In this research workshop for a new performance UM [unimal], dance may become a manifestation of resilience and survival. We will search for collective movements of resistance focusing on each participant’s personal story.

UM [unimal] tem o apoio do Ministério da Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes / has the support of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.

In this research workshop for a new performance UM [unimal], dance may become a manifestation of resilience and survival. We will search for collective movements of resistance focusing on each participant’s personal story.

UM [unimal] tem o apoio do Ministério da Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes / has the support of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.

Between the traditional schuhplattler and contemporary dance, this workshop will be a unique opportunity to discover what energy lies beneath the dance of any time and context. In acknowledging and learning a specific repertoire, embodying it, sharing it, what endures?

Through theatre we try to give a voice to the stories that we don’t want to let disappear and that belongs to us all, our stories, the stories within History.

This workshop is a space where muscles, intellect and spirit meet in the dancer’s body, with the same importance, to produce visual, movement and sound materials. The workshop is based on working on rhythm composition and measuring time and space, challenging the coordination of movement.

A workshop to discover our bodies and our voice as places of well-being. Exercises to explore and learn how to repeat, in an attempt to relax and to get to know these tools of self-expression.

A workshop inspired in the workplace, whether it is an office or by the machines, close to leather, paper, or thread. The industrial world is the point of departure for the thinking of the knees, the humerus or the fascias latas.

This workshop is based on the observation and collective discussion of movement improvisation exercises as a base for theatre writing, using movement as a motor for writing and vice-versa.

Through the impulse to dance and the pleasure of movement practice, the dancer Duarte Valadares will explore along with the handball athletes from the club “Juventude Amizade e Convívio de Alcanena” a vocabulary associated to urban dances in relation with contemporary dance.

Questioning concepts, this workshop proposes to explore the fields of contemporary performing arts, bringing forward protagonists, materials and topics that cross and unsettle these territories.

From her own investigation as an artist and a researcher Rita Natálio will develop concepts and questions in the field of post-colonial studies, antropocene/capitalocene, racism, animism and perspectivism, putting them in relation with questions that the participants may wish to discuss.