Escola Superior de Dança
Lisbon residency: April 20-May 1, 2009
The residency in Lisbon is coordinated by Francisco Pedro and hosted by the Escola Superior de Dança (ESD).
ESD will provide dance studio which allow for intensive training, project rehearsal, choreographic workshops, and mentoring support. At this stage dbb participants are supported by the technical and administrative infrastructure provided at the ESD in order to help them to improve their research work.
During the daily morning sessions the group will work on technical practice like contemporary dance techniques as well as composition, a workshop dedicated to the articulation between the field of thought and the practical research in dance creation. Through the analysis of some texts, concepts related to the body and movement will be studied and used in practical experimentation, exploring its possibilities in the dance creative processes. In the workshop music editing students will be given the basic principles of how to work with sound by editing, transforming and processing sound and music trough a specific music editing software program. And several invited teachers and artists will work with the participants during their residency in Lisbon.
Each afternoon tutorials, rehearsals and performance preparation take place. Also an insight into ligth design will be provided. Participants will spend time for self directed work, backed up by technical support, such as lighting, sound and digital technologies. In Portugal participants will have the opportunity to see into a well established educational institution, what will be good for their development.
The dbb participants will present a work in progress performance at the end of the residency at “Átrio”, Escola Superior de Dança.
Daily schedule
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First Week |
Monday 2009.04.20 |
Tuesday 2009.04.21 |
Wednesday 2009.04.22 |
Thursday 2009.04.23 |
Friday 2009.04.24 |
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09.00h
10.30h |
Mentoring (Francisco Pedro) Room n. 3
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Contemporary Dance Technique (Margarida Bettencourt) Studio n.8 |
Contemporary Dance Technique (Amélia Bentes) Studio n.1 |
Contemporary Dance Technique (Margarida Bettencourt) Studio n.7 |
Contemporary Dance Technique (Amélia Bentes) Studio n.8 |
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11.00h |
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11.30h
13.30h |
Music Editing (Isabel Duarte) Music Editing Room |
Rehearsal Personal work Studios n.6,7 |
Music Editing (Isabel Duarte) Music Editing Room |
Rehearsal Personal work Studios n.4,6,9
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Music Editing (Isabel Duarte) Music Editing Room |
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lunch break |
lunch break |
lunch break |
lunch break |
lunch break |
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14.30h
16.00h |
Contemporary Dance Technique (Vitor Garcia) Studio n.2 |
Mentoring (Francisco Pedro) Room n.3 |
Improvisation (Vitor Garcia) Studio n.3 |
Improvisation (Vitor Garcia) Studio n.6 |
Rehearsal Personal work
Studio n.2 |
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16.30h |
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17.00h
19.00h |
Rehearsal Personal work Studios n. 6,7 |
Rehearsal Personal work Studios n.6,7 |
Lecture (Maria José Fazenda and Gil Mendo) Átrio |
Mentoring (Francisco Pedro) Room n.3 |
Mentoring (Francisco Pedro) Room n.3 |
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21.00h |
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Performance Teresa Ranieri 0º |
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Second Week |
Monday 2009.04.27 |
Tuesday 2009.04.28 |
Wednesday 2009.04.29 |
Thursday 2009.04.30 |
Friday 2009.05.01 |
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09.00h 10.30h |
Contemporary Dance Technique (Vitor Garcia) Studio n.6 |
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Contemporary Dance Technique (Amélia Bentes) Studio n.1 |
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11.00h |
Rehearsal Personal work Studio n. 9, Átrio |
Rehearsal Personal work Studio 4, 9 |
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11.30h
13.00h |
Contemporary Dance Technique Chose studio 2,5 or 8 or (Self warm up) studio n.6,9 |
Contemporary Dance Technique (Self warm up) studio n.6,9 |
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14.00h
16.00h |
Mentoring (Madalena Silva) Room n. 3 |
Rehearsal Personal work Studio 6,7 |
Mentoring (Madalena Silva) Room n. 3 |
Mentoring (Madalena Silva) Room n.3 |
Mentoring (Analyses, Residence Conclusions) Esplanada |
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16.30h
18.30h |
Rehearsals |
Rehearsals Personal work studio n.2, Átrio |
Rehearsals Personal work Studio n.2, Átrio |
Rehearsals Personal work Studio n.2,3 |
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19.00h 21.00h |
Light design (Carlos Ramos) Átrio
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Light design (Carlos Ramos) Átrio
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Performance Preparation (Carlos Ramos) Átrio |
Performance Preparation (Carlos Ramos) Átrio |
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21.00h
23.00h |
Preparation (Carlos Ramos) Work in Progress Shooing Átrio |
Preparation (Carlos Ramos) Work in Progress Shooing Átrio |
Work in Progress Shooing (Carlos Ramos) Átrio |
Work in Progress Shooing (Carlos Ramos) Átrio |
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Lecture - Portuguese Dance in the post 25 de Abril
This lecture will focus on Portuguese Dance after the 25 de Abril (1974’s Carnation Revolution which put an end to dictatorship and established a democratic regime). The main projects and esthetical options that make up the diverse Portuguese Dance scene will be viewed: the activity of the two main dance companies; the New Dance movement; today’s plurality.
Maria José Fazenda is Assistant Professor of Dance Appreciation, Dance History and Dance Anthropology at Escola Superior de Dança - Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa. She is member of CRIA (Centre for Research in Anthropology-Portugal). She completed the School of Dance course at the National Conservatoire (Lisbon, Portugal). She is author of Dança Teatral: Idéias, Experiências, Acções (2007, Celta) and editor of Movimentos Presentes: Aspectos da Dança Independente em Portugal (1997, Cotovia/Danças na Cidade).
Gil Mendo from Oeiras, Portugal, is choreologist (Benesh Institute of Choreology, London, 1972-1975), a member of the faculty of Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa since 1986, and currently its Chairman of the Pedagogic Council and Erasmus Co-ordinator. He is Dance Programmer at Culturgest, Lisbon, since 2004. In 2004 he was co-ordinator for Performing Arts for the implementation of the Bologna Process, by appointment of the Minister of Science and Higher Education and from 1996 to 2001 member of the set-up comittee and head of the Dance Department of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture’s funding body Portuguese Institute for the Performing Arts. He is also a founding member of the Roberto Cimetta Fund and its expert until 2005, a member of the international network IETM - Informal European Theatre Meeting and collaborated as expert with the network Danse Bassin Méditerrannée.
Composition: Philosophy through the body and movement
This workshop will be dedicated to the articulation between the field of thought and the practical research in dance creation. Through the analysis of some texts we’ll study concepts related to the body and movement. The reflection on these concepts will be used in practical experimentation, exploring its possibilities in the dance creative processes.
Madalena Silva was born in Lisbon in 1979, finished her course with the professional dancer diploma in 1997 and licentiate at the Escola Superior de Dança in 2002, where she teaches since 2003, giving classes of Composition, Interpretation and Project (Creation and Interpretation). In October 2002 she represented ESD in Eurodans Project under the direction of Sita Popat and choreographed by Wayne Mcgregor. As a free-lance dancer she worked with Frederic Flamand, Ana Rita Barata and Rui Lopes Graça. She often collaborating with some choreographers and performs as adviser and movement assistant in their creations. At the moment she is taking part of a master course of Contemporary Culture and New Technologies at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Music Editing
In these workshop students will be given the basic principles of how to work with sound by editing, transforming and processing sound and music trough a specific music editing software program. Practical work will be done trough different exercises, including editing the sound tracks for their own choreographic exercises. If available, each student should bring their own portable computer to the classes.
Isabel Duarte was born in 1968 has a degree on Music Teaching and a master in Pedagogy of Higher Education and is presently working on a PHD on Psychology and pedagogy of Music. Has worked for 10 years in different music schools and conservatories. Since 2001 she works full time as a music teacher at the ESD in Lisbon, being responsible for developing the music curricula for the whole school.
Light Design
Carlos Ramos
Contemporary Dance Technique
Several invited teachers
Mentoring: First Week
Francisco Pedro
Portuguese, born in 1969, starts the dance studies in 1983 in the Escola de Formação de Bailarinos da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Education Area Bachelor in the Escola Superior de Dança. Dancer in the works of: Olga Roriz, Vasco Wellenkamp, Madalena Victorino, Paula Massano, Gregory Nash, Andrea Morein, Bruno Cochat, Gagik Ismailian, Rui Nunes, Rita Judas, Luiz Antunes. Teacher in the Escola Superior de Dança, since 1991; independent and free-lancer, choreographer and dancer, since 1990. At the present time is doing the MA in Choreography, in Tilburg/Netherlands.
Mentoring: Second Week
Madalena Silva
She was born in Lisbon in 1979, started to dance at the age of 10, at Dance School of National Conservatory of Lisbon. She finished this course with the professional dancer diploma in 1997. In the same year she went to Escola Superior de Dança where she studied contemporary dance and composition with several teachers and guest choreographers. Being licentiate in 2002. Since 2003 she teaches at Escola Superior de Dança, giving classes of Composition, Interpretation and Project - Creation and Interpretation. In October 2002, she represented E.S.D. in Eurodans Project under the direction of Sita Popat and choreographed by Wayne Mcgregor. As a free-lance dancer she worked with Frederic Flamand (2000), Ana Rita Barata (2002 and 2003) and Rui Lopes Graça (2004 to 2006). From 2003 to 2006 Madalena Silva created the solo “Estar de Fora para Ver”, “The end and then” a co-creation with Lígia Soares, “Super-heróis” co-created with Joana Brandão and for a group of students from the 5th semester of E.S.D. created “Qualquer Um” in 2007. She often collaborating with some choreographers and performs as adviser and movement assistant in their creations. At the moment she’s taking part of a master course of Contemporary Culture and New Technologies at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Performance Preparation
At the end of these two weeks, the students will present a work in progress performance at the “Átrio” in the Escola Superior de Dança.