FOCAR / Intensive Course in Choreography for Architecture
FOCAR – Intensive Course in Choreography for Architecture is a training program aimed at creators in the field of contemporary dance who are interested in exploring dance in informal, “unconventional”, public and private spaces.In 2026, FOCAR can be attended through two formats: Online or Online + On-site
Do Terreiro ao Mundo / New Creation by Clara Andermatt
Do Terreiro ao Mundo is a dance that traverses time. Its steps trace threads of faith, struggle, and craft. What begins in the churchyard extends beyond, carried in body and memory, forging new paths, becoming change, and a living force. It is here.
In A SENSE OF the audience is invited to co-create a space, where collective power and dreaming are used as modes of protest.
SLUMBER PARTY: HEARTBREAK EDITION / João Oliveira and Mariana Pontes Barbosa
MAN-MAN transports the audience to the intimate and ordinary setting of MAN-MAN, the character who inhabits the stage and his body in the same way: by dressing, undressing and covering.
KOKORO / Ana Isabel Castro and Deeogo Oliveira
1. Hurt, Touched, Grievous, Sad, Plangent, Sensitive, Half Rotten, Broken; 2. Psychophysiological function that consists of experiencing a certain type of sensation; (...)
Apneia / Leo Calvino and Joana Couto
Normality returns quickly and sanity is not at risk, just turn the other way and snuggle back into your own soft and fragrant conceptions. How many layers does a dream have? Where does one person's dream end and another's dream begin? Where is the border between the real and the surreal?
It’s a Long Yesterday / Carminda Soares and Maria R. Soares
One or two bodies, six at most. It's a long yesterday is an exercise in desire, fracture and multiplication.
Songs of Ascension / Beatriz Moreira, Iris Auguste and Giulia Micelli
The game is played with your eyes closed to switch off the violence of unattainable ideals of beauty, representations and preconceived ways associated with femininity. Connecting with the authorship of their own body, the performers.