### _ELLES DISENT_
##### _Since I started dancing, my drawing practice vanished. I had to focus on learning something entirely new, and already at a late stage, considering the conventional path of a professional dancer. Now I was drawing only at very sporadic, rarefied, stray and even arbitrary moments. In 2021, while we were making the film MINA, Carlota got me moving, but also drawing. In Alfafar, with 12 women sitting around a table, among food, books and conversations, she gave me a bird. And there I was. Slowly testing pencils, reviving this magical connection between seeing and putting down on paper, with mixed feelings of fear and excitement. Returning to something that had belonged to me, not knowing whether it still did, whether I still had it in me. Recently, Carlota challenged me once more: to exhibit some of my drawings, here at the EVC. I would say that this is someone’s gesture who indeed sees the other, beyond what is obvious, beyond what is known. Who gives that little push which helps us see the different facets we all hold within, at any risk. And looking, or taking the time to see, is truly what drawing gives me. A fullness of being, a profound presence and connection, which is something I find extremely necessary in these times, be it only for some minutes._
##### _With this in mind, this exhibition includes drawings from different time periods, thus marking diverse occupations and moods, but also photographs, because they were conceived in Alfafar. And because they, too – the photographs –, got me handling materials of various kinds, other materialities. Making things with my hands again. And how happy that made me. Knowing that there’s still this world for me to be busy with if ever dance fails me or I fail it. This world of the hands that drag everything else along._ — Elizabete Francisca
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##### *The photographs were conceived in collaboration with artist Larissa Lewandowski and feature Wicca Magda Ferreira/ PWUD activist.



### cérebro, olhos, mãos e papel (“brain, eyes, hands and paper”)
_What’s this capacity of the body to take what we observe and encase it in a sheet of paper? I am speaking of the body transmuting itself into a drawing, in an intricate fusion of eyes, hands and paper. It is like the development of a mental muscle that mysteriously extends down the arm, reaches the hand and travels across the paper. It turns into movement and dynamic. There are performance artists who draw even before using their bodies as instruments. Luís Guerra, João Galante and Elizabete Francisca are some of these artists. These exhibitions reveal three different ways of using the mental musculature, each with its own identity and beauty. Drawing is a physical act that requires time, memory, focus, practice, will, endurance and freedom. Just like dance._  ― Carlota Lagido

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###### OPENING
##### SEPTEMBER 13th at 6:30 p.m.
##### Estúdios Victor Córdon

Exposição ELLES DISENT, Elizabete Francisca

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A mãe que eu não fui, de Elizabete Francisca

Opening

### _ELLES DISENT_
##### _Desde que comecei a dançar, a prática do desenho deixou de existir. Tive de focar-me em aprender algo completamente novo, e já numa fase tardia, se pensarmos no percurso convencional de uma bailarina profissional. Desenhar passou a acontecer em momentos altamente esporádicos, rarefeitos, desgarrados e até arbitrários. Em 2021, durante o processo de criação de MINA (filme), a Carlota pôs-me a mexer, mas também a desenhar. Em Alfafar, com 12 mulheres à volta de uma mesa, entre comida, livros e conversas, ela deu-me um pássaro. E ali fiquei eu. Lentamente, testando lápis, avivando esta ligação mágica entre ver e passar para o papel, num misto de medo e excitação. Voltar a algo que me pertenceu, não sabendo se ainda me pertencia, se estava em mim. Recentemente, a Carlota desafiou-me mais uma vez: mostrar desenhos, aqui nos EVC. Diria que este gesto é de alguém que realmente olha o outro, para além das evidências, do sabido. Desses alguéns que dão aquele empurrãozinho que deixa ver desdobramentos que todas temos, correndo qualquer risco. E olhar, ou dar-se tempo para ver, é realmente o que o desenho me proporciona. Um estar pleno, de profunda presença e conexão, que é uma coisa que nestes tempos me parece extremamente necessária, nem que seja por alguns minutos._
##### _Por isto, esta exposição contempla desenhos de diferentes momentos temporais, marcando assim diversos afazeres e humores, mas também fotografias*, porque foram concebidas em Alfafar. E porque me puseram elas também — as fotografias — a manusear materiais de várias ordens, outras materialidades. Voltar a fazer coisas com as mãos. E que feliz isso me fez. Saber que se um dia a dança me falhar ou faltar, ou se eu lhe faltar, haverá este mundo que me ocupa. O das mãos que arrastam tudo o resto._ — Elizabete Francisca
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##### *As fotografias foram concebidas em colaboração com a artista Larissa Lewandowski e contam com a participação da Wicca Magda Ferreira/ ativista PWUD.



### cérebro, olhos, mãos e papel
_Que capacidade é essa do corpo que transporta o que observamos e o encerra numa folha de papel? Falo do corpo a transmutar-se em desenho, numa fusão intrincada entre olhos, mãos e papel. É como o desenvolvimento de um músculo mental que de forma misteriosa se prolonga pelo braço, chega à mão e percorre o papel. Transforma-se em movimento e dinâmica. Há pessoas das artes performativas que desenham mesmo antes de usarem o corpo como instrumento. Luís Guerra, João Galante e Elizabete Francisca são algumas dessas pessoas. Estas exposições revelam três formas diferentes de usar a musculatura mental, cada uma com a sua identidade e beleza. O desenho é um ato físico que requer tempo, memória, foco, prática, vontade, resistência e liberdade. É como dança._  ― Carlota Lagido

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###### INAUGURAÇÃO
##### 13 SETEMBRO às 18h30
##### Estúdios Victor Córdon

Elizabete Francisca ― ELLES DISENT

The entrance to the EVC building has become an exhibition space, welcoming proposals on an ongoing basis by visual artists whose work has a connection to performing arts in general and dance in particular. This year, we welcome a curatorial idea by choreographer Carlota Lagido, who invited three dance artists who have a strong connection to the visual arts -  Luís Guerra, João Galante and Elizabete Francisca - and an exhibition by Guilherme Gouveia, who will show us the result of the photography residency he undertook at the EVC in 2023.


### _brain, eyes, hands and paper_
##### Curated by Carlota Lagido
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### Photography exhibition
##### by Guilherme Gouveia




Exhibition space

2024

Artist

Curator

Past Exhibitions

_What is this capacity of the body that takes what we observe and puts it on a sheet of paper? I'm talking about the body transmuting itself into a drawing, in an intricate fusion between eyes, hands and paper. It's like the development of a mental muscle that mysteriously extends down the arm, reaches the hand and travels across the paper. It turns into movement and dynamism. There are people in the world of performing arts who have been drawing even before they started using their bodies as tools. Luís Guerra, João Galante and Elizabete Francisca are some of these people. These exhibitions reveal three different ways of using mental muscles, each with its own identity and beauty. Drawing is a physical act that requires time, memory, focus, practice, will, endurance and freedom. It's like dancing._ ― Carlota Lagido

###### Curator
#### Carlota Lagido

###### Artists
#### Elizabete Francisca
#### João Galante
#### Luís Guerra


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Espaço Expositivo

Múmias ou como homenagear um corpo — Luís Guerra

Divã — João Galante

_Que capacidade é essa do corpo que transporta o que observamos e o encerra numa folha de papel? Falo do corpo a transmutar-se em desenho, numa fusão intrincada entre olhos, mãos e papel. É como o desenvolvimento de um músculo mental que de forma misteriosa se prolonga pelo braço, chega à mão e percorre o papel. Transforma-se em movimento e dinâmica. Há pessoas das artes performativas que desenham mesmo antes de usarem o corpo como instrumento. Luís Guerra, João Galante e Elizabete Francisca são algumas dessas pessoas. Estas exposições revelam três formas diferentes de usar a musculatura mental, cada uma com a sua identidade e beleza. O desenho é um ato físico que requer tempo, memória, foco, prática, vontade, resistência e liberdade. É como dança._
― Carlota Lagido

###### Curadoria
#### Carlota Lagido

###### Artistas convidados(as)
#### Elizabete Francisca
#### João Galante
#### Luís Guerra

cérebro, olhos, mãos e papel

BRAIN, EYES, HANDS AND PAPER

### Divã

_When I paint I try to do the same as when I play or compose music. To find a place where I have no responsibilities towards society. A place where I can either meditate on the world or not at all. A state of surrender. A state of rest._ — João Galante

### brain, eyes, hands and paper

_What is this capacity of the body that takes what we observe and puts it on a sheet of paper? I'm talking about the body transmuting itself into a drawing, in an intricate fusion between eyes, hands and paper. It's like the development of a mental muscle that mysteriously extends down the arm, reaches the hand and travels across the paper. It turns into movement and dynamism. There are people in the world of performing arts who have been drawing even before they started using their bodies as tools. Luís Guerra, João Galante and Elizabete Francisca are some of these people. These exhibitions reveal three different ways of using mental muscles, each with its own identity and beauty. Drawing is a physical act that requires time, memory, focus, practice, will, endurance and freedom. It's like dancing._ ― Carlota Lagido

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###### VERNISSAGE
##### MAY 24 at 6.30pm
##### Estúdios Victor Córdon

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"Divã", de João Galante

Vernissage

### Divã
_Quando pinto tento fazer o mesmo que quando toco ou componho música. Criar um espaço onde não tenha responsabilidades perante a sociedade. Um espaço onde possa refletir sobre o mundo ou nem por isso. Um estado de entrega. Um descanso._ — João Galante


### cérebro, olhos, mãos e papel
_Que capacidade é essa do corpo que transporta o que observamos e o encerra numa folha de papel? Falo do corpo a transmutar-se em desenho, numa fusão intrincada entre olhos, mãos e papel. É como o desenvolvimento de um músculo mental que de forma misteriosa se prolonga pelo braço, chega à mão e percorre o papel. Transforma-se em movimento e dinâmica. Há pessoas das artes performativas que desenham mesmo antes de usarem o corpo como instrumento. Luís Guerra, João Galante e Elizabete Francisca são algumas dessas pessoas. Estas exposições revelam três formas diferentes de usar a musculatura mental, cada uma com a sua identidade e beleza. O desenho é um ato físico que requer tempo, memória, foco, prática, vontade, resistência e liberdade. É como dança._  ― Carlota Lagido

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###### INAUGURAÇÃO
##### 24 MAIO às 18h30
##### Estúdios Victor Córdon

João Galante ― Divã

Invited artist

Next exhibition

_The works presented here were born out of the desire to imprint bodies on sheets or canvases; they were born out of the desire to adorn dead bodies as was the case, for example, of the mummies in ancient Egypt. Some of these works have been presented in a school context. The artist is studying at ArCo, where he attends the Year 2 of the Advanced Course in Visual Arts. Other works integrated the performance _Almada Negreiros, o bailarino_ [“Almada Negreiros, the dancer”], presented last October at the Gulbenkian Foundation. The solution to the challenge of presenting a work in the movement temple-space that is Gulbenkian came precisely from these works, since the essence of the place leads the author to the very act of living and dying, i.e. dancing, reinventing oneself, being present and being reborn._ ― Luís Guerra

### brain, eyes, hands and paper

_What is this capacity of the body that takes what we observe and puts it on a sheet of paper? I'm talking about the body transmuting itself into a drawing, in an intricate fusion between eyes, hands and paper. It's like the development of a mental muscle that mysteriously extends down the arm, reaches the hand and travels across the paper. It turns into movement and dynamism. There are people in the world of performing arts who have been drawing even before they started using their bodies as tools. Luís Guerra, João Galante and Elizabete Francisca are some of these people. These exhibitions reveal three different ways of using mental muscles, each with its own identity and beauty. Drawing is a physical act that requires time, memory, focus, practice, will, endurance and freedom. It's like dancing._ ― Carlota Lagido

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###### VERNISSAGE
##### FEB 24 at 7pm
##### Estúdios Victor Córdon

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Exposição Luís Guerra

_As obras aqui apresentadas nasceram da vontade de imprimir e registar corpos em folhas ou telas; nasceram da vontade de ornamentar corpos mortos tal como se fazia, por exemplo, com as múmias no antigo Egipto. Alguns destes trabalhos foram apresentados em contexto escolar no ArCo, onde o autor frequenta atualmente o quinto ano, segundo ano enquanto aluno do Curso Avançado de Artes Visuais. Outros integraram o espetáculo _Almada Negreiros, o bailarino_, apresentado em outubro passado na Fundação Gulbenkian. A resposta ao desafio de apresentar algo neste espaço-templo do movimento recaiu precisamente nestes trabalhos, uma vez que a essência deste local remete o autor para o próprio ato de viver e de morrer, isto é, de dançar, de reinventar-se, de estar presente, de renascer._ ― Luís Guerra

### cérebro, olhos, mãos e papel
_Que capacidade é essa do corpo que transporta o que observamos e o encerra numa folha de papel? Falo do corpo a transmutar-se em desenho, numa fusão intrincada entre olhos, mãos e papel. É como o desenvolvimento de um músculo mental que de forma misteriosa se prolonga pelo braço, chega à mão e percorre o papel. Transforma-se em movimento e dinâmica. Há pessoas das artes performativas que desenham mesmo antes de usarem o corpo como instrumento. Luís Guerra, João Galante e Elizabete Francisca são algumas dessas pessoas. Estas exposições revelam três formas diferentes de usar a musculatura mental, cada uma com a sua identidade e beleza. O desenho é um ato físico que requer tempo, memória, foco, prática, vontade, resistência e liberdade. É como dança._  ― Carlota Lagido

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###### INAUGURAÇÃO
##### 24 FEV às 19h00
##### Estúdios Victor Córdon



Luís Guerra ― Múmias ou como homenagear um corpo

Next exhibitions

Luís Guerra, invited by Carlota Lagido to be part of the series of solo art exhibitions "brain, eyes, hands and paper", will be teaching a workshop entitled "Drawing with the whole body" in connection with his exhibition proposal _Múmias ou como homenagear um corpo_.

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_In this masterclass, aimed at people who are both passionate about dance and drawing, exercises will be proposed that could possibly instigate a broader awareness of the body when drawing and painting that doesn't stop at the wrist.  Participants are invited to bring their own drawing instruments, like pencils, charcoal bars or other materials - with which they intend to leave a mark on their bodies._
― Luís Guerra

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Workshop "Desenhar com o corpo inteiro", de Luís Guerra

Lisboa, 1985

Luís Guerra

Luís Guerra, artista convidado por Carlota Lagido para integrar o ciclo de exposições individuais "cérebro, olhos, mãos e papel", irá lecionar, no contexto da sua proposta expositiva _Múmias ou como homenagear um corpo_, o workshop Desenhar com o corpo inteiro.

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_Nesta masterclass dirigida a pessoas duplamente apaixonadas por dança e desenho propor-se-ão exercícios que possam, eventualmente, instigar uma consciência mais alargada do corpo aquando do ato de desenhar e de pintar que não se reduza ou limite apenas ao pulso.  Os(as) participantes são convidado(as) a trazer os seus próprios riscadores, aqueles com os quais pretendem deixar corpos registados._
― Luís Guerra

DESENHAR COM O CORPO INTEIRO ― WORKSHOP

DRAWING WITH THE WHOLE BODY ― WORKSHOP

Prática Diária

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.

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###### Price
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Aulas de Dança ⏤ Profissionais

Daily practice for professionals dancers

Dance Classes ⏤ Professionals

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).



© Marlene Monteiro Freitas - P.OR.K

© Bruno Frango - EVC 2021

Depois de Miguel Moreira, João dos Santos Martins e Jonas&Lander, os EVC acolhem Marlene Monteiro Freitas como artista EM CASA da temporada 2022. 
O programa pretende proporcionar um espaço de trabalho contínuo, dando à artista a liberdade de ação e uso das várias valências dos EVC para criação e outras iniciativas.

###### MARLENE MONTEIRO FREITAS
Nasceu em São Vicente, Cabo Verde, onde cofundou o grupo de dança Compass. Estudou dança na P.A.R.T.S., em Bruxelas, na Escola Superior de Dança e na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, em Lisboa.  Trabalhou com Emmanuelle Huynh, Loïc Touzé, Tânia Carvalho, Boris Charmatz, entre outros. Criou as peças _ÔSS_ (2022),  _Ri te / Paris Intermission_, em colaboração com Israel Galván (2022), _Bacantes – Prelúdio para uma Purga_ (2017),_ Jaguar_ com a colaboração de Andreas Merk (2015), _de marfim e carne - as estátuas também sofrem_ (2014), _Paraíso - colecção privada_ (2012-13), _(M)imosa_ com Trajal Harrell, François Chaignaud e Cecilia Bengolea (2011), _Guintche_ (2010), _A Seriedade do Animal_ (2009-10), _A Improbabilidade da Certeza_ (2006), _Larvar_ (2006) e _Primeira Impressão_ (2005). Estas peças têm como denominador comum a abertura, a impureza e a intensidade. Em 2017, a Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (SPA) atribuiu a _Jaguar_ o prémio de melhor coreografia e, no mesmo ano, foi distinguida pelo Governo de Cabo Verde pelas suas realizações culturais. Em 2018, a Bienal de Veneza atribuiu a Marlene o Leão de Prata na categoria de Dança. Recebe o prémio Chanel Next Prize na sua primeira edição, em 2021. Em 2022, no âmbito da Temporada Cruzada Portugal-França, o Festival d'Automne à Paris dedica um ciclo dedicado ao trabalho da artista, apresentando uma vasta retrospectiva e duas novas criações. É cofundadora da P.OR.K, estrutura de produção sediada em Lisboa e tem uma colaboração contínua com O Espaço do Tempo (PT). 


Em Casa ⏤ Marlene Monteiro Freitas

Marlene Monteiro Freitas

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
(provisional title)




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 ⏤ Marlene Monteiro Freitas

Itinerários EVC 2023

_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


Itinerários ● Ágata Xavier ©EVC 2022

Itinerários ● Ágata Xavier ©EVC 2022

Itinerários ● Ágata Xavier ©EVC 2022.jpg

_Itinerários_ é um programa de incentivo à criação artística, dirigido a criadores moçambicanos na área da dança, numa parceria entre o OPART E.P.E. | Estúdios Victor Córdon e o Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, através do Centro Cultural Português em Maputo.
Pretendendo criar uma rede entre Moçambique, Portugal e outros parceiros na Europa, o projeto desenvolve iniciativas que correlacionam os países associados com o intuito de promover a internacionalização de artistas.  
 
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>“Como facilitador deste programa - tão importante para a materialização (e criação) de discursos sobre a necessidade de colaboração entre artistas e instituições culturais de Portugal e de artistas de países outrora colonizados por Portugal -, gostava que pudéssemos, juntos, receber este projeto com curiosidade e sentido de responsabilidade. Para que a rede cresça e se expanda, e para que nestes itinerários haja tantos sentidos quantas as histórias individuais e coletivas.”
>
> David Marques



Itinerários 2022

Schedule

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

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Itineraries 2022

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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

© Susana Chicó - EVC 2022

A conferência **Encontros para o Futuro IV** traz para o centro da reflexão a **Transição de carreiras nas artes performativas**.
Com um olhar analítico sobre a experiência-piloto desenvolvida nos EVC ao longo de três meses e a situação que se verifica atualmente na Europa e em Portugal, perspetivam-se possibilidades futuras relativas à transição de carreiras de profissionais nas artes performativas.
Mais do que encontrar respostas no presente, pretende-se perfazer uma leitura palpável e clara da situação atual que nos permita, em coletivo, vislumbrar formas de atuar no futuro. É, pois, com o olhar direcionado para o futuro que se intenciona propor esta reflexão e, sobretudo, impulsionar um diálogo comprometido com a implementação efetiva de práticas no âmbito da gestão e transição de carreiras – projetando no futuro um mecanismo permanente que tenha capacidade para alavancar e facilitar esse processo. 

###### Público
Profissionais das artes performativas

###### Acesso gratuito

###### Acessibilidade
Tradução simultânea e Lígua Gestual Portuguesa (LGP)

Conferência Encontros para o Futuro IV

**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

Institutional Partners

Conference ⏤ Meetings for the Future IV

Josefa Searle ©EVC 2021

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


Formação de uma semana intensiva dedicada à prática de dança para profissionais com João Cardoso e Edivaldo Ernesto. 

###### Público
Profissionais da dança





KICK OFF'22

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

KICK OFF’22 

Wim Vandekeybus © Vitorino Coragem | EVC 2022

© Vitorino Coragem | EVC 2022

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

###### Target Audience
Dance professionals



EVC Training

© Vitorino Coragem - EVC 2022

Semana de treino intensivo para profissionais da dança com o coreógrafo belga Wim Vandekeybus.  

###### Público
Profissionais de dança



Treino EVC 2022

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 Intensive Training

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).


A 2ª edição de _Uma Coleção para Amanhã_, com a curadoria de Cristina Peres e realização de João Afonso Vaz, dedica 10 conversas à cena da dança em Moçambique.
Um programa realizado em parceria com o Camões - Centro Cultural Português em Maputo, com o apoio institucional do Camões, I.P. e o apoio no _décor_ pela Around the Tree.

>A imposição da distância social trouxe-nos outras possibilidades de provocarmos encontros improváveis. Deu-nos ideias sobre as perguntas que ainda não tínhamos feito, sobre a ressonância das experiências para lá do tempo em que aconteceram e sugeriu-nos que conversássemos.
>
>Preenchemos os meses de 2021 com _Uma Coleção para Amanhã_. Foram dez conversas com dez pessoas convidadas a refletir sobre criação, mundo, arte, política, seguindo em conjunto esse movimento que se organizou de forma tão singular nos últimos 30 ou 40 anos e nos trouxe até aqui. 
>
>Pelo caminho, influenciámo-nos uns aos outros. Em 2022, e porque a dança viaja, vai e volta e se compara, queremos transformar a ponte imaginária entre Lisboa e Maputo, bem como o percurso inverso, numa segunda coleção de conversas.  Em que momento descobrimos coisas melhores do que nós ao mesmo tempo que descobrimos em nós vestígios daquilo que imaginávamos ser dos outros?
>
>Lisboa e Maputo são cidades ligadas pelas marcas dos que teceram fios invisíveis associando a memória do corpo às outras todas que vamos reunir, agora de forma sistematizada, numa nova coleção de conversas.
>
>Cristina Peres, 2022    
   
   
###### I Parte
Quito Tembe
_[Sou um espelho da profissionalização das artes em Maputo](https://youtu.be/zbotY1zKE8Q)_

###### II Parte
Maria Helena Pinto
_[A dança tornou-se um percurso político](https://youtu.be/VTJb-0sEjz0)_

###### III Parte
Panaibra Canda
_[Este Moçambique está cheio de diversidade](https://youtu.be/ity6XkBApzU)_

###### IV Parte
Edna Jaime
_[Artivismo - o meu trabalho impacta o mundo](https://youtu.be/5tgS7SvNP40)_

###### V Parte
Pak Ndjamena
_[Persistir, insistir, ir atrás e... acontece!](https://youtu.be/WGh2FDx40I0)_

###### VI Parte
Ídio Chichava
_[Emancipar Moçambique](https://youtu.be/LBWqP24clvY)_

###### VII Parte
Horácio Macuácua
_[Não escolhi a dança, ela escolheu-me a mim](https://youtu.be/hoe7NGAJWfs)_

###### VIII Parte
Mariana Tembe
_[Continuar a falar com o mundo](https://youtu.be/1yrZ76TDYoo)_

###### IX Parte
Edivaldo Ernesto
_[A vida inteira influencia o que faço em palco](https://youtu.be/jfMu_LFSSFg)_

###### X Parte
Yuck Miranda
_[O que me move na arte é a indignação](https://youtu.be/arlTEH7gWwg)_

###### Mais informação
Podes ver toda a coleção [aqui](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAO_nJtqGJzGzfNRxgzkwgeuMzDvE8nQU).







Uma Coleção para Amanhã ⏤ Lisboa · Maputo

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


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

A Collection for Tomorrow ⏤ À la Minute

>_**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

A Collection for Tomorrow ⏤ Lisbon | Maputo

@Mariano Silva

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

No âmbito da programação prevista para o triénio 2021 – 2023 em parceria com o Camões – Centro Cultural Português de Maputo, desenvolve-se este _workshop_ com o intuito de partilhar o trabalho do coreógrafo português Victor Hugo Pontes.  

###### Público-alvo
Profissionais da dança


Workshop em Maputo

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)

DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS ⏤ APRIL

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 ⏤ March

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 and wednesdays
##### 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm

###### PRICE
7,5€ / class (insurance required)

DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS ⏤ MAY

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 and Wednesdays
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm

###### PRICE
##### 7,5€ / class (insurance required)

DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS ⏤ JUNE

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 and Wednesdays
##### 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm

###### PRICE
##### 10€ / class (insurance required)

Dance classes for adults ⎯ October

Dance classes for adults ⎯ November

DANCE CLASSES FOR ADULTS ⎯ DECEMBER

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
##### 6:15 pm ─ 7:45 pm

###### Price
10€ / class (insurance required)

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ February

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
##### 6:15 pm ─ 7:45 pm

###### Price
10€ / class (insurance required)

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ March

Dance classes for Adults — April

##### Come on and dance with us!
##### Next April 29th marks International Dance Day and Estúdios Victor Córdon are organizing a ball evening open to everyone who wishes to celebrate the body and the joy of dancing.

##### The ball at the EVC starts with a workshop by Miguel Ângelo, in which participants will learn the basic steps of two Latin ballroom dances.

##### This event is open to anyone, regardless of their dance experience.

###### WHEN
APRIL 29
###### SCHEDULE
6.30—8.30pm
###### FREE ENTRY
subject to registration
###### INSTRUCTOR
Miguel Ângelo


BALL AT EVC ⏤ International Dance Day

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
##### 6:15 pm ─ 7:45 pm

###### Price
10€ / class (insurance required)


Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ May

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ June

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ July

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
10€ / class (insurance required)

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ September

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ October

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ November

As aulas de dança clássica para adultos destinam-se a quem pretende iniciar a sua aprendizagem ou a quem mantém uma ligação à dança clássica desde sempre e quer continuar essa prática como meio para o seu bem-estar. O calendário mensal destas aulas está disponível na agenda.

###### Dança Clássica
2.ª e 4ª feiras:
18h30 - 20h

###### Preço
10€/aula (seguro obrigatório)

Aulas de Dança ⏤ Adultos

dance classes for adults

Dance Classes ⏤ Adults

Território VI

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.



Dedicated to young dancers, the _Territory_ program has welcomed a range of internationally renowned choreographers, such as Wayne McGregor, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau or Alexander Ekman. Each year, EVC invites one acclaimed and one emerging choreographer to lead the program. This sixth edition will feature the duo Sol León & Paul Lightfoot, and Douglas Lee. 

On the 18th of February, the EVC will welcome many young dancers from all over the country for an audition, where up to 10 people will be selected. The selected dancers will have the opportunity to benefit from the knowledge and aesthetic vision of the guest choreographers, in a professionalizing and empowering experience of a diverse and inclusive look. 

The creation process takes place over a month at the EVC and the premiere is scheduled for the 21st and 22nd of July at Teatro Nacional São João, followed by presentations at the Millennium Festival ao Largo (Lisbon) and Teatro José Lúcio da Silva (Leiria).