13 - 15 December 2023, from 6.30 to 9.30pm
Espaço da Penha, Travessa do Calado 26B, Lisbon/Portugal
an organization by O Rumo do Fumo
In this workshop I would like to highlight how the performative practice generates states of attention, self-knowledge and transformation, which intensify the potentialities of the human being. I have increasingly felt the need to create a practice that cares for and dialogues with the various dimensions of the human body, and that combines what dance teaches me, in my experience as a performer and choreographer, with practices of attention and care of the self and of what surrounds us.
In the form of sensorial exercises and scores, we will work and relate the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions of the body, dedicating and deepening ourselves in different parts. I am interested in encouraging symbolic and metaphorical relationships and in encouraging the use of the imaginary and fiction as operational motors. We will also stimulate our capacity to invent practices that are meaningful and transformative. I would like this to be a space to listen to and work with what inhabits us and crosses us in the present moment - desires, questions, intuitions, impressions - and that the experience of doing it together may be revealing and catalysing.
To develop this workshop I find affinity and inspiration in the work of artists Anna Halprin, Lygia Clark (Relational Objects), Alejandro Jodorowsky (Psychomagic) and Valentina Desideri (Fake Art Therapy), that made and make of their artistic practice, places of affection, ritual and healing.
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Teresa Silva (Lisbon, 1988) is a portuguese artist, dedicated to research, creation and interpretation in contemporary dance and performance. She studied in the National Conservatory Dance School, in the Lisbon Polythecnic’s Higher School of Dance and completed the Choreographic Creation, Dance Research and Training Programme at Forum Dança. In 2011, she received a grant from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to attend the DanceWEB Scholarship programme, with the mentoring of Boyzie Cekwana and Isabelle Schad. From her training she highlights the workshops with Deborah Hay, Meg Stuart, Vera Mantero, Loïc Touzé, João Fiadeiro, Julien Hamilton, Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Jonathan Burrows and Jennifer Lacey.
She sees dance as something that exceeds the physical body, which translates into a work on attention and sensitivity, as well as into a multidisciplinary approach to movement. She has been developing choreographic pieces since 2008, making collaborations with national and international artists, moving mainly between Portugal, France and Italy.
Her projects include Due to Force Majeur (2023); A small composition exercise (2023) co-created with vera Mantero; Synecdoche (2022); the investigation project Enjoy the weather (2021); Oracle (2020) created in collaboration with Sara Anjo; the co-creations with Filipe Pereira, Letting Nature take over us again (2013), What remains of what has passed (2013) and New Creation (2017), piece selected to Aerowaves Priority Company 2019; Conquest (2011) a solo adaptation of a Deborah Hay choreography; Leva a mão que eu levo o braço (2010) and Um Espanto não se Espera both (2011), both created in collaboration with Elizabete Francisca, both winners of the National Contest Jovens Criadores; A vida enorme/La vie en or co-created (2009) with Maria Lemos; and the solo Ocooo (2008). In 2022 she create her first film, "Enjoy the weather: the film", screened at the FID - Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille.
As a performer, she has worked with artists and choreographers such as La Tierce in Construire un feu; Kristina Norman in Orchidelirium - An appetite for Abundance, project created to La Biennale di Venezia 2022; Alain Michard in L'Aurore, Vera Mantero in O susto é um mundo, Sónia Baptista in The Anger! The Fury!, David Marques in Mistério da Cultura and Ressaca, Marco d’Agostin in Avalanche, Loïc Touzé in Forme Simple, Fanfare and Ô Montagne, Marlene Monteiro Freitas in Bacantes - Prelude to a purge (replacement), Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard in For Claude Shannon, Rita Natálio in Museu Encantador, Tiago Guedes in Hoje, Luís Guerra in Nevoeiro, Tânia Carvalho in Icosahedron and Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz in O mesmo mas ligeiramente diferente. Since 2012 she has been teaching classes and workshops in a close relationship with her research work. She co-organizes a group called Dance Classes and Practices, Today interested in questioning and developing pedagogical practices in the context of contemporary dance and performing arts. Since 2019, she has been developing the laboratories "Can the body be an oracle?" with Sara Anjo and "States of attention and care through the performative practice".
Since 2019 she collaborates with Agência 25 as her production structure.
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