\u2192 20% for people who are participating or have participated in Forum Dan\u00e7a long-term courses (PACAP or PEPCC), Parasita Workshops, and dance students.<\/em>
\u2192 50% | Scholarships for artists and\/or dance students, with the support of the GDA Foundation (upon application until May 15).<\/em><\/p>\n
Workshops 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n May 27 to 29\u00a0 | 18h00 \u2013 21h00 A few years ago, Improv\u00e1vel Produ\u00e7\u00f5es, founded by choreographers Marcela Levi and Luc\u00eda Russo, set out with a series of questions that call for work to be done: how to embody, that is, materialize, in conversation with the poet \u00c9douard Glissant, the desire for \u201ca world of many worlds\u201d? What strategies are needed to disrupt the frontal architecture and unidirectional visuality of an Italian stage? How can we bridge distances without crushing the gaps, that is, how can we coexist with differences in a non-separatist way? What strategies are needed to sustain the continuity of collective research work, that is, how can we gain time?<\/p>\n Loaded with these questions, in a gesture that seeks crossovers, we will share some fundamental aspects of the artistic issues that (dis)orient our research.<\/p>\n In the first part of this workshop, aimed at professionals and students of the performing arts, we will practice the multifaceted nature of the body through the multidirectional conduction of bone masses (skull, pelvis, ribs, shoulder blades, calcaneus, and metatarsus), activated by the force of thrust and the pull of magnetization forces. In 2010, choreographers Marcela Levi (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Luc\u00eda Russo (Patagonia, Argentina), who have been active in the field of dance research in Brazil and abroad for over 30 years, founded Improv\u00e1vel Produ\u00e7\u00f5es in Rio de Janeiro, a platform for training, research, and creation. Levi & Russo are committed to a polyphonic direction in which different inventive positions intersect in a process that welcomes deviant lines, dissent, and internal differences as a constructive critical force, rather than as mutually exclusive polarities.<\/p>\n With a repertoire that crosses dances, music, voices, and thoughts from different times and places, Improv\u00e1vel affirms contemporary dance as an expanded field of coexistence and critical thinking. Among its creations, c h \u00e3O, 3 contra 2: Psico Tr\u00f3picos, Fora de Quadro, and o que \u00e9 o coro. coro stand out, the latter commissioned for the 32 dancers of the Bal\u00e9 da Cidade de S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n More information: https:\/\/improvavelproducoes.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5 \u2013 9 August In the last years Harald Beharie has been engaged in exploring the body as a site of ambivalence. A site where opposing forces, desires, and mechanics coexist and collide. The workshop draws on materials and methodologies developed across a trilogy of works (Batty Bwoy, Undersang and Sweet Spot, 2022 \u2013 2026) , where the body is approached as something unstable, excessive, and exposed in its constant negotiation with its surroundings. Fragments, practices, and scores from these works will function as starting points and shared references. Not as fixed choreographies, but as material to be reactivated, distorted, and reimagined within the group. Together, we will form a temporary collective. A space for delving into ways of being, for channeling and manifesting attitudes and energetic states. Beginning with specific somatic and vocal practices, we will move into more open sessions, working with both voice and movement. The workshop explores how ambiguity can be sustained as a generative force, allowing a collective body to emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure. We will explore how playfulness and uncanniness can produce layers of magic, confusion, and slippage. How to remain in confusion, together and also leaning into awkwardness and silliness as a productive state. How ambiguity can be embodied through form, sensation, and duration. How something lingers and leaks. Harald Beharie(he\/they) is a Norwegian-Jamaican performer and choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. <\/p>\n September 30 to October 4 During these days of exploration, I will share approaches, strategies, and tools that I have been developing over more than twenty years of continuous work as a performer and improviser in the fields of dance, performance, and the visual arts. The proposal involves immersing ourselves in the body as one of the richest territories and one of the privileged instruments for the expression of creative impulse, activating dimensions that are often dormant or uninhabited, seeking to reawaken consciousness to all that dwells or hides in the darkness of the unconscious. We will work primarily with sensory stimuli that extend beyond the visual field, prioritizing listening and hearing, but also internal archaeology, opening space for transcendental dives that may stray beyond the scripts of control and predictability. Above all, it will be a space for exploration, experimentation, spontaneous composition, and improvisation, where the body of each day will become the primary guide and conductor. We will seek states of presence that are more detached from preconceived notions of right and wrong, good and evil, and valid and invalid, without, however, compromising our standards regarding form or content. In this way, we will create space for intense experiences\u2014sometimes akin to or evoking altered states of consciousness\u2014that reveal bodies that are more receptive, sensitive, and alive. Above all, this will be an encounter to be built together, with the hope that for each participant it will be a nourishing moment that propels the expansion of the physical, psychic, and emotional realms.<\/p>\n Lu\u00eds Guerra [Lisbon, 1985] studied dance at the National Conservatory (1995\u20132003); choreography at the Gulbenkian Foundation (2005); relaxation massage at the Institute of Traditional Medicine (2020); painting and drawing at ArCo (2019\u20132022); and also completed the advanced course and individual project in visual arts at that same school (2022\u20132025), where he received the Vera Futscher scholarship. He regularly exhibits his visual work and has been working for over two decades as a performer, dancer, improviser, model for drawing classes, teacher, and choreographer, with recent and\/or regular collaborations with Vera Mantero, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz, Simon Vincenzi, Emio Greco|PC, Claudia Castelucci, Christophe Haleb, Meg Stuart, Elisabete Francisca, Mariana Tengner Barros, Teresa Silva, David Marques, T\u00e2nia Carvalho, among others. He was a DanceWeb fellow and in recent years has devoted himself primarily to improvisation and the evocation of trance states, generally in durational performances presented in non-theatrical contexts such as art galleries, gardens, or outdoor spaces. Among her recent works, highlights include an improvisational tribute to Almada Negreiros on the steps of the Gulbenkian Foundation, a solo piece featuring dance and text of her own creation in the garden of Casa da Cerca, improvisations in the Monsanto forest during the Silvestre Festival, an improvisational performance involving audience interaction presented at MAAT, and improvised performances at the TicTac Art Centre. She currently resides in Brussels, where she conducts a series of occasional workshops in the field of improvisation within the context of the performing arts.<\/p>\n 5 to 8 May, 2025 | 2pm \u2013 6pm<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Meg Stuart<\/strong><\/p>\n 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\u2019s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines. 28 to 30 May, 2025 | 6pm \u2013 9pm 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?<\/p>\nAssemble, disassemble, reassemble <\/strong><\/i><\/h4>\n
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\nMay 30 and 31 | 10h00 \u2013 13h00 + 14h00 \u2013 17h00
\nForum Dan\u00e7a, Espa\u00e7o da Penha, Lisboa
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\nIn a second moment, we will dedicate ourselves to searching for and fabricating connections between subjects distant in time and space. Recognizing resonances and echoes, in the search for commonalities between distinct visible and invisible subjects, will help us weave this field of forces in tension. Assemble, disassemble, reassemble, disassemble, reassemble\u2026<\/p>\n![\"retrato](\"https:\/\/parasita.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/retrato_Lucia-Russo-Marcela-Levi_foto_Bea-Borges-scaled.jpg\" "\\"retrato")
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\nAmbiguous Intensities<\/strong><\/i><\/h3>\n
with Harald Beharie<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nTue\u2013Thu 6:30\u20139:30 pm | Sat\u2013Sun 10 am\u20131 pm & 2\u20135 pm
\nForum Dan\u00e7a, Espa\u00e7o da Penha, Lisbon
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\nBeharie\u2019s practice and choreographies often emerge in the tension between the everyday and the extreme, the banal and the sacred, playing with transformation as a continuous principle, for both the body and the spaces they move through. At the core lies a desire to challenge how we sense, understand, and organize reality. Their works explore how queerness and the body can act as a medium and a site for revolt, ecstasy, and dissolution They hold a special interest for the DIY and the vulnerability of being in the unknown.
\nBeharie is interested in how the body can function as a motor for dramaturgy, a force in itself that transforms through practice. In his works Batty Bwoy and Undersang, pleasure, excess, and monstrosity can become forces for empowerment and transformation while using the body as a site of ambivalence.<\/p>\n
\ndancing with the invisible or dancing with your whole body<\/strong><\/h3>\n
with<\/strong> Lu\u00eds Guerra<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nTue\u2013Thu 6:30\u20139:30 pm | Sat\u2013Sun 10 am\u20131 pm & 2\u20135 pm
\nForum Dan\u00e7a, Espa\u00e7o da Penha, Lisbon
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Oracular Bodies: channelling movement and energy<\/strong><\/i><\/h4>\n
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\nEVC | Est\u00fadios Victor C\u00f3rdon
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\nThrough 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\nDancing as Political Healing <\/strong><\/i>with Keith Hennessy<\/strong><\/h4>\n
\n31 maio a 1 de junho de 2025 | 10am \u2014 1pm + 2pm \u2013 5pm
\nForum Dan\u00e7a, Espa\u00e7o da Penha, Lisbon
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