Presented as part of our In Transit Program, this project reflects on the theme of the forest and our connection to it. Taking a short story by Tatiana Salem Levy as a starting point (viz. _Curupira Pirapora_, edited by Tinta da China, 2021), Mente de Cão (a physical theater company) and Baileia (a cultural association that works on music and movement with children) will work together to research and create a piece on curiosity, wisdom, and tenderness towards the countless diversities that bring life to these forests.

_“Faced with so many catastrophes that paralyze us, render us speechless, haunt us, faced with what we call the destruction of forests, what can we do? Is it too late for us to meet our diversities? To assimilate different ways of feeling-acting, and to re-cognize other world histories? “Curupira” is the being that protects, that defends forests and invites us to confront the urgency of wildlife and to practice a constant co-creation of worlds which may shelter our differences, interculturalities, languages, and ways of communication. In an immersive environment, we are guided through a story where various tensions come into play: sound and silence, light and shadow, language and reality.”_

Artist Residencies

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Inserido no Programa Em Trânsito, este projeto indaga sobre a questão universal da floresta e da nossa ligação a ela. Partindo do conto de Tatiana Salem Levy (_Curupira Pirapora_, Ed. Tinta da China, 2012), a companhia Mente de Cão (que trabalha sobre as linguagens do teatro físico) e a associação cultural Baileia (que trabalha a música e o movimento com as infâncias) encontram-se para investigar e criar uma peça sobre a curiosidade, a sabedoria e a ternura pelas múltiplas diversidades que animam estas florestas.

_"Diante das tantas catástrofes que nos paralisam, emudecem e assombram, frente ao que chamamos destruição das florestas, o que fazemos? Será que ainda é tempo de nos encontrarmos com as nossas diversidades? Integrar formas diferentes de sentir-agir e re-conhecer outras histórias de mundo? “Curupira” é o ser que protege, defende as florestas e nos convida a olhar para a urgência da vida selvagem e a praticar a constante co-criação de mundos que acolhem as nossas diferenças, interculturalidades, linguagens e comunicações. Num ambiente imersivo, somos guiados por uma história, em que várias tensões entram em jogo: o som e o silêncio, a luz e a sombra, a linguagem e a realidade."_

Curupira Ternura Selvagem — Baileia e Mente de Cão

Through the In Transit Program, the EVC establish partnerships with various festivals that play a fundamental role in promoting artistic creation and the access to the performing arts in Portugal. By maintaining a continuous collaboration with the partner festivals, the EVC contribute to establishing them as spaces for creation, mediation, promotion, and internationalization of the arts, as well as to the movements of social transformation driven by the topics highlighted in their respective programs.

In Transit also encourages partner institutions to develop some of their dance projects in collaboration with the EVC.


In Transit — 2025

2025

Photographs (Rehearsals)

Artists

Curupira Ternura Selvagem — Baileia and Mente de Cão

The EVC welcome Bárbara Cordeiro with "Estado de graça", a project to be presented as part of the 2025 Biennial Performative Arts Meeting – (Re)union. Organized by the cultural association Rede More, this is one of our partner festivals as part of this year's In Transit Program.

_The expression "estado de graça" ["state of grace"] refers to someone who has gained another person's favor, and can also be used to describe the suppression of certain "negative" personality traits. This research is an attempt to contextualize the different characters within us, considering not only what they bring but also the narratives we construct when all we can see is a single frame._ — Bárbara Cordeiro

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Acolhemos Bárbara Cordeiro com a peça "Estado de graça", projeto a apresentar no Encontro Bienal de Artes Performativas — (Re)union deste ano, dinamizado pela Rede More — um dos festivais parceiros dos EVC no contexto do Programa Em Trânsito.

_A expressão "estado de graça" remete para alguém que captou a simpatia de uma outra pessoa, e também se usa no sentido de apagar certos traços “negativos” da personalidade. Esta investigação é uma tentativa de contextualizar as diferentes personagens que nos habitam, não só pelo que carregam, mas pelas narrativas que ficcionamos quando apenas podemos observar um_ frame. — Bárbara Cordeiro

Estado de Graça — Bárbara Cordeiro

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(Re)union — Rede More

Through the languages of dance/movement and spoken word, Christina Elias’ performance, _Blindfolded Society_, shares a critical view of contemporary society, bringing attention to the social and moral blindness brought on by an unbridled capitalist system. Loosely inspired by José Saramago’s novel _Blindness_, Christina Elias, blindfolded, creates in real time a narrative consisting of movement and text, a dialogue with sound extracts from Saramago’s novel which are projected into space. Blindness is a powerful metaphor (and maybe the only key) to help us understand our present society, in which the incapacity to see isn’t physical, but rather moral and ethical. In _Blindfolded Society_, Elias incarnates a blindfolded society put up for sale. Routines, privacies, intimacies, the body, beliefs, and even the soul—are all for sale. By using blindness as a metaphor to explore moral and ethical neglect, this performance criticizes the commodification of individuals, communities, and the environment in contemporary capitalist societies, stressing the invisible suffering and exploitation.

_Blindfolded Society_ will be performed at the 2025 Biennial Performative Arts Meeting – (Re)union organized by REDE MORE, one of our partners of this year's In Transit Program.

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_Blindfolded Society_ é uma performance que, através das linguagens da dança/movimento e do texto falado, partilha uma visão crítica sobre a sociedade contemporânea, destacando a cegueira social e moral imposta por um sistema capitalista desenfreado. Livremente inspirada no romance _Ensaio sobre a Cegueira_ de José Saramago, a artista Christina Elias, vendada, cria em direto uma narrativa composta de movimento e texto, num diálogo com fragmentos sonoros do romance de Saramago que são projetados no espaço. A cegueira é uma metáfora poderosa (e talvez a única chave de explicação) para compreender a nossa sociedade atual, onde a incapacidade de ver não é apenas física, mas também moral e ética. Em _Blindfolded Society_, Elias encarna uma sociedade vendada e à venda. Vendem-se as rotinas, as privacidades, as intimidades, o corpo, as crenças e até a alma. Ao utilizar a cegueira como metáfora para explorar a negligência moral e ética, _Blindfolded Society_ critica a mercantilização dos indivíduos, das comunidades e do ambiente nas sociedades capitalistas contemporâneas, enfatizando o sofrimento e a exploração invisíveis.

A performance é apresentada no Encontro Bienal de Artes Performativas — (Re)union dinamizado pela REDE MORE, uma das estruturas parceiras no contexto do Programa Em Trânsito.

Blindfolded Society — Christina Elias

Appealing to the primordial bond between dance and music, four pairs of performers and instrumentalists are brought together in this project to conceive and present a series of ‘planned improvisations’. This is a proposal that places the performer at the centre of the creative process and seeks to capture the moment before the creative material is fixed—a space full of digressions, nuances, and paths to be paved.

'Duplas' is a series of four dialogues between one person who plays and another who dances, giving us a glimpse of different possible relationships between movement and music, calling on a diversity of styles ranging from baroque to experimental music. We can watch these four duets on a late afternoon on May 22, in Jardim da Estrela, as part of the Cumplicidades Festival, one of the EVC's partner festivals for this year's edition of the In Transit Program.

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Partindo da ligação essencial entre dança e música, o projeto reúne quatro duplas compostas por _performers_ e instrumentistas para a criação e apresentação de uma série de “improvisações planeadas”. Esta proposta coloca o intérprete no centro do processo criativo, explorando o momento anterior à fixação do material artístico — um espaço fértil em divagações, nuances e caminhos por descobrir.

“Duplas” apresenta quatro diálogos entre quem dança e quem toca, revelando diferentes possibilidades de relação entre movimento e som, num leque que vai da música barroca à experimental. As apresentações terão lugar no dia 22 de maio ao final da tarde, no Jardim da Estrela, no contexto do Festival Cumplicidades, um dos festivais parceiros dos EVC no contexto do Programa Em Trânsito.

Duplas — Um diálogo de movimento e música

Participating artists

Cumplicidades Festival

Duplas — A dialogue between movement and music

In the heyday of the DISCOTHÈQUE, the hearts of Latino and African-American immigrants, whether they were WHOLE or BROKEN, shared a hopeful 70s GLAMOUR LOOP. All of them died. This is a war. Miss Universe seeks refuge in Copacabana in a bunker that was once a disco during the time of fascism, where she finds gay ghosts.

Drawing from a real archive—her uncle Richard Wagner’s—which blends with fiction, Diego Bragà creates _A GENTE NA BOATE SOFRE JUNTO_, a “hyperpÓpera” where the bunker becomes a ghostly and utopian disco, reinterpreting homoerotic themes from an androgynous and transfeminist perspective. A theatrical and operatic gesture that embraces suffering and opens the path for a new future.

The premiere will take place at O Espaço do Tempo, as part of the O Espaço do Tempo Creation Grant, with the support of BPI and the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation, in November 2025.

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No auge da DISCOTHÈQUE, os corações de imigrantes latinos e afro-americanos, INTEIROS ou PARTIDOS, tinham em comum o LOOP esperançoso do GLAMOUR dos anos setenta. Todos eles morreram. Isto é uma guerra. A Miss Universo refugia-se em Copacabana, num bunker que já foi uma discoteca no auge do fascismo, onde encontra fantasmas gays.

A partir de um arquivo real — o do tio de Bragà, Richard Wagner — que se funde com a ficção, _A GENTE NA BOATE SOFRE JUNTO_ é uma hiperpÓpera onde o bunker se transforma numa discoteca fantasmagórica e utópica, reinterpretando temas homoeróticos através de uma lente andrógina e transfeminista. Um gesto teatral e operático que abraça o sofrimento e abre caminho para um novo futuro.

A estreia acontece n’O Espaço do Tempo, no âmbito da Bolsa de Criação O Espaço do Tempo, com o apoio do BPI e da Fundação ”la Caixa”, em novembro de 2025.

A Gente na boate sofre junto — Diego Bragà

_"VORACE" means "voracious" in Italian._
_"VORACE" is a solo about a body, its rescue, and its desire._
_I look for a place that is free, viscerally erotic and democratic. How to be a body that I really want to be and which goes beyond this one that I'm allowed to occupy?_
_I try to shake (myself)._

— Sofia Kafol

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_"VORACE" significa "voraz" em italiano._
_"VORACE" é um solo sobre um corpo, o seu resgate e o seu desejo._
_Procuro um lugar livre, visceralmente erótico e democrático. Como ser um corpo que realmente desejo ser e que vai além do corpo que me é permitido ocupar?_
_Tento abanar(-me)._

— Sofia Kafol

VORACE — Sofia Kafol

Eight people embark on a long journey on foot. We know neither where they came from nor where they're headed to. They are traveling to escape an impending catastrophe. In this resilient, stubborn, circular walk, they make space for the imagination and for wonderment, like artists from a decadent circus who are melancholy but full of hope. And they sing.

They sing to scare their evils away, to lighten their burden. They sing because cicadas sing. They sing just as Gal Costa sings in her album _Cantar_ ["Singing"], released in 1974 at the height of the military dictatorship in Brazil. A song that is a cry for freedom in times of war, religious intolerance, and violence, when societies and their states attempt a return to authoritarian policies of silencing and killing. They sing as a form of resistance. They will keep singing even if the circus loses its big top, even if seas flood cities, even if humanity unlearns how to love.

According to Greek mythology, 12 light-years away from the Earth, on Tau Ceti (a star in the constellation Cetus), there is a miraculous medicine that can cure human sadness. Perhaps that's where they're headed to.

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Oito pessoas fazem uma grande viagem a pé. Não sabemos de onde vieram nem para onde vão. Viajam para fugir de uma catástrofe anunciada. Nesse caminhar resiliente, teimoso e circular, abrem espaço para a imaginação e para o encantamento, como um circo decadente com artistas melancólicos mas plenos de esperança. E cantam.

Cantam para espantar os males, para aliviar. Cantam porque as cigarras cantam. Cantam como Gal Costa no álbum _Cantar_, lançado em 1974, no auge da ditadura militar no Brasil. Um cantar que é um grito de liberdade, em tempos de guerras, intolerância religiosa e violências, onde sociedades e os seus estados ensaiam o retorno a políticas autoritárias de silenciamentos e mortes. Cantam como forma de resistência. Cantam ainda que o circo fique sem lona, que o mar invada as cidades, que a humanidade desaprenda a amar.

Segundo a mitologia grega, na estrela Tau Ceti (na constelação da Baleia), a 12 anos-luz da Terra, existe um remédio milagroso capaz de curar os humanos da tristeza. Talvez seja para lá que estão a ir.

CANTAR — Francisco T. Cavalcanti & um cavalo disse mamãe

Creation, performance and direction

Co-creation and performance

Assistant director

Creation collaborator

Original music

Lighting design and technical direction

Documentation and social media

Photographs

Executive producer

Production

Co-production

Creation support

Co-production (artist residency)

Support

 _Sonho de Dama_ is Marga Alfeirão's third dance piece — it is a mission to rescue lost dreams. Performed by a quartet — Nafi (Gambia/Berlin), Juliana Braga (Brazil/Portugal), Rosy Timas (Cape Verde/Santiago), and Caroline Nevejan (Netherlands) —, the piece intends to create a space where dreams once dreamt by women connect with those of today. It explores the relevance of older women's dreams and it shows how passing them on to younger women both preserves and strengthens intimacy across generations.

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 _Sonho de Dama_ é a terceira peça de dança de Marga Alfeirão (Lisboa, 1994) — uma missão de resgate de sonhos perdidos. Dançada por um quarteto — Nafi (Gâmbia/Berlim), Juliana Braga (Brasil/Portugal), Rosy Timas (Cabo Verde/Ilha de Santiago) e Caroline Nevejan (Holanda) —, a peça procura um espaço onde os sonhos ancestrais outrora sonhados pelas mulheres se conectam com os de hoje. A obra foca a relevância dos sonhos de mulheres mais velhas e mostra de que modo transmiti-los às jovens preserva e fortalece a intimidade intergeracional.

Sonho de Dama — Marga Alfeirão

**_Square Dance_** (working title) is a project that questions the notion and embodiment of "spirit" as a measure of depth in performance. Turning to the 1970’s northern soul movement as a physicality that fosters reflection, the project explores modes of embodiment through a persistent and evocative relationship to music and dance.

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_**Square Dance**_ (título provisório) é um projeto que questiona a noção e a incorporação do "espírito" como medida de profundidade numa performance. Recorrendo ao movimento _northern soul_ dos anos 70 como uma corporeidade que estimula a reflexão, o projeto explora modos de incorporação através de uma relação persistente e evocativa com a música e a dança.

Square Dance (título provisório) — Connor Scott

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Square Dance (working title) — Connor Scott

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
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###### CONTEMPORARY DANCE
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###### PRICE
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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
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Daily Classes ⏤ February

Daily Classes ⏤ March

Daily Classes ⏤ April

Daily Classes ⏤ May

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ July

Daily Classes ⏤ September

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
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Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ February

Dance Classes ⏤ Professionals

First Stage is a program dedicated to young, recently graduated artists, with the aim of supporting the creation of their first works. This season, the EVC will support artistic creation at a national level, promoting partnerships with various educational structures linked to the performing arts, namely Escola Superior de Dança (ESD), Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE), Faculdade de Motricidade Humana (FMH), and Forum Dança.

_First Stage_ is a program dedicated to young, recently graduated artists, with the aim of supporting the creation of their first works. This season, the EVC will support artistic creation at a national level, promoting partnerships with various educational structures linked to the performing arts, namely, Escola Superior de Dança (ESD), Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE), Faculdade de Motricidade Humana (FMH) and Fórum Dança.


First Stage 2023

First Stage is a residencies program dedicated exclusively to young artists who have recently graduated from higher education institutions or equivalent. The initiative aims to support and encourage the production of their first works in a professional context. To this end, the EVC promote partnerships with several educational institutions linked to the performing arts, namely Escola Superior de Dança (ESD), Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE), Faculdade de Motricidade Humana (FMH) and Fórum Dança.


First Stage 2024

First Stage is an art residencies program exclusively designed for young artists who have recently graduated from higher education institutions or equivalent. The initiative aims to support and encourage the creation of their first works in a professional context. To this end, the EVC promote partnerships with various education institutions with a connection to the performing arts, namely Escola Superior de Dança (ESD), Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE), Faculdade de Motricidade Humana (FMH), and Forum Dança.

First Stage — 2025

First Stage 2022

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).



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
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At Home ⏤ Victor Hugo Pontes

##### _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, and Mathieu Bouvier, 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. 

» 23 Nov, 4pm - 7pm, EVC

###### Fazer falar o fazer [“Making the making speak”] — devices 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 devices that encourage thinking, speaking and listening, and which provide encounters between artists and between the artists and the audience. In this _Making the making speak_'s edition, Teresa and David invite Ana Rita Teodoro, Andresa Soares and Francisco Rolo to an openly exchange.

» 30 Nov, 2:30pm - 8pm, EVC

###### Carnation

After collaborating on _Orchidelirium — An appetite for Abundance_, a project presented at the 2022 Venice Biennale, 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! — Experimentation sessions for a transformative artistic practice

In this project driven by Teresa Silva, the artist aims to show how artistic practice generates states of attention, self-knowledge and transformation that intensify human potentialities. In these individual sessions, each person will be invited to listen to what affects them in the present moment and therefrom work together on a sensitive and experimental path, through exercises, tasks and actions. 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 a place of affection, ritual and healing.

In these sessions, which will be individual, each person will be invited to listen to what affects them in the present moment and, from there, work together on a sensitive and experimental path, through exercises, tasks and actions.

» 10 - 20 Dez, 45 minutes individual sessions, 11am - 7pm, EVC

» Registration | By completing this form: [https://forms.gle/UPdi27jWqwR45hZD6](link)


At Home ⏤ Teresa Silva

At Home is a project designed for dance artists, inviting them to develop their work throughout the year at the EVC. Having welcomed Miguel Moreira, João dos Santos Martins, Jonas & Lander, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Teresa Silva and Victor Hugo Pontes in previous years, we now invite Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz into the various spaces of the EVC with their installations and performative projects: _Arrumar a casa_ ["Putting the House in Order"], _Da desordem das paixões_ ["On the Disarray of the Passions"], _Labirinto_ ["Labyrinth"], _À distância de um braço_ ["At Arm’s Length"], and _Dueto_ ["Duet"].

_Once “at home”, we will start with some housekeeping—sorting out our archive of nearly 20 years, which urgently needs to be reviewed and organized. MiniDV cassettes, DVDs, CDs, program notes, handouts, posters, notebooks, hard drives, pen drives… materials of all kinds that were scattered around our house and which we are now bringing to the EVC, finally deciding what to preserve and what to discard. But there’s more to this project, **ARRUMAR A CASA**, than housekeeping. Along with the intense work on our archive, we will try to share some bits from our rediscovery of it as we infiltrate the spaces of the EVC in an ever-changing way. Don’t be surprised, then, if throughout the next months you come across some videos, photographs, sounds, or texts in the nooks and crannies of the EVC. Then, on 17th of June, at an event we are calling **CONFLUÊNCIAS** ["Confluences"], we're going to show these archival materials more clearly through an installation in the EVC Bar and share with you, in Estúdio 1, the result of a research laboratory on different performative devices and/or materials from some of our shows and processes._

_As we look back at our past as a duo, we are also turning our gaze to our collective past through **four projects** to be developed over the course of the year. Two of these projects, albeit developed with different collaborators, share a focus on the Baroque, specifically on the connection between dance and music that characterizes this period. The first one, **DA DESORDEM DAS PAIXÕES”, will be co-created with the music group Músicos do Tejo, and will premiere in 2026. **LABIRINTO** ["Labyrinth"], a typical metaphor in the Baroque period, is the title of the second project, with no premiere date yet, but born from a desire to experiment with musicians Helena Raposo (lute) and Ana Castanhito (harp). The two other projects are not focused on the Baroque, yet they aim to further the reflection about the past in connection with museum spaces. The third one, **À DISTÂNCIA DE UM BRAÇO**, has been shelved for at least three years, and we are finally able to resume it through a partnership with Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga. With this project, we aim to challenge the settled way of looking at works of art in a museum by creating a performance that seeks to shorten the distance between the “past” that is presented and the spectator’s “present”._

_All these projects will include periods of rehearsal and research at the EVC, and, in some of them, we will open to the public to share materials, reflections, or simply to exchange views on the state of the world._

_Lastly, we will move on to the creation of a **DUETO**. Our last duet for the stage, _O que não acontece_, was created in 2018, and we already miss being alone together in a studio. The duet is the artistic form through which we come together, in which we come closer to who we are, closer to our path in shaping our identity as artists and to our collaboration throughout the last 20 years. It is in this format that we allow ourselves to share with the audience what is most intimate and contradictory about us. So, we will lock ourselves in one of the EVC studios doing what we love most, in order to share it with you afterwards._ — Sofia & Vítor 

Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz is a structure funded by the Portuguese Republic - Culture I DGARTES - Directorate-General for the Arts and Lisbon City Council.

At Home ⏤ Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz

At Home ⏤ Marlene Monteiro Freitas

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 helps each participant discover 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

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.

The program is supported by Millennium bcp, its main sponsor.

This year we will continue the partnership with InShadow Lisbon Screendance Festival, São João National Theater, José Lúcio da Silva Theater. 


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. 


Territory VII

Twelve young dancers from across the country inhabited the EVC in a daily sharing of an environment that was closest to their professional ambitions. The Territory program turned out to be a place for developing their technical and artistic skills, as well as for sharing the experiences that defined the way the young dancers think about their future careers as performers. This program was the first professional experience for a lot of them.

After the Territory program in 2017-18, we present Territory II in the 2018-19 season, with an improved plan, and with the mission of introducing young dancers to the real work context and helping them launch their careers.

Território II

This is a program developed by the EVC in partnership with dance schools across Portugal, with the aim of providing a creation experience to young dancers alongside established choreographers in European companies.

After four weeks in residence at the EVC, the most awaited moment has come—the final presentation of this year’s edition. Featured in this presentation will be Marco Arantes’ film _Território Paralelo_, followed by the absolute premiere of two choreographies by Douglas Lee and Filipe Portugal. At the end, each participating young dancer will present themself.

###### PLAYDEAD
Choreography by DOUGLAS LEE

_Playdead_ is a new piece for 12 dancers created for Territory I, featuring music by Simeon ten Holt and Ezio Bosso. Games and the creative process were the original inspiration for _Playdead_.

_«My collaboration with the students, as a choreographer, and the creative games in the studio became themes that I associate with childhood, but which change as we grow old. The light and repetitive quality of the minimalist score remind of a music box or the rhythm and sound of a clock, although with an eery side. The changes in the musical atmosphere allow for contrasts between light movement sections and mysterious episodes. Children games, dolls and playing, the sound of the music box, the innocence and simplicity of childhood—when all of these are transferred to the more complex and more experienced world of adults, they can become sinister, threatening, even frightening... The further we are from childhood memories, the eerier and more fragmented these images can become.»_ 
— Douglas Lee, 2018

##### **Choreography, costumes and lighting design** | Douglas Lee 
##### **Music** | Incantatie IV by Simeon Ten Holt (Performed by Piano Ensemble — Irene Russo, Fred Oldenburg, Sandra e Jeroen van Veen); _Prelude n. 8_, Op. 28, _“The Dark Room”_ by Frédéric Chopin (Performed by Ezio Bosso); _Una melodia di Gluck “The Therapy Room”_ by Christoph Willibald Gluck, arranged by Giovanni Sgambatti (Performed by Ezio Bosso)

###### TERRITÓRIO PARALELO
A film by MARCO ARANTES

_«One studio, two choreographers and twelve young dancers from dance schools all over the country. This, in sum, is what defines the EVC’s Territory project. This was the starting point for the work I was invited to develop. Faced with the challenge of directing a film to be presented alongside the two choreographies, the necessity arose to protect the artistic work being developed and not reveal it too much. So, I opted to focus on secondary—but not less interesting—aspects, namely the working relationships between young dances at the beginning of a creative process, space recognition, group recognition, the understanding of new languages, of new aesthetical movements that come up as the choreography is being constructed, in what is to be the first professionalizing experience in the lives of these twelve young dancers.»_
— Marco Arantes, 2018

###### O NÃO EFÉMERO (“The Non-Ephemeral”)
Choreography by FILIPE PORTUGAL

_«Twelve dancers. Different ages, different educations, united by a common dream and goal: to “fly” high, to go far, always further. And these are life experiences that intersect. Admirations, friendships, complicities that arise, dreams and smiles that are shared. And it is this combination of shared life experiences that makes this project something very special, something these youths will cherish forever as the beginning of their greatest dream’s fulfillment. And they learn not only their “strength” but also their “weakness”, knowing that something which is not very sure today will be more so tomorrow, because that is the natural development for Man. And they learn that we should be ourselves without ever sacrificing our individuality, but coming together as a group, that we grow, upholding one another in a spirit of sharing that leads to full personal realization. In the presence of the group, and plunging into the soul of each member in a communion, a joining of hands between the choreographer and the youths, Filipe Portugal thus fills the pre-existing void, the “nothing”—a “nothing” that transmutes into something very concrete: “the non-ephemeral”. As the common work comes to an end, the young dancers know one thing for sure: the apparent “nothing” is never truly so; the path is never to give up on the dream.»_
— Teresa Santos

##### **Choreography, costumes and lighting design** | Filipe Portugal 
##### **Music** | _Clouds_ — Abel Korzeniowsk remix; _Mozart-Adagio_ by Arvo Pärt; _November (From “Memoryhouse”)_ by Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà (by _Portrait: Max Richter_); _Tu és a terra_ by Ólafur Arnalds

Territory I

2020 marks the third edition of this EVC program, Territory—a springboard for young dancers from across the country. In addition to the countless young dancers who participated in previous editions, the program has also featured leading choreographers—Alexander Ekman, Douglas Lee, Filipe Portugal, and Maurice Causey. In the present edition, the program includes pieces by Marco Goecke and Iratxe Ansa | Igor Bacovich, and also a videodance by João Vaz, as part of the partnership with the InShadow Lisbon ScreenDance Festival.

Território III

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.

Território IV

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.

Territory VIII

Territory V

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



Artist Residencies 2023

With the aim of supporting independent artistic creation, this program welcomes creators in the field of dance and other areas of artistic intersection, at national and international level, for a maximum period of two weeks.

Applications are accepted continuously and residencies are scheduled in our calendar on a first-come, first-served basis. Since their beginnings, the EVC have been a space where multiple languages coexist, responding in direct proportion to the needs of the artistic community.

Artist Residencies 2024

With the aim of supporting independent artistic creation, this program hosts artists and collectives working in the field of dance or in areas of artistic intersection, both national and international, for a maximum period of two weeks.

Applications are accepted continuously throughout the year, and residencies are scheduled in our calendar on a first-come, first-served basis. Since their beginnings, the EVC have been a space where multiple languages coexist, directly meeting the needs of the artistic community.

Artist Residencies — 2025

Artist Residencies 2022

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


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

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

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


Itineraries 2023

Itineraries 2022

The conference _Meetings for the Future IV_ brings to the centre of the reflexion the transition of careers in the performing arts. 
With an analytical look at the pilot experience developed in the EVC over a period of three months and the current situation in Europe and Portugal, future possibilities concerning the career transition of performing arts professionals are envisaged. 
More than finding answers in the present, the aim is to produce a tangible and clear reading of the current situation that allows us, collectively, to glimpse ways to act in the future. It is, therefore, with our gaze directed towards the future that we intend to propose this reflection and, above all, to stimulate a dialogue committed to the effective implementation of practices in the field of career management and transition - projecting into the future a permanent mechanism that will have the capacity to leverage and facilitate this process. 

###### Target Audience
Performing arts professionals

###### Free access

###### Accessibility
Simultaneous Translation and Portuguese Sign Language (LGP)

The conference "Meetings for the Future IV" brings to the centre of the reflexion the transition of careers in the performing arts. 
With an analytical look at the pilot experience developed in the EVC over a period of three months and the current situation in Europe and Portugal, future possibilities concerning the career transition of performing arts professionals are envisaged. 

###### with
Pia Krämer, curator
Jorge Ramos do Ó, State of the Art and Conclusions
Sónia Baptista, moderator

###### Institutional partners
DGArtes and Fundação GDA 

###### Free access

Careers Transition in Performing Arts

**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

A series of meetings focusing on the reality 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 help bring to light different realities present in our society, but not properly acknowledged. 

###### Pari passu
##### _“On the flying carpet, facing Mecca,_
##### _I have but one certainty: my I is You”_ — Muhammad Rashid

At the invitation of Estúdios Victor Córdon, Teatro Praga proposes the series of meetings “Pari passu”, dedicated to the acknowledgement of migrant artists and various aspects of their cultures, which, although present in the public sphere, are still made invisible by multiple social factors. In this first series, dedicated to Islam, “Pari passu” will offer a talk and a lecture on each of three Saturdays in November, with the presence of guests with knowledge of Islam. The TALKS will deal with the relationship between Islamic art and tradition, the presence of Islamic art in the Portuguese public sphere, and contemporary Islamic art. The three LECTURES will be an attempt to bring us closer to Islamic art and culture in three ways: religion and culture; the historical presence of Islam in Portugal; and the Quran. On the afternoons, you will also be able to watch or take part in RECREATIONAL PRACTICE moments of dancing and music, while enjoying – _pari passu_ – food, books and much more at the LITTLE MARKET.

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 with migrant communities and various forms of knowledge. Who was Herculano Mercês? Who sewed Almada’s clothes? 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 to your house? How many steps took someone who couldn't take steps?                                                                                

“Pari passu” is a space for the acknowledgement of Islam today, weakening the mythification of the past and looking particularity in the eye.

###### Dates
##### 2nd, 9th, 16th November, from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm.
##### 2:30 pm — Lecture (1h)
##### 4 pm — Practice (40min)
##### 5 pm — Talk (1h + Q&A)

Meetings for the Future VI

The previous editions of Meetings for the Future have explored various themes and formats. In this edition, keeping in mind the key idea of transmission, the necessity arises of revisiting places, events, and characters that make up our historical narratives, seeing them in the light of the present. Between fact and expectation, we embark on a performative conference on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Luís de Camões by Joana Craveiro, featuring dancers from countries on this well-known argonaut’s route.

#### _que bem posso escusar trazer escrito em papel o que na alma andar devia_
[“I may well forgo carrying on paper what within my soul should dwell”]

**created and authored by** Joana Craveiro

In this performative conference, Joana Craveiro and the multidisciplinary team from Teatro do Vestido set out to confront the life and work of Luís de Camões, troubadour and argonaut, the great Portuguese poet whose work will be revisited and read anew from a 21st-century perspective. The feats he describes, the adjectives he chooses to describe the encounter (or rather, the confrontation?) of cultures, his view of empires, the politics and ideology hidden or revealed in his words, his lyric poems, and love as sung by the Poet, are the threads from which this work of creative reflection will be woven. Also drawing on the ideas of travel and diaspora, this performative conference will feature dancers from the African and the Asian continents, seeking to trace signs of these cultures in their bodies and movements, and critically deconstructing Luís de Camões’ work in its relation to these bodies in space. This performative conference brings his work into dialogue with Edward Said’s thought as articulated in his book _Orientalism: Western Concepts of the Orient_, as well as with the thought of John Berger, Arundhati Roy, Sanjay Seth, among others, aiming for a poetic-political approach to his imaginary and literary universe.

This program’s edition is part of the commemorations of Luís de Camões’ 500th anniversary.

Teatro do Vestido is a structure supported by República Portuguesa - Cultura, Juventude e Desporto | DGARTES.

Meetings for the Future VII 

Conference ⏤ Meetings for the Future IV

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


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 

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








KICK OFF'24

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 with the support of GDA. The three 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.

### Kick Off ’25

_Práticas Anímicas_ [“Soul Practices”], with Pedro Ramos

These movement practices assemble a series of techniques linked to the body, both inside and outside an artistic context, and which combine choreographic experiences, yogic and somatic techniques, alchemical studies, and tuning strategies. Experiences in which the body, as a psycho-physical unity, is engaged and is brought to the foreground in a dialogue with space, breathing, and its own inner dimension. The body as a “piece of nature” to be rediscovered as its movement becomes conscious. Through the shaping of presence is thus explored a set of perceptual tasks which lead to movement and sound, and which might result in other forms of expression: words, visual writing, or sound writing.

_Sparkling Imagination_, with Horácio Macuacua

In this practice there is a highly physical work that demands attention and intensity rather than a certain level of technique, challenging each dancer to push the limits of their imagination and body expression to discover new possibilities.  The inflexibility of the established paralyzes the movement, dims the ingenuity, casts a shadow over surprise. But life force makes us adaptable, it gives us the opportunity to transform space and to translate energy into matter, matter into its own evolution. The outline of the spontaneous is blurred to disappear, the margins of the predictable are softened and we know the interrogation point that questions the automatic response. The body allows us to transcend. Let's dance.

Kick Off ’25

KICK OFF’22 

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

###### Target Audience
Dance professionals



EVC Training

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

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


###### Target Audience
Dance professionals

###### Price ⎯ 200€

###### GDA scholarships available

###### Limit of 30 participants

###### Online registration

EVC Training 2023

Complementary intensive training for professional dancers that gives them the opportunity to explore the fundamental languages of contemporary dance, this year focusing on the artistic language of Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite.

###### Target Audience
Dance professionals

###### Price ⎯ 200€

###### GDA grants available

###### Online registration




EVC Training 2024

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 with the support of GDA. The three 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.

#### Movement Practice with Tiago Martins

The fundamental basis of Movement practice is the contrasting exposure of the body to unknown situations, situations of chaos and complexity, which can transform both the moment and the structure. In this confrontation, one learns to deal with the interconnectedness of seeing and doing, doing and feeling, feeling and being through paradigms, questions, and puzzles, while creating situations that foster mobility, organic strength, balance, coordination, and locomotion. As a whole, the practice of Movement empowers and enables the global development of a body that moves with increasing awareness and, above all, with greater humanity.

EVC Training — 2025

EVC Training 2022

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).


Coming to its 3rd edition, which follows a series of conversations dedicated to artists and cultural activists from Mozambique, _A Collection for Tomorrow_ will travel the Atlantic axis in 2023 and early 2024. Cristina Peres invites creators from Angola, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe, in a total of seven episodes. 

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

###### Invited artists:
##### Ana Clara Guerra Marques (Angola)
##### Aneth e Miguel Carlos (Angola)
##### António Tavares (Cape Verde)
##### Bibiana Figueiredo (São Tomé e Príncipe)
##### Lucièny Cabral & Nuno Barreto (Cape Verde)
##### Mano Preto (Cape Verde)
##### Mónica Anapaz (Angola)

###### You can watch the program [HERE](https://youtu.be/VqGBXj5Xl00).



Schedule

Curupira Ternura Selvagem — Baileia and Mente de Cão→

Estado de Graça — Bárbara Cordeiro→

Blindfolded Society — Christina Elias→

Duplas — A dialogue between movement and music→

A Gente na boate sofre junto — Diego Bragà→

VORACE — Sofia Kafol→

CANTAR — Francisco T. Cavalcanti & um cavalo disse mamãe→

Sonho de Dama — Marga Alfeirão→

Square Dance (working title) — Connor Scott→