TERRITORY is a programme dedicated to young dancers aged between 14 and 18, from dance schools across the country. During a month of rehearsals, those selected will engage directly with the artistic language of two choreographers, as they prepare a restaged piece and a new creation.
In its 9th edition, the programme welcomes choreographer Wayne McGregor with a restaging of FAR (excerpt), and choreographer Liliana Barros with a new creation.
This edition also features a short film screened between each piece, directed by Filipe Faria, winner of the Território | Estúdios Victor Córdon Award in the Best National Director category at InShadow — Lisbon Screendance Festival 2025.
The Millennium bcp Foundation is the patron of the Territory IX Programme.
17 and 18 JUL / 10PM — [PREMIERE] Teatro Nacional São João (Porto) / Tickets on sale at BOL.
22 and 23 JUL / 10PM — Millennium Festival ao Largo - CCB (Lisbon) / Free admission.
25 JUL / 9:30PM — Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro) / Tickets on sale at Ticketline.
FULL PROGRAMME
FAR (excerpt)*
FAR is an abbreviation of Flesh in the Age of Reason, the title of the late Roy Porter’s exploration of 18th-century thought concerning the relationship between mind and body.
Choreography Wayne McGregor - Studio Wayne McGregor
Music Ben Frost
Adaptation of the light design Cárin Geada
Transmission and Restaging Catarina Carvalho
Premiered in 2010 at Sadler’s Wells in London
RESPIRAR (working title)
Amidst traces, latencies and suspensions, this short film seeks out that which remains beyond the visible or audible event. Listening emerges as a form of presence, attentive to that which wavers, breathes or is almost lost. Between sound, image and time, observation and editing give shape to an autonomous piece, constructed from intervals, waiting times, and small transformations.
Director and Producer Filipe Faria (Winner of the Territory Award | Victor Córdon Studios at InShadow — LisbonScreendance Festival 2025)
NEW CREATION (title to be announced)
Inspired by the rhizomatic structures of mycelia and biological models of organisation, this piece explores the body as a living architecture in constant transformation. Through branching, aggregation and cooperation, bodies form hybrid organisms, where the boundaries between the individual and the collective, the human and the non-human, the body and the environment dissolve.
Like an underground network expanding in the darkness, the choreographic material emerges from the circulation of impulses and interdependent relationships, giving rise to unstable, mutating and unpredictable forms. The piece presents a moving ecosystem, where each gesture is a connecting point within a distributed intelligence that crosses bodies, spaces and different times.