Standing Ancestors delves into radical imagination and speculation, exploring the unresolved tensions of postcolonial realities. Dance and music become practices of ecstasy, resistance, celebration and survival, carrying memory as both a burden and a dream. Ceremonial practices collide with cyphers and packed dancefloors.

Artist Residencies

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Standing Ancestors mergulha na imaginação radical e na especulação, explorando tensões de realidades pós-coloniais por resolver. Dança e música tornam-se práticas de êxtase, resistência, celebração e sobrevivência, transportando a memória como peso e sonho. Práticas cerimoniais entram em colisão com cyphers e dancefloors densos.

Standing Ancestors — Piny

Through the In Transit Program, the EVC establish partnerships with various festivals that play a fundamental role in promoting artistic creation and the access to the performing arts in Portugal. By maintaining a continuous collaboration with the partner festivals, the EVC contribute to establishing them as spaces for creation, mediation, promotion, and internationalization of the arts, as well as to the movements of social transformation driven by the topics highlighted in their respective programs.

In Transit also encourages partner institutions to develop some of their dance projects in collaboration with the EVC.
