{"id":31305,"date":"2024-04-12T19:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/?p=31305"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:39:59","slug":"pacap8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/pacap8\/","title":{"rendered":"PACAP 8
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Performing Arts Advanced Programme<\/h3>\n

Meg Stuart<\/h3>\n

From 10th of February to 26th of July 2025<\/h5>\n

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Applications closed.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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“Every new beginning<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nleads you to a mystery.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nEvery beginning carries<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nthat potential of the unknown.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
It relates to how we move,<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nhow we hear, how we listen,<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nhow we spend time with something,<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nhow we see what is around us.”
\n<\/strong><\/em><\/span>Meg Stuart<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Introduction<\/strong><\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]PACAP 8 \/ Mystery School of Choreography<\/strong>
\nConcept and Artistic Direction: Meg Stuart
\nArtistic Collaboration: Ana Rocha[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_accordion active_tab=”false” collapsible=”yes” style=”boxed_accordion”][vc_accordion_tab title=”Proposal” title_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#eeeeee”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1713815160050{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”]Forum Dan\u00e7a invites choreographer Meg Stuart<\/strong> as a curator for the 8th edition of PACAP<\/strong> to take place in Lisbon, 2025, who proposes her concept and project Mystery School of Choreography<\/strong>. For this edition, Meg Stuart has invited Ana Rocha<\/strong> as artistic collaborator.<\/p>\n

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Mystery School of Choreography (MyS<\/strong>) is an unconventional experimental studies programme for performing artists. It’s a place where fascination for the metaphysical will be intertwined with composition, choreography, and art making.<\/p>\n

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During these six months, from February to July 2025, we will work in the studio at Forum Dan\u00e7a<\/strong>, in the theatre space at Teatro do Bairro Alto<\/strong>, in the galleries at Culturgest<\/strong>, surrounded by nature and far from the Portuguese capital at O Espa\u00e7o do Tempo<\/strong>, Montemor-o-Novo, and in S\u00e3o Miguel Island, Azores, in Walk&Talk <\/strong>Biennial. From the indoor space to the street, we will go through these residencies together for reflection and practice.<\/p>\n

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MyS<\/strong> will consist of encounters with artists who will share their personal cosmology, expertise, and process. Participants will approach MyS<\/strong> themes through moments of reflection and, above all, through collective moments of performance and dialogue. MyS<\/strong> proposes to create a space that is not about converting or indoctrinating, but about revealing and creating structures for the process of sharing.<\/p>\n

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How can we connect to that knowledge more precisely? By starting from a position of not-knowing. MyS<\/strong> seeks to cultivate the attitude of the beginner, letting go and shedding expectations. By starting from what fascinates us, we are also practicing a sense of wonder, a lucid dreaming together. We will be guided by nature, cause and effect, energetic transformation, disorientation and divination, sacred geometry, rhythmic visions and voice, alchemy, love and politics, non-locality and quantum physics, deep and inner contemplation.<\/p>\n

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MyS<\/strong> takes transmission of hidden knowledge and insights, which are not accessible through conventional means, as a foundation of learning and creating art through a shared exploration.<\/p>\n

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MyS<\/strong> will focus on questions that go beyond purely physical practices and can be explored in a collective dimension, such as:<\/p>\n

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How can we foster imagination in ourselves in correlation with our surroundings?<\/span>
\nHow can we (re)align our research processes within an interdimensional wonder?<\/span>
\nHow can we negotiate and learn from indeterminacy, non-defined corporeal spaces, and invisible realms as much as fictional futures?<\/span>
\nHow can we create a more holistic, compassionate understanding of it?<\/span>
\nHow do we share fascination?<\/span>
\nHow do we value different functions and forms, different kinds of material and research?<\/span>
\nHow do we develop and cultivate a fountain of creative collaboration with energies, seen and unseen forces?<\/span><\/p>\n

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MyS<\/strong> is a step towards a deeper understanding of learning, practice, and activation of knowledge that is often present in performing arts but not directly addressed. In MyS<\/strong> we will sketch possibilities for the future of dance and community.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”Participants” title_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#eeeeee”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1713816491392{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”]PACAP 8 \/ MyS<\/strong> programme is designed as a transformative journey. At MyS<\/strong>, we will work together: environmentally aware, socially engaged, going through metaphysical access to transform deep learning into a political act. We will work together with the body and the voice, with critical perceptive thinking.<\/p>\n

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We are looking for experienced professional performance artists open to work in a collective art programme. Makers and dreamers who have a strong interest in the interweaving of the metaphysical and art, with a generosity of spirit, free-thinkers, open for a shared, rigorous and playful exploration of the unknown. MyS<\/strong> programme looks for participants who have done inner emotional work, grounded, nonconformist, sensitive to other\u2019s processes and highly motivated. Participants are required to be flexible, passionate about improvisation, open to chance procedures and experimental structures.<\/p>\n

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During the MyS<\/strong> programme, be ready to let go of preconceived notions, be willing to trust a collective process and design other possible futures through an experimental, intensive, and rigorous process. Participants will have the opportunity to research and compose in various formats and settings. MyS<\/strong> is a six-month collaborative programme, where participants will be co-creators and collaborators with nature, forces unknown and invited artists.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_accordion_tab][\/vc_accordion][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” background_animation=”none” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Information<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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