Mariana Gomes Dias and Francisco Freire

Continuing Mariana Gomes Dias's collaboration with Companhia de Dança de Almada, we are currently logistically supporting her new project of choreographic creation and intervention in the community, as part of our project to support emerging choreographers.

E DEPOIS ERAM DOIS (and then there were two) is a multidisciplinary creative project directed by Mariana Gomes Dias and Francisco Freire, which will result in a performance that explores Intimacy, and reflects on issues associated with it, such as: the relationship of the SELF with body and mind, the relationship between the I and the OTHER, the I with THEM, and the US, and the influence that the environment has on these relationships.

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Sete Anos - Associação Cultural | Cláudia Dias
Premiere scheduled for September 14th and 15th, 2024, at Seixal Cultural Forum

DES... is a creation by Sete Anos - Associação Cultural, designed for the 25th of April 1974 revolution celebrations.

Designed for the territories of Seixal, Serpa and Matosinhos, it evokes aspects such as clandestinity houses, agrarian reform, and the canning industry. It has a team of professionals and non-professionals, namely young people from the “Sete Anos Sete Escolas” project, with people over 65 years old, in an intergenerational perspective leading to sharing the memories of those who lived under a dictatorship in contrast with younger people.

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Photograph (crop) from the collection of José Saramago Foundation on Flickr. Authorized use.

Creations by Raquel Tavares | Mariana Dias | Beatriz Lourenço
Presentation on the 1st and 15th October, at Casa da Cerca - Centro de Arte Contemporânea and at José Saramago Municipal Library, in Almada

This program, curated and produced by Companhia de Dança de Almada, aims to support young artists committed to choreographic creation. It will consist of 3 pieces inspired by the writings of José Saramago, to be presented in different informal spaces. The project, unified by the reappropriation and reinterpretation of the author's universe in personalized visions, was based on a proposal by the Municipal Library Network of Almada and embraced by the direction of the Ca.DA.

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EmbalArte is an artistic collective created by Ângela Ribeiro and Susana Rosendo, aimed mainly at young audiences, which has regularly received support from Ca.DA. In 2022, the support is towards the creation of a new performance and also to the touring of the previously created pieces “De Lés a Lés saberás quem és”, “As voltas que a terra dá”, “Do pé para a mão” and “O Museu Andante - Júlio Pomar”, by Ângela Ribeiro.

In 2022, the artistic duo proposes to carry out a work with and for a different audience, the group of seniors already linked to Companhia de Dança de Almada’s school, with which they intend to create a play in which movement, theater and the manipulation of animated shapes is to be explored.

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