WORKSHOPS PARASITA & FORUM DANÇA

Oracular Bodies: channelling movement and energy with Meg Stuart

5 to 8 May, 2025 | 2pm – 6pm
EVC | Estúdios Victor Córdon
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In this immersive workshop, you are invited to step into the liminal space where the body is an oracle, and movement a conduit for unseen forces. Drawing from somatic practices, improvisation, energy work, and divinatory traditions, Oracular Bodies explores how we can receive, interpret, and embody transpersonal messages beyond language.

Through guided improvisations, trance states, and collective lucid dreaming participants will playfully engage with movement as divination-channeling impulses from within and with each other. We will experiment with energetic transmissions, vocal resonance, and spontaneous composition, using the body as a site of revelation.

Meg Stuart

Choreographer, director, and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. With her company, Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, ranging from solos and duets to group pieces, video works, site-specific creations and improvisation projects. Stuart’s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines.
Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she explores dance as a source of healing and a way to transform the social fabric. Improvisation is an important part of Stuart’s practice, as a strategy to move from physical and emotional states or the memory of them. Meg Stuart has received many awards for her work, notably the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018, and she was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023.

Dancing as Political Healing with Keith Hennessy

28 to 30 May, 2025 | 6pm – 9pm
31 maio a 1 de junho de 2025 | 10am — 1pm + 2pm – 5pm
Forum Dança, Espaço da Penha, Lisbon
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Favouring improvisation and collaboration, Keith Hennessy plays with the possibilities of healing, politics and dancing together, considering the curiosities and concerns of the participants. Calling on his prophetic forebears Gustav Landauer and Octavia Butler to renew dance, Hennessy poses the questions: what inspires or prevents you from dancing more freely, especially with other bodies? What activates or impedes your healing potential? How is your body responding to the new wars, precariousness and bodily traumas? How can dance be activated as an anti-capitalist strategy, as a new ethics of relationship, pleasure and shared power?

Keith Hennessy

A frolicker, imperfectionist, and witch working in the fields of contemporary dance, queer performance, affordable housing, sexual and political healing. Raised in Canada, he has lived in Yelamu/San Francisco since 1982. Hennessy’s work is interdisciplinary and experimental, motivated by anti-racist, queer-feminist, and anarchist movements. With a focus on the politics of relationship, Keith’s performance collaborators include Ishmael Houston-Jones, Sarah Crowell, Meg Stuart, Peaches, Nathaniel Moore, Jassem Hindi, and jose abad. Keith’s 2024-25 teaching includes Lviv Ukraine, Cornell Univ, La Manzana de Paxton, ImPulsTanz, The Field Center.