustration Course at MHN in Lisbon, with Pedro Salgado. She studied classical and modern dance at the Gulbenkian Ballet Professional School and in New York at the Peridance School.

She danced with Meg Stuart, Francisco Camacho, Rui Horta, and Joana Providência. Her work as a choreographer has transdisciplinary characteristics, combining drawing and video with performance practice. Her notable works include notforgetnotforgive (1999-2025), Monster (2009), The importance of nothing (2012), Ro.Ger (2014), 50 Toneladas (2015), Jungle Red (2018), MINA (2020/2021), Mina, song of myself (2022), Silvestre (2022), and Atlas (2024), projects supported by Dgartes and GDA. She curates the cycle of exhibitions of dancers and performers who draw – Brain, eyes, hands, and paper at Estudios Victor Cordon/Opart, in Lisbon.

She has been a costume designer for dance, theater, and cinema since 1988. She has collaborated with Francisco Camacho, Tiago Cadete, Albano Jerónimo, Francisca Manuel, Clara Andermatt, Vera Mantero, Companhia da Chanca, Paulo Ribeiro, Nuno M Cardoso, Aldara Bizarro, Lúcia Sigalho, Rita Vilhena, Bruno Senune, Yael Karavan, Amélia Bentes, Francisca Manuel, Jo Castro, Maurícia Barreira Neves, Rui Catalão, Teresa Coutinho, Carlos Pessoa/Teatro da Garagem, and Marco António Rodrigues/Teatrão, Teatro Mosca. She programmed artistic activities at the Eira space in Lisbon between 2003 and 2011, including training courses, residencies, and public presentations. In 2022, he founded O Lugar do Meio, a cultural and environmental association in Alfafar.

2 October, 2025

Luís Guerra

October 23 2025, at 18h30
Biblioteca Camões • Lisbon

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.

Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods | Let’s Not Get Used To This Place
14 August, 2025

Book Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods

Let’s Not Get Used To This Place

 

Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods 2008-2023

Let’s Not Get Used To This Place is a publication dedicated to the work of choreographer Meg Stuart and the company Damaged Goods, marking over a decade of choreographic creation.

Edited by Julie De Meester, Astrid Kaminski, and Jeroen Versteele, Let’s Not Get Used To This Place brings together an extensive collection of materials – reflections, interviews, scores, process notes, essays, poetry, photographs, and performance texts – that span Stuart’s work between 2008 and 2023.

 

As a memorial gesture for PACAP 8, a program directed by Meg Stuart in 2025, Forum Dança is offering a limited number of copies for sale.

[limited to the available stock]

Informations

About the book

Let’s Not Get Used to This Place // Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods

Since the early nineties, Meg Stuart, born 1965 in New Orleans, USA, and her Brussels-based dance company Damaged Goods, have produced a remarkable and audacious body of choreographic work. Ten years ago, Damaged Goods published Are we here yet? (ed. Jeroen Peeters), which spans the first twenty years of Meg Stuart’s career. 

 

In Let’s Not Get Used to This Place, the choreographer dives into more than a decade of works through reflections, interviews, scores and exercises, and notes on the practice of creating, performing, teaching and living dance. These are mixed with reports, essays and poetry by close collaborators and intimate strangers, photos, performance texts and archive material. The book’s title, gleaned from one of Stuart’s recent video works, ties together these multifaceted sources in a desire to discard tried and tested strategies, explore new contexts, and transgress the edge of what we (do not) know.

 

This publication also coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of Damaged Goods: a perfect way to celebrate this remarkable legacy.

Excerpt

‘For years, I have been calling out the word ‘change’ to dancers, so that they move from one improvised state to another without attachment or preparation. The more I propose this task, the more I discover that what remains is more significant than the change itself. The change reinforces not only the quality of letting go, but also the commitment of the attention we give to the state or physical idea we let go of. Abrupt changes mark where we are, what we have to leave, and what it takes to let go and open up again.

In another exercise, we hold a person tightly, and keep holding onto the trace of this physical contact after we let go of them; then we move with the trace and shape of this person. You can also do this with objects. Every lived experience leaves a mark. By tracing the shape of this mark, we take the experience with us to the next place. I believe that time is not one singular flow. You can always retrace and reframe. Past events are not fixed; they are a process that is still unfolding. You can write letters to people who have died, for example. It shifts your relationship with them. I have done this.’

 

Meg Stuart

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Edited by: Astrid Kaminski, Jeroen Versteele, Julie De Meester

Graphic design: Sean Yendrys with Björn Giesecke

Contributions: Jean-Marc Adolphe, Márcio Kerber Canabarro, Tim Etchells, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Philipp Gehmacher, Ezra Green, Astrid Kaminski, André Lepecki and Eleonora Fabiano, Jeroen Peeters, Gerald Siegmund, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Maria F. Scaroni, Meg Stuart, Jeroen Versteele, Jozef Wouters and many others.

 

Distributed by: les presses du réel

Language: English 528p., 16.5 x 23.5 cm

ISBN: 9782960320718

Price:

€45 regular price

€38 discount for former students of long-term courses at Forum Dança

 

More information and pre-orders at forumdança@forumdança.pt

Bio

Meg Stuart

Forum Dança | PACAP 8 - 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

Top image credits © Book cover: photo by Eva Würdinger, design by Sean Yendrys

Activities PACAP 8

Lectures PACAP 8 / Mystery School

Performing weeding with two brides
14 July, 2025

Arquives for Future Spells

PACAP 8 / Mystery School of Coreography

Culturgest

17 a 19 july 2025 | Sat and Sun (19h)

MYS
Mystery School of Choreography
Escola mistério de coreografia
L’école chorégraphique du mystère
Escola Misteriosa de Coreografia
Tajymnŏ szkōła choreografije
Schule der Mysterien in der Choreografie
Μυστηριώδες σχολείο χορογραφίας
Tajemnicza Szkoła Choreografii
Escuela Mística de Coreografía
مدرسه رمز و راز طراحی رقص
Mysterium Skola för Koreografi
Escuela Coreográfica del Misterio
コレオグラフィーのミステリースクール

As a closing gesture of a six-month program of experimentation and co-creation, PACAP 8 | Mystery School of Choreography (MYS) spills and installs its studies at Culturgest.  In residency, MYS will reflect, move, nest and digest together, and share a fountain of spells over three durational evenings. Meg Stuart, Ana Rocha, Márcio Canabarro, Santiago Tricot, Mieko Suzuki, Xullaji, and PACAP 8 | MYS artists Ana Szopa, António Bollaño, Arash Khakpour, Emily da Silva, Guillermo Tarasewicz, Isabela Rossi, iSSiE – iSaAc, Julia Kosałka, Kaya Freeman, María Ibarretxe, Martha Kotsia, Michiru Shin, Natacha Campos, Raul Aranha, Salomé Pham-Van-Hué, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Śomi Śniegocka, Therese Bendjus and Tiago Vieira, offer their real and fictional archive with spirited intention for our common futures.

How can we instigate and elevate community through its multiple dimensional legacy? Can mysticism be a crack in the real, so we may step into an archive of becoming? What if embodied mysticism is a radical political act? What is the revolution of our nervous system? By not looking at dance as spectacle but as spell, can we re-arrange our relational field with the many realities rapidly changing around us? Embodying the shared archive forward and back, visitors will enter a collective journey of oracular encounters, visions and dreams. MYS invites you to immerse into its inner architecture. MYS taps into remembrance as a contextual container. Here, you are not a spectator. You are a fragment of the divine in rebellion, so proceed accordingly.  Because archiving the future is a form of hope.

Artistic director & MYS concept : Meg Stuart
Artistic collaboration PACAP8 | MYS : Ana Rocha
Artistic collaboration Archives for Future Spells: Márcio K. Canabarro and Santiago Rodriguez Tricot
Live music: Mieko Suzuki and Xullaji
Technical direction: Santiago Tricot
Special thanks: Aline Belfortm, Pedro Azevedo

 

Duration 4h | public entry and exit is allowed freely

 

PACAP 8 participants: Ana Szopa (PL), António Bollaño (PT), Arash Khakpour (IR), Emily da Silva (BR), Guillermo Tarasewicz (UY), Isabela Rossi (BR/IT), iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo (EC), Julia Kosałka (PL), Kaya Freeman (PT), María Ibarretxe (ES), Martha Kotsia (GR), Michiru Shin (JP), Natacha Campos (PT), Raul Aranha (IN), Salomé Pham-Van-Hué (FR), Sepideh Khodarahmi (SE/IR), Śomi Śniegocka (PL), Therese Bendjus (DE) e Tiago Vieira (PT).

Production: Forum Dança Co-production PACAP 8: Teatro do Bairro Alto, Culturgest, Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk, Goethe-Institut Portugal, as part of the Kulturfest festival Co-production in Residency: O Espaço do Tempo PACAP 8 Support: Alkantara, Casa da Dança – Almada, Fundação GDA, Kees Eijrond Foundation, OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Rumo do Fumo, Piscina

Venue

Cultugest

R. Arco do Cego 50, 1000-300 Lisboa

More information here

Actividades PACAP 8

Lectures PACAP 8 / Mystery School

Apoios e Parcerias

Coprodução PACAP 8: Culturgest | Teatro do Bairro Alto | Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk | Goethe-Institut Portugal, no âmbito do festival Kulturfest.

Coprodução em Residência PACAP 8: O Espaço do Tempo

Apoios PACAP 8: Alkantara | Casa da Dança – Almada | Fundação GDA | Kees Eijrond Foundation | OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8

Top image © Vitorino Coragem

© António Poppe
16 June, 2025

António Poppe

June 18th, 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

the mystery of invention during the creative act

GEMEAMENTE: to merge the word into many voices. Passing it through a ring of inventions.
The invention, as it travels through memory, generates the presence that leads any magnetisms to the ends of this voice: GEMEAMENTE

António Poppe

António Poppe © António Poppe
António Poppe © António Poppe

Poet, visual artist, performer, lives and works in Lisbon. He completed the advanced visual arts course at Ar.Co, in Lisbon, and studied drawing and sculpture at the Royal College of Arts, London. He completed a master’s degree in Performance Art and Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso American Development Foundation.

He is the author of a hybrid work between the visual arts, performance and poetry, which he has presented since 1996 in various cultural institutions and galleries such as the Serralves Museum, MAAT, Culturgest, Gulbenkian, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Soares dos Reis Museum, ZDB Gallery, 111 Gallery, Casa Fernando Pessoa, GIAJG, among others. He has published five books: Torre de Juan Abad (Assírio e Alvim), Livro da Luz (Documenta), Medicin (Douda Correria), Come Coral (Douda Correria), O Agitador e a Corrente (written with Mumtazz and published by Mariposa Azual).

General information

Date

June 18th, 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 © António Poppe

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

Support PACAP 8: Alkantara | Casa da Dança – Almada | Fundação GDA | Kees Eijrond Foundation | OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8
A person with their entire face covered in a black cloth, holding a white scarf, sitting on a chair
11 June, 2025

Maria F. Scaroni

11 june, 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00

The lecture will be conducted in English.

Maria F. Scaroni

Lecture PACAP 8/MyS, by Maria F. Scaroni. Espaço da Penha, June 4, 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00.

Maria F. Scaroni (IT/DE) has been active in the Berlin scene since 2004, both interpreting and choreographing works and building community through teaching workshops and hosting events. She worked with Meg Stuart, Tino Sehgal, Jeremy Wade, Wilhelm Groener, Manuel Pelmus and several others. Between 2004 and 2014 in San Francisco she met, trained and collaborated with artists such as Sara Shelton Mann, Stephanie Maher, Keith Hennessy, Jess Curtis, a.o., these encounters deeply shaped her physical and performative practice, where dance is intertwined with healing, queer methodologies, social justice and radical play. Her workshops and curated events swell beyond the dance field and include dancers, queers, theater makers, visual artists, academics, social workers, ravers, activists.

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Data

June 11, 2025, 18h00 – 20h00

 

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

 

Entrada livre, sujeita à lotação do espaço.

Top photo © YA

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

Support PACAP 8: Alkantara | Casa da Dança – Almada | Fundação GDA | Kees Eijrond Foundation | OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina

Forum Dança | Parcerias e Apoios PACAP 8
4 June, 2025

Victor Hugo Pontes

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.

3 June, 2025

Núcleo 2025

Núcleo emerges as a project that fulfils one of Forum Dança’s objectives: to host artistic residencies and the informal presentations that result from them, under the care of a specific programme line.

It has a self-reflexive impulse in Forum Dança’s history, referencing the Núcleo de Apoio Coreográfico (NAC) – Choreographic Support Centre -, which in the 1990s was an important platform for supporting the creation and internationalization of Portuguese dance.

It is a place of experimentation, where the craft of creating, showing, reflecting, creating circularity with the artistic community and its public side in the creation and mediation of audiences is taken care of.

Artistic Residencies 2025

 

Open Call deadline: July 31st (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

As one of Forum Dança’s objectives is to support residencies, in accordance with the programmatic lines set out by its artistic direction, the Residency Program is designed to create a space that enables a period of experimentation and research through action, linking creation with transmission to the artistic community.

 

This edition of the Program will support two projects in the area of contemporary dance or performance that are in the initial stages of conception and development. 

 

The Program offers rehearsal space, artistic supervision by Forum Dança’s associate artist-researcher – João Fiadeiro – and a support grant of €750 (seven hundred and fifty euros). 

Periods

  • Residency 1: November 17 – 28, 2025
  • Residency 2: December 2 – 15, 2025

Conditions

1. Support for 2 projects selected by Forum Dança’s management;

2. A grant of €750 (seven hundred and fifty euros) per residency, upon submission of a recibo-verde or equivalent (in the case of artists not resident in Portugal*);

3. Support for publicizing the project in Forum Dança’s media;

4. Final public sharing, in the residency space, in the form of an informal show, talk or similar, mediated by João Fiadeiro;

5. Mandatory mention of “Support for Creation – Forum Dança” and insertion of the logo in all the project’s promotional material;

6. Provision of the record of the presentation of the supported project, when applicable, for archiving in the Forum Dança Documentation Center;

7. The organization of travel, accommodation, meals and medical assistance during the residency period is the sole responsibility of those taking part.

 

*Artists who are not resident in Portugal must present a tax residency certificate issued by the authorities in their country of residence.

Artistic supervision

These artistic residencies will be overseen by João Fiadeiro.

Forum Dança | PACAP 5 - João Fiadeiro
João Fiadeiro © Ana Viotti

Born in 1965, João Fiadeiro is part of a generation of choreographers that emerged in the late 1980’s and gave rise to the Nova Dança Portuguesa (New Portuguese Dance).

His career, both as a choreographer or performer and as a researcher or curator, has centered on creating conditions for experimentation, for laboratorial practices and for the intersection between artistic and scientific research. This activity was developed as much by coordinating programming and artistic research projects at Centro Cultural da Malaposta [1990-95], Espaço Ginjal [1995-98], Lugar Comum [1999-2000], Espaço A Capital [2000-2002] and Atelier Real [2004-2019] as by his artistic practice through his choreographies and the research workshops on and around Real Time Composition.

In all these different platforms João Fiadeiro was always accompanied by artists that participated as creators, performers, researchers and programmers, contributing in a decisive manner to the existence of this project through thirty years of non-stop activity.

Process

Applications must be submitted until (23h59), 31st July

 

– Fill in the form below and the project form – completed and in pdf format (up to 2 MB):

 

Project Sheet | Application Núcleo

Application form

All fields marked with * are mandatory.

Results

The results will be announced in August 2025 by email.

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