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    MINI-DOCUMENTARY ABOUT TERRA COBRE, NEW CREATION BY MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA AND JOÃO PAIS FILIPE

    BoCA
    28 February 2024
    With and from the traditional rattle art of Alcáçovas – a heritage practice in Urgent Need of Safeguarding, according to UNESCO – “Terra Cobre” challenges traditional Portuguese iconography and symbolism, coming from an earthly and pastoral world, but also one of ecstasy and celebration. In this new choreographic and installation creation, the sensitivity and musical […]
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    THE FIRST OF 8 MINI-DOCS ABOUT BoCA 2023 IS OUT: WATCH THE FILM ABOUT “THE TALKING CAR” BY AGNIESZKA POLSKA NOW

    BoCA
    16 January 2024
    BoCA, together with Waves Of Youth, has produced 8 mini-documentaries on projects commissioned or inaugurated at the 4th edition of the biennial, in 2023. These are creations that mark the debut of established artists in new artistic territories, or celebrate unprecedented encounters between artists from different fields, such as dance and music, visual arts and […]
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    It is online the documentary about the powerful performance “Water in a Heatwave” by Miles Greenberg

    BoCA
    7 December 2022
    “Water in a Heatwave” is the creation of canadian artist Miles Greenberg, presented for the first time to a portuguese audience in the Biennial BoCA 2021. Carpintarias de São Lázaro welcomed this durational performance, with an original score by personaljjesus, in which, in pairs, eight performers clash their bodies into each other atop a series of pedestals, […]
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    Theatre director Mónica Calle created “Between Heaven and Earth” at the naturist beach. Watch the documentary.

    BoCA
    7 December 2022
    “Between Heaven and Earth” is the creation of actress and director Mónica Calle for the Biennial BoCA 2021, presented at Praia da Bela Vista, in Costa de Caparica. Between theatre and performance art, the artist reflects on identity, feminine representation and the physical and spiritual experience of pilgrimage, in an intimate tone, from personal writings and […]
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    The documentary about the play that Capicua created for BoCA is online

    BoCA
    7 December 2022
    At the 2021 BoCA Biennial, rapper Capicua debuted in writing for theater with “A Tralha”, a project commissioned by BoCA that premiered in the garden of Palácio Pimenta/Museu de Lisboa. With text by Capicua and body and voice by Tiago Barbosa, “A Tralha” is an almost monologue about accumulation. An essay on waste and obsolescence […]
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    It is now online the documentary about the performance/workshop by the collective LASTESIS

    BoCA
    24 April 2022
    You can now watch the documentary about “Resistencia o la Reivindicación de un Derecho Colectivo”, the performance of the collective LASTESIS, which which made its European premiere in Biennial BoCA 2021. The creation of the feminist collective from Valparaíso unfolded in two parts in Almada: firstly as a workshop for women and gender dissidents, and […]
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    You can now watch the documentary about the concert by António Poppe and La Família Gitana

    BoCA
    11 April 2022
    “Música Cigana Camões Yanomami / A Soma dos Seus” is the concert-performance which joins poet and visual artist António Poppe to the gypsy musicians of La Família Gitana. Between poetry and music, the project commissioned by BoCA combines the poetry of Camões and texts by Davi Kopenawa (indigenous leader of the Yanomami community) with gypsy music. […]
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    The documentary about artist Andreia Santana’s creation for BoCA is now online

    BoCA
    11 April 2022
    From the series of 10 documentaries which BoCA produced, we now release the second, about artist Andreia Santana’s creation “Overlapses, Riddles & Spells”. A project commissioned by BoCA which unfolded in two parts. Firstly as a performance piece, in co-production with CCB, with the glass and iron sculptures being modulated by the poetic writing of […]