SENSORIANAS | Clara Andermatt | 2025

© Mário Negrão

Fui convidada a abordar o Irão e a sua cultura pelos Estúdios Victor Córdon através da criação de uma peça a apresentar no âmbito do programa Outros Mundos.

Encarei o convite como um desafio de aproximação à cultura persa permitindo- me explorar e celebrar a sua riqueza.
Desejo que a peça alie encanto e contemplação a partir de uma experiência artística ancorada nos contributos da diáspora iraniana radicada no nosso país. Procuro desbravar o caminho temático da peça compilando visões individuais portadoras de referências, sugestões e pistas de estudo.
Tenciono explorar diferentes estilos de dança tradicional do Irão, reinterpretados por mim e pelos colaboradores desta criação à luz da dança contemporânea. O foco recai sobre o universo feminino, tendo a poesia e a música iranianas, entre outras, como elementos integradores e inspiradores. Não procuro abarcar a imensidão da cultura persa nem tenho a pretensão de a representar, tarefa impossível e indesejável para quem se aproxima pela primeira vez de uma realidade vasta e complexa. Proponho uma visão subjetiva animada da vontade de promover encontros e de construir pontes culturais. Um olhar curioso e interessado para uma realidade profundamente diferente da nossa. Um espaço de diálogo e reflexão sobre aspetos da vida quotidiana, da liberdade e da diversidade cultural que devemos defender e celebrar no contexto global atual.

Artistic Direction | Clara Andermatt
Interpretation | Beatriz Valentim, Helia Bandeh, Leonor Alecrim, Maria Fonseca, Rita Carpinteiro
Musical Direction | João Lucas, Clara Andermatt
Artistic Assintance and Investigation | Margarida Bak Gordon
Light Design | Wilma Moutinho
Costumes | to define
Scenography | Eric Costa
Props | Golshan Chahian
Sound Design and Operation | Ricardo Figueiredo
Light Operation | Carlos Vieira
Executive Production | ACCCA - Miguel Pereira and Ruana Carolina
Comunication Partnership | Antena 2, Coffeepaste
Artistic Residency | OPART / Estúdios Victor Córdon
Co-production | OPART / Estúdios Victor Córdon, A Oficina (Centro Cultural Vila Flor/Guimarães)

NEVA | Joana Magalhães | 2024

© João Octávio Peixoto/TMP

Neva [It Snows] is a performance for small children that stands between installation and theatre, an open work designed as a sensory and narrative experience that is created in interaction with the audience. Almost wordless and lacking an explicit narrative, the performance is backed by a shared synaesthetic experience. Drawing on the material and performing nature of both snow and haze, one creates an immersive performance, introducing the young audience to the stage by means of a scenic device set up for that purpose. — Joana Magalhães

Created by | Joana Magalhães
Performed by | Beatriz Valentim, Joana Magalhães
Music | Raymund Scott
Light design | Cárin Geada
Set design execution | Cristóvão Neto
Video registration | Vasco Mendes
Produced by | Plataforma UMA
Residency support | CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, Cassandra, CRL- Central Elétrica
Support | Fundação GDA, República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes, Teatro Municipal do Porto
Acknowledgments | Ana Isabel Castro, Catarina Barros, João Barreto

A NIGHT IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST | Ensemble Sociedade de Actores | 2024

© João Fitas

A Night in the Belly of the Beast is a rock tragedy on the volatile nature of power relations, based on original music by Ricardo Pinto and the imagery, lyrics and dramaturgy of André Lourenço. Staged by Jorge Pinto and choreographed by Deeogo Oliveira, this multidisciplinary performance brings together on stage musicians, actors and dancers. — Ensemble – Sociedade de Actores

Staging and set design | Jorge Pinto
Music and musical direction | Ricardo Pinto
Lyrics and concept | André Lourenço
Choreography | Deeogo Oliveira
Sound design and operation | Rui Barreiros
Lighting design and operation | Tiago Silva
Costumes | Cátia Barros
Staging assistance | Filipa Dias
Performed by | André Lourenço, Ricardo Pinto, Marcelo Rúben Aires, André Sobral, Kevin Mota (musicians), Maria Cruz, Ana de Oliveira e Silva, Beatriz Baptista, Beatriz Valentim (dancers), Débora Fortes, Sofia Vide (intern dancers), Francisco Lima, Carlos Daniel, Jorge Pinto (actors)
Thanks to | Rui Aires / Artária, Adélio Tedim
Coproduction | Ensemble – Sociedade de Actores, Teatro Municipal do Porto

RESGATE | Jonas & Lander | 2024

© Carolina Lecoq

During the creative process of BATE FADO, the desire to start a company of batedores begins to be consolidated among the choreographers so that the proposal to form a Fado Batido dance continues to expand. After BATE FADO, the second step of this plan that proposes the return of dance to Fado is entitled RESGATE.

RESGATE is a project that is divided into two moments, starting in a training phase, which later transitions to a creation phase. The training period took place at Pro.dança and lasted four weeks between May and June 2024. This plan for training the choreographic vocabulary of Fado Batido aimed to form a group of dancers who began the creation of a dance company. This course was facilitated by Jonas&Lander and professionals associated with the Fandango, Flamenco and Kuduro dances. The aim is to create an ecosystem of choreographic influences similar to the dances that forged Fado Batido in its origins.

Artistic Direction | Lander Patrick
Choreography | Colaboration between Catarina Campos, Fábio Krayze, Lander
Patrick, João Larat, Melissa Sousa and Jonas
Interpretation | Beatriz Valentim, Fernando Queiroz e Maria Abrantes

YOUNG COMPOSERES | Estúdios Víctor Cordon | 2024

© Guilherme Gouveia | EVC 2024

In its seventh edition, the Young Composers Program continues to promote a collaborative spirit and foster interactions between artists in creative processes, this time focusing on Music Composition, Writing and Choreography.

Throughout its existence, several composers, choreographers, writers, visual artists, directors, stage directors, instrumentalists, singers, dancers and actors/actresses have participated in the program. From here, many other collaborations have emerged between these artists, who, outside the context of the program, have started joint projects and consolidated their own professional careers.

Since the first edition of Young Composers, the program has developed a number of partnerships and collaborations with higher education institutions and groups of professionals at the start of their careers, including Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Escola Superior de Dança, Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo do Porto, the Concrète [Lab] Ensemble and Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual.

Composers | Débora Coquim, Rúben Dias, Tiago Simas

Choreographers | Beatriz Valentim, Deeogo Oliveira, Joana Franco