PACAP #09

September 7–11, 2026 | 7:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Forum Dança

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‘ Through the energies of the planets and the languages of street dance and clubbing, we read the body and the cosmos, in sequence and in consequence. What restricts and what expands, what revolutionizes and what maintains, what creates structure and what destroys it. Between everything there is the same space. We explore from a deep sense of context in search of pleasure, vitality, and resistance, interconnecting somatic practices with the cultures of street dance and clubbing—in building ancestral communities for the future. ‘

[Piny]

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August 24 to 28, 2026 | 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Forum Dança

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‘The Ọ̀kànràn Method is an Afrocentric pedagogical approach to dance that combines Afro-Brazilian physical practices, somatic principles, African cosmologies, and contemporary approaches to movement, understanding Afro-diasporic dance as an aesthetic, political, ancestral, spiritual, and epistemological field. The workshop investigates the body as a sensitive territory, nature, and memory archive based on the principle of the crossroads and a notion of spiraling time, where ancestry and future intersect.’

[Jorge Cipriano]

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August 31 to September 4, 2026 | 7:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Forum Dança

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FLYING LOW – ‘I incorporate and share the knowledge of the Flying Low technique created by David Zambrano, adapted to my artistic vision, always taking care of the temporary group that forms for the class. This technique teaches me about the spirals of my body and my relationship with the floor, moving in a direct and intentional way—it is something I always have with me in my pocket and use when necessary, just like other techniques.

In practice, the dynamics increase progressively, using images and touch to explore and explode each short exercise, through which participants are challenged to find their own solutions by doing, discovering individually which paths cross their bodies, rather than any pre-established form or formula. We will work with principles and states, starting from the exercises, and challenge the usual idea of right and left. The proposed exercises change every day, so there is no need to get attached!

The technique focuses on the relationship with the ground, using simple movement sequences and practicing speed and energy release throughout the body to activate the center. There is special attention to the extremities as extensions of the center and indicators of direction, proposing awareness and clarity to the movement. The material challenges each participant to discover the primary laws of physics: cohesion and expansion, and therefore many basic exercises are deconstructed in a more exploratory work to achieve the necessary individual state.’

[Cristina Planas Leitão]

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August 24 to 28, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Forum Dança

PASSING THROUGH — ‘I incorporate and share the principles of the Passing Through technique, created by David Zambrano, reinterpreting it from my artistic vision and always taking care of the temporary group that is formed for the practice.
It is a set of tools organized in different layers, from the simplest to the most complex, from the individual to the collective, which challenge and expand the space that exists within us and around us. Throughout this process of temporary compositions, we focus on developing systems that operate as a living network, a group-network in constant adaptation. Through curved and spiral trajectories that expand into macrospace, I propose flexible and complex dynamics, capable of sustaining the cohesion of the group without closing the door to unpredictability. We move continuously, transforming the environment and playing together, within a shared matrix of rules and sub-rules that each participant feeds and transforms.’
[Cristina Planas Leitão]

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August 31 to September 4, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Forum Dança

This workshop, led by playwright Alex Cassal, invites creators, performers, and artists of the body and word to embark on a somewhat bumpy journey behind the scenes of theatrical creation. Everyday anecdotes and extravagant inventions, implausible lies and personal memories, non-recyclable materials and organic waste: everything becomes raw material for a process that asserts itself as a journey, rather than a result. A process in which participants collaborate in the collective construction of fictions anchored in the reality of the present time, giving shape to a plot where diverse voices and perspectives intersect. More than a formal learning space, this encounter is proposed as a territory of sharing and risk, where writing intersects with performance and memory with imagination. Because, as Bertolt Brecht said, “it is beautiful to solve problems.” Or was it Donna Haraway?

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