Núcleo 2025
Núcleo emerges as a project that fulfils one of Forum Dança’s objectives: to host artistic residencies and the informal presentations that result from them, under the care of a specific programme line.
It has a self-reflexive impulse in Forum Dança’s history, referencing the Núcleo de Apoio Coreográfico (NAC) – Choreographic Support Centre -, which in the 1990s was an important platform for supporting the creation and internationalization of Portuguese dance.
It is a place of experimentation, where the craft of creating, showing, reflecting, creating circularity with the artistic community and its public side in the creation and mediation of audiences is taken care of.
Artistic Residencies 2025
Open Call deadline: July 31st (EXTENDED DEADLINE)
As one of Forum Dança’s objectives is to support residencies, in accordance with the programmatic lines set out by its artistic direction, the Residency Program is designed to create a space that enables a period of experimentation and research through action, linking creation with transmission to the artistic community.
This edition of the Program will support two projects in the area of contemporary dance or performance that are in the initial stages of conception and development.
The Program offers rehearsal space, artistic supervision by Forum Dança’s associate artist-researcher – João Fiadeiro – and a support grant of €750 (seven hundred and fifty euros).
Periods
- Residency 1: November 17 – 28, 2025
- Residency 2: December 2 – 15, 2025
Conditions
1. Support for 2 projects selected by Forum Dança’s management;
2. A grant of €750 (seven hundred and fifty euros) per residency, upon submission of a recibo-verde or equivalent (in the case of artists not resident in Portugal*);
3. Support for publicizing the project in Forum Dança’s media;
4. Final public sharing, in the residency space, in the form of an informal show, talk or similar, mediated by João Fiadeiro;
5. Mandatory mention of “Support for Creation – Forum Dança” and insertion of the logo in all the project’s promotional material;
6. Provision of the record of the presentation of the supported project, when applicable, for archiving in the Forum Dança Documentation Center;
7. The organization of travel, accommodation, meals and medical assistance during the residency period is the sole responsibility of those taking part.
*Artists who are not resident in Portugal must present a tax residency certificate issued by the authorities in their country of residence.
Artistic supervision
These artistic residencies will be overseen by João Fiadeiro.
Born in 1965, João Fiadeiro is part of a generation of choreographers that emerged in the late 1980’s and gave rise to the Nova Dança Portuguesa (New Portuguese Dance).
His career, both as a choreographer or performer and as a researcher or curator, has centered on creating conditions for experimentation, for laboratorial practices and for the intersection between artistic and scientific research. This activity was developed as much by coordinating programming and artistic research projects at Centro Cultural da Malaposta [1990-95], Espaço Ginjal [1995-98], Lugar Comum [1999-2000], Espaço A Capital [2000-2002] and Atelier Real [2004-2019] as by his artistic practice through his choreographies and the research workshops on and around Real Time Composition.
In all these different platforms João Fiadeiro was always accompanied by artists that participated as creators, performers, researchers and programmers, contributing in a decisive manner to the existence of this project through thirty years of non-stop activity.
Process
Applications must be submitted until (23h59), 31st July
– Fill in the form below and the project form – completed and in pdf format (up to 2 MB):
Application form
All fields marked with * are mandatory.
Results
The results will be announced in August 2025 by email.