MYS, Mystery School of Choreography
Educational program on dance & performing arts directed by Meg Stuart for PACAP8 2025 \ Fórum Dança
- PACAP 8 Artists : Ana Szopa (PL), António Bollaño (PT), Arash Khakpour (IR), Emily da Silva (BR), Guillermo Tarasewicz (UY), Isabela Rossi (BR/IT), iSaAc iSaBeL Espinoza Hidrobo (EC), Julia Kosałka (PL), Kaya Freeman (PT), María Ibarretxe (ES), Martha Kotsia (GR), Michiru Shin (JP), Natacha Campos (PT), Raul Aranha (IN), Salomé Pham-Van-Hué (FR), Sepideh Khodarahmi (SE/IR), Śomi Śniegocka (PL), Therese Bendjus (DE) & Tiago Vieira (PT)
- Guest Artists: Aline Belfort, António Poppe, CA Conrad, Doug Weiss, Ezequiel Santos, Gaya de Medeiros, Ingrid Muller Farney, Justin F. Kennedy, Keith Henessy, Maria F. Scaroni, Maria José Arjona, Mariana Tengner Barros, Márcio K. Canabarro, Mayfield Brooks, Mieko Suzuki, Nadia Lauro, Nina Lekic, Odete, Pedro Azevedo, Pedro Melo Alves, Renan Martins, Santiago Tricot, Sigal Zouk, Shannon Conney, Viktória Kaslik, Yari & Xullaji
Montemor-o-Novo, São Miguel Island \ Azores & Lisbon, February to July’25
https://www.forumdanca.pt/en/pacap8/
Set-up, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Editions
Podcasts on portuguese contemporary dance \ interview to choreographers
- Guest Artists: Catarina Miranda, Filipa Francisco, Joana Castro, João dos Santos Martins, Joana von Mayer Trindade e Hugo Cristovão, Joclécio Azevedo, José Laginha, Madalena Victorino, Francisco Camacho, Olga Roriz, Odete Ferreira, Rui Horta, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, Vânia Rovisco, Vera Mantero, Ana Rita Teodoro, Clara Andermatt, Cláudia Dias, David Marques, Gaya de Medeiros, João Fiadeiro, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Miguel Pereira, Tânia Carvalho, Vânia Gala, Victor Hugo Pontes
Co-curated with Gustavo Monteiro
Sekoia Studio, Porto, December 2021, 2023 & 2025 (film recording & production), 2022, 2024 & 2026 (release online)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0_zvvt0M782B5OpZUncmOQ
Cartazes Impressos na Rocha Artes Gráficas
Posters selection exhibition from late 70’s until early 2000’s printed at Rocha Artes Gráficas, a printer house funded in 1895 working until 2010
Casa da Imagem, Vila Nova de Gaia, May 2022
https://www.fmleao.pt/exposicao-de-cartazes-impressos-na-rocha-artes-graficas/
Óciosamente
One-day performance site-specific in artists run spaces to coffe places in downtown Porto, within an on-going year program run by Ócio organization
- Guest Artists: Flávio Rodrigues, Ana Rocha, Xavier de Sousa e Susana Santos
Café Asa de Mosca, Praça da Alegria Associação, Ócio gallery space & Hotelier, Porto, 2022
A Casa da Sibila
Program in collaboration with Sekoia Artes Performativas at former summer house of Portuguese writer Agustina Bessa-Luís. Co-curater with Gistavo Monteiro
- Guest Artists: Pedro Prazeres (landscape architect & choreographer), Carolina Martins (designer & illustrator), Vitor Joaquim (musician) & Luis Vieira Campos (film-maker)
Co-curated with Gistavo Monteiro
Quinta do Paço, Vila Meã, 2011 \ 2022
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH8keOuiTmRVh7xwl8OAo93zpCi5uAHty
CURADURA
Three weeks independent program & residency (workshops\labs, shared research, public presentations & performances at public arts programming space institution, co-curated in collaboration with João dos Santos Martins, Carlos Oliveira, Rita Natálio & Ana Rita Teodoro
- Guest Artists: BEE. The United Kingdom of Beeshas, Carmo Gê Pereira, Hugo Dunkel, Puta da Silva, Quimera Rosa, Rizoma Cooperativa Integral, Adriano Vicente, Alina Ruiz Folini, Bruno Caracol, Di Cândido, Filipe Pereira, Gisela Casimiro, Inês Neto dos Santos, Letícia Skrycky, Lula Pena, Quimera Rosa, Sara Vieira Marques, Vânia Doutel Vaz, Teresa Silva, Teresa Castro & Claraluz Keiser
Co-curated with Parasita
Teatro do Bairro Alto \ Lisbon, 2021
https://parasita.eu/en/projecto/curadura/
MudAres
One month curatorial coreographic project
- Guest artists: Malena Albarecin, Joana Castro, Thamiris Carvalho, Joana Von Mayer Trindade, Renan Martins, Gustavo Monteiro, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Luísa Saraiva, Duarte Valadares, Xana Novais, Frankão & Nuno Loureiro
Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, July 2020
XXATENEUXXI
Nine months program organized and co-curator with Inês Moreira, and Hugo Cruz, Rodrigo Malvar, Pedro Rocha & Luis Vieira Campos at Ateneu Comercial do Porto, with the support of Criatório’19 (Town Hall Cultural Department program), crossing thinking and occupation of an independent private social club stablished in 1869 - composed by forensic architecture research labs, performance residencies, debates on politics of public space and community, and a monthly showing on portuguese documentary, featuring local participants, national and international artists
- Guest Artists: Mor Demer, CA Conrad, Sandra Noeth.
Ateneu Comercial do Porto, Porto, 2019 to 2020
A Summer’s Night Dream \ VIA ABERTA
Durational all day exhibition at a downtown Porto half ghosted shopping center, with performances, live music, radio station and visual arts
- Guest Artists: Amanda Copstein, Ana Allen, Ana Garcia, Andreia Santana, André Romão, André Sousa, Avelino Sá, Bernardo Pena, Berru Collectivo, Celeste Cerqueira, Cláudia Lopes, Collage, Cristina Regadas, Eduardo Calheiros Figueiredo, Fátima Santos, Filipe Cortez, FlashBoredom, Francisco Oliveira, Gonçalo Vieira, Gonçalo Vilas Boas, Horácio Frutuoso, Hugo Frasa, Inês Castanheira, Isabel Quaresma, Joana Machado, Joana Martins \ Segmenta, Joana Mendonça, José Almeida Pereira, Lilia Catarina, Luisa Mota, Mariana Barrote, Mariana Tengner Barros, Marta Bernardes, Mariana Sales, Maria Sottomayor, Mauro Ventura, Miguel Flor, Miki Kadokura, Nettie Burnett, Neuza Rodrigues, Nuno Vieira, Parva Musica, Patricia Geraldes, Patricia Vieira Campos, Pingo Bingo, Raquel Nunes, Renato Cruz Santos & Duarte Ferreira, Rui Braga, Sandra Araújo, Sérgio Leitão, Sian \ Radio Portal, Sónia Carvalho, Sofia Leitão, Teresa Adão da Fonseca, Vera Mota, Vicente Vieira Campos, Vitor Israel, VSO, Wushta + Amaro Próximo \ Olec and Xavier Paes
Curated by Rita Roque & co-curated in collaboration with Sonja
Centro Comercial Mota Galiza, Porto, 2019
Cultura em Expansão
All year long cultural project focused on the peripheries and non-profit associations on social neighborhoods, run and promoted by Porto Town Hall Cultural Department. Cultura em Expansão features presenations and residencies from dance \ performance, theater, sound & visual artists engaging the local community in four fixed locations and satellite projects, and a nomadic cinema. The program had as local partners, mediators and co-curators Sonoscopia, Teatro do Frio, Confederação & Visões Úteis
Porto, 2019 to 2024
https://www.culturaemexpansao.pt/edicoes-anteriores/
Alive ‘nd then some I & II
Artist residency, lab and presentation.
Project by Justin F. Kennedy and Emma Howes, with
- Guest Artists: Caspar Rode, Vlad Gurewich, Noha Ramadan, Jao Moon, Ada Pinkston, Ethan Braun, Lulu Obermayer, Pedro Prazeres, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Niki Blomberg & Jessica Gadani
Quinta do Paço \ Vila Meã (in collaboration with Sekoia)
Ateneu Comercial do Porto & Serralves Contemporary Art Museum, Porto, 2018 & 2019
To School Out of School
Laboratory and lecture program focused on artists, cultural agents & theoreticians and their work within non-profit organizations, institutions and cultural practice research groups - Porto Town Hall cultural department within the frame of Colectivos PLÁKA program
- Guests : Adrian Heathfield, Benjamin Seroussi, Catarina Saraiva, Fadwa Naamna, Irit Rogoff, Markus Miessen, Ollivier Marboeuf, Pedro G. Romero and Stephan Dillemuth
Co-curated with André Sousa
Palácio dos Correios & Palacete dos Viscondes de Balsemão, Porto, 2018 & 2019
https://plaka.porto.pt/pt/colectivos-plaka/2018/
TAMANHO M
Monthly talks program focused on female artists, cultural & social agents, politicians, heads of public & private institutions, and the role of women within culture, organizations & institutions, educational and social subjects
Co-curated with Manuela Matos Monteiro
Espaço Mira Fórum, Porto, 2018 to 2020
OUT THERE
Artist residencies, presentations, lectures and labs involving international, local artists & local participants
- Guest Artists: Veit Stratmann, Winnie SuperHova & Samuel Draper, Hamish Fulton, Claudia Hill, Rui Catalão, Pedro Tudela, Ricardo Jacinto, Nicholas Bussmann, Maile Costa Colbert & Rui Colbert Costa, Alejandra Salinas & Aeron Bergman
Co-curated with Jorge Gonçalves \ MEZZANINE & Pedro Rocha
Porto, October to November 2017
MARIAS
Labs, presentations, performances and panel discussions program with a focus on female artists and women involved in cultural and artistic making
- Guests : Krõõt Juurak & Alex Bailey, Eleanor Bauer, Alexandra Balona, Eduarda Neves, Francisca Valente, Mara Andrade, Né Barros, Patrícia Vieira Campos, Sandra Araújo, Marina Costa, Rute Rosas, Maria Bleck Holroyd Soares, Fátima São Simão, Márcia Novais, Anja Calas, Rebecca Moradalizadeh, Sofia Arriscado, Alejandra Jaña Montecinos, Ana Deus, Carolina Amaral, Cristina Mateus, Cristina Regadas, Isabel Barros, Joana Castro, Joana Providência, Magda Seifert, Manuela Dos Campos, Manuela Matos Monteiro, Maria de Guerra, Marta Bernardes, Rosi Avelar, Sara Barbosa, Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro, Susana Otero, Ana Ulisses, MartaVuduvum, DJ MVRIA, Ana Gabriela Macedo, Sandra Araújo, Marinela Freitas & Tânia Dinis
Co-curated with Jorge Gonçalves \ MEZZANINE
Passos Manuel, Salão Nobre dos Bombeiros Voluntários do Porto, ªSede, Porto, June 2017
SYPA Artistc Practice Symposium I & II
Labs, presentations and lectures with international and national guests, and local participants, with two editions
- Guest Artists: Alice Chauchat, Anna Gaïotti, Anne Juren, Antonija Livingstone, Dinis Machado, Isabel Lewis, Jack Hauser, Jennifer Lacey, Litó Walkey, Marcos Simões, Marcus Bergner, Nadia Lauro, Hamish MacPherson, Philipp Gehmacher, Sabina Holzer, Sara Manente, Valentina Desideri, Vladimir Miller, von Calhau; Adriano Wilfert Jensen, Andros Zins-Browne, Ana Vujanović, Björn Säfsten, Chrysa Parkinson, Daniel Kok, Hana Erdman, Inês Moreira, Juan Dominguez, Katerina Andreou, Ligia Lewis, Lilia Mestre, Saša Asentić, Maria Jerez, Marta Ziólek, Mårten Spångberg, Simon Asencio & Vânia Rovisco
Co-curated with Jorge Gonçalves \ MEZZANINE
Ateneu Comercial do Porto & Mira Artes Performativas, Porto, 2017
Diz que Diz
Meeting and panel discussion during the international dance Festival Dias da Dança (DDD), focusing on diffusion, means of production and performance making attended by local artists
- Guests: Abraham Hurtado, Rio Rutzinger and Nayse Lopez
Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto, Porto, April 2016
Ariadne
Peter Stamer and Silke Bake artist residency, workshop and presentation at Porto Internacional Beach, involving local artists and participants, in partnership with a group of architects and researchers
- Guest artists: Bernardo Amaral (BAAU), Peter Stamer, Silke Bake and with vírgula i collective: JP Pereira, Leonor Macedo, Pedro Guedes & Teresa Aguiar
Co-curated with Jorge Gonçalves \ MEZZANINE
Praia Internacional do Porto, Porto, July 2015
The Porto Sessions
Two months program and residency at Rivoli Teatro Municipal Porto with a series of workshops, labs and presentations involving public spaces and art venues
- Guest Artists: Anna Nowicka, Benoît Lachambre, Christian Breuer, Gaëtan Rusquet, Giulia Paolucci, Hamish MacPherson, Jeroen Peeters, Joana Von Mayer Trindade, João Costa Espinho, Jorge Queijo, Jorge Gonçalves, Jozef Wouters, Mark Tompkins, Mariana Tengner Barros, Cristina Planas Leitão, Mor Demer, Michiel VandeVelde, Noha Ramadan, Varinia Canto Villa & Rodrigo Malvar
Co-curated with Meg Stuart
Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto, Porto, September & October 2015
City Maquette
Choreographic work by Mathilde Monnier, presented within the Guimarães European Capital of Culture’12, and residency with local participants, such as Agrupamento de Escolas Professor João de Meira, Asas de Palco - Escola de Artes Performativas, Associação Juvenil de Karaté Portugal, Associação para o Desenvolvimento das Comunidades Locais, Grupo Folclórico de S. Torcato, M4M - Movement for the Music e Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Guimarães
Co-curated with Jorge Gonçalves \ MEZZANINE
Centro Cultural Vila Flôr, Guimarães, 2012
Pass by (the time of day)
Choreographer Iris Julian residency with local artists, in public spaces downtown Porto and exhibition
Co-curated with Jorge Gonçalves \ MEZZANINE
Metro do Porto, Porto, 2011
http://www.iris-julian.com/project_passby.php?lang=eng
The Part
Performance work by Antonija Livingstone presentation & workshop at Serralves Contemporary Art Museum and choreographer participation at Quintas de Leitura program at Teatro do Campo Alegre
Co-curated with Jorge Gonçalves \ MEZZANINE
Teatro do Campo Alegre \ Teatro Municipal do Porto & Serralves Contemporary Art Museum, Porto, April 2010
Círculo no Feminino \ Metáfora do Coração
Performance & literature project around Maria Zambrano writer’s world
Artes Múltiplas cultural space, Porto, 2006
Lugares Comuns
Series of talks with guest artists based in Porto or with a relation with the Porto cultural scene
Artes Múltiplas cultural space, Porto, 2005