_"sensível" brings the figure of the female clown into the context of dance. These clowns, it seems, think that dance is all too serious nowadays; however, the subject matters they tackle are not really comic. "sensível" requires the spectator's attention, requires that they be truly there, present. We demand an active, affective listening, because, above all, we believe in love._

Artist Residencies

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_"sensível" traz a figura da palhaça para a dança. Ao que parece, estas palhaças acham que a dança anda muito séria; no entanto, os assuntos que trazem em mãos não são muito cómicos. "sensível" reclama a atenção de quem assiste, que esteja verdadeiramente presente; reclamamos uma escuta ativa, de maneira afetiva, porque acreditamos sobretudo no amor._

sensível — Maurícia | Neves

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

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A fascination with death and absence lies at the heart of choreographer and dancer Inés Sybille Vooduness' connection to voodoo, which she explores in the context of Haitian magical realism. In _Simbi em águas astronômicas_ ("Simbi in astronomical waters"), a performance influenced by Angolan _kuduro_, she creates a transtemporal ritual which dialogues with Simbi and her initiatory capacity.

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Inés Sybille Vooduness, coreógrafa e bailarina, conecta-se ao vodu por uma pulsão de morte e ausência, explorando o realismo maravilhoso haitiano. Em _Simbi em águas astronômicas_, com um movimento influenciado pelo kuduro angolano, cria um ritual transtemporâneo que dialoga com Simbi e com a sua capacidade iniciática.

Simbi em águas astronômicas — Inés Sybille Vooduness

_"In a time when the world is becoming increasingly preoccupied with the future, it is important for me to turn my attention to the past and to reconnect with a place that shaped who I am. In "Um abraço ou um beijinho", I fix my eyes on the Portuguese cultural phenomenon and musical genre "pimba", in a satirical attempt to question the construction of my own masculinity, and by reflecting on the whole scope of the word "masculine"._ — Ricardo Machado

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_"Num contexto em que o mundo se volta cada vez mais para o futuro, é importante para mim voltar a minha atenção para o passado e reconectar-me com um lugar que me estruturou. Com "Um abraço ou um beijinho", inicio um processo em que olho para o fenómeno cultural e género musical "pimba", numa tentativa satírica de questionar a minha própria construção de masculinidade, refletindo sobre todo o espectro da palavra 'masculino'."_ — Ricardo Machado

Um abraço ou um beijinho — Ricardo Machado e João Cardoso

_King Size_ analyzes how masculinity is constructed with the aim of resignifying the relationships between nature, gender, and sex, focusing on figures that embody myths of masculinity, as well as on their parodic revisions, thus staging a game of disidentification that resists the pressures of sexual binarism in both society and art. _King Size_ confronts the creative and dramaturgical devices of contemporary drag performances with the rigid gender representation codes of traditional dance and theater, questioning these codes and blurring the differences between what is natural and what is a cultural or stage construct.

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_King Size_ analisa como se constrói a masculinidade para ressignificar as relações entre natureza, género e sexo, focando figuras que incorporam os mitos masculinos, bem como as suas revisões paródicas, encenando um jogo de desidentificação que resiste às pressões de binarismo sexual, na sociedade e na arte. _King Size_ confronta os dispositivos de criação e dramaturgia de performances _drag_ contemporâneas com os códigos rígidos de representação de género na dança e no teatro tradicionais, e interroga essas representações, esbatendo as diferenças entre o que é natural e o que é construção cultural ou cénica.

King Size — Sónia Baptista

_Quebra-Cabeças_ é um espetáculo para a infância, que combina dança com circo, desenho e música. Do aborrecimento à criação, tudo é possível.

_Quebra-Cabeças_ is a performance designed for children, combining dance with circus, drawing, and music. From boredom to creation, everything is possible.

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_Quebra-Cabeças_ é um espetáculo para a infância, que combina dança com circo, desenho e música. Do aborrecimento à criação, tudo é possível.

Quebra-Cabeças — Cláudia Nóvoa

_“Beyond the physical, chemical, and mystical stuff that goes on in our brain, nobody really knows what’s inside. Some say that the brain controls the body, and some shout: “No, no! The body controls everything!”. There are even some who think that the brain is just a soft paste which, if well cooked, would make great snacks. Thought, language, imagination, sensation, perception, balance, posture, breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure, learning, memory… whew!... how can so much fit inside, when the head is so small? It is known that our brain weights around 1.4 kg, approximately three times the weight of a chimpanzee’s brain and five times the weight of a lion’s, and that it resembles a light-grey cauliflower. The brain is plastic, that is, it is always changing, and this ability to change is called plasticity. When we learn something, new connections are created in our brain, and these connections between neurons become stronger the more often the signals pass through them. But INSIDE THE HEAD there’s also the nose, the mouth with a tongue inside… oh, and also the eyes… whew!... the ears, too. So many things!!!! How are we going to fit all of this into a performance?? It seems an impossible task. Well, let’s get to work!!!!!”_

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_"Além das coisas físicas, químicas e místicas que acontecem no cérebro, não é bem certo para ninguém o que lá está dentro. Há quem diga que o cérebro manda no corpo, há quem grite: “Não, não! É o corpo que manda em tudo!”. Há até quem ache que o cérebro é só uma massa mole que bem cozinhada dá grandes petiscos. Pensamento, linguagem, imaginação, sensação, perceção, equilíbrio, postura, respiração, ritmo dos batimentos cardíacos, pressão arterial, aprendizagem, memória…… ufa…. como é que cabe tanta coisa lá dentro se a cabeça é tão pequena? Sabe-se que o nosso cérebro pesa cerca de 1,4kg, aproximadamente três vezes o peso do cérebro do chimpanzé e cinco vezes o peso do de um leão, e que se assemelha a uma couve-flor cinzenta-clara. O cérebro é plástico, quer dizer, está sempre em mudança, e a essa mudança chama-se plasticidade. Quando aprendemos uma coisa nova, fazem-se novas ligações no cérebro, e essas ligações entre neurónios tornam-se mais fortes quanto mais vezes os sinais passarem por elas. Mas DENTRO DA CABEÇA também está o nariz, e a boca com uma língua lá dentro… ah, e também os olhos……….. ufa!… os ouvidos também. Tanta coisa!!!! Como é que vamos conseguir enfiar tudo dentro de um espetáculo?? Parece uma tarefa impossível. Mãos à obra!!!!!"_

Dentro da cabeça — Associação VAGAR

Dentro da cabeça — Associação VAGAR

Over the course of two weeks, we welcome artist-in-residence Connor Scott with _Cat-Gut Jim_, a work performed in ancestral drag which invokes the immaterial presence of Edward Corvan, a renowned violinist and folk artist from Tyneside (1831). Connor appropriates E. Corvan’s archive for a ceremonial performative moment, creating space for a single-body duet while simultaneously summoning the ghosts of his own dance.

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Durante duas semanas, recebemos em residência Connor Scott com o seu _Cat-Gut Jim_, uma obra executada em drag ancestral, invocando a presença imaterial de Edward Corvan, um renomado violinista e artista _folk_ de Tyneside (1831). Connor apropria-se do arquivo de E. Corvan para um momento performativo cerimonial, abrindo espaço para um dueto de um só corpo, convidando simultaneamente os fantasmas da sua própria dança.

Cat-Gut Jim — Connor Scott

Cat-Gut Jim — Connor Scott

The project _Corpo Totémico_ ["Totemic Body"] takes as its starting point the concept of the shaman performer as a mediator, a translator of the unnameable, by navigating through different dimensions of thought and sensations. The aim is to inhabit the performative space as a microcosm, closely corresponding to both the cosmos and the inner universe.

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Em _Corpo Totémico_, parte-se do conceito de performer-xamã enquanto mediador, tradutor do inominável, cruzando diferentes dimensões do pensamento e das sensações, procurando habitar o espaço performativo como uma espécie de microcosmos, em estreita correspondência com o cosmos e o universo interior.

Corpo Totémico — Pedro Ramos

_"Meditating on death is meditating on liberty. (...) There is nothing evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that the privation of life is no evil."_ — Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I, XX

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_"In a time when wars make death even more present, what is our relationship with it, both psychologically and geographically? How do we relate to this reality on an individual and collective level? What is our responsibility, and how prepared are we? It is important to address this topic and to entertain new ways of engaging with death. Some cultures celebrate death, while in others it remains a taboo. Generally speaking, throughout history, human beings have sought to delay their approach to the end. But life has a natural limit, and new generations must come. How can we create a dance of coexistence between the living and the dead and their countless beliefs?_

_It is impossible to approach this topic without speaking of time and breathing. The first thing we do when we are born is inhale, and the last is exhale. This aspect will be explored in this piece, and it will be developed in collaboration with Winga Khan. How can we face and take care of this fundamental aspect of life, its final act, in a way that helps us build a more responsible and advanced society? It is time to cultivate beauty, even in the ritual of death."_ — Maria Fonseca

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_“Meditar sobre a morte é meditar sobre a liberdade. (...) Nenhum mal atingirá quem na existência compreendeu que a privação de vida não é um mal”_ — Michel de Montaigne, _Ensaios_, I, XX

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_"Numa era em que a morte está ainda mais presente devido à guerra, qual é a nossa relação com ela, nos sentidos psicológico e geográfico? Como nos relacionamos nós com esta realidade individual e colectiva? Qual é a nossa responsabilidade e preparação? É importante cuidar deste tema e educar novas possibilidades de nos relacionarmos com a morte. Há culturas que a celebram, outras em que é um tabu. De uma forma geral, ao longo da história, o ser humano tem vindo a tentar prolongar a sua aproximação do fim. No entanto, a vida tem um limite natural e necessitamos das novas gerações. Qual a possível dança de coexistência entre vivos e mortos e as suas inúmeras crenças?_

_É inevitável abordar o tema sem falar do tempo e da respiração. A primeira coisa que fazemos quando nascemos é inspirar e a última é expirar. Este será um factor explorado na peça, desenvolvido em conjunto com Winga Khan. De que forma podemos encarar e cuidar deste aspecto fundamental da vida que é o último acto, de maneira a construirmos uma sociedade mais responsável e evoluída? É tempo de cultivar o belo, também no ritual da morte."_ — Maria Fonseca

ATA — Maria Fonseca

Sofia Brito and a team of artists-mothers create _Artista-Mãe_ with the aim of questioning the complex relationship between motherhood, patriarchy, and capitalism, exploring how these forces shape and challenge the experience of artists-mothers in modern society.

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Na criação _Artista-Mãe_, Sofia Brito e uma equipa de artistas mães propõem questionar as complexas relações entre a maternidade, o patriarcado e o capitalismo, explorando a forma como essas forças moldam e desafiam a experiência das artistas-mães na sociedade moderna.

Artista-Mãe — Sofia Brito

In their first creative collaboration, Henrique Furtado Vieira and Lígia Soares will be studying, reproducing, and reinventing artistic forms that arise from collapsing systems, in order to create a collection of performances based on the historical relation between crises and the emergence of artistic avant-garde movements. With _Morrer pelos passarinhos_ [“To Die For the Little Birds”], they aim to find meaningful ways of sharing with the audience the end of the world as we have come to know it and to remind that, together, we can express “meaninglessness”, a human being torn apart by the world’s lack of order, just as it was expressed in the grief of past generations. Thus, the project challenges our unquestioning acceptance of this world’s continuous deterioration through a collection of funeral rites—a kind of collective grief that may confront us with emptiness, fear, dehumanization, and, most importantly, with one another.

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Henrique Furtado Vieira e Lígia Soares juntam-se pela primeira vez numa criação para estudar, reproduzir e reinventar formas artísticas resultantes de sistemas em colapso e, com isso, criar uma coleção de performances baseada na relação histórica entre a crise e a emergência de diferentes vanguardas artísticas. _Morrer pelos passarinhos_ visa encontrar formas de partilhar significativamente com o público o fim de um mundo conforme o fomos conhecendo e de lembrar que, em coletivo, se pode expressar o "não sentido", um ser humano dissecado pela desordem do mundo, tal como foi expresso no luto de gerações passadas. Assim se contraria a naturalidade com que aceitamos a contínua deterioração deste mundo numa coleção de rituais fúnebres, uma espécie de luto coletivo que nos possa confrontar com o vazio, com o medo, com a desumanização, mas, principalmente, uns com os outros.

Morrer pelos passarinhos — Henrique F. Vieira e Lígia Soares

Music is a vast empire, and its legacy forms the theme of _Wonderlandi_. If we imagine, as an exercise, the behavior of 100 people in a room with and without music, we get a glimpse of its power. _Wonderlandi_ analyzes this subjective, immaterial manifestation, which can hypnotize us, set the tone for a memory, lead us to wars or drive us to head to the gym. This project intends to summon the power of music, its omnipresence in nature, its necessity, and the ways it has been enjoyed across different cultures and historical periods. It's a project about music, through music.

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A música é um grande império, e o seu legado é o tema de _Wonderlandi_. Como exercício, se imaginarmos o comportamento de 100 pessoas numa sala com ou sem música, teremos um vislumbre de um fragmento do seu poder. _Wonderlandi_ propõe-se analisar esta manifestação subjectiva imaterial que pode hipnotizar-nos, dar um tom a uma memória, levar-nos a iniciar uma guerra ou a ir ao ginásio. O projeto pretende evocar o poder da música, a sua omnipresença na natureza, a sua necessidade e a forma como foi apreciada em diferentes partes do mundo ao longo da história. Um projeto sobre a música através da música.

Wonderlandi — Lander Patrick

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“What if we could peek into our collective unconscious? What stories unfold when we close our eyes?” — such questions provide the starting point for Sofia Silva’s _Tudo o que está fora, está dentro_ (“Everything that is outside is inside”), a choreographic project drawing from Carl Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious and of an experiential nature, developed to bring artists and audience together in a shared space where auditorium and stage become one. In an immersive, ritual-like experience, the audience moves through this space as a dance of human bodies, sounds, and objects unfolds around them—a sensory exploration of the collective unconscious and the relationships between body and space.

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“E se pudéssemos espreitar o nosso inconsciente coletivo? Que histórias se desdobram quando fechamos os olhos?” — é sobre estas questões que Sofia Silva se debruça para desenvolver _Tudo o que está fora, está dentro_ , um projeto de criação coreográfica inspirado pela ideia de inconsciente coletivo de Carl Jung e de caráter experiencial, concebido para que artistas e público habitem um espaço comum, onde a “plateia” e o “palco” se fundem. Numa experiência imersiva, quase de cariz ritual, o público cruza este espaço enquanto vê desenrolar-se em seu redor uma dança de corpos humanos, sons e objectos, numa exploração sensorial do inconsciente coletivo e das relações entre corpo e espaço.

Tudo o que está fora, está dentro — Sofia Silva

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

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3€ / class (insurance required)


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

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

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3€ / class (insurance required)


Daily Practice

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

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

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DAILY CLASSES ⏤ March

###### CLASSICAL DANCE
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###### CONTEMPORARY DANCE
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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

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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

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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
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##### Wednesdays
##### 6:30 pm ─ 8:00 pm

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10€ / class (insurance required)

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_ ["Within Arm’s Reach"], 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. Later, in June, during the Popular Saints’ Festivals, we will organize an event with an **installation** now in plain view, and we will share with you the results of a **research laboratory** focused on various performative devices and/or materials from some of our performances._

_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

_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. 
 
 ⏤

>"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. 

⎯ 

>_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._
>
##### 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.

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

_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 serves as a vehicle for practicing a playful body, one that enjoys moving energetically. Practice itself begins with shared or individual moments of “resetting the body”, whether through breathing exercises, by exploring fatigue, or by improvising from points of contact. On the one hand, practice evolves into movement research patterns, focusing on touch as a tool to awaken forgotten parts of the body. On the other hand, it engages in floorwork techniques, fostering awareness of transitions between horizontal and vertical settings and challenging the concept of a “collective mind”. Sprinkled with a touch of expressive drama, this practice invites the development of bodies and minds that are capable, gentle, humble, curious, aware, and intimately connected to the sheer pleasure of dancing and moving.

_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.

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

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

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

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. 

##### ⎯

##### 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).



A Collection for Tomorrow ⏤ Atlantic Axis

>_**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).



A Collection for Tomorrow


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

- Complete series on our [YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/@estudiosvictorcordon). 

A Collection for Tomorrow ⏤ À la Minute

A Collection for Tomorrow ⏤ Lisbon | Maputo

As part of the program planned for the triennium 2021-2023 in partnership with Camões - Centro Cultural Português de Maputo, this workshop is developed to share with other dance professionals the work of Portuguese choreographer Victor Hugo Pontes.

###### Target Audience
Dance professionals


The result of a partnership between Estúdios Victor Córdon and Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo, "Bantu" is a new work by choreographer Victor Hugo Pontes and features both Portuguese and Mozambican performers.
The audition for the play will take place on 3, 4 and 5 February at the EVC and at the Teatro Nacional São João.

Audition ⎯ Bantu

Workshop in Maputo

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)

Schedule

sensível — Maurícia | Neves→

Simbi em águas astronômicas — Inés Sybille Vooduness→

Um abraço ou um beijinho — Ricardo Machado e João Cardoso→

King Size — Sónia Baptista→

Quebra-Cabeças — Cláudia Nóvoa→

Dentro da cabeça — Associação VAGAR→

Cat-Gut Jim — Connor Scott→

Corpo Totémico — Pedro Ramos→

ATA — Maria Fonseca→

Artista-Mãe — Sofia Brito→

Morrer pelos passarinhos — Henrique F. Vieira e Lígia Soares→

Wonderlandi — Lander Patrick→

Tudo o que está fora, está dentro — Sofia Silva→