EVCTraining—2026

With the aim of promoting complementary training for professional dancers or those in the process of becoming professional dancers, focusing on technical development, dance language diversity, and knowledge exchange, we established the EVC Training Program and the Kick-Off Program. The invited instructors for this year’s editions have established their own language and methodology over the past few years, and they are unanimously recognized by their peers.

EVC TRAINING

A complementary intensive training program for dance artists that gives them the opportunity to get acquainted with the fundamental languages of contemporary dance worldwide.

Falling into Movement in Connection, with João Cardoso

In recent years, both as a dancer/performer and as a teacher, João Cardoso has shown a growing interest in contact improvisation techniques and in their application to both horizontal floorwork and vertical movement in contemporary dance classes. Connection with music plays a crucial role in this class model, for it stimulates the practice of a playful body, one that enjoys moving energetically. The practice itself begins with shared or individual “body reset” moments, whether through breathing exercises, by exploring fatigue or by improvising from points of contact. On the one hand, the practice evolves into movement research patterns, focusing on touch as a tool to awaken forgotten parts of the body. On the other hand, it is developed through a set of floorwork techniques, bringing awareness to transitions between horizontal and vertical settings and challenging the concept of a “collective mind”. Sprinkled with touches of expressive drama, this practice is an invitation to participants to develop bodies and minds that are capable, gentle, humble, curious, aware, and intimately connected to the sheer pleasure of dancing and moving.