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One-week program for dance professionals proposing intensive dance training at the "rentrée" right after summer holidays, this year diving into the artistic universe of Akram Khan.

###### Target Audience
Dance professionals

###### Price
220€

###### This program has the support of GDA Foundation

###### Online registration

###### Personal accident insurance is required








This year's _KickOff'24_, an intensive training program for professional dancers, delves into the artistic world of Akram Khan. In 2024, the program will last one week and, as usual, will take place just after the summer season, at the EVC.

This coming edition will be held from September 2 to 6, 2024, and Nico Ricchini will be the trainer.


###### Schedule
##### SEP 2 — 6
##### 10am-1:30pm
##### BREAK
##### 2:30pm-5:30pm

###### Target audience
Dance professionals

###### Maximum number of participants
30 people

###### Price ⎯ 220€

###### This program has the support of GDA Foundation

###### GDA Foundation grants available
##### The GDA Foundation supports this training by providing grants for attendance*.
##### 9 Grants for GDA Cooperators (70€)
##### 13 Grants for Non-Cooperators (130€)
##### * GDA Foundation grants are allocated in accordance with the order in which registration is confirmed.

###### Online registration

###### Personal accident insurance required

###### About the trainer
##### Nico Ricchini (he/him) trained in Ballet in Lyon and in Contemporary Dance in Barcelona in Varium. Over the past ten years, he has worked with artists and companies such as Pepe Hevia Danza (Cuba), Fernando Madagan (Nederlands Dans Theater), Tupac Martir in London, Emma Martin Dance, Akram Khan Company for the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, La Taimada, CLOD Ensemble and Lali Ayguadé Company among others.

His performance of the solo Chotto Desh for Akram Khan Company on a three-year international tour was a highlight of his career: a work translated in six languages, hosted in 85 cities and seen by more than 110,000 spectators. He has also been an actor, together with Lali Ayguadé, in the multi-award winning and Oscar nominee shortfilm Timecode by Juanjo Giménez.

As a dance entrepreneur, Nico has initiated innovative projects in Barcelona for the education of contemporary dance such as the FREE BODIES (since 2018) and FREE ROOTS (since 2022), programes that he co-directs together with Nadine Gerspacher. Since 2018, he directs Big Story Productions which produces and sells contemporary dance production and projects as well as represents bold and audacious artists. In 2020, started working again with Akram Khan Company as a rehearsal director and performer for Chotto Xenos. Since 2022, he’s founded the creative venue FREEZONE to support creation, movement and performance in Barcelona.

###### About Akram Khan
##### Akram Khan (he/him) is an essential and world-renowned artist in the field of dance today. In just over 23 years he has created a body of work that has contributed significantly to the arts in the UK and abroad. His most famous works include _Jungle Book Reimagined_, _Outwitting the Devil_, _XENOS_, _Until the Lions_, _Kaash_, _iTMOi (in the mind of igor)_, _DESH_, _Vertical Road_, _Gnosis_ and _zero degrees_. 

Khan has been a magnet to world-class artists from other cultures and disciplines, including the National Ballet of China, actress Juliette Binoche, ballerina Sylvie Guillem, singer Kylie Minogue, indie rock band Florence and the Machine, visual artists Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Tim Yip, writer Hanif Kureishi and composers Steve Reich, Nitin Sawhney, Jocelyn Pook and Ben Frost.

Khan's work is considered deeply moving, and can even be read as ritual, given the influence that classical Kathak dance has on it. "I see things through kathak eyes," we heard him say. Khan's first solos quickly caught the eye, as not only was he daring and inventive in his Kathak experiments, but he also proved to be a magnetic and mesmerizing dancer, capable of both captivating stillness and galvanic speed.

Throughout his career, Khan has received numerous awards. He has received two Laurence Olivier Awards, the Bessie Award - New York Dance and Performance, the ISPA Distinguished Artist (from the International Society for the Performing Arts), the Fred & Adele Astaire Award, the South Bank Sky Arts Award and nine Critics' Circle National Dance Awards, among many others. 

Nico Ricchini

Akram Khan

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 com um mergulho no universo artístico de Akram Khan.


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

###### Preço ⎯ 220€

##### Este programa tem o apoio da Fundação GDA

###### Inscrições online

###### Seguro de acidentes pessoais obrigatório



Calendar

An intensive week targeting dance professionals, with workshops led by the João Cardoso and Edivaldo Ernesto. 
 
###### Target Audience
Dance professionals


KICK OFF’22 

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).

Brandon Lagaert joined Peeping Tom in 2013 for the creation of _Vader_, and has also created _Moeder_, _Kind_, _Dido & Aeneas_ and _La Visita_. It is at the company that he has crafted his signature style as a multidisciplinary performer.

In his work, Brandon combines elements from different disciplines, such as urban and contemporary dance, theatre, and film. As a director, he often starts from the perspective of a performer to lay down a certain foundation, before tackling the overall structure. He does this under the name of his company KAIHO of which the award-winning performances Subdued and Mondo Fuso have been an integral part.


###### Target Audience
Dance professionals

###### Price
220€

###### GDA Scholarships
GDA Cooperators ⎯ 70€ (amount to be paid by the cooperator) 
> Non GDA Cooperators ⎯ 130€ (amount to be paid by the non cooperator)

> _(GDA Grants are assigned in order of registration confirmation)_

###### Limit of 20 participants

###### Personal accident insurance is required

KICK OFF'23 

Instructor

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Rede de Residências PALOP

Artist residencies network that promotes works by artists from Portuguese-speaking countries and their circulation between Africa and Portugal. The artists taking part in the first edition come from Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola, Cape Verde and Portugal.

Over the course of 5 weeks, these artists will develop collaborative work in the several artist residencies taking place in the cities of Lisbon, Porto, Viseu and Guimarães. The program also includes showcases presenting the work developed in each residency, talks, dance workshops taught by the guest artists, where they'll share dances from their countries of origin, and interactions with local artists. This year’s edition of the program wraps up in Maputo with a final public presentation.


This initiative is supported by Direção-Geral das Artes.

PROGRAM'S CALENDAR:

- LISBON
Workshop-auditon at Estúdios Victor Córdon — 23-28 SEP

- VISEU
Residency at Teatro Viriato (Viseu) — 30 SEP-4 OCT

- OPORTO
Residency - CRL-Central Elétrica/Circolando (Porto) — 7-12 OCT
Presentation of work results - 12th, 19:00pm

- GUIMARÃES
Residency at Centro de Criação de Candoso (Guimarães) — 14-19 OCT

- LISBON
Rehearsals at Estúdios Victor Córdon — 21-23 OCT
Presentation of work results - 22th, 18:30pm

- MAPUTO /MOZAMBIQUE
Rehearsals and public presentation at Maputo  (venue to be announced) — 26-30 OCT


Network of Artistic Residencies for Portuguese-Speaking African Countries 

Rede de Residências que promove a criação e a circulação de artistas dos países de Língua Portuguesa, entre África e Portugal. Os(as) artistas participantes na primeira edição são provenientes de Moçambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Angola, Cabo Verde e Portugal.

Ao longo de 5 semanas, estes(as) artistas desenvolvem trabalho de criação em colaboração nas residências artísticas programadas para Lisboa, Porto, Viseu e Guimarães. Paralelamente à criação, serão também promovidas mostras de resultados, conversas, workshops de danças dos países de proveniência dos(as) artistas convidados(as) e interações com artistas locais. O programa termina em Maputo com a apresentação pública do trabalho realizado ao longo das residências.

Esta iniciativa tem o apoio da Direção-Geral das Artes.




Partners

Institutional partner

Support

Network of Artist Residencies in the Portuguese-speaking African countries

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Prática Diária

Daily classical and contemporary dance practice designed for professional dancers and those in the process of becoming professional dancers. The diversity of the teachers' proposals is intended to mirror our approach to what a dance practice can be today. The monthly schedule of daily practices is available in the schedule.

###### 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 ⏤ March

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

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

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

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ APRIL

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

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

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

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ MAY

Daily Classes ⎯ July

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

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

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

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ JUNE

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

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

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

Daily Classes ⎯ October

Daily Classes ⎯ November

Daily Classes ⎯ December

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

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

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

Daily Classes ⏤ February

Daily Classes ⏤ March

Daily Classes ⏤ April

Daily Classes ⏤ May

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ July

Daily Classes ⏤ September

Práticas diárias de dança clássica e contemporânea destinadas a intérpretes profissionais ou em vias de profissionalização na área da dança. A diversidade das propostas de formadores pretende espelhar um pensamento acerca do que pode constituir uma prática de dança nos dias de hoje. O calendário mensal da 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 their well-being. The monthly schedule of these practices is available in the monthly schedule.


###### Classical Dance
Mondays and Wednesdays: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

###### Price
10€ / 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

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 and wednesdays
##### 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm

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

DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS ⏤ MAY

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 and Wednesdays
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm

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

DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS ⏤ JUNE

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 and Wednesdays
##### 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm

###### PRICE
##### 10€ / class (insurance required)

Dance classes for adults ⎯ October

Dance classes for adults ⎯ November

DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS ⎯ DECEMBER

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 their well-being.
 
###### Classical Dance
##### Mondays
##### Wednesdays
##### 6:15 pm ─ 7:45 pm

###### Price
10€ / class (insurance required)

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ February

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 their well-being.

###### Classical Dance
##### Mondays
##### Wednesdays
##### 6:15 pm ─ 7:45 pm

###### Price
10€ / class (insurance required)

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ March

Dance classes for Adults — April

##### Come on and dance with us!
##### Next April 29th marks International Dance Day and Estúdios Victor Córdon are organizing a ball evening open to everyone who wishes to celebrate the body and the joy of dancing.

##### The ball at the EVC starts with a workshop by Miguel Ângelo, in which participants will learn the basic steps of two Latin ballroom dances.

##### This event is open to anyone, regardless of their dance experience.

###### WHEN
APRIL 29
###### SCHEDULE
6.30—8.30pm
###### FREE ENTRY
subject to registration
###### INSTRUCTOR
Miguel Ângelo


BALL AT EVC ⏤ International Dance Day

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 their well-being.

###### Classical Dance
##### Mondays
##### Wednesdays
##### 6:15 pm ─ 7:45 pm

###### Price
10€ / class (insurance required)


Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ May

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ June

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ July

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 their well-being.

###### Classical Dance
##### Mondays
##### Wednesdays
##### 6:30 pm ─ 8:00 pm

###### Price
10€ / class (insurance required)

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ September

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ October

As aulas de dança clássica para adultos destinam-se a quem pretende iniciar a sua aprendizagem ou a quem mantém uma ligação à dança clássica desde sempre e quer continuar essa prática como meio para o seu bem-estar. O calendário mensal destas aulas está disponível na agenda.

###### Dança Clássica
2.ª e 4ª feiras:
18h30 - 20h

###### Preço
10€/aula (seguro obrigatório)

Aulas de Dança ⏤ Adultos

dance classes for adults

Dance Classes ⏤ Adults

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The _Wording Dances_ podcast proposes a lecture series where renowned artists from the international contemporary dance scene discuss matters which make of dancing and choreographing an inexhaustible terrain of experimentation, problematization and thinking. Curated by Carlos Manuel Oliveira, it is a co-production between EVC and Parasita Association.

Alongside the singularity of each artist's work, lines of thought will be exposed in relation to politics in dance, social choreography, the relationship between dance and language, creative processes and their respective products, or even in relation to the cognition of corporealities. By posing questions such as _What can choreographic thinking do?_, we hope to summon up unique answers, based on what each artist is most dedicated to. In short, the word is given to those who dance and make others dance, but who also question dance and make others think.


###### The series is published in the following platforms: 
[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/2PHvgkPmXnidSDjLB8p2bo), [Apple Podcasts](https://shorturl.at/lsuZ5), [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lYjQzNWQ3OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwi48K2uxuKEAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ), [Pocket Casts](https://pca.st/kkj0nozt), [Radio Public](https://shorturl.at/ovyW0), [Castbox](https://shorturl.at/dmyGJ), [Soundcloud](https://shorturl.at/fvJK9) and [Amazon Music](https://rb.gy/olashn).

###### You can also access translated episodes (PT - EN) [HERE](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAO_nJtqGJzGPOnQvAth35cyIRcrYdZj3&si=gMDanTDNPeplDW27).


_Wording Dances_ presents a series of episodes, both in English and Portuguese, where renowned artists from the international contemporary dance scene discuss matters which make of dancing and choreographing an inexhaustible terrain of experimentation, problematization and thinking. 

In a co-production between Estúdios Victor Córdon and Parasita Association, it is curated by Carlos Manuel Oliveira.

In this episode of _Wording Dances_, English dancer and choreographer Siobhan Davies reads to us _Postcards from a life which dances_, a text which she wrote exclusively for this occasion. 

Davies is engaged with image gathering, drawing, writing and conversation as extensions of dance and choreography. She has been active for over 50 years, making work for both theatres and galleries and, in 2006, together with architect Sarah Wigglesworth, created the Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, in London. She retired from the studios in 2020, but remains an associate professor at Coventry University (Cdare).

###### The series is published in the following platforms: [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/2PHvgkPmXnidSDjLB8p2bo), [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/falar-as-danças-wording-dances/id1712582713), [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lYjQzNWQ3OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwith6_ezoGCAxXmTqQEHbk5B6kQ9sEGegQIARAC), [Pocket Casts](https://pca.st/kkj0nozt), [Radio Public](https://radiopublic.com/falar-as-danas-wording-dances-6BDkPo), [Castbox](https://castbox.fm/channel/id5638500?utm_source=website&utm_medium=dlink&utm_campaign=web_share&utm_content=Wording%20Dances%20(Falar%20as%20Danças)-CastBox_FM&country=pt) e [Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/estudios-victor-cordon).

###### You can also access translated episodes (PT - EN) [HERE](https://youtu.be/Ay_n3M7BU-w).



Wording Dances ⏤ Siobhan Davies

_Wording Dances_ presents a series of episodes, both in English and Portuguese, where renowned artists from the international contemporary dance scene discuss matters which make of dancing and choreographing an inexhaustible terrain of experimentation, problematization and thinking. 

In a co-production between Estúdios Victor Córdon and Parasita Association, the project is curated by Carlos Manuel Oliveira.

In this episode of _Wording Dances_, Brazilian dancer and choreographer Marcelo Evelin invites Neguxa Uau, an artist, performer and influencer from Teresina, to read to us _Life is life, and life is babado_, a text which he wrote at our invitation. 

Marcelo lives between Teresina and Amsterdam, and works in Brazil, Japan and many European countries as an independent artist. He coordinates the Demolition Incorporada Platform, based in CAMPO, a Performing Arts Residency and Resistance space in Teresina, Piauí. Marcelo began working as a choreographer in 1989 and has a body of work comprising more than 30 pieces, of which _Barricada_, _A Invenção da Maldade_ [The Invention of Evilness] and _ai, ai, ai_ are still touring. He teaches at the Amsterdam University of the Arts since 1999 and is responsible for artistic creation projects at universities and master's courses, such as ISAC (Higher School of Arts and Choreography of Brussels), the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), EXERCE (Montpellier) and Centre National de la Danse (Paris). In 2019, he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the Federal University of Piauí. His works are performed in theatres and festivals all over the world, such as Festival d'Automne (Paris), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels), Teatro Rivoli (Porto) or Festival Alkantara (Lisbon), where this year he presented Demolition Incorporada's latest piece, _UIRAPURU_.

###### The series is published in the following platforms: [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/2PHvgkPmXnidSDjLB8p2bo), [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/falar-as-danças-wording-dances/id1712582713), [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lYjQzNWQ3OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwith6_ezoGCAxXmTqQEHbk5B6kQ9sEGegQIARAC), [Pocket Casts](https://pca.st/kkj0nozt), [Radio Public](https://radiopublic.com/falar-as-danas-wording-dances-6BDkPo), [Castbox](https://castbox.fm/channel/id5638500?utm_source=website&utm_medium=dlink&utm_campaign=web_share&utm_content=Wording%20Dances%20(Falar%20as%20Danças)-CastBox_FM&country=pt) e [Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/estudios-victor-cordon).

###### You can also access translated episodes (PT - EN) [HERE](https://youtu.be/G1ANKE-uCWA).



Wording Dances ⏤ Marcelo Evelin & Neguxa Uau

_Wording Dances_ presents a series of episodes, both in English and Portuguese, where renowned artists from the international contemporary dance scene discuss matters which make of dancing and choreographing an inexhaustible terrain of experimentation, problematization and thinking. 

In a co-production between Estúdios Victor Córdon and Parasita Association, the project is curated by Carlos Manuel Oliveira.

In this new episode of “Wording Dances”, we welcome deufert&plischke, the Artistwin, to read to us from a text which they wrote exclusively for this occasion, entitled “Grand Opening”. Dr Kattrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke have formed the artistwin deufert&plischke in 2001, and in the last 22 years they have realised over 50 theatre projects that deal with artistic production situations and the complex social dynamics of artistic processes. They have created the Anarchiv series, the Emergence Rooms, the Entropic Institutes, the DURCHEINANDER series, and the dance history project Just in Time, to name a few of their many outputs. All series of works span thematically wide arcs from the origins of Greek mythology to the pressing questions of our time: How do we communicate in a community of strangers? How do we make decisions together? How do we take responsibility for ourselves and for others? Their works go beyond the boundaries of dance and theatre and deal with individual participation and the social everyday in artistic events. 

###### The series is published in the following platforms: [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/2PHvgkPmXnidSDjLB8p2bo), [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-3-artistwin-deufert-plischke/id1712582713?i=1000648246359 ), [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lYjQzNWQ3OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwi48K2uxuKEAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ), [Pocket Casts](https://pca.st/kkj0nozt), [Radio Public](https://shorturl.at/ovyW0), [Castbox](https://castbox.fm/episode/Ep.-3---artistwin-deufert%26plischke-id5638500-id680529870?utm_source=website&utm_medium=dlink&utm_campaign=web_share&utm_content=Ep.%203%20-%20artistwin%20deufert%26plischke-CastBox_FM) [Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/estudios-victor-cordon/ep-3-kattrin-deufert-thomas-plischke?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing) and [Amazon Music](https://rb.gy/olashn).

###### You can also access translated episodes (PT - EN) [HERE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Qh76sXMno&t=824s).

Wording Dances ⏤ Ep. 3 with Deufert & Plischke

_Wording Dances_ presents a series of episodes, both in English and Portuguese, where renowned artists from the international contemporary dance scene discuss matters which make of dancing and choreographing an inexhaustible terrain of experimentation, problematization and thinking. 

In a co-production between Estúdios Victor Córdon and Parasita Association, the project is curated by Carlos Manuel Oliveira.

In this new episode, we are joined by Jonathan Burrows for a reading of his texts _Rhythmm_, _Traces_ and _History_, which he wrote in recent years and which were also compiled in a book published by Varamo Press in 2022, entitled _Writing Dance_. Jonathan Burrows' main focus is an ongoing body of pieces with the composer Matteo Fargion, with whom he continues to perform around the world. He is the author of _A Choreographer's Handbook_ (Routledge 2010) and _Writing Dance_ (Varamo 2022) and is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University.

###### The series is published in the following platforms:  
[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/2PHvgkPmXnidSDjLB8p2bo), [Apple Podcasts](https://shorturl.at/lsuZ5), [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lYjQzNWQ3OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwi48K2uxuKEAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ), [Pocket Casts](https://pca.st/kkj0nozt), [Radio Public](https://shorturl.at/ovyW0), [Castbox](https://shorturl.at/dmyGJ) [Soundcloud](https://shorturl.at/fvJK9) e [Amazon Music](https://rb.gy/olashn).

###### You can also access translated episodes (PT - EN) [HERE](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAO_nJtqGJzGPOnQvAth35cyIRcrYdZj3&si=7hKHMyZVRYaJdhf1).

Wording Dances ⏤ Ep. 4 with Jonathan Burrows

_Wording Dances_ presents a series of episodes, both in English and Portuguese, where renowned artists from the international contemporary dance scene discuss matters which make of dancing and choreographing an inexhaustible terrain of experimentation, problematization and thinking. 

In a co-production between Estúdios Victor Córdon and Parasita Association, the project is curated by Carlos Manuel Oliveira.

In this new episode, we invited the essayist and curator André Lepecki to read us a text of his, entitled “The dispute for movement and the non-time of struggle: a delirium in four movements”. Lepecki works and researches at the intersection between critical dance studies, curatorial practice, performance theory, contemporary dance and performance in visual arts. He is a full professor at New York University, where he coordinates the Department of Performance Studies. He has authored "Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement", published by Routledge in 2006, which has since been translated into 13 languages, and, by the same publishing house, "Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance", in 2016. 

###### The series is published in the following platforms:  
[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/2PHvgkPmXnidSDjLB8p2bo), [Apple Podcasts](https://shorturl.at/lsuZ5), [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lYjQzNWQ3OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwi48K2uxuKEAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ), [Pocket Casts](https://pca.st/kkj0nozt), [Radio Public](https://shorturl.at/ovyW0), [Castbox](https://shorturl.at/dmyGJ) [Soundcloud](https://shorturl.at/fvJK9) e [Amazon Music](https://rb.gy/olashn).

###### You can also access translated episodes (PT - EN) [HERE](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAO_nJtqGJzGPOnQvAth35cyIRcrYdZj3&si=7hKHMyZVRYaJdhf1).

Wording Dances ⏤ Ep. 5 with André Lepecki

Wording Dances presents a series of episodes, both in english and portuguese, where renowned artists from the international contemporary dance scene discuss matters which make of dancing and choreographing an inexhaustible terrain of experimentation, problematization and thinking. 

In a co-production between Estúdios Victor Córdon and Parasita Association, it is curated by Carlos Manuel Oliveira. 

In this new episode of Wording Dances, we invited Ana Borralho and João Galante to write and read us a text entitled “Dark Room”. 

Borralho and Galante work together on their own performance, dance, installation, photography, sound and video art projects, which they present all around the world. They met when they were studying visual arts at the Ar.Co, in Lisbon, and in the 90s they worked regularly together as actors/co‑creators in the theater group OLHO in Cacilhas/Almada. They co-founded the non-musicians band Jimmie Durham and the cultural association casaBranca, they were co-curators of the Electrolegos electronic music festival in Lagos, and they direct the Verão Azul festival in Lagos and Loulé. They live and work in Lisbon and Lagos.

###### The series is published in the following platforms:  
[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/2PHvgkPmXnidSDjLB8p2bo), [Apple Podcasts](https://shorturl.at/lsuZ5), [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lYjQzNWQ3OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwi48K2uxuKEAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ), [Pocket Casts](https://pca.st/kkj0nozt), [Radio Public](https://shorturl.at/ovyW0), [Castbox](https://shorturl.at/dmyGJ) [Soundcloud](https://shorturl.at/fvJK9) e [Amazon Music](https://rb.gy/olashn).

###### You can also access translated episodes (PT - EN) [HERE](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAO_nJtqGJzGPOnQvAth35cyIRcrYdZj3&si=7hKHMyZVRYaJdhf1).

Wording Dances ⏤ Ep. 6 with Ana Borralho & João Galante

_Wording Dances_ presents a series of episodes, both in english and portuguese, where renowned artists from the international contemporary dance scene discuss matters which make of dancing and choreographing an inexhaustible terrain of experimentation, problematization and thinking. 

In a co-production between Estúdios Victor Córdon and Parasita Association, it is curated by Carlos Manuel Oliveira. 

In this new episode of Wording Dances, we invited Bojana Cvejić to read to us an adapted excerpt from a book chapter in manuscript, titled: “We work with the materials that resist us”.

Bojana is the author of several books, such as “Choreographing Problems”, from 2015, and “Toward a Transindividual Self: A Study in Social Dramaturgy”, co-written with Ana Vujanović. Since 1996, she has made, performed and collaborated on numerous works of opera, dance and theater in Europe as co-director, dramaturg or performer. Bojana also co-authored several videos and video-installations exploring dance and choreography, such as “…in a non-wimpy way…”, with Steve Paxton, in 2013; “Yvonne Rainer’s WAR”, from the same year, and “Spatial Confessions”, for Tate Modern, in 2014. Her research in social choreography, transindividuality, and critical theory drives her politically to organize collective platforms of self-education and experimental production, such as PAF – Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme. And since 2017 she divides her time between Oslo, where she is Professor of Dance Theory at the Oslo National Academy of Arts, and Brussels, where she teaches at P.A.R.T.S.

###### The series is published in the following platforms:  
[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/2PHvgkPmXnidSDjLB8p2bo), [Apple Podcasts](https://shorturl.at/lsuZ5), [Pocket Casts](https://pca.st/kkj0nozt), [Radio Public](https://shorturl.at/ovyW0), [Castbox](https://shorturl.at/dmyGJ) e [Soundcloud](https://shorturl.at/fvJK9).

###### You can also access translated episodes (PT - EN) [HERE](https://youtu.be/q2W-IR8bacQ).

Wording Dances ⏤ Ep. 7 with Bojana Cvejić

O podcast _Falar as Danças_ apresenta uma série de palestras, em que artistas da cena internacional da dança contemporânea discorrem sobre matérias que fazem da dança e da coreografia um inesgotável terreno de experimentação, problematização e pensamento. Com a curadoria de Carlos Manuel Oliveira, o programa é uma coprodução entre os Estúdios Victor Córdon e a Associação Parasita.

Pretende-se dar conta da riqueza, diversidade e alcance do pensamento coreográfico atual, bem como da profusão de discursos a que a dança contemporânea tem dado origem, percorrendo uma variedade de questões que fazem da sua problematização um campo de exploração e criação inesgotável. A par da singularidade do trabalho de cada artista, serão expostas linhas de pensamento em relação a questões de política na dança, coreografia social, dança e linguagem, processos de criação e respectivos produtos, ou ainda em relação à cognição das corporalidades. Lançando questões tão genéricas quanto _O que pode o pensamento coreográfico?_, espera-se convocar um conjunto de respostas singulares, enunciadas a partir das matérias a que cada artista mais se dedica. Em suma, dá-se a ouvir a voz de quem dança e faz dançar, mas que não menos questiona a dança e faz pensar.

###### A série é publicada nas seguinte plataformas:
 [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/2PHvgkPmXnidSDjLB8p2bo), [Apple Podcasts](https://shorturl.at/lsuZ5), [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lYjQzNWQ3OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwi48K2uxuKEAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ), [Pocket Casts](https://pca.st/kkj0nozt), [Radio Public](https://shorturl.at/ovyW0), [Castbox](https://shorturl.at/dmyGJ) [Soundcloud](https://shorturl.at/fvJK9) e [Amazon Music](https://rb.gy/olashn).

###### Também podes ter acesso episódios traduzidos (PT - EN) [AQUI](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAO_nJtqGJzGPOnQvAth35cyIRcrYdZj3&si=gMDanTDNPeplDW27).

Falar as Danças

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Espaço Expositivo

The entrance to the EVC building has become an exhibition space, welcoming proposals on an ongoing basis by visual artists whose work has a connection to performing arts in general and dance in particular. This year, we welcome a curatorial idea by choreographer Carlota Lagido, who invited three dance artists who have a strong connection to the visual arts -  Luís Guerra, João Galante and Elizabete Francisca - and an exhibition by Guilherme Gouveia, who will show us the result of the photography residency he undertook at the EVC in 2023.


### _brain, eyes, hands and paper_
##### Curated by Carlota Lagido
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### Photography exhibition
##### by Guilherme Gouveia




_The works presented here were born out of the desire to imprint bodies on sheets or canvases; they were born out of the desire to adorn dead bodies as was the case, for example, of the mummies in ancient Egypt. Some of these works have been presented in a school context. The artist is studying at ArCo, where he attends the Year 2 of the Advanced Course in Visual Arts. Other works integrated the performance _Almada Negreiros, o bailarino_ [“Almada Negreiros, the dancer”], presented last October at the Gulbenkian Foundation. The solution to the challenge of presenting a work in the movement temple-space that is Gulbenkian came precisely from these works, since the essence of the place leads the author to the very act of living and dying, i.e. dancing, reinventing oneself, being present and being reborn._ ― Luís Guerra

### brain, eyes, hands and paper

_What is this capacity of the body that takes what we observe and puts it on a sheet of paper? I'm talking about the body transmuting itself into a drawing, in an intricate fusion between eyes, hands and paper. It's like the development of a mental muscle that mysteriously extends down the arm, reaches the hand and travels across the paper. It turns into movement and dynamism. There are people in the world of performing arts who have been drawing even before they started using their bodies as tools. Luís Guerra, João Galante and Elizabete Francisca are some of these people. These exhibitions reveal three different ways of using mental muscles, each with its own identity and beauty. Drawing is a physical act that requires time, memory, focus, practice, will, endurance and freedom. It's like dancing._ ― Carlota Lagido

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###### VERNISSAGE
##### FEB 24 at 7pm
##### Estúdios Victor Córdon

Luís Guerra ― Múmias ou como homenagear um corpo

Luís Guerra, invited by Carlota Lagido to be part of the series of solo art exhibitions "brain, eyes, hands and paper", will be teaching a workshop entitled "Drawing with the whole body" in connection with his exhibition proposal _Múmias ou como homenagear um corpo_.

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_In this masterclass, aimed at people who are both passionate about dance and drawing, exercises will be proposed that could possibly instigate a broader awareness of the body when drawing and painting that doesn't stop at the wrist.  Participants are invited to bring their own drawing instruments, like pencils, charcoal bars or other materials - with which they intend to leave a mark on their bodies._
― Luís Guerra

DRAWING WITH THE WHOLE BODY ― WORKSHOP

_What is this capacity of the body that takes what we observe and puts it on a sheet of paper? I'm talking about the body transmuting itself into a drawing, in an intricate fusion between eyes, hands and paper. It's like the development of a mental muscle that mysteriously extends down the arm, reaches the hand and travels across the paper. It turns into movement and dynamism. There are people in the world of performing arts who have been drawing even before they started using their bodies as tools. Luís Guerra, João Galante and Elizabete Francisca are some of these people. These exhibitions reveal three different ways of using mental muscles, each with its own identity and beauty. Drawing is a physical act that requires time, memory, focus, practice, will, endurance and freedom. It's like dancing._ ― Carlota Lagido

###### Curator
#### Carlota Lagido

###### Artists
#### Elizabete Francisca
#### João Galante
#### Luís Guerra


BRAIN, EYES, HANDS AND PAPER

### Divã

_When I paint I try to do the same as when I play or compose music. To find a place where I have no responsibilities towards society. A place where I can either meditate on the world or not at all. A state of surrender. A state of rest._ — João Galante

### brain, eyes, hands and paper

_What is this capacity of the body that takes what we observe and puts it on a sheet of paper? I'm talking about the body transmuting itself into a drawing, in an intricate fusion between eyes, hands and paper. It's like the development of a mental muscle that mysteriously extends down the arm, reaches the hand and travels across the paper. It turns into movement and dynamism. There are people in the world of performing arts who have been drawing even before they started using their bodies as tools. Luís Guerra, João Galante and Elizabete Francisca are some of these people. These exhibitions reveal three different ways of using mental muscles, each with its own identity and beauty. Drawing is a physical act that requires time, memory, focus, practice, will, endurance and freedom. It's like dancing._ ― Carlota Lagido

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###### VERNISSAGE
##### MAY 24 at 6.30pm
##### Estúdios Victor Córdon

João Galante ― Divã

### _ELLES DISENT_
##### _Since I started dancing, my drawing practice vanished. I had to focus on learning something entirely new, and already at a late stage, considering the conventional path of a professional dancer. Now I was drawing only at very sporadic, rarefied, stray and even arbitrary moments. In 2021, while we were making the film MINA, Carlota got me moving, but also drawing. In Alfafar, with 12 women sitting around a table, among food, books and conversations, she gave me a bird. And there I was. Slowly testing pencils, reviving this magical connection between seeing and putting down on paper, with mixed feelings of fear and excitement. Returning to something that had belonged to me, not knowing whether it still did, whether I still had it in me. Recently, Carlota challenged me once more: to exhibit some of my drawings, here at the EVC. I would say that this is someone’s gesture who indeed sees the other, beyond what is obvious, beyond what is known. Who gives that little push which helps us see the different facets we all hold within, at any risk. And looking, or taking the time to see, is truly what drawing gives me. A fullness of being, a profound presence and connection, which is something I find extremely necessary in these times, be it only for some minutes._
##### _With this in mind, this exhibition includes drawings from different time periods, thus marking diverse occupations and moods, but also photographs, because they were conceived in Alfafar. And because they, too – the photographs –, got me handling materials of various kinds, other materialities. Making things with my hands again. And how happy that made me. Knowing that there’s still this world for me to be busy with if ever dance fails me or I fail it. This world of the hands that drag everything else along._ — Elizabete Francisca
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##### *The photographs were conceived in collaboration with artist Larissa Lewandowski and feature Wicca Magda Ferreira/ PWUD activist.



### cérebro, olhos, mãos e papel (“brain, eyes, hands and paper”)
_What’s this capacity of the body to take what we observe and encase it in a sheet of paper? I am speaking of the body transmuting itself into a drawing, in an intricate fusion of eyes, hands and paper. It is like the development of a mental muscle that mysteriously extends down the arm, reaches the hand and travels across the paper. It turns into movement and dynamic. There are performance artists who draw even before using their bodies as instruments. Luís Guerra, João Galante and Elizabete Francisca are some of these artists. These exhibitions reveal three different ways of using the mental musculature, each with its own identity and beauty. Drawing is a physical act that requires time, memory, focus, practice, will, endurance and freedom. Just like dance._  ― Carlota Lagido

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###### OPENING
##### SEPTEMBER 13th at 6:30 p.m.
##### Estúdios Victor Córdon

Elizabete Francisca ― ELLES DISENT

A entrada no espaço dos EVC passou a ser lugar de exposições, recebendo em continuidade propostas de artistas visuais cujo trabalho tem uma ligação às artes performativas em geral e à dança em particular. Este ano, acolhemos uma proposta de curadoria de Carlota Lagido, que convidou três artistas da dança que têm uma forte ligação às artes visuais - Luís Guerra, João Galante e Elizabete Francisca - e  uma proposta de Guilherme Gouveia, que apresenta o resultado da residência de fotografia que realizou nos EVC em 2023.


### _cérebro, olhos, mãos e papel_
##### Curadoria de Carlota Lagido
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### Exposição de fotografia
##### Guilherme Gouveia





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Em Casa

At Home is a space dedicated to dance artists who, throughout the year, are invited to develop their projects at the EVC and make them their creative home. After having been introduced to the work of Miguel Moreira, João dos Santos Martins, Jonas & Lander, Marlene Monteiro Freitas and Victor Hugo Pontes in previous years, in 2024 we welcome Teresa Silva, who will show us her work in all its facets and different formats.

Over the course of a year, various projects by her or in collaboration with others will be developed at the EVC.

Teresa Silva (Lisbon, 1988) has dedicated herself to research, creation and performing in the fields of contemporary dance and performance since 2008. She sees dance as something that goes beyond the physical body, resulting in a work of attentiveness and sensitivity, as well as a multidisciplinary approach to movement.

The artist will bring to the EVC a series of very different proposals, in collaboration with Sara Anjo, David Marques, Kristina Norman, Mathieu Bouvier and Loic Touzé, among others.

_Oráculo expandido [“Expanded oracle”] - towards an investigation into practices of care, attention and connection_
Since 2017, Sara Anjo and Teresa Silva have been researching the potential of the body as a place of knowledge and revelation, and have designed workshops and created a piece based on the premise “can the body be an oracle?” There is a great diversity of people who share a curiosity for practices aimed at a holistic awareness of the body and _Oráculo expandido_ is an invitation to continue this research, opening it up to other people and expanding the research to other languages, practices and perspectives. 

_Fazer falar o fazer [“Making the doing speak”] - tools for creating speech about artistic practices_
This project, conceived and developed by David Marques and Teresa Silva, arises from the desire to make the work of their generation more visible and to bring the community together around the issues that move and engage them in their artistic practices. In this sense, the artists will develop different tools to encourage thinking, speaking and listening, and provide encounters between artists and between the artists and the audience.

_Carnation_
After collaborating on _Orchidelirium - An appetite for Abundance_, a project presented at the Venice Biennale (2022), Estonian visual artist Kristina Norman has partnered with Teresa Silva to conceive a new piece. This time, the artists use the red carnation as a symbol of power and freedom, seeking to bring into dialogue the culture and history of their respective countries.

_Ah! - Experimental sessions for a transformative artistic practice_
In this project led by Teresa Silva, the artist aims to show how artistic practice generates states of attention, self-knowledge and transformation that intensify the human being’s potential. In these individual sessions, each person will be invited to look at what affects them in the present moment and, from there, work together on a sensitive and experimental path, intersecting the artistic and therapeutic fields.

To prepare the sessions, Teresa Silva draws on her research with Sara Anjo around the question "can the body be an oracle?" and finds inspiration in the work of artists such as Anna Halprin, Lygia Clark (Relational Objects), Alejandro Jodorowsky (Psychomagic) and Valentina Desideri (Fake Art Therapy), who have made and continue to make their artistic practice into places of affection, ritual and healing.


##### _Fazer falar o fazer [“Making the doing speak”] - tools for creating speech about artistic practices_

##### This project, conceived and developed by David Marques and Teresa Silva, arises from the desire to make the work of their generation more visible and to bring the community together around the issues that move and engage them in their artistic practices. In this sense, the artists will develop different tools to encourage thinking, speaking and listening, and provide encounters between artists and between the artists and the audience.

AT HOME — Fazer falar o fazer

###### Oráculo expandido [“Expanded oracle”] - towards an investigation into practices of care, attention and connection
##### Since 2017, Sara Anjo and Teresa Silva have been researching the potential of the body as a place of knowledge and revelation, and have designed workshops and created a piece based on the premise “can the body be an oracle?” There is a great diversity of people who share a curiosity for practices aimed at a holistic awareness of the body and _Oráculo expandido_ is an invitation to continue this research, opening it up to other people and expanding the research to other languages, practices and perspectives. 

###### Credits
##### A research project by Sara Anjo and Teresa Silva
##### Guest researcher | Mathieu Bouvier
##### Collaborators in the labs | Catarina Câmara, Catarina Vieira, Joana Leal, Margarida Bettencourt and Romain Teule

AT HOME — Oráculo Expandido

_Em Casa_ é um espaço destinado a criadores(as) da área da dança, propondo que ao longo de uma temporada desenvolvam o seu trabalho nos EVC. Depois da presença de Miguel Moreira, João dos Santos Martins, Jonas & Lander, Marlene Monteiro Freitas e Victor Hugo Pontes, em 2024 acolhemos as propostas de Teresa Silva, que nos dará a conhecer o seu trabalho nas suas várias facetas e dimensões.

Durante um ano de intervenção, vários programas da sua autoria ou em colaboração com convidados(as) habitarão os espaços dos EVC.

Teresa Silva (Lisboa, 1988) dedica-se à investigação, criação e interpretação nas áreas da dança contemporânea e da performance desde 2008. Vê a dança como algo que excede o corpo físico, o que se traduz num trabalho de atenção e sensibilidade, bem como numa abordagem multidisciplinar ao movimento.

A artista trará aos EVC um conjunto de propostas muito diferentes entre si, em colaboração com Sara Anjo, David Marques, Kristina Norman, Mathieu Bouvier, Loic Touzé, entre outros(as).

_Oráculo expandido - para uma investigação sobre práticas de cuidado, atenção e relação_
Sara Anjo e Teresa Silva andam desde 2017 interessadas em investigar as potencialidades do corpo enquanto lugar de conhecimento e de revelação, tendo já desenvolvido laboratórios e uma peça a partir da premissa «pode o corpo ser um oráculo?» Há uma grande diversidade de pessoas que partilham esta curiosidade pelo desenvolvimento de práticas que visam uma consciência holística do corpo e _Oráculo expandido_ é um convite a dar continuidade a esta investigação, abrindo-a a outras pessoas e expandindo a pesquisa para outras linguagens, práticas e perspetivas.

_Fazer falar o fazer - dispositivos para criar discurso sobre práticas artísticas_
Este projeto, pensado e desenvolvido por David Marques e Teresa Silva, surge da vontade de que o trabalho da sua geração tenha um lugar onde se inscrever e do desejo de juntar comunidade em torno das questões que os movem e ocupam nas suas práticas artísticas. Nesse sentido, os artistas irão desenvolver diferentes dispositivos para fomentar o pensamento, a palavra e a escuta, e proporcionar o encontro entre artistas e entre artistas e público.

_Carnation_
Depois de terem colaborado em _Orchidelirium - An appetite for Abundance_, projeto apresentado na Bienal de Veneza (2022), a artista visual estoniana Kristina Norman junta-se a Teresa Silva para conceber uma nova criação para palco. Desta vez, as artistas partem do cravo vermelho enquanto símbolo de poder e liberdade, procurando pôr em diálogo a cultura e a história dos respetivos países de origem.

_Ah! - Sessões de experimentação para uma prática artística transformadora_
Nesta proposta, liderada por Teresa Silva, a artista pretende evidenciar como a prática artística gera estados de atenção, autoconhecimento e transformação que intensificam as potencialidades do ser humano. Nestas sessões, que serão individuais, cada pessoa será convidada a escutar o que a afeta no momento presente para, a partir daí, trabalharem em conjunto num caminho sensível e experimental, intersectando os campos artístico e terapêutico.

Para preparar estas sessões, Teresa Silva apoia-se na investigação desenvolvida com Sara Anjo em torno da questão «pode o corpo ser um oráculo?» e encontra inspiração no trabalho de artistas como Anna Halprin, Lygia Clark (Objetos relacionais), Alejandro Jodorowsky (Psicomagia) e Valentina Desideri (Fake Art Therapy), que fizeram e fazem da sua prática artística lugares de afeto, ritual e cura.


Em Casa ⏤ Teresa Silva

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

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)




At Home ⏤ Victor Hugo Pontes

At Home ⏤ Teresa Silva

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Parceiros de Temporada

Now in its second edition, Season Partners establishes partnerships with independent artistic production structures, for one or more seasons, to carry out projects of common interest.

The program, which has so far developed projects in collaboration with Associação Parasita, Ordem do O and the online portal Coffeepaste, expands the space dedicated to the artistic practices and research of the artistic community, fostering the sharing of responsibility in action and encouraging cooperation. In this edition, we are continuing the previously established partnerships and starting a new collaboration with Associação VAI, which brings us the OU.kupa project.

### Associação VAI
#### OU.kupa project
##### Curated by Piny
##### ⏤ OU.kupa Residencies
These residencies aim to open up space and time for artistic research in the studio, with mentoring, for areas of dance that have not been given much attention and space in institutional venues in Portugal, but which are part of the the cultural fabric, often made invisible. 
##### ⏤ With the project _OU.kupando - what fits in contemporary dance(s)?_, the aim is to broaden the spectrum of techniques that are shared in the contemporary dance practice for professionals offered by the EVC, making it possible to inscribe new dance histories - narratives that fill in the absences.

### Parasita
#### _Wording Dances_ - ongoing series
##### Curated by Carlos Manuel Oliveira
##### 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.
#### _Thinking about Audio Description for Contemporary Dance_
##### Curated by Ana Rita Teodoro
##### The EVC will host this collective training and research experience, curated by artist Ana Rita Teodoro, during the classical and contemporary dance observation sessions.

### Ordem do O
#### _Ecosystem.dances.bodies_
##### 2nd edition
##### Curated by Cláudia Galhós and mediated by Natacha Campos
##### _Ecosystem.dances.bodies_ is a project in movement, transformation and renewal, consisting of conversations, masterclasses, lectures and workshops. It proposes alternative ways of sharing in a stimulating context, where artists and public meet.

### Coffeepaste
#### Workshops and training
##### 2nd edition
##### In the context of a partnership with Coffeepaste, the portal for the dissemination of the performing arts will propose another cycle of events dedicated to dance studies, including workshops and the sharing of artistic practices in this field.

Agora na segunda edição, Parceiros de Temporada desenvolve-se em parceria com estruturas de produção artística independente, durante uma ou mais temporadas, com o objetivo de realizar projetos de interesse comum.

O programa, que tem desenvolvido projetos com a Associação Parasita, a Ordem do O e o portal Coffeepaste, amplia o espaço dedicado às práticas artísticas e de investigação da comunidade artística, fomentando a partilha da responsabilidade na ação e incentivando a cooperação entre estruturas. Na presente edição, mantemos as parcerias já estabelecidas e iniciamos uma colaboração com a Associação VAI, que consiste no Projeto OU.kupa.

### Associação VAI
#### Projeto OU.kupa
##### curadoria de Piny
##### ⎯ **Residências OU.kupa**
##### Estas residências visam a abertura de espaço e tempo de pesquisa artística em estúdio, com mentoria, para áreas de dança que não têm tido tanto foco e presença nos espaços institucionais em Portugal, mas que fazem parte da construção artística do tecido cultural, muitas vezes invisibilizado.
##### ⎯ _**OU.kupando - o que cabe na(s) dança(s) contemporânea(s)?**_
##### Esta proposta pretende alargar o espectro de técnicas que são partilhadas na prática diária para profissionais de dança contemporânea oferecidas pelos EVC, possibilitando a inscrição de novas histórias da dança, novas narrativas que completem as ausências existentes.
### Parasita
#### _**Falar as Danças**_ 
##### Curadoria de Carlos Manuel Oliveira
##### Série de palestras em formato de podcast, em que artistas distintos(as) do panorama internacional discorrem sobre matérias que fazem da dança contemporânea e das suas diversas manifestações um inesgotável terreno de problematização e criação.
#### _Pensar a Audiodescrição em Dança Contemporânea_
##### Experiência coletiva de formação e pesquisa com curadoria de Ana Rita Teodoro que passará pelos EVC na fase de observação de dança clássica e contemporânea.

### Ordem do O
#### _**Ecossistema.danças.corpos**_
##### Série 2
##### Curadoria de Cláudia Galhós e mediação de Natacha Campos
##### _Ecossistema.danças.corpos_ é um projeto em movimento, transformação e atualização, composto por conversas, masterclasses, palestras e oficinas. Nele, fomenta-se o contacto com formas alternativas de partilha num contexto estimulante de encontro entre artistas e público.

### Coffeepaste
#### **Workshops e Formação**
##### Série 2
##### No contexto da parceria com o Coffeepaste, este portal, destinado à divulgação das artes performativas, proporá mais um ciclo de eventos dedicados ao estudo da dança, que passará pela realização de workshops e pela partilha de práticas artísticas nesta área.


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 O
_ECOSYSTEM.dances.bodies_
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.





Season Partners 2023

Season Partners

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This is a program dedicated to migrant communities living in Portugal. Based on the study of their respective cultures, we propose creating materials and art works that can be shared and promote public interaction. Despite the relative physical proximity of all of us living here, these are communities that often remain on the fringes of society, which makes them potential targets for exclusion and social discrimination as a result of such isolation.

The program, which involves cyclically choosing a target country, aims to highlight that country's culture through the gaze of a dance creator. In its first edition, Iran was chosen as the country of focus. To make this challenging undertaking a reality, we invited choreographer Clara Andermatt, who will create a piece insipired in the cultural heritage of Iran, and which is to be developed in close contact with the Iranian community in Portugal. With the first phase of the project’s development having already started in 2023, the creative process will be carried out in 2024 and the premiere will happen in January 2025, to be followed by other scheduled presentations of the new work. 

Also part of the program is an initiative called Ir à escola [“reaching out the schools”], which aims to make the culture and life situations of people from Iran known to youth school groups across the country in the form of talks and short performances.

We believe that this way of “introducing and letting people in” the cultural heritage of another country, developed in close connection with its immigrant community in our country, can actively contribute to a stronger presence of Other Worlds in Portugal.

Programa dedicado a comunidades migrantes residentes em Portugal que propõe, através do estudo das suas culturas, criar objetos de partilha e interação pública. Apesar da proximidade geográfica, estas são comunidades que muitas vezes permanecem à margem da vivência da restante comunidade local, o que as torna, por força desse isolamento, potenciais focos de exclusão e alvos de preconceito social.

O programa, que elege ciclicamente um país-alvo, pretende, ao longo da sua duração, dar destaque à cultura desse país através do olhar de um(a) criador(a) da área da dança. Na sua primeira edição, o Irão será o país em foco. Para concretizar este desafiante empreendimento, contaremos com a direção da coreógrafa Clara Andermatt numa criação inspirada na cultura daquele país,  em estreita ligação com a comunidade iraniana residente em Portugal. Tendo uma primeira fase de preparação já sido iniciada em 2023, o processo de criação decorrerá em 2024 e a estreia terá lugar em janeiro do ano seguinte, à qual se seguirão outras apresentações públicas do espetáculo. 

Faz também parte do programa a iniciativa _Ir à escola_, que pretende dar a conhecer, em formato de conversas e pequenas performances, a cultura e as realidade vividas por pessoas iranianas junto de comunidades escolares juvenis em Portugal.
 
Acreditamos que esta forma de «dar a conhecer e dar a habitar», partindo do património cultural de um país que não é o nosso mas que se concretiza em estreita ligação com a sua comunidade imigrante em território nacional, pode contribuir ativamente para uma presença mais plena de Outros Mundos em Portugal.

Outros Mundos  ⏤ Irão

Calendar 

Other Worlds  ⏤ Iran

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A series of talks focusing on the situations of migrant communities living in Portugal and the role of culture in their path to become fully integrated into society. This year, the program will unfold over three weeks, in the form of three talks that will reveal different realities that are part of our society but are not properly acknowledged. 

###### _pari passu_

##### “What good is it to know the past without acknowledging the present, thus compromising possibilities for the future? In recent years we have witnessed, both in politics and in dance, the celebration of a historical systematization without critical positioning and filtered by a hierarchy of values that often prevents the acknowledgement of the diverse and vague contemporaneity.

##### Cultures evolve thanks to migrant communities and various forms of knowledge. Who was Herculano Mercês? Who sewed Almada’s clothes? How many steps took someone who couldn't take steps? These questions are just as important as: When was the last time you saw someone dancing an Iranian dance? Wasn't it yesterday, right next door to your house?

##### Invited by Estúdios Victor Córdon, Teatro Praga proposes the cycle 'Pari passu', dedicated to the acknowledgement of migrant artists and their movement practices which, although present in the public space, are still made invisible by multiple social factors. ‘Pari passu’ finds in the cultural manifestation in its many forms the shaping of a future. Against the mythification of the past, we call for the valorization of other presents.”

##### Teatro Praga


Ciclo de conversas dedicado à realidade das comunidades migrantes residentes em Portugal e ao papel da cultura no seu caminho para alcançar uma presença plena na sociedade. Nesta edição, o programa desenrola-se ao longo de três semanas, através de três conversas que darão voz a várias realidades presentes na nossa sociedade, mas ausentes no seu devido reconhecimento.

###### _A par e passo_
##### «De que nos serve conhecer o passado sem reconhecer o presente, comprometendo, assim, possibilidades de futuro? Nos últimos anos temos assistido, tanto na política como na dança, à celebração de uma sistematização histórica sem posicionamento crítico e filtrada por uma hierarquização de valores que muitas vezes impede o reconhecimento da contemporaneidade variada e informe.
##### As culturas desenvolvem-se com as comunidades migrantes e com diversas formas de saber. Quem era Herculano Mercês? Quem costurou as roupas de Almada? Quantos passos deu quem não podia dar passos? Estas perguntas são tão importantes como: Quando foi a última vez que viu dança iraniana? Não terá sido ontem, mesmo ao lado de sua casa?
 
##### A convite dos EVC, o Teatro Praga propõe o ciclo “A par e passo” sobre o reconhecimento de artistas migrantes e das suas práticas de movimento que, estando presentes no espaço público, são ainda invisibilizadas por múltiplos fatores sociais. “A par e passo” encontra na presença e nas formas de manifestação cultural a construção de um futuro. Contra a mitificação do passado, a valorização de outros presentes.»

##### Teatro Praga

**Contemporary dance(s) - diaspora and Afro-descendants in the Portuguese artistic context**

On this day dedicated to dialogue at EVC, we will hear from African and African descent whom we have invited to share with us their experiences and reflections on their artistic, research and pedagogical practices, as well as on the presence of black people and narratives from the African diaspora in the context of contemporary dance in Portugal. Here, 'contemporary dance' is understood as a concept that encompasses dances of contemporaneity, such as street dances, clubbing and social dances, whose presence in cultural institutions and academic contexts is a subject for debate.

Thus, we intend to raise questions around the documentation, transmission, dissemination and support of these contemporary dances, and to do so with the people who practice them - and through their narratives - in spaces of visibility. 

What dances from the African diaspora remain in Portugal, and how are they being transformed? What relationships are possible between street dances, social dances and academic dances in an institutional system of artistic education and production? 

What role can dance play in a broader reflection on Portugal's relationship with the countries it colonized?

###### Guests and program [HERE](https://estudiosvictorcordon.pt/en/events/contemporary-dance-s-diaspora-and-afro-descendants-in-the-portuguese-artistic-context-1)

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

###### Free access

###### Portuguese sign language translation

Conference Meetings for the Future V

Meetings for the Future VI

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In the new edition of the series A Collection for Tomorrow, Cristina Peres collects short statements by choreographers on fundamental questions about the state of the world.

##### “Almost everything has changed in the world today, but many modus operandi remain unchanged. Faced with two active wars, a significant increase in the planet's average temperature, a continent of plastic waste drifting in the oceans, an economic model based on growth that is leaving millions more people on the margins every year and global consumption that is exhausting the earth of natural resources earlier and earlier in the year, we want to hear from the artists. Do these issues weigh on the choices they make? Do they go into the studio with them everyday? What kind of questions do they ask themselves when a member of their team is barred entry to their country of work? Is art safe from aggression? Is it immune to xenophobia? If not, how can it be strengthened? What are they doing to keep art a bastion of humanity?”

##### This program is designed to question renowned choreographers  and hear what they have to say about current events. In addition to the reflection process involved in creating a piece, we want them to tell us how they perceive the world. We went after their words so that we could turn them into short and quick messages adapted to the frenetic rhythm of our times.”

##### Cristina Peres

Nova edição da série _Uma Coleção para Amanhã_, agora com curtas intervenções de coreógrafos(as) acerca de questões fundamentais do estado do mundo, com base numa reflexão levada a cabo pela curadora do projeto, Cristina Peres, endereçada aos(às) artistas.

##### ⎯

##### «Quase tudo já mudou no mundo de hoje, porém são muitos os modus operandi que permanecem inalterados. Perante duas guerras ativas, o aumento sensível da temperatura média do planeta, um continente de resíduos plásticos a vogar nos oceanos, um modelo económico baseado no crescimento que vai deixando mais milhões de pessoas à margem todos os anos e um consumo global que deixa a terra exaurida de recursos naturais cada vez mais cedo no ano, queremos ouvir os artistas. Pesam ou não estas questões nas escolhas que fazem? Entram elas em estúdio com eles na rotina diária? Que tipo de interrogações se lhes colocam quando um elemento da equipa vê barrada a entrada no seu país de trabalho? Estará a arte protegida das agressões? É ela imune à xenofobia? Caso não seja imune a ataques, como pode ela ser fortalecida? O que fazem para mantê-la um bastião da Humanidade?
##### Este programa foi pensado para interrogar os coreógrafos de primeira água e ouvir o que têm a dizer sobre a atualidade. Além do pensamento envolvido na criação dos espetáculos, queremos que nos digam como pensam o mundo. Fomos à procura das palavras deles para podermos transformá-las em mensagens curtas e rápidas como a velocidade do hoje.»
##### Cristina Peres


Uma Coleção para Amanhã ⏤ À la Minute

The 2nd edition of _A Collection for Tomorrow_, curated by Cristina Peres and directed by João Afonso Vaz, dedicates 10 conversations to the dance scene in Mozambique.
A program in partnership with Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo, with the institutional support of Camões, I.P. and decor support by Around the Tree.


>The imposition of social distance brought us other possibilities to generate improbable encounters. It revealed ideas and questions we hadn't asked yet - about the resonance of experiences beyond the time when they took place - and suggested that we talk.
>
>So, we perfused the months of 2021 with _A Collection for Tomorrow_ - ten conversations with ten people invited to reflect on creation, world, art, and politics and to follow this unique movement taking place over the last thirty or forty years and bringing us here. 
>
>Along the way, we have influenced each other. In 2022, and because dance travels, goes back and forth, and makes comparisons, we want to transform the imaginary bridge standing between Lisbon and Maputo, as well as going through the inverse route, by publishing the second collection of conversations. When do we discover things which are better than ourselves, at the same time that we discover in ourselves traces of what we imagined to be others'?
>
>Lisbon and Maputo are cities connected by the marks of those who have woven invisible threads associating the body's memory to all the other memories we will bring together, now in a systematized way, resulting in a new collection of conversations.
>
>Cristina Peres, 2022   


###### Part  I
Quito Tembe
_[I am a mirror of the issue of professionalization of art in Maputo](https://youtu.be/zbotY1zKE8Q)_


###### Part  II
Maria Helena Pinto
_[Dance has become a political path](https://youtu.be/VTJb-0sEjz0)_


###### Part  III
Panaibra Canda
_[This Mozambique is full of diversity](https://youtu.be/ity6XkBApzU)_


###### Part  IV
Edna Jaime
_[Artivism - my work impacts the world](https://youtu.be/5tgS7SvNP40)_


###### Part  V
Pak Ndjamena
_[Persist, insist, go back, and...it happens!](https://youtu.be/WGh2FDx40I0)_


###### Part  VI
Ídio Chichava
_[Emancipate Mozambique](https://youtu.be/LBWqP24clvY)_


###### Part  VII
Horácio Macuácua
_[I didn't choose dance. Dance chose me.](https://youtu.be/hoe7NGAJWfs)_


###### Part VIII
Mariana Tembe
_[To keep a dialogue with the world](https://youtu.be/1yrZ76TDYoo)_


###### Part IX
Edivaldo Ernesto
_[My whole life influences what I do on stage](https://youtu.be/jfMu_LFSSFg)_


###### PART X
Yuck Miranda
_[What drives me in art is indignation](https://youtu.be/arlTEH7gWwg)_

###### More information
You can see the whole collection [here](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAO_nJtqGJzGzfNRxgzkwgeuMzDvE8nQU).


A Collection for Tomorrow ⏤ Lisbon | Maputo

>_**A Collection for Tomorrow**_
>##### (the people we are going to be)
>Before the world underwent the great change that 2020 brought us globally and almost simultaneously, dance was no longer just the art of the virtuous, aerial, indisputable body outside the canons that allowed it to fly, but at the same time locked it in a code that removed it from the larger discussion of the body. 
>The dancing body opened the way to the expression of many other bodies and to a diversity of experiences that created a mixture. Cutting short the story, which is after all recent, we decided to add the word and reflection to formulate in another way, and in parallel, the discoveries that the bodies led us to make.
>
> The imposition of social distance brought us other possibilities of having or provoking unlikely encounters. It gave us ideas about the questions we hadn't yet asked, about the resonance of experiences beyond the subject matter dealt with at the time. 
> 
> For the collective memory, thousands of themes that made us the people we are today remain unnamed. We want to know more about the paths of the people who, in the past, led to breakthroughs in Portuguese performing arts, whether that time was ten, 20 or 30 years ago. We want to know who they are today and why they are like that. And to discover who we are after having come across them.  
> 
> Dance in Portugal has traveled. It went outside and came back, it compared itself. To compare oneself to the reality of the other is the greatest and most essential experience in the construction of the self. At what point do we discover things that are better than us at the same time that we discover in ourselves traces of what we imagined to be in others?
> 
> Dance relates to a multiplicity of "layers" of all people and, therefore, of the public too. We might be more used to resorting to reason to discuss what we saw in a performance, but our muscles "saw" us at the same time. Did the muscles "talk" about the experience? Probably not. Hence, the series of interviews promoted by the EVC will be dedicated to the questions that were never asked to people who were there at the time, and are here again. Maybe they were headliners then, yet now they will be reflecting. And they are going to transform those who were not headliners into protagonists of the change that made us as we are. 
> 
> I, Cristina Peres, will ask the questions and lead people to question themselves. I was there ten, 20, 30 years ago, but I haven't seen everything, either. As we can never have a clear notion of the present, the past, and the future in a single moment, we will try to look at the trace that remained, valuing our being a point of arrival. And, even more, serving as a bridge to what is to come.
> 
> One or two guests. One theme. A conversation that is meant to travel as far as dance can go. Without limits of time or space, building a collection for tomorrow.
>
> Cristina Peres, 2021



###### Part I 
Marlene Monteiro Freitas
_[Pieces are living entities](https://youtu.be/yCN27S_SjtA)_

###### Part II
Clara Andermatt
_[To choose the best surprises](https://youtu.be/HSFdhAxJWOE)_

###### Part III
André Guedes
_[Generating spontaneous complicity](https://youtu.be/nJey-jEeWI0)_

###### Part IV
Vera Mantero
_[The party of conjugation](https://youtu.be/WebwaqDphyE)_

###### Part V
António Pinto Ribeiro
_[We are willingly going blind](https://youtu.be/BHMMcPDdneg)_

###### Part VI
Mark Deputter
_[The first impulse is to be fascinated by the work](https://youtu.be/ZyyeX25WT3U)_

###### Part VII
João Fiadeiro
_[Suspending Certainty](https://youtu.be/XJGYv6y2zP8)_

###### Part VIII
João Lucas
_[Discovering the world beyond what it is](https://youtu.be/-clcK1BzGUo)_

###### Part IX
Miguel Abreu 
_[The non-coexistence of diversity destroys culture](https://youtu.be/ClpbpwFFmkw)_

###### Part X
Olga Roriz
_[The soul of the shoe is me](https://youtu.be/_J9gBSiY9Co)_

###### More information
You can watch the entire collection [here](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAO_nJtqGJzH_jYr9EMTjIhDVFfMK-oZS).



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