Jocelyn Cottencin Workshop

April 20 – May 1, 2026 | 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. *
Forum Dança

Registration open. 

At Forum Dança, we are once again opening up the PACAP training programme to the artistic community with several workshops throughout the year.

Jocelyn Cottencin’s performance piece Monumental explores how monuments and architecture shape our bodies and our shared narratives.

By involving students, residents or performers, Jocelyn Cottencin creates a dialogue between bodies, territories and narratives.

His work seeks not so much to produce objects as to open up spaces for thought, perception and encounter.

A performance piece created in 2016 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Monumental aims to activate a visual and collective memory resulting from representations of European history, in particular art history, or from the media and contemporary events. Monuments, architecture, statues and works of art form the basis of a visual score initially performed by a group of 12 performers within a defined spatial and temporal framework. Through the heritage of statuary, architecture and works in public spaces, the project, via this group, shifts the notions of figure, narrative and form.

Since 2017, Jocelyn Cottencin has been presenting this performance to art students and young dancers. Each re-enactment is an opportunity to question the structure of forms and images within a specific context. On this occasion, at the invitation of Marcelo Evelin and Dora Carvalho for Forum Dança, Monumental will form the basis of the workshop, exploring the specific history of Lisbon in relation to that of Brazil.

* Informal presentation on April 30 at 6.00 pm.

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Coproduction: Teatro do Bairro Alto

Coproduction in Residency PACAP 9: O Espaço do Tempo

Support PACAP 9: Alkantara | Casa da Dança – Almada | Fundação GDA | OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon | O Rumo do Fumo | Piscina