Concept by Bruno Duarte | Artistic residency in Lugo - Spain
Premieres on April 5th, at the Auditorio Municipal Gustavo Freire, Lugo - Spain

Inspired by the traditional Festas dos Rapazes (boys’ festivities) that, throughout the Northeast of Trás-os-Montes, Portugal and Galiza in tneighboring Spain, span the twelve-day period between Christmas and Three Kings Day (January 6), “Inverno” (Winter), in this new version for a cast of six dancers, seeks to encapsulate the essence of these different celebratory practices and rituals.

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Creation by Vítor Afonso
Premieres on April 20, 2024, at Academia Almadense, as part of the Commemorative Programme for the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April, the Carnation Revolution

do you consider yourself someone with an active voice? what drives you? what are your triggers? “a silent echo” is a space in which we deal with internal conflicts, in a conversation with ourselves or with others, in a search for freedom of action and expression. Vítor Afonso

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Creations by Carolina Cantinho, Hugo Marmelada and Brian Scalini
Premiered on June 21, 2024, at the Auditório Fernando Lopes-Graça, Almada

Believing in the importance of experimentation and artistic freedom, the artistic direction of Companhia de Dança de Almada invited young Portuguese choreographers Carolina Cantinho and Hugo Marmelada to create original pieces, based on their own individual research, in artistic residences with the company's dancers. To complete this programme, we also invited the Italian choreographer Brian Scalini to restage the creation "Wuthering Days" with three of the company's dancers, taking advantage of his recent stay in Portugal.

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Creation by São Castro
Premiere scheduled for September 27, 2024, at Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite, Almada

After a first creation by São Castro for Companhia de Dança de Almada, “The Art of Losing” in 2016, once again we invited the choreographer to create a new piece with the cast of this company. The research and creation process will begin at Teatro Viriato, as part of the Artistic Residencies Programme "mi casa tu casa".

Associating itself with the 100th anniversary of the death of the controversial and influential writer Franz Kafka, in the year 2024, São Castro combines the body and its expressive potential with the visceral and enigmatic narrative of the author, in whose works the issue of art is brought to the center of the theme, as a metaphor for artistic creation itself, for the artist's relationship with the public and for the value of art itself. Bureaucratic labyrinths, the tragic and grotesque, the human condition and the absurdity of existence, are components of the bewilderment to which Kafka leads his characters and begins his stories.

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