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Dancer

Abel Rojo

Performer, choreographer, teacher

Sara Schürmann

Territory is a program dedicated to young dancers aged between 14 and 18 from dance schools all over the country. Over the course of its many editions, the program has welcomed more than 90 young dancers from across the country, coming from nearly 40 dance schools.

In this eighth edition, the program features choreographers Marco Goecke and Nadav Zelner. By proposing this names, we reaffirm the need to establish and promote transformative professional experiences for each participating dancer. Marco Goecke, a choreographer associated with the most prestigious dance companies, brings a language of his own which dismantles a certain notion of a conventional vocabulary, determining highly trained bodies in his practice highly. This opens the path for a lexicon that is entirely unexpected, exact, and devoid of decorative elements. In his turn, with choreographer on the rise Nadav Zelner, performers will have the opportunity to experience an intense searching process combining various areas of artistic creation, which process will present a vision of a choreographic gesture undergoing profound changes, reflecting the rapid and dramatic transformations of the world in which we live.

This edition will also feature a film directed by Alexia Fernandes, winner of the Território | Estúdios Victor Córdon award for Best Portuguese Director from InShadow - Lisbon ScreenDance Festival 2024.

After its premiere in Porto, the Territory VIII performance will move on to Lisbon, where it will be performed at the Millenium Festival ao Largo, concluding its cycle at Teatro Aveirense.

Território é um programa dedicado a jovens bailarinos e bailarinas com idades compreendidas entre os 14 e os 18 anos, provenientes de escolas de dança de todo o país. Ao longo das várias temporadas, o programa já acolheu mais de 90 jovens de todo o país, provenientes de cerca de 40 escolas de dança.

Na sua 8ª edição, o programa recebe os coreógrafos Marco Goecke e Nadav Zelner. Ao propormos estes nomes, estamos a reconfirmar uma necessidade de estabelecer e promover experiências profissionais transformadoras para cada bailarino e bailarina participantes. Marco Goecke, coreógrafo presente nas mais importantes companhias de dança, é portador de uma linguagem que desconstrói uma certa ideia de vocabulário estabelecido, determinando na sua prática corpos altamente treinados. Com isto, abre-se um caminho para um léxico surpreendentemente inesperado, exato e desprovido de elementos decorativos. Já com Nadav Zelner, coreógrafo em rápida ascensão, os intérpretes terão a oportunidade de experienciar um processo de procura intenso, cruzando várias áreas da criação artística, e que refletirá uma visão de um gesto coreográfico em profunda mudança, em resposta às rápidas e dramáticas transformações do mundo em que vivemos.

Esta edição contará ainda com um filme realizado por Alexia Fernandes, vencedora do prémio Território | Estúdios Victor Córdon na categoria de Melhor Realizador(a) Português(esa) do InShadow — Lisbon ScreenDance Festival 2024.

Depois da estreia no Porto, o espetáculo do Território VIII seguirá para Lisboa, onde fará a sua apresentação no Millennium Festival ao Largo. Por fim, completa o seu ciclo no Teatro Aveirense.

A Fundação Millennium BCP é mecenas do Programa Território VIII.

Território VIII

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The fifth edition of the _Territory_ program brings together Catalan choreographer Marcus Morau (La Veronal) and Canadian choreographer Dorotea Saykaly, winner of the Emily Molnar Emerging Choreography Award (2021) in its first edition. 
The program is a platform for budding artists, annually gathering twelve young dancers from dance schools across the country. In this way, _Territory_ puts its participants in contact with the aesthetic diversity that characterizes dance today, promoting the construction of multiple and inclusive views. This highly professionalizing experience contributes to each participant discovering their place in the world of dance.
This year we will continue the partnership with InShadow Lisbon Screendance Festival through the Territory | Estúdios Victor Córdon Award for Best National Director.
The program is supported by Millennium bcp, its main sponsor.

###### _Sunken_
Choreography by Dorotea Saykaly

###### _Dentro_
Short film
Directed by Sara Bernardo and Pedro Emes Nogueira 

###### _Valse_
Choreography by Marcos Morau

###### Dancers
Afonso Nunes, Alef Carvalho, Francisca Santos, António Faustino, Diogo Santana, Filipa Bacelar, Isabel Marques de Aguiar, Joana Gonçalves, Margarida Colaço, Maria Sousa, Rita Salazar, Sofia Santos

###### Dance schools
Dance Spot – Conservatório de Dança, DNA – Dance N’Arts, Escola Artística do, Conservatório de, Música de Coimbra, Escola da Companhia de Dança do Algarve, Ent’Artes - Escola de Dança, Escola Domus Dança, Ginasiano Escola de Dança, LP Studio, Pallco Performing Arts School & Conservatory



Territory V

Already in its 6th edition, the _Territory_ program, dedicated to young dancers between the ages of 14 and 18, invites choreographers of unquestionable international relevance, giving the opportunity for several talented dance students to work and learn with renowned artists. Throughout its various editions, _Territory_ has already welcomed more than 70 young people from all over the country, from about 40 dance schools spread over more than 30 Portuguese cities. In 2023, 10 dancers were selected through dance education institutions in Alcobaça, Braga, Coimbra, Faro, Lisboa, Porto, Vale do Sousa and Vila Nova de Gaia.

Every year, EVC invites an acclaimed and an emerging choreographer to lead the program. Featuring the presentation of a new creation, a must-see reprise, and the premiere of a short film by a promising young director, this year the program is honored to welcome choreographer duo Sol León & Paul Lightfoot, choreographer Douglas Lee and director Mário J. Negrão.

The selected dancers will have the opportunity to benefit from the knowledge and aesthetic vision of the guest choreographers, in a professionalizing experience that promotes a diverse and inclusive outlook. Offering the Portuguese audience the possibility to watch, in some cases for the first time, international and contemporary works, in previous editions the program has already featured names such as Wayne McGregor, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau or Alexander Ekman. 

With a professional background as dancers, León & Lightfoot are renowned choreographers who have been active for more than 30 years. Working together since 1989, they have created more than 60 pieces for the Nederlands Dans Theater. 

In _Territory VI_, the duo, who will be in Portugal for the first time, will rehearse and present a reprise of the reference play _Sad Case_, performed by the participants. Created in 1998, when Sol was pregnant with her daughter, _Sad Case_ is now celebrating 25 years of existence and is one of the main cornerstones of the choreographers' work.

Douglas Lee, who will create and present a new piece with the young dancers, graduated from the Royal Ballet School and was principal dancer at the Stuttgart Ballet, where he began choreographing, and later developed a career as a freelance artist.

_Territory VI_ will also have the collaboration of Mário J. Negrão, winner of the Territory Award | Estúdios Victor Córdon in the category of Best Portuguese Director at InShadow - Lisbon ScreenDance Festival 2022. With his own visual identity, the artist will present us his perspective on the program through a new short film to be projected in the show. 

After premiering at Teatro Nacional S. João (Porto), the show will wrap up the Millennium Festival ao Largo (Lisbon) and then head to Leiria, where the last performance will take place.



Territory VI

_Territory_ is a program dedicated to young dancers aged between 14 and 18 from dance schools all over the country. Every year the program welcomes internationally renowned choreographers who share their works and creative processes with the group of young people selected for each edition.  

Over the course of its many editions, _Territory_ has welcomed more than 80 young dancers from across the country, coming from nearly 40 dance schools in over 30 Portuguese cities.

In 2024, and in line with the other programs of this season, we propose a show that hints at possible new paths for contemporary dance. On the one hand, we have invited the renowned British-Bangladeshi choreographer Akram Khan, who, by incorporating elements of classical Indian Kathak dance into his works, contributes to redefining our idea of what dance is. On the other hand, EVC will welcome Jermaine Spivey, an emerging American choreographer who, alongside a brilliant career as a dancer, actively promotes the possibility of collaborative practice in his creative processes.

_Territory VII_ will also feature a film by director João Sanchez, winner of the Território | Estúdios Victor Córdon award for Best Portuguese Director from InShadow - Lisbon ScreenDance Festival 2023. 


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