TerritórioIV

Now in its fourth edition, Territory is an EVC program designed to launch the careers of young dancers, expanding their professional horizons and giving each participant a clearer sense of their future path. The twelve dancers, coming from dance schools across the country, work with world-renowned choreographers, immersing themselves in a very demanding professional environment, similar to what they will later encounter in a repertory company. Each year’s program culminates in a public performance.

João Afonso Vaz, winner of the Territory | Estúdios Victor Córdon Award for Best Portuguese Director in the InShadow — Libson ScreenDance Festival’s twelfth edition, directs the short film featured in the performance.

Evolving

Choreography by SHAHAR BINYAMINI

Lighting design and costumes | Shahar Binyamini

Assistant | Yotam Baruch

Musical creation and performance | Bruna de Moura (cello) and Carolina Duarte (violin)

Evolving, Shahar Binyamini’s new creation, explores the notion of overcoming from his conceptual perspective and his physical expression in dance. In this piece, the dancers’ physical limitations are the worktool for the devolpment of the creative process. The dancers use their muscles in constant exertion as they strive for a collective understanding. As distinct entities, as individual bodies, the performers seek a meeting point of forces in which each of them may realize their own power and singularity; in a relentless effort to find a common place that motivates them to move and interact within a chaotic world.

In(di)visível

Short film directed by JOÃO AFONSO VAZ

Camera assistant | Paulo Derriça

Edition | André Mendes

Assistant editor | Grazie Pacheco

Colorist | João Sanchez

Original music | João Ferreira

Entity (excerpts)

Choreography by WAYNE MCGREGOR

Restaging | Catarina Carvalho

Original music | Jon Hopkins

Set design and costumes | Patrick Burnier

Lighting design | Lucy Carter

Wayne McGregor’s award-winning choreography Entity has been an enormous success since it premiered in 2008. Technically surprising, emotionally uncompromising and impactful, McGregor’s work defies categorization. Created alongside an international research project on choreography and artificial intelligence, Entity is an impressive mixture of bodies, lights, technology, and image—a breathtaking journey through the soundscape of Coldplay and Massive Attack with the collaboration of Jon Hopkins and prize-winning Joby Talbot. The piece received the 2009 South Bank Show Award of Dance, the 2009 Movimentos Dance Prize, the Audience Award at Dance Week Festival in Zagreb in 2008, and the Critics’ Circle Award (Spotlight for Modern Male Artist) for dancer Anh Ngoc Nguyen. The version presented as part of Territory IV is a restaging of excerpts taken from the original piece.