PORTUGUESE PLATFORM FOR PERFORMING ARTS: PT. 23

The 8th edition of the Portuguese Platform for Performing Arts already has an official date and will take place from June 6th to 10th, 2023, in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal. In these five days, programmers, curators, artistic directors and those responsible for festivals and/or theaters will have the opportunity to see some of the most interesting works, created in the last two years in Portugal, in the areas of dance, theater and performance, selected by a highly skilled jury.

MEET THE FIRST 5 SELECTED PROJECTS FOR PT. 23!

André e. Teodósio. © Alípio Padilha — © Alípio Padilha

André e. Teodósio
with INFO MANIAC

André e. Teodósio is a central figure in the Portuguese theater scene and a founder and member of Teatro Praga. He is also an incredible mover and in INFO MANIAC we meet an actor on stage that both talks about himself, revealing everything, while also reveals himself as being everything but himself. To do so, he uses the repertoire of his own experiences: poems, choreography, recipes, stories, and magic potions, as well as a kind of a retrospective glossary of Teatro Praga’s work. Continuing in disarray, INFO MANIAC is a guerrilla manual for our times, an apology for being-in-relation, a show that thinks of everything in order to give and occupy space and time. And in secret, we will know that we know nothing, but that Everything knows everything about us.

Diana Niepce. © Alípio Padilha — © Alípio Padilha

Diana Niepce
with The Other Side of Dance

Diana Niepce is one of the most remarkable artists on the Portuguese contemporary dance scene. She is a choreographer, dancer, researcher and writer, known for her defiant, sensitive, groundbreaking and extremely rigorous work, where she radically expands the limits of the body, of movement and of dance itself. After Anda, Diana (2020), her previous piece in which she portrays her recovery process as a dancer after an accident that made her tetraplegic, she now presents us The Other Side of Dance, a bold, violent and sophisticated choreography that uses the apparent fragilities of the body as an element of power and overcoming, giving visibility and strength to historically marginalized discourses.

Gaya de Medeiros. © José Fernandes — © José Fernandes

Gaya de Medeiros
with BAqUE — Contorno do Gosto

Gaya de Medeiros is a highly talented young dancer and choreographer, having founded BRABA.plataforma in order to enable creative actions directed and carried out by trans/non-binary people. Recently chosen in the Final Twenty artists of Aerowaves last edition, and interested in researching the intersections between the word and the body, the private and the public, the intimate and the social, Gaya wonders about the place of drama in contemporary times. BAqUE is a concert-performance and a celebration. In a ritual of affections and fables, a collective of trans people experience an utopia where all bodies are equal and gender no longer exists, nor any other marker that differentiates them. They propose to (re)narrate the world and the relationships that connect us with existence: talking about everything that makes us vibrate in life and everything that makes us stop vibrating in it. BAqUE seeks to answer the question: if my body did not come before me, what would I talk about?

Marco da Silva Ferreira
with C A R C A S S

Marco da Siva Ferreira, a brilliant choreographer with an exciting and innovative movement language and a key figure in the new generation of Portuguese contemporary dance, will present his most recent work, C A R C A S S, a strong piece for a group of 10 exciting performers and 2 live musicians, using dance as a tool to research community, the construction of collective identity, memory and cultural crystallization. They depart from familiar footwork, from clubbing, balls, battles, ciphers, and the studio, to approach standardized and immutable folk dances that they have inherited and revisited. How does one decide to forget and become a memory? What is the role of individual identities in building a community? What is their driving force?

Tânia Carvalho. © Rui Palma — © Rui Palma

Tânia Carvalho
with Versa-Vice

Tânia Carvalho, a reference in Portuguese contemporary dance, has a distinctive movement language and a unique sense of depth translated into works that defy classification and excel in composition. Our platform will present her new creation, Versa-Vice, that will premiere in Paris at Bienal du Val du Marne, in March. About it, Tânia writes: “I don’t have concrete ideas about my work. In these times when people tend to explain things rationally, it’s hard for me to find a way to defend my work and write about it. I try not to use my mind any more than I use my other senses. The mind is only a small part of the game. I try to open my heart to the unknown in me. This way I get closer to everything that exists, and I think this way I get closer to my purpose of being an artist in this life”.

For this new work with 9 dancers, Tânia, also a brilliant musician, will compose and perform live.

MORE INFORMATIONS FOR PROGRAMMERS, CURATORS AND DIRECTORS

If you’re a programmer, curator and/or director and you wish to know more about PT. 23, please contact our team. We’ll answer as soon as possible.

Sónia Cabecinhas
pt.platform@oespacodotempo.pt

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Ana Rocha

ANA ROCHA

Ana Rocha (Porto, 1982) was a producer for visual arts and performing arts. She is a curator, choreographer, performer and dramaturge. She has been working in the cultural and artistic field as an independent freelancer for 21 years. She works as cultural mediation and programming (TAMANHO M, XXATENEUXXI’19, Cultura em Expansão (2019 to 2022), To School Out of School’19 \ Colectivos Pláka, TanzKongress’19, ViaAberta\Mid Summers Night Dream’19, CURADURA’21, Set-Up’21, A Casa de Sibila’22, among others), collaborating with informal organizations for the arts, artists-run collectives and public institutions. Ana collaborates as a freelance consultant for performing arts in different contexts & disciplines, artists and structures as Sekoia and Bela Associação, and Braga’27 ECC, among others.

Cláudia Galhós

CLÁUDIA GALHÓS

Cláudia Galhós (Lisbon, 1972) writes about culture, performing arts and dance for newspapers since 1994, in publications such as BLITZ, O Independente, Público, Jornal de Letras, Mouvement, Visão, among others. She has been writing about performing arts for Expresso since 2005. For television, she was editor of the weekly cultural magazine about culture “AGORA” and Palcos Agora (RTP2 (2012 to 2015)) and editor of the weekly supplement «Artes de Palco», of the program «Magazine » (RTP2, 2004 to 2006). She was the editor and author of the book “There is nothing that is beyond your imagination” (2015, within the framework of the European network “Imagine 2020 – Art and Climate Change”, which brings together 10 European theaters, led by Kaaitheater, in Brussels).

Cristina Planas Leitão

CRISTINA PLANAS LEITÃO

BA in Contemporary Dance from ArtEZ (BA), Arnhem (NL), 2006. In July 2022, she takes over the Interim Artistic Direction of the Performing Arts Department of ÁGORA, Porto (Teatro Municipal do Porto, DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva) and in February 2023, will assume the co-Artistic Direction, together with Drew Klein. As a performing arts programmer, she highlights her collaboration with DAP, under the Artistic Direction of Tiago Guedes, and where she is part of the programming team for the regular seasons of TMP (from 2019), Festival DDD since the 2020 edition and CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva developing his artistic project and mission since its opening in 2021. Her aggregating curatorial practice is focused on the development of sustainable creation formats, new narratives and care relationships within the performing arts.

Francisco Frazão

FRANCISCO FRAZÃO

Francisco Frazão is artistic director of Teatro do Bairro Alto, a new city theater in Lisbon dedicated to experimental, emerging and international works. So far, TBA has presented work by Gob Squad, Tim Crouch, Tania El Khoury, Federico León, Alessandro Sciarroni and nora chipaumire, among others, while co-producing local artists such as Cão Solteiro, David Marques, Welket Bungué and Raquel Castro. From 2004 to 2017, Francisco was a theater programmer at the Culturgest arts center. He has worked as a translator and playwright (notably for the theater company Artistas Unidos) and has written and conducted classes and seminars on theater, cinema and literature.

Maria João Guardão

MARIA JOÃO GUARDÃO

Maria João Guardão is a filmmaker and a journalist. She was born in Moçambique and lives in Lisboa. She directed documentary series for television as well as artists portraits, and worked as a cultural journalist for newspapers, television, editorial and online projects and, recently, for the National Theatre Dona Maria II. Her documentary NADA PODE FICAR | EVERYTHING MUST GO, on João Fiadeiro’s company RE.AL last days, was awarded Best First Time Feature Filmaker (Berlin Art Film Festival, 2022)

Nádia Yracema

NÁDIA YRACEMA

Born on the 3rd of July in Luanda, Angola. She began her education at the University Theater, TEUC. At the same time, she attended a law degree at the University of Coimbra. In 2012, she joined ESTC-Ramo Actors. After completing her academic training, she has often worked as an actress and director. She has an active participation in several social organizations that promote collaborative work in the fields of cinema, theater and performance. In 2019, together with Cleo Diára and Isabél Zuaa, she won the Amélia Rey Colaço scholarship and co-created the AURORA NEGRA project.

Odete

ODETE

Odete is a multidisciplinary artist working between the fields of music, visual arts, writing, performance, and theatre, born in Porto in 1995. Her writings have previously appeared in Trains Magazine, Tranfeminist Zine, and others. Her performances have been presented at Teatro São Luiz (Lisbon), CTM Festival (Berlin), BOCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts, MAAT Museum (Lisbon), Galeria Municipal do Porto (Porto), and Teatro Municipal Campo Alegre (Porto). In 2020 she won the ReXform Award for performing arts, from which resulted the project On Revelations and Muddy Becomings on which her first book is based.

Patrícia Portela

PATRÍCIA PORTELA

Patrícia Portela is a writer and performance maker born in 1974, living between Belgium and Portugal. She studied set and costume design in Lisbon and in Utrecht where she made her master of arts, she has studied film in Ebeltoft at the European Film College, Denmark, and has a master in Philosophy from the International Institute of Leuven, Belgium. She is a founder member of the Prado cultural association since 2003 and a curator at the collective editions Prado since 2008. Patrícia Portela writes chronicles for Jornal de Letras, Jornal do Centro and Coffeepaste. She was the Artistic Director of Teatro Viriato from March 2020 to February 2022.

Pedro Barreiro

PEDRO BARREIRO

Pedro Barreiro is the new artistic director of O Espaço do Tempo. He is an artist who has been developing several works as director, actor, performance-maker, dramaturg, producer, programmer and curator. He has been interested, in recent years and among other things, in thinking about performative acts as poetic generators, in experimenting with the conventions of theatrical forms, and in strategies for dismantling hegemonic systems in contemporary art. He was the artistic director of Teatro Sá da Bandeira, in Santarém (2015-2017) and collaborated with Teatro Praga as programmer of Rua das Gaivotas 6 (2019-2022). He is also an associated artist of Cão Solteiro since 2020.

Pedro Penim

PEDRO PENIM

Born in Lisbon in 1975, Pedro Penim is a director, actor and dramaturgist. With a degree in Theater from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and a Master’s in Cultural Management from ISCTE, in 1995 he founded the Teatro Praga collective, an emblematic company of contemporary Portuguese theatrical creation. He is also the founder of the cultural space Rua das Gaivotas6, in Lisbon, a project that welcomes creations by new artists. Pedro Penim’s work – which extends to programming, translation, teaching and lecture activity – has already been presented in several festivals throughout the Portuguese territory, as well as in several countries in Europe, South America, Asia and the Middle East.

Rui Horta

RUI HORTA

Rui Horta started dancing at the age of 17 at Ballet Gulbenkian. He studied, taught and performed in New York for several years. In 1990, he founded the S.O.A.P Dance Theater Frankfurt, where he created, over 7 years, six programs which toured all over the world. From 1998 to 2000 he worked in Munich, at the Muffathalle, where he created “Bones & Oceans”, “Zeitraum” and “Blindspot”. In August 2000, he returned to Portugal (Montemor-o-Novo), where he founded the multidisciplinary center for research and creation O Espaço do Tempo.

Rui Torrinha

RUI TORRINHA

Rui Torrinha is currently the Artistic Director of Centro Cultural Vila Flor (CCVF) and Performing Arts programming. He directs international annual festivals like GUIdance, Westway LAB and Gil Vicente covering different art fields such as contemporary dance, music and theatre. He also runs the support plan for the performing arts creation process connected to CCVF and Centro de Criação de Cardoso (CCC) in the form of coproductions and artistic residencies. He has been the main coordinator, on behalf of A Oficina, of several EU projects (ex: INES, ETEP, AEROWAVES) and national networks. In 2012, Torrinha was chosen as one of the members for artistic programming team of Guimarães 2012, European Capital of Culture.

Tânia Guerreiro

TÂNIA GUERREIRO

Tânia Guerreiro has worked in various areas of show production, cinema, visual arts and festivals, such as Festival Atlântico, Temps d’Images, Alkantara, Casa d’Os Dias da Água, O Som e A Fúria, ZDB, Jangada de Pedra, where she worked in production, management, fundraising, development of European projects and communication. She created the Self-Mistake project in 2019, which promotes artistic creation, in a context of experimentation and risk, in the areas of dance and contemporary performance. Under the Self-Mistake program, she supports several emerging artists with scholarships, monitoring and support for their work.

Portuguese Platform for Performing Arts: PT. 23