Marcela Levi and Lucía Russo

Workshop with Marcela Levi and Lucía Russo.

From May 27 to May 31, 2026, at Forum Dança.

This workshop will be conducted in Portuguese and Spanish.

Registration open.

Assemble, disassemble, reassemble

A workshop with Marcela Levi and Lucía Russo

‘A few years ago, Improvável Produções, founded by choreographers Marcela Levi and Lucía Russo, set out with a series of questions that call for work to be done: how to embody, that is, materialize, in conversation with the poet Édouard Glissant, the desire for “a world of many worlds”? What strategies are needed to disrupt the frontal architecture and unidirectional visuality of an Italian stage? How can we bridge distances without crushing the gaps, that is, how can we coexist with differences in a non-separatist way? What strategies are needed to sustain the continuity of collective research work, that is, how can we gain time?

Loaded with these questions, in a gesture that seeks crossovers, we will share some fundamental aspects of the artistic issues that (dis)orient our research.

In the first part of this workshop, aimed at professionals and students of the performing arts, we will practice the multifaceted nature of the body through the multidirectional conduction of bone masses (skull, pelvis, ribs, shoulder blades, calcaneus, and metatarsus), activated by the force of thrust and the pull of magnetization forces.
In a second moment, we will dedicate ourselves to searching for and fabricating connections between subjects distant in time and space. Recognizing resonances and echoes, in the search for commonalities between distinct visible and invisible subjects, will help us weave this field of forces in tension. Assemble, disassemble, reassemble, disassemble, reassemble…’
[Levi and Lucía Russo]

Informations

Who is it for

This workshop is intended for dancers, performers, and people with experience in body practices.

Schedule

Dates: May 27 to 31

Hours: Tuesday to Friday from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. | Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Venue

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

Participation fee

One workshop: 150€

Discounts

20% discount for people who participate or have participated in long-term courses at Forum Dança, participants in workshops promoted by Parasita/Forum Dança, and dance students.
50% scholarships for artists and/or dance students, with support from the GDA Foundation (upon application, until May 15, 2026)

Form

All fields are required.

Bio

Improvável Productions

In 2010, choreographers Marcela Levi (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Lucía Russo (Patagonia, Argentina), who have been active in the field of dance research in Brazil and abroad for over 30 years, founded Improvável Produções in Rio de Janeiro, a platform for training, research, and creation. Levi & Russo are committed to a polyphonic direction in which different inventive positions intersect in a process that welcomes deviant lines, dissent, and internal differences as a constructive critical force, rather than as mutually exclusive polarities.

With a repertoire that crosses dances, music, voices, and thoughts from different times and places, Improvável affirms contemporary dance as an expanded field of coexistence and critical thinking. Among its creations, c h ãO, 3 contra 2: Psico Trópicos, Fora de Quadro, and o que é o coro. coro stand out, the latter commissioned for the 32 dancers of the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo.

Mais informações: https://improvavelproducoes.com/

Organization

Forum Dança and Associação Parasita

Support

Transborda