Real Time Composition
Open Sessions 2024/2025
Mondays from 6pm to 8pm
From 30th September 2024
Facilitated by João Fiadeiro, Márcia Lança and Daniel Pizamiglio
We will continue with the Monday sessions (from 6pm to 8pm), which are free and open to anyone, with or without experience in CTR or even in artistic practices. These sessions have proved to be extremely rich as they create a spontaneous community of study and sharing of this tool, in an informal and inclusive way, slowly establishing itself as the backbone of CTR’s presence at Forum Dança. The sessions will be led by João Fiadeiro, Márcia Lança and Daniel Pizamiglio.
Information
Select each of the sections below to find out more about the open sessions.
Contextualisation
During the period in which REAL (a structure run by João Fiadeiro from 1990-2019) ran Atelier Real, open sessions were organised for the community to practice Real Time Composition, free of charge. These were unpretentious sessions, somewhere between a jam and a master class, which had an important impact on the community of artists at the time and on research into (and around) this tool. They were also very important sessions as a meeting place and for the creation of professional and emotional networks that continue to this day.
Over the next months, as part of the programme of activity developed within the framework of Forum Dança’s Resident Research Artist position, we will replicate these sessions to share our experience, but also to allow ourselves to be contaminated by discourses, perspectives and practices outside our comfort zone. These sessions are open to anyone – artist or non-artist, with or without experience of improvisation, with a background in practice or theory – as long as the premises and principles of this practice arouse curiosity.
“The ‘object of study’ of Real Time Composition is the interval that emerges when linear time is interrupted and the sense of continuity is suspended (via accident, incident or ‘just because’). The space that opens up as a result of this interruption is where Real Time Composition research takes place. Within this space, time has that rare quality of being simultaneously ‘no more’ and ‘not yet’. Within this space, time is not linear (or even circular), but ‘twisted’ (like the topological surface of the ‘Möbius Tape’), governed by laws that do not respect the conventional notions of before and after, inside and outside or far and near.”
João Fiadeiro
Who it's for
The sessions are aimed at 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
Every Monday from 18.00 to 20.00.
Venue
Forum Dança / Espaço da Penha
Travessa do Calado, 26B
1170-070 Lisboa
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
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.
Daniel Pizamiglio
Daniel Pizamiglio is a Brazilian performer and creator based in Portugal.
In his work he seeks to materialise encounters between the word and the body, and how to activate the corporeality of affections and relationships.
He was João Fiadeiro’s assistant and co-curator of PACAP5 at Forum Dança.
In 2023, she premiered ‘M’, a performance that transforms mourning into a collective and political event.
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.