Contemporary
Dance
With Josefa Pereira, Bárbara Faustino and Natália Mendonça
Tuesdays | 19h30-21h30
Thursdays | 19h30-21h30
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“Forum Dança’s Contemporary Dance classes will be conducted through a multiple and collective experience proposed by Josefa Pereira in partnership with the artists Alina Ruiz Folini, Bárbara Faustino and Natália Mendonça. The proposal is to provide a meeting space in which the alternation between the three artists enables a context of sharing and transit so that different body practices intersect both in what they have in common and in the specificities that each artist and their work proposals will allow to experience.
From this exchange between teachers/artists and students/artists, we intend to provide a context of experimentation that activates in each participant the availability and readiness necessary for a stroll through practices that have in common, to seek to provide the experience of creative tools through dance and the body in movement.
In our classes, different techniques and trainings are not an end in themselves, but a resource for a more powerful and self-aware body. From there, we seek to enable a sensitive, accessible, and porous body, with more vitality and better circulation of energy, more resilient and malleable to its surroundings. Finally, we seek to mobilize a more inventive body that is constantly open to new updates of its ways of being and being.
Tuesday and Thursday classes are aimed at anyone interested in dance and movement practices. So not only dance artists, and beginners, but also people who have no previous experience in body practices are welcome. Curiosity and availability are the only requirements to be with us.”
/ Josefa Pereira
Biographies
Josefa Pereira (BR), performer and choreographer. Based in Portugal, she also lives between bridges and partnerships with her city, São Paulo, where she graduated in Communication of Body Arts (PUC-SP, BR) through the PROUNI scholarship program, and in Amsterdam where she is currently developing her research in the master program DAS Choreography (AHK, NL) as a scholarship holder of the Gulbenkian Foundation.
She has been working as an art educator since 2008, having worked for 6 years with the Vocational Program (BR) and she has been working as a dance teacher with Forum Dança since 2019, making this a space for experimentation and exchange for her practice and artistic research with other artists and interested parties, where she was also a member of PACAP I (Creation Program in Performing Arts).
Her artistic project currently investigates limits and blurs between concepts about the human and the inhuman, tensing tight divisions between nature and culture, man and woman, human and animal, animate and inanimate. Among her works we also highlight Mandible (2018) and Mare (2017) in partnership with the artist Patrícia Bergantin. She is currently touring her work Hidebehind (2018) and premiering and circulating Glimpse(2020), solo works that are part of the PINK Bestiary trilogy in development.
Alina Ruiz Folini (Argentina) is an artist and researcher based in Lisbon, in constant partnership with different projects in South America. Her work moves between choreography, dance, and curatorial practices. She is interested in collaborating in contexts of artistic research, both academic and self-taught. She conceives choreography as a framework from which to activate new possibilities, denaturalize habits and provoke transformations. Master in Práctica Escénica y Cultura Visual from the University of Castilla La Mancha in collaboration with the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía 2017 /2018. She graduated in Philosophy (UBA) and in Choreographic Composition (IUNA). In 2020 she performed PACAP 4 curated by João dos Santos Martins in Forum Dança.
She is the artistic director of ARQUEOLOGÍAS DEL FUTUR O International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Performance and Knowledge, in Buenos Aires – Argentina, co-directed with Catalina Lescano. Co-creates PROJETO TÁTI L with the light designer and creator Leticia Skrycky. She was resident artist at Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid) with her new piece in process RUÍDO ROSA / PINK NOISE, which is part of the project CUATRO – solos acompanhados – that received the Iberescena 2019 fund for co-production of works, currently invited project to Residências Rumo do Fumo. She was part of Salón Madrid – a meeting directed by Meg Stuart in Teatros del Canal and Naves Matadero, as preparation sessions for Tanz Kongress 2019 which was held in Dresden – Germany in June 2019. She is a mentor for the Laboratório de Acción 2019 – Teatro General San Martín, coordinated and curated by Luis Garay. She integrated PICA – intensive program to accompany artists and researchers, coordinated by Idoia Zabaleta, Luciana Chieregati, Ixiar Rozas and Isabel de Naverán in Azala – (Basque Country). She is a dancer in Trilogía Antropofágica and Caníbal Series, pieces directed by Tamara Cubas & Perro Rabioso (Uruguay) since 2016 and has performed in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.
Bárbara Faustino, brazilian, is a dancer, performer and dance teacher graduated from the Escola Municipal de Bailado do Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, where she studied: Classical Dance, Modern Dance (Martha Graham), Anatomy, Art History, Dance History, Music, Creativity and Improvisation.
She also has a degree in Dance from the Dance and Movement course at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi and took the Course for Pre-Primary and Primary School teachers at the Royal Academy of Dance of London. She worked as a dancer and dance teacher for children, teenagers, adults, and seniors at Musibéria – International Center of Music and Dance of the Iberian World – in Serpa, Portugal, where she developed authorial research in dance and built three authorial solos: OUTRA , ARTIGO88 and ABSTEN/ÇÃO. Currently she is based in Lisbon, where she works as a dance teacher, dancer, and creator.
Natália Mendonça (BR) is an artist and works as a performer, choreographer and body trainer. She graduated in Dance from UNICAMP and lived in São Paulo for 12 years.
Based in Lisbon since 2020, she develops her own works, collaborates with other choreographers and conducts dance classes at Forum Dança. She is the director and performer of KDEIRAZ, a children’s play in process, supported by the residencies Núcleo A70, Casa da Dança de Almada, Residency Program-O Rumo do Fumo, Estúdios Victor Córdon and LU.CA Accompanied Artistic Residencies. With Josefa Pereira she is a collaborator in the process of the Bestiário Pink trilogy and with Dinis Machado she is a performer in Cyborg Sunday. In 2020 she was a member of PACAP 4, curated by João dos Santos Martins.
In São Paulo, her main partnerships are with: Clarice Lima (2010-2021) and Cristian Duarte (2014-2021). She was part of the artistic nucleus of projects with: Marta Soares, Elisabete Finger, Cia Perversos Polimorfos, Jorge Garcia, the Guatemalan artist Naufus Ramirez Figueroa. In 2016, she premiered her first authorial solo, Marcela Banguela, a project contemplated by PROAC-Primeiras Obras de Dança. Since 2018, she has been a body coach at ColetivA Ocupação, a group formed by artists who met during the uprising of the high school movement in São Paulo, between 2015 and 2016.
Alina Ruiz Folini (Argentina) is an artist and researcher based in Lisbon, in constant partnership with different projects in South America. Her work moves between choreography, dance, and curatorial practices. She is interested in collaborating in contexts of artistic research, both academic and self-taught. She conceives choreography as a framework from which to activate new possibilities, denaturalize habits and provoke transformations. Master in Práctica Escénica y Cultura Visual from the University of Castilla La Mancha in collaboration with the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía 2017 /2018. She graduated in Philosophy (UBA) and in Choreographic Composition (IUNA). In 2020 she performed PACAP 4 curated by João dos Santos Martins in Forum Dança.
She is the artistic director of ARQUEOLOGÍAS DEL FUTUR O International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Performance and Knowledge, in Buenos Aires – Argentina, co-directed with Catalina Lescano. Co-creates PROJETO TÁTI L with the light designer and creator Leticia Skrycky. She was resident artist at Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid) with her new piece in process RUÍDO ROSA / PINK NOISE, which is part of the project CUATRO – solos acompanhados – that received the Iberescena 2019 fund for co-production of works, currently invited project to Residências Rumo do Fumo. She was part of Salón Madrid – a meeting directed by Meg Stuart in Teatros del Canal and Naves Matadero, as preparation sessions for Tanz Kongress 2019 which was held in Dresden – Germany in June 2019. She is a mentor for the Laboratório de Acción 2019 – Teatro General San Martín, coordinated and curated by Luis Garay. She integrated PICA – intensive program to accompany artists and researchers, coordinated by Idoia Zabaleta, Luciana Chieregati, Ixiar Rozas and Isabel de Naverán in Azala – (Basque Country). She is a dancer in Trilogía Antropofágica and Caníbal Series, pieces directed by Tamara Cubas & Perro Rabioso (Uruguay) since 2016 and has performed in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.
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