With the Words and Practices Program, we aim to bring choreographers and the artistic community closer together. Over the course of one day structured into a practical part and a theoretical part, participants will have the opportunity to experience creation processes and what they are based on, thus helping to deepen readings of the invited artist’s works or performative proposals. 

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In this session, Tânia Carvalho invites participants to try out some of the practices that form part of her choreographic process. Through the creation and transmission of movement, it is explored how the material transforms as it passes from one body to another and how it can rise to a composition. Just as the same musical score takes on different expressions in the hands of different musicians, so too does a choreographic phrase take on its own expression through the person performing it.

During the session, you will need to use your own device to make simple recordings of movements. If you do not have a mobile phone with a camera or similar equipment, we will have a set available to share.

- **Practical session:** 10:00am to 1:00pm
- **Discussion (Moderator: Pedro Mendes / Coffeepaste):** 1:15pm to 2:00pm
- **Capacity:** 40
- **Participation Fee:** 15€

Please register using the form available on this page.

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With the Words and Practices Program, we aim to bring choreographers and the artistic community closer together. Over the course of one day structured into a practical part and a theoretical part, participants will have the opportunity to experience creation processes and what they are based on, thus helping to deepen readings of the invited artist’s works or performative proposals. Following a first edition of the program that featured Marco da Silva Ferreira, who shared with us the foundations of his creation process, presenting an intersection of styles, techniques and references where body, emotion and community intertwine, this year we welcome choreographer and multidisciplinary artist Tânia Carvalho.

We invite everyone to share in an intuitive process, where creation emerges from the interplay of light and shadow, traversed as it is by psychological, spiritual and oneiric dimensions that manifest themselves in the moving body.

Words and Practices with Tânia Carvalho

Other Worlds is a program dedicated to the representation of migrant communities residing in Portugal in new dance creations. Despite the geographical proximity, these immigrant communities often remain on the margin of the local community’s life and become, by virtue of this isolation, potential focal points of exclusion and targets of social prejudice. By making present in institutional spaces the diverse cultures that make up our identity as a society, we can actively contribute to the deconstruction of narratives that dehumanize the other, often making them the target of our shortcomings as a collective.

Cyclically selecting a country in focus, this program aims to draw attention to this country’s culture from the perspective of dance artists. In its second edition, now under the direction of Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, the focus will be on Afghanistan and Afghan culture. The creation process will extend throughout 2026, with a performance scheduled to premiere in 2027 at Teatro Camões.


Other Worlds: Afghanistan 

Proposed by Plano Nacional das Artes (the National Plan for the Arts, PNA), this year’s edition of the Artist-in-Residence Project is once again co-organized by the EVC. Together, these partners will bring to public schools in Lisbon district two young choreographers, Joana Franco and Maria Abrantes. Over the course of three months, the choreographers will develop projects within the school community, giving students the possibility to experience the creative look from the world of dance. Filmmaker Alexia Fernandes will be accompanying the initiative, creating a film based on the program’s activities.

Artist-in-Residence Project '26 PNA

At Home is a program designed for creators working in the field of dance, inviting them into the EVC to develop their work over the course of a season. Having welcomed Miguel Moreira, João dos Santos Martins, Jonas & Lander, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Teresa Silva, Victor Hugo Pontes, and Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, we now invite Daniel Matos, who will be sharing with us a series of initiatives that characterize his unique career.

_Busting down the door, opening the windows, rummaging through drawers, scrubbing linoleum with your hands, licking banisters, falling backwards down the stairs, getting stuck in the lift, singing in the lift while you're stuck, taking hot showers in winter and cold showers in summer, shouting at the draughts and staring endlessly at the river._

_They welcome me HOME this year, and being at home, for me, means being alone - very alone - and accompanied - as accompanied as possible._

_I have always enjoyed being home alone, being able to play different music in each room, walking with the lights off and feeling my way through the corridors at night, finding comfort in the silence like a cosy blanket and, above all, having the space and time to think about what I do or try to do. That is why, throughout this year, I have been dedicating myself to two authorial projects that branch out into different ways of thinking and making possible dances: **A Luminosa Violência da Perfeição**, a large-scale stage creation that seeks to understand how to contemplate an absolute pause in the middle of a hurricane driven by horses and mares, and **PESO PESO PEITO**, an authorial publication in collaboration with artist João Catarino, which starts from the play Pedra, a Mágoa (The Stone, the Sorrow) and explores in book form the family relationships of the performers who were part of the processes of creating and presenting the show, delving into photographic and written landscapes of each person's intimacy, compiled in a physical archive collection._

_But being AT HOME also means welcoming people into your home and making it a space for sharing and socialising, for dinners filled with thoughts and ideas that don't fit inside living rooms. That is why I invite some of the artists I admire to share proposals and practices in this AT HOME, clearing the space, pushing the furniture against the wall and joining hands so that we can all feel butterflies in our stomachs together: from jams to music listening, from conversations around the table to a film session that can be a pyjama party, if we so desire._

_All this while always opening the door to anyone who wants to come in, take a peek, stay and leave. All this so that the occupation is as real as we are, who do not exist, if we want to.
Being a body at home in a house that is the body._

_It's so good to be AT HOME._

Daniel Matos


At Home ⏤ Daniel Matos

In 2024, the EVC's Foyer became an exhibition space, welcoming proposals on an ongoing basis by visual artists whose work has a connection to the performing arts in general and to dance in particular. After two editions curated by Carlota Lagido, during which we welcomed works by Luís Guerra, João Galante, Elizabete Francisca, Flávio Rodrigues, Miguel Bonneville and Ana Caetano, this year we hold _Arte Mágica_ (“Magical Art”), a third series of exhibitions curated by Luís Guerra in partnership with the dance company Dançando com a Diferença.

There are stories that begin quietly but become transformative along the way. Such was the case with Dançando com a Diferença, founded by Henrique Amoedo in 2001, in Madeira, as a pilot project which later became a benchmark in the contemporary dance scene, both nationally and internationally. Over the course of 25 years, the company has built a unique career, collaborating with renowned choreographers and developing new forms of interaction between performer, body and space.

In the context of the 2026 Exhibitions Program, the EVC and artist Luís Guerra challenge performers from this company with unique cognitive and physical characteristics to explore a process of visual creation starting from the concept of “outsider art” and evolving into “Magical Art”. In two different periods, works created by six to eight performers and characterized by unusual rhythmical choices and formal solutions, as well as by a profusion of visual elements, will be showing at the EVC’s Foyer. These works offer the public a sensory and reflective experience, transporting them to territories of the spirit rarely accessible through normative artistic practices, and reasserting both the singularity of the company’s work and the creative potential of each performer.

On the occasion of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of Dançando com a Diferença Association.

Exhibitions — 2026

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 — 2026

###### Daily practice for professionals

Daily classical and contemporary dance practice designed for professional dancers or those in the process of becoming professional dancers. The diversity of the invited teachers’ proposals aims to mirror our approach to what can constitute a dance practice today. 

###### Classical dance
Mon / Wed / Fri: 10:00 to 11:15 a.m.

###### Contemporary dance
Tue / Thu: 10:00 to 11:15 a.m.

###### Price
3€/class (insurance required)

###### Classical dance classes for adults

Classical dance classes for adults are aimed at non-professionals who have a connection to classical dance and wish to retake or continue practising it.

The level of detail covered in the classes is tailored to each group of participants based on their prior knowledge of the terminology of this technique.

###### Classical dance
Mon (Beginning) / Wed (Continuing): 6:30 to 20:00 p.m.

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

Dance Classes at Estúdio 1 — 2026

The eternal disconnect between body and mind/spirit, and the ceaseless search for the place where things supposedly make sense it this project’s field of investigation. Is it possible to feel whole within this shattered landscape of the world, that is us? How can we close our eyes when thoughts are seething in our toes?

HIDRA Dance Company was founded when the two dancers, Janice Iandritsky and Bárbara Faustino, met in Lisbon in 2020. There, they found a common ground in shared questions and issues: the body in a place of distance, the migrant body, the collective body and one’s own body, between community and individualism. The duo has created three original works.

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Existe uma realidade objetiva onde o meu corpo e a minha mente são um só mas eu não estou aqui nem nunca estive — Bárbara Faustino and Janice Iandritsky

_One right thing, one wrong thang._


When we were little, we skinned both our knees, with our knees skinned, we climbed a very tall staircase, taller than the pine tree, taller than the cypress. We kept climbing, staircases that turned into towers, towers that turned into palaces. It felt as though spring was playing a trick on us. So we decided that from then on we would never lie again, from then on we would never be ourselves again. Then we fell from top to bottom, we hit rock bottom and we screamed! We screamed for years, an old, mouldy scream, until a cricket, a friend of the scream, came out of our mouths. We looked at it and asked: when will the snow come?, when will time end?, when will the festivities begin? It replied: chirp chirp.


_Coisa-Ponta_ stems from a long-standing affinity between Ana Rita Teodoro and Márcia Lança: back in 1999, when they saw surrealist art together for the first time. This event opened up a fascinating crack that led them to embark on an artistic practice guided by putting to sleep what is intended deliberately as a means of accessing the unimaginable. Surrealism also afforded them a multifaceted space that no single discipline could provide on its own – being a surrealist is a Serious-Thing.


In this piece, they seek to bring their ethical and aesthetic affinity into dialogue with surrealist techniques and processes. By activating their modes of practice as a compositional strategy – the interweaving of materials, the suspension of conscious action, the bringing together of things that would, in principle, be separate – _Coisa-Ponta_ creates a disparate space where the sensible and the nonsensical reign as random queens.

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Coisa-Ponta — Ana Rita Teodoro & Márcia Lança

One body falls. Another shifts. Space reorganises itself.

Inspired by the logic of the Rubik’s Cube, this creation explores the body as a constantly transforming form. Bodies, lines, volumes and distances come together and break apart, creating new configurations, rhythms and atmospheres. A living system in which every movement alters the whole.

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OFFSET — Ana Moreno

Two unusual figures, with Beckettian contours, seek to articulate what has not yet happened. Somewhere between ancestral ritual and contemporary fiction, each action becomes a factory of signs that opens up the possibility of another world, where the modesty of the gesture meets the power of the imagination.

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Tonitruant — Loic Touzé and Teresa Silva

Estúdios Victor Córdon Establish Themselves as a Bridge for Artists from Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP) in Portugal

Maputo Fast Forward | Article by Eduardo Quive

A collective discussion on creative processes in contemporary dance, organised as part of the partnership between Estúdios Victor Córdon and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Featuring Marlene Monteiro Freitas, the project’s artistic coordinator, and the artists in residence: Djam Neguin, Nuno Barreto, Rosy Timas, Francisca Mirine and Pak Ndjamena.

MAR+ Collaborative Creative Residency | A collective discussion at CAM – Gulbenkian

‘Meetings for the Future VIII’ brings together dance from Mozambique and Portugal.

Making the making speak by David Marques & Teresa Silva goes to Lisboa, Viseu and Maputo | Article by Coffeepaste

Calendário Completo - Temporada EVC 2026.pdf

2026

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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.

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

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

###### Price
3€ / class (insurance required)


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

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

##### PRICE
3€ / class (insurance required)

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ March

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

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

###### PRICE
##### 3€ / class (insurance required)

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ July

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ JUNE

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

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

###### Price
3€ / class (insurance required)


Daily Classes ⏤ May

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

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

###### Price
3€ / class (insurance required)

Daily Classes ⏤ April

Daily Classes ⏤ March

Daily Classes ⏤ February

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

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

###### PRICE
3€ / class (insurance required)

Daily Classes ⎯ December

Daily Classes ⎯ November

Daily Classes ⎯ October

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

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

###### PRICE
3€ / class (insurance required)

Daily Classes ⎯ July

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ MAY

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

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

###### PRICE
3€ / class (insurance required)

DAILY CLASSES ⏤ APRIL

Daily Practice

Daily Classes ⏤ September

Classical dance classes designed for beginners or for those who have always been connected to dance and want to continue this practice as a means to their well-being.

###### Classical Dance
##### Mondays
##### Wednesdays
##### 6:30 pm ─ 8:00 pm

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

Dance Classes for Adults ⏤ February

Práticas diárias de dança clássica e contemporânea destinadas a intérpretes profissionais ou em vias de profissionalização na área da dança. A diversidade das propostas de formadores pretende espelhar um pensamento acerca do que pode constituir uma prática de dança nos dias de hoje. O calendário mensal da prática diária está disponível na agenda.

###### Dança Clássica
2.ª - 4.ª - 6.ª feiras: 10h00 - 11h15

###### Dança Contemporânea
3.ª - 5.ª feiras: 10h00 - 11h15

###### Preço
3€/aula (seguro obrigatório)



Aulas de Dança ⏤ Profissionais

Daily practice for professionals dancers

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)

Dance Classes ⏤ Adults

###### Daily practice for professionals

Daily classical and contemporary dance practice designed for professional dancers or those in the process of becoming professional dancers. The diversity of the invited teachers’ proposals aims to mirror our approach to what can constitute a dance practice today. 

###### Classical dance
Mon / Wed / Fri: 10:00 to 11:15 a.m.

###### Contemporary dance
Tue / Thu: 10:00 to 11:15 a.m.

###### Price
3€/class (insurance required)

###### Classical dance classes for adults

Classical dance classes for adults are designed for beginners or for those who have been connected to classical dance and want to continue this practice as a means to their well-being.

###### Classical dance
Mon / Wed: 6:30 to 20:00 p.m.

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

Dance Classes at Estúdio 1 — 2025

Dance Classes ⏤ Professionals

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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.

_1º Ciclo _é um programa dedicado a jovens criadores recém-formados, com o objetivo de apoiar a criação das suas primeiras obras. Nesta temporada, os EVC darão apoio à criação a nível nacional, promovendo parcerias com várias estruturas do ensino ligadas às artes performativas, a saber, a Escola Superior de Dança (ESD), a Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE), a Faculdade de Motricidade Humana (FMH) e o Fórum Dança.


1º Ciclo 2022

First Stage - Artist Residencies

First Stage 2022

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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).



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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

At Home ⏤ Marlene Monteiro Freitas

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The fifth edition of the Territory program brings together Catalan choreographer Marcus Morau (_La Veronal_) and Canadian choreographer Dorotea Saykaly, winner of the Emily Molnar Emerging Choreography Award (2021) in its first edition.

The program is a platform for budding artists, annually gathering twelve young dancers from dance schools across the country. In this way, Territory puts its participants in contact with the aesthetic diversity that characterizes dance today, promoting the construction of multiple and inclusive views. This highly professionalizing experience helps each participant discover their place in the world of dance.

This year we will continue the partnership with InShadow Lisbon Screendance Festival through the Territory | Estúdios Victor Córdon Award for Best National Director.

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

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Choreography by DOROTEA SAYKALY

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Short film directed by SARA BERNARDO and PEDRO EMES NOGUEIRA 

###### _Valse_
Choreography by MARCOS MORAU

The fifth edition of the Territory program brings together Catalan choreographer Marcus Morau (La Veronal) and Canadian choreographer Dorotea Saykaly, winner of the Emily Molnar Emerging Choreography Award (2021) in its first edition. 

The program is a platform for budding artists, annually gathering twelve young dancers from dance schools across the country. In this way, Territory puts its participants in contact with the aesthetic diversity that characterizes dance today, promoting the construction of multiple and inclusive views. This highly professionalizing experience contributes to each participant discovering their place in the world of dance.

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

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


TERRITORY V 

A 5ª edição do programa Território junta o coreógrafo catalão Marcos Morau (_La Veronal_) e a coreógrafa canadiana Dorotea Saykaly, vencedora da 1ª edição do prémio Emily Molnar Emerging Choreography (2021).

O programa é uma plataforma para artistas em início de carreira, juntando anualmente doze jovens bailarinos vindos de escolas de dança de todo o país. Desta forma, Território põe os seus participantes em contacto com a diversidade estética que caracteriza a dança na atualidade, promovendo a construção de um olhar heterogéneo e inclusivo. Esta experiência, altamente profissionalizante, contribui para que cada participante descubra o seu lugar no mundo da dança.

Este ano, voltaremos a contar com a parceria do Festival InShadow Lisbon Screendance, através do Prémio Território | Estúdios Victor Córdon, para a categoria de Melhor Realizador Nacional. O programa conta com o apoio do Millennium bcp, mecenas principal do programa.

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Coreografia de DOROTEA SAYKALY 

###### _Dentro_
Curta-metragem com realização de SARA BERNARDO e PEDRO EMES NOGUEIRA

###### _Valse_
Coreografia de MARCOS MORAU

Território V

SCHEDULE

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

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

Território II

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

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

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Choreography by DOUGLAS LEE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Territory I

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

Território III

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

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

###### _Evolving_
Choreography by SHAHAR BINYAMINI 

##### **Lighting design and costumes** | Shahar Binyamini
##### **Assistant** | Yotam Baruch
##### **Musical creation and performance** | Bruna de Moura (cello) and Carolina Duarte (violin)

_Evolving_, Shahar Binyamini’s new creation, explores the notion of overcoming from his conceptual perspective and his physical expression in dance. In this piece, the dancers’ physical limitations are the worktool for the devolpment of the creative process. The dancers use their muscles in constant exertion as they strive for a collective understanding. As distinct entities, as individual bodies, the performers seek a meeting point of forces in which each of them may realize their own power and singularity; in a relentless effort to find a common place that motivates them to move and interact within a chaotic world.
     
###### _In(di)visível_
Short film directed by JOÃO AFONSO VAZ
 
##### **Camera assistant** | Paulo Derriça
##### **Edition** | André Mendes
##### **Assistant editor** | Grazie Pacheco
##### **Colorist** | João Sanchez
##### **Original music** | João Ferreira

###### _Entity_ (excerpts)
Choreography by WAYNE MCGREGOR

###### **Restaging** | Catarina Carvalho
###### **Original music** | Jon Hopkins
###### **Set design and costumes** | Patrick Burnier
###### **Lighting design** | Lucy Carter

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

Território IV

Dancers

Represented dance schools

Partners

Main sponsor

Territory V

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



_Coreografia para uma santificação_ arises from mythological and biblical figures, such as Salome, Mary Magdalene, Helen of Troy. A work that questions the connection between the sacred and the profane, the body as a place of annunciation, miracle, sin, desire. Dance as a privileged space for ritual and the search for ecstasy. The sexual glow as revolutionary prayer, of resistance and search for everyday miracles. A ballet to approach the inexplicable, the transcendent.
Thus, and in the words of Giorgio Agamben, this collaboration is intended to be a “work of salvation [that] coincides here point for point with the work of creation: the former undoes and decreates the latter at the very same moment it carries and accompanies it into being.” And the body, the performer, is asked for transcendence, “the created being, because it is lost, because it cannot but be lost (…) creation and salvation coincide in the unsavable”. 
 
Artistic direction | Mélanie Ferreira and Tiago Vieira
Choreography and Performance | Mélanie Ferreira
Coaching | Tiago Vieira
Scenography, sound, light and costumes | Tiago Vieira
Video and Photography | Bruno Simão
Production | Mélanie Ferreira and Self-mistake
Support for artistic residencies | Latoaria (Lisbon), C.e.m. (Lisbon), Estúdios Vítor Cordon (Lisbon), Teatro Viriato (Viseu), TRUST Collective (Arganil) and Cisterna da Faculdade das Belas Artes (Lisbon) 
Support| Self-Mistake

Coreografia para uma santificação

Programa de apoio à criação artística independente que acolhe criadores na área da dança e outras áreas de cruzamento artístico, a nível nacional e internacional, por um período máximo de duas semanas. Desde a sua génese, os EVC são um espaço de coabitação de múltiplas linguagens, agindo numa resposta direta às necessidades da comunidade artística.





Residências Artísticas — 2022

Artist Residencies — 2022

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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."  
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> David Marques


_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.”
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> David Marques



Itinerários 2022

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

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

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