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Prática diária 2023

Daily classical and contemporary dance classes designed for professional dancers and those in the process of becoming professional dancers. In the schedule you can find the monthly calendar for the daily practice for professionals.

###### Classical Dance
Mon - Wed - Fri: 10am – 11:15am

###### Contemporary Dance
Tue - Thu: 10am – 11:15am

###### Price
3€ / class (insurance required)


###### Classical Dance
Mon – Wed – Fri: 10am – 11:15am

###### Contemporary Dance
Tue – Thu: 10am – 11:15am

###### Price
3€ / class (insurance required)


Daily Practice

###### Classical Dance
Mon – Wed – Fri: 10am – 11:15am

###### Contemporary Dance
Tue – Thu: 10am – 11:15am

###### Price
3€ / class (insurance required)

Daily Classes ⏤ February

##### CLASSICAL DANCE
Mon – Wed – Fri: 10am – 11:15am

##### CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Tue – Thu: 10am – 11:15am

##### PRICE
3€ / class (insurance required)

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ March

###### CLASSICAL DANCE
Mon – Wed – Fri: 10am – 11:15am 

###### CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Tue – Thu: 10am – 11:15am 

###### PRICE
3€ / class (insurance required)

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ APRIL

Práticas diárias de dança clássica e contemporânea destinadas a bailarinos profissionais e em vias de profissionalização. O calendário mensal para a prática diária está disponível na agenda.

###### Dança Clássica
2.ª - 4.ª - 6.ª feiras: 10h00 - 11h15

###### Dança Contemporânea
3.ª - 5.ª feiras: 10h00 - 11h15

###### Preço
3€/aula (seguro obrigatório)



Aulas de Dança ⏤ Profissionais

Daily practice for professionals dancers

Dance Classes ⏤ Professionals

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Classical dance classes designed for beginners or for those who have always been connected to dance and want to continue this practice as a means to healthy physical condition. In the schedule you can find the monthly calendar.

###### Classical Dance
Mondays: 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm

###### Price
7,5€ / class (insurance required)

Classical dance classes designed for beginners or for those who have always been connected to dance and want to continue this practice as a means to healthy physical condition. 
 
###### Classical Dance
Mondays: 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm

###### Price
7,5€ / class (insurance required)

Dance Classes for Adults

Classical dance classes designed for beginners or for those who have always been connected to dance and want to continue this practice as a means to healthy physical condition. 

###### CLASSICAL DANCE
Mondays: 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm 

###### PRICE
7,5€ / class (insurance required)

DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS ⏤ APRIL

Classical dance classes designed for beginners or for those who have always been connected to dance and want to continue this practice as a means to healthy physical condition.

##### CLASSICAL DANCE
Mondays: 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm

##### PRICE
7,5€ / class (insurance required)

DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS ⏤ March

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ February

Dança clássica para adultos, destinada a quem pretende iniciar a sua aprendizagem ou a quem mantém uma ligação à dança desde sempre e quer continuar essa prática  como meio para uma condição física saudável.
Na agenda podes encontrar o calendário mensal das aulas.

###### Dança Clássica
2.ª feiras:
18h15 - 19h45

###### Preço
7,5€/aula (seguro obrigatório)

Aulas de Dança ⏤ Adultos

dance classes for adults

Dance Classes ⏤ Adults

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Território VI

Dedicated to young dancers, the _Territory_ program has welcomed a range of internationally renowned choreographers, such as Wayne McGregor, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau or Alexander Ekman. Each year, EVC invites one acclaimed and one emerging choreographer to lead the program. This sixth edition will feature the duo Sol León & Paul Lightfoot, and Douglas Lee. 
The EVC will select up to ten young dancers from dance schools all over the country, who will benefit from the knowledge and the aesthetic vision of these choreographers, in a professionalizing experience that will give them a diverse and inclusive outlook. 
With a background as dancers, León & Lightfoot have been performing as a choreographer’s duo since 1989, and have created more than 60 performances for the Nederlands Dans Theater. In _Territory VI_, the renowned duo will present a reprise of the play _Sad Case_ (1998), performed by the participants.
As a dancer, Douglas Lee studied at the Royal Ballet School and he was a prinicpal dancer of the Stuttgart Ballet, where he began choreographing. Later, he developed a career as a freelance choreographer. In this edition of the program, the artist will conceive and present a new work with the young dancers.
As a complement to the program, _Territory VI_ will also have the collaboration of Mário J. Negrão, winner of the Território | Estúdios Victor Córdon award for Best Portuguese Director at InShadow - Lisbon ScreenDance Festival 2022. With his own visual identity, the artist will present us his perception of the program through a new short film.


In its 6th edition, the _Territory_ program invites to Portugal choreographer's duo Sol Léon & Paul Lightfoot, and choreographer Douglas Lee. 
The program works as a platform for early career development, annually selecting up to ten young dancers from dance schools across the country. 
Applications must be submitted through an online form, to be filled out exclusively by the candidates' teaching institutions. All dance schools in the country can apply their students to the program, and each institution can propose a maximum of 5 candidates.
For more detailed information, institutions and candidates can consult the program regulation in the applications.

###### Main sponsor
Millennium bcp

Territory VI ⏤ Applications

Dedicated to young dancers, the _Territory_ program has welcomed a range of internationally renowned choreographers, such as Wayne McGregor, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau or Alexander Ekman. Each year, EVC invites one acclaimed and one emerging choreographer to lead the program. This sixth edition will feature the duo Sol León & Paul Lightfoot, and Douglas Lee. 

On the 18th of February, the EVC will welcome many young dancers from all over the country for an audition, where up to 10 people will be selected. The selected dancers will have the opportunity to benefit from the knowledge and aesthetic vision of the guest choreographers, in a professionalizing and empowering experience of a diverse and inclusive look. 

The creation process takes place over a month at the EVC and the premiere is scheduled for the 21st and 22nd of July at Teatro Nacional São João, followed by presentations at the Millennium Festival ao Largo (Lisbon) and Teatro José Lúcio da Silva (Leiria).

Audition ⎯ Territory VI

© Anton Zavjyalov - Douglas Lee

© Tommy Pascal - Sol León - 2021

© Elena Lekhova - Paul Lightfoot

Mário J. Negrão

Dedicado a jovens bailarinos, _Território_ tem acolhido um leque de coreógrafos de relevo internacional, tais como Wayne McGregor, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau ou Alexander Ekman. Todos os anos, os EVC convidam um coreógrafo consagrado e um coreógrafo emergente para liderar o programa. Nesta sexta edição, o programa contará com a dupla Sol León & Paul Lightfoot e Douglas Lee. 
Serão selecionados até 10 jovens bailarinos provenientes de várias instituições de ensino de dança de todo o país, que terão a oportunidade de usufruir do conhecimento e da visão estética dos coreógrafos convidados, numa experiência profissionalizante e potenciadora de um olhar diverso e inclusivo. 
Com um passado profissional como bailarinos, León & Lightfoot são uma reconhecida dupla de artistas da área da dança, ativa desde 1989. Juntos criaram mais de 60 espetáculos para o Nederlands Dans Theater. No _Território VI_, irão apresentar uma reposição da peça _Sad Case_ (1998), interpretada pelos participantes.
Douglas Lee estudou na Royal Ballet School e foi bailarino principal no Stuttgart Ballet, onde começou a coreografar, tendo depois desenvolvido uma carreira enquanto criador _freelancer_. Nesta edição do programa, o artista irá conceber e apresentar uma nova criação com os jovens bailarinos.
Como complemento ao programa, _Território VI_ contará ainda com a colaboração de Mário J. Negrão, vencedor do prémio Território | Estúdios Victor Córdon na categoria de Melhor Realizador Português do InShadow – Lisbon ScreenDance Festival 2022. Com uma identidade visual própria, o artista irá apresentar-nos a sua visão do programa através de uma nova curta-metragem.




Schedule

Main Sponsor

Parceiros

Territory VI

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Parceiros de Temporada

New program that aims to support independent artistic production structures, for one or more seasons, in the development of projects that complement the action of the EVC. The support is given through co-production or collaboration in programs proposed by these structures, whose themes and objectives meet the interests and needs of our community. 

With a focus on the promotion of knowledge, _Season Partners_ is thus expanding the space dedicated to artistic practices and research of the artistic community, fostering the sharing of responsibility in action and encouraging cooperation.

###### PARASITA
_Wording Dances _ 

A series of lectures presented in podcast format, in which distinguished artists from around the world talk about issues that make contemporary dance and its various manifestations an endless ground for questioning and creation. Curated by Carlos Manuel Oliveira.


###### Ordem do Ó
_ECOSYSTEM.dance.body_
Cycle of conversations, masterclasses, lectures and workshops

Program that proposes alternative ways of sharing in a stimulating context, where artists and public meet. Curated by Cláudia Galhós and mediated by Natacha Campos. 

Margarida Bettencourt + Piny (masterclass) + a.ves liberta
Liliana Garcia + Joana Providência (masterclass) + Joãozinho da Costa
Beatriz Marques Dias (masterclass / workshop / creation of handmade books, from the talks' notebooks) + Madalena Victorino + Josefa Pereira
Xana Novais + Joana Castro (masterclass) + Olga Roriz

###### Coffeepaste
Workshops and training

In the context of the new EVC program entitled _Season Partners_, a partnership with the portal for the dissemination of performing arts Coffeepaste will be launched. In this regard, Coffeepaste will propose a cycle of events dedicated to dance practices to take place in our space. This cycle will include workshops and other modalities of sharing artistic research in this area.





Novo programa que pretende apoiar estruturas de produção artísticas independentes, durante uma ou mais temporadas, no desenvolvimento de projetos que complementam a ação dos EVC. O apoio é dado através da coprodução ou colaboração em programas propostos por essas estruturas, cujos temas e objetivos vão ao encontro dos interesses e necessidades do nosso público. 

Com o foco na promoção do conhecimento, _Parceiros de Temporada_ vem, assim, ampliar o espaço dedicado às práticas artísticas e de investigação da comunidade artística, fomentando a partilha da responsabilidade na ação e incentivando a cooperação.

###### PARASITA
_Falar as danças_  
Série de palestras em formato de podcast, em que artistas distintos do panorama internacional discorrem sobre matérias que fazem da dança contemporânea e das suas diversas manifestações um inesgotável terreno de problematização e criação. Curadoria de Carlos Manuel Oliveira.


###### Ordem do Ó
_ECOSSISTEMA.dança.corpo_
Ciclos de conversas, masterclasses, palestras e oficinas
Contacto com formas alternativas de partilha num contexto estimulante de encontro entre artistas e público. A curadoria é de Cláudia Galhós e a mediação de Natacha Campos. 

Margarida Bettencourt + Piny (masterclass) + a.ves liberta
Liliana Garcia + Joana Providência (masterclass) + Joãozinho da Costa
Beatriz Marques Dias (masterclass / oficina / construção artesanal dos livros a partir dos cadernos das conversas) + Madalena Victorino + Josefa Pereira
Xana Novais + Joana Castro (masterclass) + Olga Roriz

###### Coffeepaste
Workshops e formação
No contexto do novo programa dos EVC _Parceiros de Temporada_, inaugura- se uma parceria com o Coffepaste, um portal destinado à divulgação das artes performativas. Neste âmbito, o Coffeepaste proporá um ciclo de eventos dedicados ao estudo da dança a acontecer no nosso espaço, ciclo esse que passará pela realização de workshops e pela partilha de práticas artísticas nesta área.







Partners

Season Partners

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The entrance to the EVC building will be transformed into an exhibition space that will host exhibitions and installations by artists whose work has a connection to the performing arts.

###### _For a hapiness like this_ 
Victor Hugo Pontes, 20 years of artistic creation through images 

###### _3 anos de Itinerários_ 
Ágata Xavier, Tamara Seilman and an artist to be announced 

 


The book at the source of this lecture - Como uma Raça foi Imaginada - researches the beginnings of the history of western Judeophobia, and challenges the idea that Christianity was built after and in opposition to Judaism. On the contrary, it is indeed Judaism that was formed under the pressure of Christianity, at the same time adapting to the terms of the trial that its enemies had brought against it for centuries.
The same book also challenges the misleading identification of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism at the center of some contemporary debates. To what extent has Zionism, born as a distress response to modern Judeophobia, became its mirror? To what extent has Zionism inherited the ideological foundations that have always characterized the persecutors of the Jews?

Lecture ⏤ Antisemitism and the Imagination of a People-Race

#### _How the "Land of Israel" was Invented_

Shlomo Sand

S. SAND (b.1946) is a historian and Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, where he taught Contemporary History. Son of Polish parents, Yiddish culture and Holocaust survivors, he spent the first two years of his life in a "camp for displaced persons" before his family emigrated to Israel, where he did his compulsory military service and fought in the Six Day War (1967). He received his PhD in 1982 from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His research has focused on modern cultural history, the Zionist movement and the construction of Israel. Translated into more than 30 countries, _How the Jewish People Were Invented _(2008), _How the "Land of Israel" Was Invented _(2012) and _How I Stopped Being Jewish_ (2013) have given him worldwide projection. He is also the author of _Le XXe siècle à l'écran_ (2004), dedicated to cinema. More recently he published _How a Race was Invented_ (2020), describing the process of racialisation of the Jews, taking place between Judeophobic Europe and nationalist Israel, denouncing in both cases the phobia towards the "other", who was once Jewish and with disturbing frequency now tends to be Arab.

Shlomo Sand sees Israel as a fait accompli, but calls for the transformation of the Jewish state into a state of all its citizens, regardless of ethnicity or religion.

Book launch ⏤ How the "Land of Israel" was Invented

#### _How a Rece was Imagined_

Shlomo Sand

S. SAND (b.1946) is a historian and Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, where he taught Contemporary History. Son of Polish parents, of Yiddish culture and Holocaust survivors, he was born and spent the first two years of his life in a "camp for displaced persons" before his family emigrated to Israel, where he did his compulsory military service and fought in the Six Day War (1967). He received his PhD in 1982 from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His research has focused on modern cultural history, the Zionist movement and the construction of Israel. With translations in more than 30 countries, How the Jewish People Were Invented (2008), How the "Land of Israel" Was Invented (KKYM+P.OR.K, 2021) and How I Stopped Being Jewish (2013) have given him worldwide projection. He is also the author of Le XXe siècle à l'écran (2002), dedicated to cinema.

Book launch ⏤ How a Race was Imagined

_FOR A HAPPINESS LIKE THIS_
Victor Hugo Pontes, 20 years of artistic creation through images


Plastic, chameleonic, striking: these are adjectives commonly used to describe Victor Hugo Pontes' works, which are recognized for their visual power. The year 2023 marks two decades of continuous and challenging artistic creation, at the intersection between dance and theater, in a equilibrium that is in total articulation with set, costume, lighting and sound design. 

Victor Hugo Pontes is an artist of images, and has gathered over the years an extraordinary photographic - and artistic - archive of his pieces. He has invited or been challenged by great photographers to accompany his work, and it is a selection of these images that is now being shown to the public for the first time.

This exhibition is part of At Home program, of which Victor Hugo Pontes is the guest artist this year. 2023 is the year of celebration of 20 years of the Portuguese choreographer's career, and he will make the EVC his home for new projects and encounters with various formats, through multiple ways of approaching and promoting a reflection on his path.

###### Free entry




FOR A HAPPINESS LIKE THIS ⎯ Exhibition

A entrada dos EVC transformar-se-á num espaço expositivo que receberá exposições e instalações de artistas cujo trabalho tem uma ligação às artes performativas.


###### _POR UMA FELICIDADE ASSIM_ 
VICTOR HUGO PONTES, IMAGENS DE 20 ANOS DE CRIAÇÃO ARTÍSTICA 

###### _3 ANOS DE ITINERÁRIOS_ 
Ágata Xavier, Tamara Seilman e fotógrafo a anunciar 



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Apoio às audições

The _Support for Auditions_ program continues to provide conditions for artists to have the opportunity to participate in selection processes for training or casts. Thus, the EVC opens its doors both to performers who need a space to rehearse or record videos for auditions, and to structures or choreographers who need to carry out a selection process for a new work. 

O programa de Apoio a Audições continua a dar condições a artistas para que tenham a oportunidade de participar em processos de seleção para formações ou elencos. Assim, os EVC abrem as portas tanto a intérpretes que precisem de um espaço para ensaiar ou gravar vídeos para audições, quanto a estruturas ou coreógrafos que precisem de levar a cabo um processo de seleção para uma nova criação. 


Apoio a Audições

Support for Auditions

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Bantu

At the origin of _Bantu_, there was an invitation addressed to Victor Hugo Pontes by Estúdios Victor Córdon and Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo, to develop a new piece performed by Mozambican and Portuguese dancers.

Estúdios Victor Córdon and Camões – Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo have decided to develop a partnership for a joint programming over three seasons, which results from a desire to build bridges between the two countries and enable the mobility and internationalization of dance. _Bantu_ is thus the result of this partnership, and is born with the goal of crossing cultures and bringing the two countries closer together, allowing the training, circulation and internationalization of the performers. 

As for the program's title, _Bantu_ refers to a family of languages spoken in sub-Saharan Africa. In Mozambique you can hear several Bantu languages; the predominant one is Macua. But _Bantu_ means more than one linguistic occurrence. It can also be: a language of its own that survived the imposed European languages; an identity mechanism; a body system "spoken" by Africans; a sign that remained closed to the colonizer; a form of communication with its own cultural, historical, religious, and political codes; an ephemeral materialization of the longest encounter. Bantu, the title, takes in everything we want or imagine _Bantu_, the piece, to be. The world is perceived from the language we speak: perhaps this was more or less Pessoa's idea when he wrote the famous and misunderstood phrase about the Portuguese language. In _Bantu_, Victor Hugo Pontes will walk the path that leads to an encounter with a language that is probably even devoid of words. We know that when one speaks with the body, a universal language is used, and that this is the language of dance.

It happens that, from the different geographies we inhabit - in a country or on a stage - we have different perspectives of the same world, and so we can never speak the same language, or see the same things, or get to the same places. _Bantu_ is a path to be traced. And the journey will be made across two continents, between two countries with complex affinities and deep memories of each other.

The meeting point will be a surprise.


Na origem de _Bantu_ está um convite endereçado a Victor Hugo Pontes pelos Estúdios Victor Córdon e o Camões – Centro Cultural Português em Maputo, para o desenvolvimento de uma nova criação de dança com intérpretes moçambicanos e portugueses.

Os Estúdios Victor Córdon e o Camões – Centro Cultural Português em Maputo decidiram desenvolver uma parceria para uma programação conjunta ao longo de três temporadas, a qual resulta de uma vontade de criar pontes entre os dois países e possibilitar a circulação e internacionalização da dança. Fruto desta parceria, _Bantu_ nasce com o objetivo de cruzar culturas e aproximar os dois países, permitindo a formação, circulação e internacionalização dos intérpretes. 

Quanto ao título do programa, _Bantu_ designa uma família de línguas faladas na África subsariana. Em Moçambique ouvem-se várias línguas bantu; a predominante é a macua. Mas _Bantu_ designa mais do que uma ocorrência linguística. Pode ser também: uma linguagem própria que sobreviveu às línguas europeias entretanto impostas; um mecanismo identitário; um sistema corporal «falado» por africanos; um signo que permaneceu vedado ao colonizador; uma forma de comunicação com códigos culturais, históricos, religiosos e políticos próprios; uma materialização efémera do mais longo encontro. Bantu, o título, acolhe tudo o que queremos ou imaginamos que _Bantu_, o espetáculo, seja.
Da língua que falamos vê-se o mundo: talvez fosse mais ou menos esta a ideia de Pessoa quando escreveu a célebre e mal compreendida frase sobre a língua portuguesa. Em _Bantu_, Victor Hugo Pontes vai percorrer o caminho que conduz ao encontro com uma língua que provavelmente estará até despida de palavras. Sabemos que quando se fala com o corpo se usa uma linguagem universal e que é esta a linguagem da dança.

Acontece que, das diferentes geografias que ocupamos – num país ou num palco –, temos diferentes perspetivas do mesmo mundo, e assim nunca poderemos falar a mesma língua, nem ver as mesmas coisas, nem chegar aos mesmos lugares. _Bantu_ é um caminho por traçar. E o percurso será feito entre dois continentes, entre dois países com afinidades complexas e memórias profundas um do outro.

O ponto de encontro será uma surpresa.


As part of the program planned for the triennium 2021-2023 in partnership with Camões - Centro Cultural Português de Maputo, this workshop is developed to share with other dance professionals the work of Portuguese choreographer Victor Hugo Pontes.

###### Target Audience
Dance professionals


Workshop in Maputo

Concept and development

Artistic direction

Co-producers

Institutional partner

Residencies support

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**Coloniality: existing relationships between performing arts in Portugal and in Lusophone African countries**

Through a day filled with discussion, we seek to open a space for dialogue and listening, by sharing information, experiences and opinions about the relationship of performing arts in Portugal with Lusophone African countries in recent years. This moment of joint reflection will be a way to stimulate the circulation of diverse speeches around colonialism, post-colonialism and anti-colonialism in the past, present and future of the performing arts.

###### Guests and program to be announced

###### Public in general, but specially directed to arts professionals

###### Free access

###### Portuguese sign language translation

**Colonialidade: relações das artes performativas em Portugal com os países africanos lusófonos**

Neste dia de conversas vamos procurar abrir um espaço de diálogo e escuta, através da partilha de informação, experiências e opiniões sobre a relação das artes performativas em Portugal com os países africanos lusófonos nos últimos anos. Este momento de reflexão conjunta será uma forma de promover a circulação de falas diversas em torno de colonialismo, pós-colonialismo e anti-colonialismo no passado, presente e futuro das artes performativas.

###### Convidados e programa a anunciar

###### Público geral, com especial foco nos profissionais das artes

###### Acesso gratuito

###### Tradução em Língua Gestual Portuguesa (LGP)

Conference Meetings for the Future V

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KICK OFF'23

A one-week program dedicated to dance practice for professionals that proposes an intensive training in the restart of activities after the summer season. 

This year we will welcome the prestigious Belgian company Peeping Tom, founded by Gabriela Carrizo (Argentina) and Franck Chartier (France).


###### Target Audience
Dance professionals



Programa de uma semana dedicado à prática de dança para profissionais que propõe uma formação intensiva no reinício das atividades após a época estival. 

Este ano, receberemos a prestigiada companhia belga Peeping Tom, fundada por Gabriela Carrizo (Argentina) e Franck Chartier (França).

###### Público-alvo
Profissionais da dança



KICK OFF'23 

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Intensive and complementary KOVA training for dance professionals. KOVA is the language, practice and composition tool developed by the choreographer Marcos Morau, in which the focus of the movement is not so much the contact with emotions and feelings but a deep connection with the body and the search for shapes and volumes. 

Marcos Morau created in 2005 the company La Veronal, a collective of artists from dance, cinema, literature, and photography. His training and the tools he uses to develop his work are not limited to dance, extending to artistic disciplines such as photography and theater. 


###### Target Audience
Dance professionals

###### Price ⎯ 200€

###### GDA scholarships available

###### Limit of 30 participants

###### Online registration

Intensive and complementary KOVA training for dance professionals. KOVA is the language, practice and composition tool developed by the choreographer Marcos Morau, in which the focus of the movement is not so much the contact with emotions and feelings but a deep connection with the body and the search for shapes and volumes.

###### Online registration

###### GDA Scholarships available

EVC Training ⎯ La Veronal

Lorena Nogal

La Veronal

Formação intensiva e complementar de KOVA para profissionais da dança. KOVA é a linguagem e a ferramenta de prática e composição desenvolvida pelo coreógrafo Marcos Morau, em que o foco do movimento não é tanto o contacto com emoções e sentimentos mas sim uma conexão profunda com o corpo e a procura de formas e volumes. 

Marcos Morau criou, em 2005, a companhia La Veronal, um coletivo composto por artistas vindos da dança, do cinema, da literatura e da fotografia. A sua formação e as ferramentas que usa para desenvolver o seu trabalho não se limitam à dança, alargando-se a disciplinas artísticas como a fotografia e o teatro.

###### Público-alvo
Profissionais da dança

###### Preço ⎯ 200€

###### Bolsas Cooperadores GDA disponíveis 

###### Limite de 30 participantes

###### Inscrições online



Treino EVC 

Schedule 

Intensive training week for dance professionals, with Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus.  

###### Target Audience
Dance professionals



EVC Training 2022

Support

EVC Training 

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Uma Coleção para Amanhã ⎯ 3ª edição

Coming to its 3rd edition, which follows a series of conversations dedicated to artists and cultural activists from Mozambique, _A Collection for Tomorrow_ will travel the Atlantic axis in 2023. Cristina Peres invites creators from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe, in a total of six episodes. 

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>Few people remember the social distance imposed by the pandemic that in 2020 and 2021 forced us to imagine other possibilities to communicate and provoke unusual encounters. The positive part of these limitations was the way we overcame them and how we got quite far. We gained the perspective that allowed us to ask the questions we had not yet asked, and we listened to the resonance of the experiences far beyond the time in which they happened. **We decided to engage in conversation**. 
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>2021 was the first year of _A Collection for Tomorrow_, ten conversations with ten people invited to reflect on artistic creation, world, art, and politics, bringing together a whole of experiences that contributed to and constituted the movement which, organized in such a unique way over the last 30, 40 years, brought us here. 
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>Along the way, **we have influenced each other**. In 2022, and because dance travels, it moves, comes back and compares itself, we invented a way of building a two-way bridge connecting Lisbon to Maputo. Actually, it already existed; what we did was invite those who made the journey from here to there and from there to here to tell us all about it in a new collection of ten conversations. At what point did we discover things that are better than ourselves while at the same time finding in ourselves traces of what we imagined would be from others?  
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>The invisible threads that link the body's memory to all other memories are not easily exhausted - this was the conclusion of these new ten conversations that we gathered at a distance. So, why not spread the discussion, moving from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic, and propose again in 2023 a new _Collection for Tomorrow_? Lisbon - Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and S. Tomé and Príncipe are waiting for a connection. 
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>Cristina Peres, 2023  


Chegada à sua 3ª edição, que sucede uma série de conversas dedicada a artistas e ativistas culturais de Moçambique, _Uma Coleção para Amanhã_ irá em 2023 viajar no eixo Atlântico. Cristina Peres convida criadores de Angola, Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau e São Tomé e Príncipe, num total de seis episódios. 

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Já poucos se lembram da distância social imposta pela pandemia que em 2020 e 2021 nos obrigou a imaginar outras possibilidades de comunicar e provocar encontros improváveis. A parte feliz dessas limitações foi a forma como as ultrapassámos e chegámos longe. Ganhámos o recuo que nos permitiu formular as perguntas que ainda não tínhamos feito e auscultámos a ressonância das experiências muito para além do tempo em que aconteceram. **Decidimos conversar**. 

O ano de 2021 foi preenchido com _Uma Coleção para Amanhã_, dez conversas com dez pessoas convidadas a refletir sobre criação, mundo, arte, política, formando um todo de vivências que contribuíram e constituíram o movimento organizado de forma tão singular nos últimos 30, 40 anos, o qual nos trouxe até aqui. 

Pelo caminho, **influenciámo-nos uns aos outros**. Em 2022, e porque a dança viaja, vai, volta e compara-se, inventámos uma forma de construir uma ponte com dois sentidos ligando Lisboa a Maputo. Na verdade ela já existia, o que fizemos foi convidar quem fez o percurso de cá para lá e de lá para cá a contar tudo numa nova coleção de dez conversas. Em que momento descobrimos coisas melhores do que nós próprios ao mesmo tempo que encontrámos em nós vestígios daquilo que imaginávamos que seria dos outros?  

Os fios invisíveis que associam a memória do corpo às outras todas não se esgotam facilmente, foi a conclusão destes novos dez diálogos que reunimos à distância. Então, porque não espalhar a conversa do Índico para o lado do Atlântico e voltar a propor para 2023 a sistematização de uma nova coleção de conversas? Lisboa - Cabo Verde, Angola, Guiné-Bissau e S. Tomé e Príncipe aguardam ligação. 


Cristina Peres, 2023  


Uma Coleção para Amanhã ⏤ Eixo Atlântico

Editing

A Collection for Tomorrow ⏤ Atlantic Axis

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Em Casa

Celebrating 20 years since he began his artistic path, Victor Hugo Pontes is the artist invited to be _At Home_ in 2023. It will be a year of commemoration in which EVC will be the choreographer's temporary home. Here, new works of his will be conceived, and encounters with various formats will be held, through various ways of approaching and promoting a meaningful reflection about his path. 

###### Exhibition ⎯ _For a happiness like this_
Victor Hugo Pontes,  20 years of artistic creation through images

###### Performance lecture ⎯ _Unique physical parts_

###### Book edition ⎯ _For a happiness like this_ 
Victor Hugo Pontes, 20 years of artistic creation
(provisional title)




_Corpo Clandestino_ is the arena where seven performers are given a voice, a place of speech. The bodies of Ana Afonso, Andreia, Gaya, Joãozinho, Mafalda, Paulo and Valter are vehicles of identity: they produce images that cannot be forgotten, they tell us things that maybe we didn’t expect to hear. The shape of these bodies is rare, not subject to categorization, often pushed to an invisibility that comforts those who (don't) see and destabilizes those who are(n't) seen. That is no space for that comfortable place here.

_Corpo Clandestino_ is an exercise in displacement and recomposing: what is not usually on stage is put there; attention is sharpened; physical pieces are assembled. On stage there are performers whose non-normative bodies throw the spectator, without a safety net, into a landscape rarely glimpsed – a cast of performers configured in opposition to classicisms and ideals. On stage there is, after all, a single body, formed by seven truly unique pieces. 

Forming part of the Rota Clandestina artist residency project, in Setúbal, this work by choreographer Victor Hugo Pontes rethinks the normative approach to the body, which subsists to this day, proposing a path where there is space for communication and sharing, alternative to reductionist, standardized and useless perspectives. From the moment the spectator's point of view coincides with the performers' point of view, it becomes indisputable that we can all occupy and share the same world, however different each one's body may be.

###### Credits
Artistic direction **Victor Hugo Pontes**
Set design **F. Ribeiro**
Music **Joana Gama e Luís Fernandes**
Technical director and Light designer **Wilma Moutinho**
Costumes **Cristina Cunha e Victor Hugo Pontes**
Cast **Ana Afonso Lourenço, Andreia Miguel, Gaya de Medeiros, Joãozinho da Costa, Mafalda Ferreira, Paulo Azevedo e Valter Fernandes**
Director assistant **Ángela Diaz Quintela**
Sound **Rafael Maia**
Artistic consultancy **Madalena Alfaia**
Production director **Joana Ventura**
Executive Producer **Mariana Lourenço**
Production assistant **Inês Guedes Pereira**
Residence support **CRL - Central Elétrica, O Espaço do Tempo, Rota Clandestina - Município de Setúbal, Teatro Municipal do Porto - Campo Alegre**
Coproducers **Nome Próprio, A Oficina - CCVF, Centro de Arte de Ovar, Rota Clandestina - Município de Setúbal, Teatro José Lúcio da Silva, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Théâtre de Liège e Theatro Circo**
Acknowledgements **Teatro Nacional São João**


Corpo Clandestino ⎯ Victor Hugo Pontes

Celebrating 20 years since the beginning of his career, Victor Hugo Pontes is the artist invited to be At Home in 2023. It will be a year of commemoration in which EVC will be the choreographer's temporary home. Here, new works of his will be conceived, and encounters with various formats will be held, through various ways of approaching and promoting a meaningful reflection about his path.

The cast of _Corpo Clandestino_ will present a lecture-performance around a challenging core theme: non-normative bodies. Based on previously established premises, each performer, in their physical singularity, creates a performance about themselves. These short performances will be presented simultaneously and in continuity, in different spaces of the EVC, through which the public can circulate freely, so that they have the possibility to see all the pieces. At the end, there will be a conversation with the public, moderated by Gaya de Medeiros and Victor Hugo Pontes.

UNIQUE PHYSICAL PARTS ⎯ Lecture-performance

No ano em que comemora 20 anos de criação artística, Victor Hugo Pontes é o artista convidado para estar _Em Casa_. 2023 será um ano de celebração em que o coreógrafo fará dos EVC a sua casa para novas criações e encontros com formatos diversos, através de múltiplos modos de abordar e promover uma reflexão sobre o seu percurso.

###### Exposição ⎯ _Por uma felicidade assim_
Victor Hugo Pontes, imagens de 20 anos de criação artística

###### Conferência - Performance ⎯ _Peças físicas singulares_

###### Edição de livro ⎯ _Por uma felicidade assim_
Victor Hugo Pontes, 20 anos de criação artística
(título provisório)



Em Casa ⎯ Victor Hugo Pontes

Following Miguel Moreira, João dos Santos Martins and Jonas&Lander, this time EVC welcomes Marlene Monteiro Freitas to be EVC’s 2022 season AT HOME artist.

The program provides a continuous workspace, giving each artist the freedom to use the various facilities of the Estúdios for artistic creation projects and any other initiatives they develop.

###### Marlene Monteiro Freitas 
She was born in São Vicente, Cabo Verde, where she was co-founder of the dance group Compass. She studied at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), at E.S.D. and at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon). She worked with Emmanuelle Huynn, Loic Touzé, Tânia Carvalho, Boris Charmatz, among others. She created the works _ÔSS_ (2022), _Ri te / Paris Intermission_, in collaboration with Israel Galván (2022), _Bacchae - Prelude to a purge_ (2017), _Jaguar_, in collaboration with Andreas Merk (2015), _Of ivory and flesh - statues also suffer_ (2014); _Paradise - private collection_ (2012-13); _(M)imosa_ (2011), a project developed with Trajal Harell, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea; _Guintche _(2010); _A Seriedade do Animal_ (2009-10); _A Improbabilidade da Certeza_ (2006);_ Larvar_ (2006); and _Primeira Impressão_ (2005). The common denominator of these works is openness, impurity and intensity. In 2017, the Portuguese Society of Authors (SPA) awarded _Jaguar_ the prize for best choreography. In the same year, the artist was honored by the Government of Cape Verde for her cultural achievements. In 2018, the Venice Biennale awarded Marlene Monteiro Freitas the Silver Lion in the Dance category, and, in 2021, the artist was awarded the Chanel Next Prize in its first edition. In 2022, as part of the Portugal-France Crossed Season, the Festival d'Automne à Paris dedicates a cycle to the artist's work, presenting a vast retrospective and two new creations. She is co-founder of P.OR.K, a production structure based in Lisbon, and has an ongoing collaboration with O Espaço do Tempo (PT).



At Home ⏤ Marlene Monteiro Freitas

Partner

At Home ⎯ Victor Hugo Pontes

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Itinerários 2023

The incentive program for artistic creation _Itineraries_, aimed at Mozambican dance artists, will be held for the 3rd consecutive year. This is a partnership between Estúdios Victor Córdon and Camões - Institute for Cooperation and Language, through the Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo. 

The project aims to create a network between Mozambique, Portugal and other partners in Europe, developing initiatives that relate the various territories to each other, in order to promote internationalization in artistic creation. 

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>As a facilitator of this program - so important for the materialization (and creation) of a reflection on the need for collaboration between artists and cultural institutions in Portugal and artists from countries once colonized by Portugal - I wish that we could, together, welcome this project with curiosity and a sense of responsibility. For the network to grow and expand, and for these itineraries to have as many meanings as there are individual and collective stories.
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>David Marques


Pelo 3º ano consecutivo, realizar-se-á o programa de incentivo à criação artística _Itinerários_, dirigido a criadores moçambicanos da área da dança. Esta é uma parceria entre os Estúdios Victor Córdon e o Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, através do Centro Cultural Português em Maputo.

_Itinerários_ pretende criar uma rede entre Moçambique, Portugal e outros parceiros na Europa, desenvolvendo iniciativas que relacionem os vários territórios entre si, com o intuito de promover a internacionalização na criação artística. 

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>Como facilitador deste programa - tão importante para a materialização (e criação) de discursos sobre a necessidade de colaboração entre artistas e instituições culturais de Portugal e de artistas de países outrora colonizados por Portugal -, gostava que pudéssemos, juntos, receber este projeto com curiosidade e sentido de responsabilidade. Para que a rede cresça e se expanda, e para que nestes itinerários haja tantos sentidos quantas as histórias individuais e coletivas.
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>David Marques


Itinerários

_Itineraries_ is a program that encourages artistic creation, aimed at Mozambican creators in the field of dance, in a partnership between OPART E.P.E. | Estúdios Victor Córdon and Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, through the Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo. 
Intending to create a network that links Mozambique, Portugal, and other partners in Europe, the project develops initiatives that connect the associated countries to promote the internationalization of artists. 
 
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>"As a facilitator of this program, which is so important for the materialization (and creation) of perspectives about the need for collaboration between artists and cultural institutions in Portugal and artists from countries once colonized by Portugal, I wish we could, together, look at this project with curiosity and a sense of responsibility. So that the network can grow and expand, and these itineraries have as many meanings as there are individual and collective stories."  
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> David Marques


Itineraries 2022

Co-production

Itineraries

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This program promotes the collaborative spirit and enhances collaborations between composers and artists from other areas in the creative process. _Young Composers_ develops in three moments of experimentation and creation that culminate with a presentation of the materials created throughout the process.

In previous editions, artists such as Joana Craveiro, the duo Inês Barahona and Miguel Fragata, or writers such as Gonçalo M. Tavares have collaborated on the program. 

In 2023, _Young Composers_ will be coordinated by composer Luís Tinoco, with the collaboration of choreographer Victor Hugo Pontes, visual artist João Penalva and the Concrete [Lab] Ensemble, and the participation of students from Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML), Escola Superior de Dança (ESD), Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD.CR) and Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE).



Young Composers returns in 2023 for its 6th edition and proposes collaboration in creative practice among composers, visual artists, and choreographers. In 2023, Young Composers will be coordinated by composer Luís Tinoco, with the collaboration of choreographer Victor Hugo Pontes, and the participation of students from Concrète Lab Ensemble, Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML), Escola Superior de Dança (ESD), Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD.CR).

###### Week I
Instrumental Composition Lab
Jan 9 ⏤ 14, 2023


Young Composers ⏤ Week I

Young Composers returns in 2023 for its 6th edition and proposes collaboration in the practice of creation between composers, visual artists and choreographers. 
In 2023, the programme is coordinated by the composer Luís Tinoco, with the collaboration of the choreographer Victor Hugo Pontes and the visual artist João Penalva and the participation of students from Concrète Lab Ensemble, Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML), Escola Superior de Dança (ESD), Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD.CR).
After a first week dedicated to musical composition, the second week crosses musical composition with plastic arts, coordinated by Luís Tinoco and João Penalva.

###### Week II
Composers & Visual Artists
27 Feb ⏤ 4 Mar, 2023

###### Presentation
4 Mar, 2023
Estúdios Victor Córdon

Young Composers ⎯ Week II

Programa que promove o espírito colaborativo e potencia o trabalho entre compositores e criadores de outras áreas artísticas em processos de criação. O percurso de _Jovens Compositores_ desenvolve-se em três momentos de experimentação e criação que culminam com uma apresentação dos materiais criados ao longo do processo.

Em edições anteriores, colaboraram no programa artistas como Joana Craveiro, a dupla Inês Barahona e Miguel Fragata, ou escritores como Gonçalo M. Tavares. 

Em 2023, _Jovens Compositores_ contará com a coordenação do compositor Luís Tinoco, a colaboração do coreógrafo Victor Hugo Pontes, do artista plástico João Penalva e da orquestra Concrete [Lab] Ensemble,  e a participação de alunos da Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (ESML), da Escola Superior de Dança (ESD), da Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD.CR) e da Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE).


Jovens Compositores

Young Composers

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Em Trânsito 2023

_In Transit_ establishes connections with numerous festivals that have a preponderant and essential role for the future of dance in Portugal. Through this program, EVC supports artistic practices in a continuous collaboration with partner festivals and contributes to their consolidation as spaces for artistic creation, mediation, promotion and internationalization. 

The program also invites structures that promote dance initiatives to develop some of their activities in collaboration with EVC. 


_Dois Chorões e um dente-de-leão_ is the first creation of André Cabral in residence at the EVC under the program In Transit, in a partnership with the Materiais Diversos Festival. Aimed at a children and youth's audience, _Dois chorões e um dente-de-leão_ seeks to work on a fable that initially starts from growing pains and moves on to a fantastic and lively imaginary, making use of movement and text to allude to physical and mental growth.

>"Is it pain, or discomfort? How much does it cost to grow? What are these pains, that come and go almost as fast as all the questions I have that give rise to other questions? After all, I don't feel like such a child anymore, I guess... in the meantime I fell asleep and woke up in a vase! And in it I discover that I can talk to myself more seriously, and that I'm not the only one asking questions." André Cabral


Dois chorões e um dente-de-leão

Em Trânsito estabelece ligações com vários festivais que têm um papel preponderante no presente e essencial para o futuro da dança em Portugal. Através deste programa, os EVC apoiam a criação artística numa colaboração contínua com os festivais parceiros e contribuem para a sua consolidação enquanto espaços de criação, mediação, promoção e internacionalização artística. 

O programa também convida estruturas promotoras de iniciativas na área da dança a desenvolverem algumas das suas atividades em colaboração com os EVC.


Em Trânsito

Festivals

Confirmed Artists

In Transit

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Residências artísticas 2023

This program supports independent artistic creation, welcoming Portuguese and international dance artists and creators from other artistic areas, for a maximum period of two weeks. Since its inception, EVC is a space of cohabitation of multiple languages, acting in direct response to the needs of the artistic community.


Programs