Activities 2019 — Next Performances
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Residência artística de TÂNIA CARVALHO
01 October 2018 — 22 February 2019Estúdios Victor Córdon - CNBread moreARTISTIC RESIDENCY
The Portuguese multidisciplinary artist Tânia Carvalho integrates the programming of the 2nd edition of BoCA with a new creation, "duploc barulin". She will be working on music in an artistic residency at the Victor Córdon Studios - CNB & TNSC.
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Artistic Residency | MARLENE MONTEIRO FREITAS
07 January 2019 — 16 January 2019Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória / TNSJread moreARTISTIC RESIDENCY
Marlene Monteiro Freitas starts an artistic residency around her new creation for BoCA 2019, "Cattivo - Installation for Music Shelves and Other Materials", at the São Bento da Vitória Monastery / São João National Theater (Porto).
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CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS
01 March 2019 — 03 March 2019Gnration, Bragaread moreWORKSHOP WITH JOHN ROMÃO
Theatre | PerformanceThe workshop "Cave of forgotten dreams" proposes to work with two different materials: on the one hand, the cave paintings present in the cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, the oldest testimony of art in Humanity; on the other, performative actions from the 60-70s, conceived by Vito Acconci, pioneer of visceral performance and architecture.
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Fantastic Filters
09 March 2019Centro de Experimentação Artística (Moita)read moreWORKSHOP WITH MARIANA TENGNER BARROS
This will be a laboratory for creative experimentation, which asks the possibilities of dance, movement and performance as a political practice of activating the body. Attention modes and states of consciousness that will allow the reconfiguration of the filters we use to understand “reality” will be investigated.
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THE ONLY POSSIBLE CITY
15 March 2019 — 28 April 2019National Museum of Antique Art, Lisbonread moreMEG STUART
Initially conceived for an ample and neutral room of Manifesta7, in 2008, this video-installation by Meg Stuart is now re-contextualized in the Albertas’ Chapel, inside the National Museum of Antique Art in Lisbon. Meg Stuart is exposed. A human face in a space of human hyper-representation. The real exposed in a place of representation. Is it us who look at Stuart or is Stuart the one looking at us?
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BLACK
15 March 2019Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbonread moreBLACK
We can gather Lisbon’s cultural history from this century and appoint Black as one of the motors/mentors that made it become what we know today. Maybe you’ll have to investigate a little further to know his real name, but as co-founder of group Filho Único, the life of the city nowadays is what he helped create.
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NÍDIA
15 March 2019Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbonread moreNÍDIA
Nídia is one of the voices of a generation that has been transforming the international contemporary electronic music scene from a community basis. Her debut happened in 2015 with “Danger” as she still went by Nídia Minaj, and two years later released through Príncipe her first LP “Nídia é Má, Nídia é Fudida”.
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TEMPLE TIME
15 March 2019 — 31 March 2019Chiado National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbonread moreRYAN TRECARTIN
Ryan Trecartin is one of the most daring artists working with video in current days. His movies are a mixture of performance arts, sitcoms and hypnotic digital collages, like the result of a collaboration between Bosch and Keith Haring. Shot in a former Masonic temple in Los Angeles – a five-story warren of large, cavernous rooms akin to a windowless convention center – “Temple Time” unfolds like a horror-movie group expedition in a campsite wasteland.
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THE FISH – Braga
15 March 2019 — 30 April 2019Fonte do Ídolo, Bragaread moreJONATHAS DE ANDRADE
In the film “O Peixe” [The Fish] a fishing village stages a kind of ritual: they cradle the fish in their arms until their timely deaths. A limiting embrace – a rite of passage – where man retakes his condition as species and face to face with his prey, calms it down through an ambiguous sequence of gestures: affection, solidarity and violence. An embrace between predator and prey, between life and death, between the worker and the fruit of his labour.
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NATIONAL IDENTITY (Príncipe Real)
15 March 2019 — 07 April 2019Museu da Água - Reservatório da Patriarcal, Lisbonread moreJOÃO PEDRO RODRIGUES & JOÃO RUI GUERRA DA MATA
In the middle of the Príncipe Real Garden, iconographic site of LGBT bodies’ roaming, there can be found the subterranean Water Museum/Patriarchal Reservoir. BoCA presents the installation "National Identity" in a descent to the depths that re-contextualize the bodies the directors have been filming throughout the years, assembling film, photography and props from earlier works in a reflection on identities, and both gender and national identity.
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ALIGNIGUNG 2
15 March 2019 — 30 April 2019Museum Dom Diogo de Sousa, Bragaread moreWILLIAM FORSYTHE
Since the 90s, parallel to his stage creations, Forsythe has developed installations, sculptures and movies he calls “Choreographic Objects”. Blurring the lines between performance, sculpture and installation, his “Choreographic Objects” invite the spectator to confront the fundamental notions of choreography. BoCA presents for the first time in Portugal one of the pieces that integrates this serie, the video “Alignigung 2”, in three museums of Lisbon, Porto and Braga.
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ALIGNIGUNG 2
15 March 2019 — 30 April 2019Soares dos Reis National Museum, Portoread moreWILLIAM FORSYTHE
Since the 90s, parallel to his stage creations, Forsythe has developed installations, sculptures and movies he calls “Choreographic Objects”. Blurring the lines between performance, sculpture and installation, his “Choreographic Objects” invite the spectator to confront the fundamental notions of choreography. BoCA presents for the first time in Portugal one of the pieces that integrates this serie, the video “Alignigung 2”, in three museums of Lisbon, Porto and Braga.
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ALIGNIGUNG 2
15 March 2019 — 28 April 2019National Museum of Antique Art, Lisbonread moreWILLIAM FORSYTHE
Since the 90s, parallel to his stage creations, Forsythe has developed installations, sculptures and movies he calls “Choreographic Objects”. Blurring the lines between performance, sculpture and installation, his “Choreographic Objects” invite the spectator to confront the fundamental notions of choreography. BoCA presents for the first time in Portugal one of the pieces that integrates this serie, the video “Alignigung 2”, in three museums of Lisbon, Porto and Braga.
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SPIRIT HOUSE
15 March 2019 — 28 April 2019Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbonread moreMARINA ABRAMOVIC
The return of Marina Abramovic in Portugal. The last time she’s been here was in 1997 with the “Spirit House” installation, which she conceived for an old municipal slaughterhouse in Caldas da Rainha. “Spirit House” is composed of five videos that dialogue between them, in which we see Marina Abramovic in different performances created for the camera: ‘Dissolution’, ‘Insomnia’, ‘Luminosity’, ‘Dozing Con- sciousness’ and ‘Lost Souls’.
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Descolonizaaaaarte!
15 March 2019mala voadora, Portoread moreCONFERENCE BY JOACINE KATAR MOREIRA / INMUNE
A reflection on art and visuality, forcing assistance to reinvent new ways of looking at blackness; and the decolonization of language through listening to the black woman's body.
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GESTUÁRIO II – Porto
16 March 2019Maus Hábitos, Portoread moreINSTITUTE OF BLACK WOMEN FROM PORTUGAL - INMUNE
The Institute of Black Women in Portugal - INMUNE answers to BoCA’s invitation to create a spoken word performance around the themes that involve the creation of this intersectional and anti-racist feminist entity, made up entirely of black women. This performance, “Gestuário II” leads intact in the fight against the silencing of black women, African and afro-descendant in past and today’s History.
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RUA – Braga
16 March 2019Museu Dom Diogo de Sousa, Bragaread moreVOLMIR CORDEIRO
In “Rua”, Volmir manifests in the different bodies and faces the street might contain. The space which is drifted and crossed by the dancer’s redesigning by movement converts in an open abstraction, as the performer condenses in his body the diverse characters of the urban fauna, the ones most marginalized. A choreographic answer to the reading of the war poems of Bertolt Brecht, “Rua” instills a dance of thought and body, densifying the space, inhabiting a thousand ghosts.
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FLORA
16 March 2019 — 30 April 2019Imagem Museum, Bragaread moreANDRÉ ROMÃO
The “Flora” exhibition by André Romão presents a series of sculptures, photography and videos made over the last few years by the artist himself, propositioning us with a free and speculative narrative on the conditions of inhabitability and survival in the world, physically as well as culturally.
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THE FISH – Lisbon
16 March 2019 — 13 April 2019Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbonread moreJONATHAS DE ANDRADE
In the film “O Peixe” [The Fish] a fishing village stages a kind of ritual: they cradle the fish in their arms until their timely deaths. A limiting embrace – a rite of passage – where man retakes his condition as species and face to face with his prey, calms it down through an ambiguous sequence of gestures: affection, solidarity and violence. An embrace between predator and prey, between life and death, between the worker and the fruit of his labour.
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RUA – Lisbon
17 March 2019Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisbonread moreVOLMIR CORDEIRO
In “Rua”, Volmir manifests in the different bodies and faces the street might contain. The space which is drifted and crossed by the dancer’s redesigning by movement converts in an open abstraction, as the performer condenses in his body the diverse characters of the urban fauna, the ones most marginalized. A choreographic answer to the reading of the war poems of Bertolt Brecht, “Rua” instills a dance of thought and body, densifying the space, inhabiting a thousand ghosts.
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DUPLOC BARULIN – Lisbon
20 March 2019 — 21 March 2019Teatro Taborda, Lisbonread moreTÂNIA CARVALHO
After presenting in 2017 a drawing exhibit in BoCA, “Toledo”, we now know another of her artistic expressions, Tânia in concert. This is where she can explore the creative possibilities of the instrument, in a concert where for the first she will also be composing with another performer, André Santos, who joins her in piano. The lyrics are either the artist’s very own or texts from Fernando Pessoa.
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IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE
22 March 2019 — 23 March 2019MAAT, Lisbonread moreVASYA RUN
Vasya Run is a Russian anonymous collective, composed of boys between ages 16 to 27 from the Moscow periphery, mixing contemporary art, theatre, street subcultures and spiritual emancipation rituals. Throughout rehearsals, movement research, group work and spiritual practices based on “Fourth Way” by George Gurdiief, Vasya Run arrive for the first time in Portugal with the premiere of a new creation. "If you want to continue" has as its main concept the hero figure.
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GESTUÁRIO II – Lisbon
22 March 2019Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbonread moreINSTITUTE OF BLACK WOMEN FROM PORTUGAL - INMUNE
The Institute of Black Women in Portugal - INMUNE answers to BoCA’s invitation to create a spoken word performance around the themes that involve the creation of this intersectional and anti-racist feminist entity, made up entirely of black women. This performance, “Gestuário II” leads intact in the fight against the silencing of black women, African and afro-descendant in past and today’s History.
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It will sound like silence, the sound of a revolution inside a Bunker
23 March 2019 — 28 March 2019Casa dos Crivos, Bragaread moreMARIA TRABULO
This work presents itself as an installation composed of several elements that local performers will activate in specific moments, inviting the audience to join in on the process. This work presents a reflection around the possibility of being able to still make revolutions facing the changes the digital revolution has introduced to society and communication, and facing the isolationism practiced by the states.
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CATERINA BARBIERI – Lisbon
23 March 2019Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbonread moreCATERINA BARBIERI
Caterina Barbieri’s music has its origins on the meditation over primary waves and the polyrhythmic dance of harmonics. Her algorithmic approach to composition rooted in minimalism and Indian tradition, as well as her pragmatic attitude towards sequencing, unfolds in audible images that are surprisingly organic and almost tangible, to which she refers as “ecstatic computation”.
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IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE
24 March 2019Palácio dos Correios, Portoread moreVASYA RUN
Vasya Run is a Russian anonymous collective, composed of boys between ages 16 to 27 from the Moscow periphery, mixing contemporary art, theatre, street subcultures and spiritual emancipation rituals. Throughout rehearsals, movement research, group work and spiritual practices based on “Fourth Way” by George Gurdiief, Vasya Run arrive for the first time in Portugal with the premiere of a new creation. "If you want to continue" has as its main concept the hero figure.
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CATERINA BARBIERI – Porto
24 March 2019Passos Manuel, Portoread moreCATERINA BARBIERI
Caterina Barbieri’s music has its origins on the meditation over primary waves and the polyrhythmic dance of harmonics. Her algorithmic approach to composition rooted in minimalism and Indian tradition, as well as her pragmatic attitude towards sequencing, unfolds in audible images that are surprisingly organic and almost tangible, to which she refers as “ecstatic computation”.
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THE THIRD PART OF THE THIRD MEASURE – Lisbon
24 March 2019Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbonread moreTHE OTOLITH GROUP
"The Third Part of the Third Measure” creates an encounter with the militant minimalism of African-American avant-garde composer, pianist and singer Julius Eastman. The film invites spectators to watch the ecstatic artistry of black radicalism that Eastman himself once described as "full of honor, integrity and unlimited courage".
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ANIMALS AND MONEY
26 March 2019Teatro da Trindade, Lisbonread moreGONÇALO M. TAVARES & OS ESPACIALISTAS
“Laboratory of Ways to Feel Above Average”. This is the proposal of Gonçalo M. Tavares (writer) & Os Espacialistas (collective of architects working on performance art) for BoCA 2019. These are three exclusive performances presented in theatre spaces, originating from the theme “Animals and Money", introducing an ephemeral space for Direct Art, of conscientialization and practical revelation of the artistic potential of the human daily life.
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LIBRARY
27 March 2019 — 30 April 2019Lisbon Green House, Lisbonread moreHORÁCIO FRUTUOSO
“Biblioteca” [Library] is the visual artist Horácio Frutuoso’s answer to the proposal of creating an installation having its starting point the video “A Experiência do Lugar II” by Helena Almeida. Horácio Frutuoso conceives three objects in acrylic, with three colors: transparent crystal, opaque black and translucent gray, presented in Lisbon Green House, a deposit of species, of shapes, as well as an archive.
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SAINT SIMEON OF THE ADMIRABLE MONTAIN
29 March 2019 — 30 April 2019Convento de São Pedro de Alcântara, Lisbonread morePROJECTO TEATRAL
Colective Projecto Teatral is, at the moment, constituted by João Rodrigues, Maria Duarte, Helena Tavares, André Maranha and Gonçalo Ferreira de Almeida. In this BoCA's edition they present a new creation, "São Simeão da Montanha Admirável" [Saint Simeon of the Admirable Mountain], for the church of the São Pedro de Alcântara Convent, located in the heart of Lisbon.
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ROSA. ESPINHO. DUREZA.
29 March 2019 — 30 March 2019Teatro Municipal do Porto - Rivoli, Portoread moreGABRIEL FERRANDINI
Under an invitation by BoCA, the drummer Gabriel Ferrandini conceives his first stage creation, sharing the stage with the actor Frederico Barata. “Rosa. Espinho. Dureza.” is made out of three acts: labour, sex, love. As a triptych, in which concepts and materials are interlinked, each act will have an action and object represent its respective “problem”, repeated ad nauseam, testing the persistence and concentration of the performers and the audience.
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BEYONCÉ MASS
29 March 2019 — 30 March 2019Igreja dos Inglesinhos, Lisbonread moreBEYONCÉ MASS by YOLANDA NORTON
What if “Flaws and All” was a song about a complicated relationship with God? And “Survivor” spoke to how Black women thrive even as they’re undervalued and underestimated? Beyoncé Mass is a womanist worship service that uses the music and personal life of Beyoncé as a tool to foster an empowering conversation about the marginalized and forgotten, in particular Black women - their lives, their bodies, and their voices.
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Forum Dança
29 March 2019Culturgest Portoread more"Forum Dança", alongside BoCA, created PACAP - Program for Activation of Creation in Performing Arts, that gives professionals and students the opportunity to do both research and exercising corporal movement. Working side by side with two curators, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, three dance solos were originated for BoCA 2019: Descarada" by Patrícia Árabe; "A body that hides also stands" by Marta Ramos; and "Miragem" by Renan Fontoura.
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(DES)DOBRAS
30 March 2019 — 04 April 2019Casa dos Crivos, Bragaread moreADOLFO LUXÚRIA CANIBAL
Adolfo Luxúria Canibal, known mainly for his work as a musician and lead singer of the band Mão Morta, presents at BoCA a performance and installation, with various plastic elements, music, video and the launching of a book.
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ANIMALS AND MONEY
30 March 2019Teatro Municipal do Porto - Rivoli, Portoread moreGONÇALO M. TAVARES & OS ESPACIALISTAS
“Laboratory of Ways to Feel Above Average”. This is the proposal of Gonçalo M. Tavares (writer) & Os Espacialistas (collective of architects working on performance art) for BoCA 2019. These are three exclusive performances presented in theatre spaces, originating from the theme “Animals and Money", introducing an ephemeral space for Direct Art, of conscientialization and practical revelation of the artistic potential of the human daily life.
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ARCA Talk
31 March 2019Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbonread moreARCA
Arca is the pseudonym of shapeshifting Venezuelan artist, singer, DJ, performer, and experimental music composer Alejandra Ghersi, a visionary of a new world where vulnerability is the powerful source of explosive energy. In a unique event, BoCA hosts a meeting with Arca, who will share her thought-provoking work and discuss the intersections between artistic creation, music, and performance.
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CONGO TRIBUNAL – Lisbon
01 April 2019 — 03 April 2019Cinema Ideal, Lisbonread moreMILO RAU
In the film “Congo Tribunal” theatre director Milo Rau gathers the victims, perpetrators, witnesses and analysts of the war in Congo for a previously unseen civil court in Eastern Congo. Milo Rau creates an unfiltered portrait of one of the largest and bloodiest economic wars in the history of mankind.
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NARCISO
02 April 2019 — 30 April 2019Complexo dos Coruchéus, Lisbonread moreTANIA BRUGUERA
Following her recent investigation in the Tate Modern (London), “Narciso” evokes the migration and refugee crisis. Through the eye of Bruguera, this movement gains an expression of individual crisis centered in the body and the identity of each spectator: “A person will sit on a sculpture and will observe their face in the water. When they get near the water to see themselves, the reflection found will not be theirs but that of an immigrant person”, writes Tania Bruguera.
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MANIFESTO
02 April 2019Cinema Ideal, Lisbonread moreJULIAN ROSEFELDT
Rosefeldt collaged historical original texts from numerous manifestos by artists, architects, choreographers, and filmmakers as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Adrien Piper or Sol LeWitt. By way of cutting back and combining the texts, 13 poetic monologues emerged, bringing the new manifesto texts together with situations of today, with women holding public speeches or interior monologues. They are all embodied and presented by the actress Cate Blanchett.
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Masterclass by Joana da Conceição
02 April 2019Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Portoread moreJOANA DA CONCEIÇÃO
A artista plástica Joana da Conceição concebe, para a BoCA, a performance e instalação "O Berço de Vénus". No Porto, estará na Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto para falar sobre a sua prática artística.
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STIMMUNG by STOCKHAUSEN
04 April 2019 — 05 April 2019Lux/Frágil, Lisbonread moreGULBENKIAN CHOIR SINGS "STIMMUNG" BY STOCKHAUSEN
“Stimmung” (1968) is one of the most notable and fundamental works from Stockhausen, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Conceived for six solo voices, the work is now displaced in a response to its radicalism and its sense of religion to one of the temples of our contemporaneity, a nightclub (Lux Frágil), in the context of BoCA.
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ROSA. ESPINHO. DUREZA.
04 April 2019 — 06 April 2019National Theatre D. Maria II, Lisbonread moreGABRIEL FERRANDINI
Under an invitation by BoCA, the drummer Gabriel Ferrandini conceives his first stage creation, sharing the stage with the actor Frederico Barata. “Rosa. Espinho. Dureza.” is made out of three acts: labour, sex, love. As a triptych, in which concepts and materials are interlinked, each act will have an action and object represent its respective “problem”, repeated ad nauseam, testing the persistence and concentration of the performers and the audience.
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CONGO TRIBUNAL – Braga
04 April 2019Gnration, Bragaread moreMILO RAU
In the film “Congo Tribunal” theatre director Milo Rau gathers the victims, perpetrators, witnesses and analysts of the war in Congo for a previously unseen civil court in Eastern Congo. Milo Rau creates an unfiltered portrait of one of the largest and bloodiest economic wars in the history of mankind.
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THE THIRD PART OF THE THIRD MEASURE – Porto
04 April 2019Passos Manuel, Portoread moreTHE OTOLITH GROUP
"The Third Part of the Third Measure” creates an encounter with the militant minimalism of African-American avant-garde composer, pianist and singer Julius Eastman. The film invites spectators to watch the ecstatic artistry of black radicalism that Eastman himself once described as "full of honor, integrity and unlimited courage".
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CONGO TRIBUNAL – Porto
05 April 2019Passos Manuel, Portoread moreMILO RAU
In the film “Congo Tribunal” theatre director Milo Rau gathers the victims, perpetrators, witnesses and analysts of the war in Congo for a previously unseen civil court in Eastern Congo. Milo Rau creates an unfiltered portrait of one of the largest and bloodiest economic wars in the history of mankind.
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ECOTEMPORÂNEOS
06 April 2019 — 20 April 2019Lisbon Green House, Lisbonread moreECOTEMPORÂNEOS
"Ecotemporâneos" [Ecotemporaries] is an inclusive literary community acting in the green spaces of Lisbon, constituted by a diverse group of visual and auditory deficient people as well as people who can see and hear. The project shares a common time (contemporary) and a common space (the environment) around access to literature and its relation to a site.
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6 APR | Matilde Campilho (writer)
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O BERÇO DE VÉNUS
06 April 2019 — 12 April 2019Casa dos Crivos, Bragaread moreJOANA DA CONCEIÇÃO
In the Casa dos Crivos performance, Joana da Conceição proposes that we accompany the succession of ephemeral paintings she will be creating through the manipulation of objects, pictures and sound. For this multimedia game the artists brings her own original material, be it paintings, music or drawings, that she combines with found objects.
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MANIFESTO
06 April 2019Passos Manuel, Portoread moreJULIAN ROSEFELDT
Rosefeldt collaged historical original texts from numerous manifestos by artists, architects, choreographers, and filmmakers as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, Adrien Piper or Sol LeWitt. By way of cutting back and combining the texts, 13 poetic monologues emerged, bringing the new manifesto texts together with situations of today, with women holding public speeches or interior monologues. They are all embodied and presented by the actress Cate Blanchett.
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Punto de Fuga
07 April 2019MAAT, Lisbonread moreCIUDAD ABIERTA
“Punto de Fuga” is an interdisciplinary action that consists of the execution of three performances in open spaces: in the Chilean artistic community Cidade Aberta (Valparaíso), in the Magellan Strait (between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans) and in MAAT (Lisboa). This project, that has been re-equating issues about body-territory, architecture, public space, history or habitation.
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COMER O CORAÇÃO EM CENA
09 April 2019National Theatre D. Maria II, Lisbonread moreRUI CHAFES & VERA MANTERO
“Comer o Coração” consists of a sculpted iron piece sus- pended in air and of a living body that lives in it, in vertigo, resulting in collaborative creation and conception between sculptor Rui Chages and dancer plus choreographer Vera Mantero. With BoCA’s invitation, “Comer o Coração” now takes a new perspective and a new name, “Comer o Coração em Cena”, migrating to the theatre stage the magnitude of a piece that has had its origin in a museum.
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SCOTOMA CINTILANTE
09 April 2019Auditório Ilídio Pinho - Edifício das Artes / Universidade Católica, Portoread moreJONATHAN ULIEL SALDANHA
"Scotoma Cintilante" is a performance-concert for a mixed choir of blind people with three dimensional graphical sheet music. The surface of a sculpture-machine is the inanimate matter that operates the mutation over the voice in time. Coming from a world-vision where tactile relations with inanimate matter is the primordial source of sound building, this performance-concert submits itself between matter and animates, pre-language and surface.
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CATTIVO
10 April 2019 — 18 April 2019São Bento da Vitória Monastery, Portoread moreMARLENE MONTEIRO FREITAS
In “Cattivo”, the music stands are explored up to the limit of their expressive properties, their capacity to flesh out other emotional states and to make decisions, manipulating themselves and other objects, forming as a team in a symphonic community, with different instruments, rhythms, melodic lines... Akin to a stage, a garden or dollhouse, the installation will remain between vegetable, animal and the fantasy world.
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SILENT DISCO
11 April 2019 — 12 April 2019Rive Rouge, Lisbonread moreALFREDO MARTINS
“Silent Disco” is an immersive show that happens in night- clubs, exploring the potential of the technology from ‘silent disco’ parties. This creation aims to speculate on the nature of clubbing as an act of resistance, capable of reconfiguring forms of reflection, affection and corporality. Spectacular identities, multiple sexualities, hedonistic consuming, raw physicality - do each of these constitute as a political practice of resistance?
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BEFORE I KNEW IT
12 April 2019Lux/Frágil, Lisbonread more> CANCELED
WOLFGANG TILLMANS
In Tillmans’ universe there is music, dance, dilated pupils, liberated sex, political affirmation and also abstract images. In the context of BoCA, he displays the most obscure side of his art: Tillmans also produces electronic music. It’s this hidden profile of the artist that he shares with us in Lisbon in a unique moment, starting the night with pre-recorded music as well as live set, with CDJ’s and microphone. -
TOTAL ECLIPSE
12 April 2019 — 30 June 2019gnration, Bragaread moreDIANA POLICARPO
“Total Eclipse” is also a sound installation inspired in ‘Status Quo’ (1938), a performance by Sound of Spheres, for the unperformed political opera by the German-American Johanna M. Beyer. It is also an arrangement and a story of art that broke art itself - which is what the term avant-garde wants to describe but still can’t, because Beyer was a woman.
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SÉANCE – Braga
12 April 2019 — 13 April 2019Gnration, Bragaread moreMARIANA TENGNER BARROS
Séance” is an intimate performance, for 3 to 10 spectators at a time in unique and continuous sessions of 30 minutes each. Barros dives deep in Victorian era aesthetics, searching for reference in the Espírita movement that emerged in the 19th century simultaneously with the feminist movement and as a reaction to the industrial revolution, that at the same time denotes the permanence in the 21st century of the strong desire for the paranormal and supernatural.
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ANIMALS AND MONEY
13 April 2019Theatro Circo, Bragaread moreGONÇALO M. TAVARES & OS ESPACIALISTAS
“Laboratory of Ways to Feel Above Average”. This is the proposal of Gonçalo M. Tavares (writer) & Os Espacialistas (collective of architects working on performance art) for BoCA 2019. These are three exclusive performances presented in theatre spaces, originating from the theme “Animals and Money", introducing an ephemeral space for Direct Art, of conscientialization and practical revelation of the artistic potential of the human daily life.
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Bombyx Mori
13 April 2019 — 14 April 2019National Theatre D. Maria II, Lisbonread moreOLA MACIEJEWSKA
In “Bombyx Mori”, a play for three female performers, Ola Maciejewska takes inspiration from the “Serpentine Dance” from Loïe Fuller. Ola explores the relationship between human beings and physical matter in art, creating movement in sizable pieces of cloth. Waterfalls of black clothing wave throughout the stage, creating short-lived whirlpools, wings and mythical creatures that parade exuberantly before our eyes.
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STATE OF
13 April 2019 — 14 April 2019MAAT, Lisbonread moreGERARD & KELLY
Gerard & Kelly continue their research on pole dance, questioning the violence related to race, gender, sexuality and national identity. Throughout various citations and transformations of the American flag and national anthem, in “State Of” we can watch a group of white and black men exploring the critical potential of intimacy, to suspend violence regarding our differences.
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HELLO MY NAME IS – Lisbon
13 April 2019 — 14 April 2019National Theatre D. Maria II, Lisbonread morePAULO CASTRO
"Hello My Name Is” is a solo show, performed by Timorese actor Rashidi Edward. In this one-man show, Rashidi makes a powerful display of a man who acts many parts – he is the one mourning for someone killed and right after he is the soldier who takes the shot -, using the poetic language of Edward Bond to draw attention to the place each one occupies in the games of tyrannical power.
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DUPLOC BARULIN – Braga
13 April 2019Theatro Circo, Bragaread moreTÂNIA CARVALHO
After presenting in 2017 a drawing exhibit in BoCA, “Toledo”, we now know another of her artistic expressions, Tânia in concert. This is where she can explore the creative possibilities of the instrument, in a concert where for the first she will also be composing with another performer, André Santos, who joins her in piano. The lyrics are either the artist’s very own or texts from Fernando Pessoa.
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SÉANCE – Porto
16 April 2019 — 18 April 2019Casa-Museu Fernando de Castro, Portoread moreMARIANA TENGNER BARROS
Séance” is an intimate performance, for 3 to 10 spectators at a time in unique and continuous sessions of 30 minutes each. Barros dives deep in Victorian era aesthetics, searching for reference in the Espírita movement that emerged in the 19th century simultaneously with the feminist movement and as a reaction to the industrial revolution, that at the same time denotes the permanence in the 21st century of the strong desire for the paranormal and supernatural.
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HELLO MY NAME IS – Porto
17 April 2019 — 18 April 2019Teatro Carlos Alberto / São João National Theatre, Portoread morePAULO CASTRO
"Hello My Name Is” is a solo show, performed by actor Rashidi Edward. In this one-man show, Rashidi makes a powerful display of a man who acts many parts – he is the one mourning for someone killed and right after he is the soldier who takes the shot -, using the poetic language of Edward Bond to draw attention to the place each one occupies in the games of tyrannical power.
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THE INVERTED JOURNEY
17 April 2019 — 18 April 2019National Theatre D. Maria II, Lisbonread morePEDRO BARATEIRO
Pedro Barateiro’s project “The Inverted Journey” is a performance and installation commissioned by BoCA that allows him to work on the stage of the Sala Garrett of the National Theatre, having as its backdrop the exploitation of the lithium mines in Portugal, in an investigation that also goes through the book “Queda sem fim, seguido de Descida de Maleström, de Edgar Allan Poe”, written by José A. Bragança de Miranda.
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COIN OPERATED
19 April 2019 — 20 April 2019Coach National Museum, Lisbonread moreJONAS & LANDER
“Coin Operated” follows an invitation from BoCA to Jonas & Lander to create a piece for a museum where dialog with the audience is direct and depends on itself. Jonas & Lander design a new relationship with the spectator where it starts having an ac- tive role in the consequence of the artistic action, making way for diverse and surprising scenes in every presentation, or in this case in the duration of every coin inserted in the horse rides.
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Ecotemporaries: Mamadou Ba
20 April 2019Estufa Fria, Lisboaread moreECOTEMPORÂNEOS
"Ecotemporâneos" [Ecotemporaries] is an inclusive literary community acting in the green spaces of Lisbon, constituted by a diverse group of visual and auditory deficient people as well as people who can see and hear. The project shares a common time (contemporary) and a common space (the environment) around access to literature and its relation to a site.
Guest: MAMADOU BA (Diretor of SOS Racism, Portugal)
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SÉANCE – Lisbon
24 April 2019 — 27 April 2019ZDB, Lisbonread moreMARIANA TENGNER BARROS
Séance” is an intimate performance, for 3 to 10 spectators at a time in unique and continuous sessions of 30 minutes each. Barros dives deep in Victorian era aesthetics, searching for reference in the Espírita movement that emerged in the 19th century simultaneously with the feminist movement and as a reaction to the industrial revolution, that at the same time denotes the permanence in the 21st century of the strong desire for the paranormal and supernatural.
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LO FRÍO Y LO CRUEL
26 April 2019 — 27 April 2019Tibães Monastery, Bragaread moreANGÉLICA LIDDELL
In this new creation, having its starting point the Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch narrative as well as the one from Marquis de Sade, the essay “The Cold and The Cruel” (1967) by Gilles Deleuze, Angélica Liddell focuses on the literary and artistic part of perversions, far away from any clinical explanation, where it is highlighted the poetic expression that goes beyond any artistic frontier or discipline to display the relations between father and daughter.
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VOLUTA
26 April 2019 — 30 April 2019Tibães Monastery, Bragaread moreJOÃO PAIS FILIPE
João Pais Filipe is a percussionist, drummer and sound sculptor from Porto. Futurist and traditional. Ethno techno. For the Casa do Volfrâmio in Tibães Monastery (Braga) a circular installation of gongs is projected, suspended from sculpted items that can be sonically activated by the visitors. There will be two moments of live performance-concert of physical interaction between the musician and his sculptures-instruments.
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FEEL ME. HEAR ME. SEE ME. – Braga
26 April 2019Museum Dom Diogo de Sousa, Bragaread moreEducation and creation project based on HELENA ALMEIDA
The project honors, through contemporary music, one of the greatest artists of the XX and XXI century, Helena Almeida (1934-2018). Bringing together students from the three main Music universities of Lisbon, Porto and Braga, young composers create new works from the series of the same name by Helena Almeida. The result: a concert that brings together students from the three universities.
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PIANO INTERPRETATIONS
27 April 2019Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbonread moreKUKURUZ QUARTET
PLAYS MARCEL ZAES & JULIUS EASTMANThe Swiss pianist quartet Kukuruz Quartet continues its exploration around the political postminimalist music of Eastman, brought to Portugal for the first time, and the music of Swiss composer Marcel Zaes.
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FEEL ME. HEAR ME. SEE ME. – Porto
28 April 2019Casa das Artes, Portoread moreEducation and creation project based on HELENA ALMEIDA
The project honors, through contemporary music, one of the greatest artists of the XX and XXI century, Helena Almeida (1934-2018). Bringing together students from the three main Music universities of Lisbon, Porto and Braga, young composers create new works from the series of the same name by Helena Almeida. The result: a concert that brings together students from the three universities.
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FEEL ME. HEAR ME. SEE ME. – Lisbon
29 April 2019São Carlos National Theatre, Lisbonread moreEducation and creation project based on HELENA ALMEIDA
The project honors, through contemporary music, one of the greatest artists of the XX and XXI century, Helena Almeida (1934-2018). Bringing together students from the three main Music universities of Lisbon, Porto and Braga, young composers create new works from the series of the same name by Helena Almeida. The result: a concert that brings together students from the three universities.
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PAJUBÁ
30 April 2019Lux/Frágil, Lisbonread moreLINN DA QUEBRADA
Linn’s first LP gains its title of “Pajubá” after the dialect spoken by the gay community and its supporters in Rio de Janeiro. The name comes from the African languages and has begun being used by the transvestites of Rio as a form of survival against the violence on the streets. With lyrical and incisive power, frequently humorous, she approaches topics such as violence, poverty, body politics, sex, desire and the daily struggles of Brazilian trans women.
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SCOTOMA CINTILANTE
30 April 2019National Theatre São Carlos, Lisbonread moreJONATHAN ULIEL SALDANHA
"Scotoma Cintilante" is a performance-concert for a mixed choir of blind people with three dimensional graphical sheet music. The surface of a sculpture-machine is the inanimate matter that operates the mutation over the voice in time. Coming from a world-vision where tactile relations with inanimate matter is the primordial source of sound building, this performance-concert submits itself between matter and animates, pre-language and surface.
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Workshop with João Salaviza
31 August 2019 — 01 September 2019Museu do Chiadoread moreBoCA SUMMER SCHOOL
The film director João Salaviza confronts his last three films ("Russa", "High Cities of Bones", "The Dead and the Others"), where he rehearses new ways of thinking, producing, and living Cinema. Participants are also invited to bring out sketches, ideas and maps for future films.
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Workshop with Claudia Castellucci
03 September 2019 — 06 September 2019Estúdios Victor Córdonread moreBoCA SUMMER SCHOOL
Claudia Castellucci, co-founder with Romeo Castellucci and Chiara and Paolo Guidi of the Italian theater company Societas Raffaello Sanzio, in 1981, comes to Portugal to develop a workshop that combines dance and gesture theory. The workshop "The Wave Treatment" is built according to a rhythmic principle that considers the different moments of the day. A dance based on the sound of the bells and implemented with a stick.
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Claudia Castellucci, “Il trattamento delle onde”
06 September 2019 — 06 September 2019Museu da Marionetaread moreBoCA SUMMER SCHOOL / Performance
For the first time in Portugal, CLAUDIA CASTELLUCCI developed a workshop that now results in three public presentations of dance performance. "The treatment of him where" can be seen in the cloister of the Convento das Bernardas / Museu da Marioneta.
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Workshop com Basim Magdy
12 September 2019MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia, Lisboaread moreBoCA SUMMER SCHOOL
This workshop will explore the multidisciplinary methods used by the Egyptian artist Basim Magdy to experiment with poetic narratives, with unconventional photographic processes, with the construction of analog images and with the overlapping of colors using filters and masks inside and outside the camera.
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Workshop with Mathilde Monnier
18 September 2019 — 20 September 2019Estúdios Vitor Córdon, Lisboaread moreBoCA SUMMER SCHOOL
This is the first time French choreographer Mathilde Monnier directs a workshop in Portugal. She will go through different writing processes related to her repertoire, which are also an opportunity to think about the notion of reinterpretation. This workshop will also be a space to question the need to go through contemporary repertoires to better understand what is represented in time and how writing can cross (or not) an era.
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Workshop with Florentina Holzinger
20 September 2019 — 21 September 2019MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia, Lisboaread moreBoCA SUMMER SCHOOL
How can we use the preparation for the ring as a preparation to make dance or art? What if the preparation of the fighter is an artistic process? We want to explore the exchangability of physical disciplines as a tool for dancers, makers and creative people. Choreographer and performer Florentina Holzinger, who was at BoCA 2017 for an artistic residency, proposes now a workshop to recruit warriors, assuming that this will result in better artistry.
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Ecotemporaries: Matilde Campilho
06 April 2020Estufa Fria, Lisboaread moreECOTEMPORARIES
Ecotemporaries is a community of reading in green spaces in the city of Lisbon. Open, inclusive and accessible, it is made up of a diverse group: normal-sighted, visually impaired and hearing impaired.
Invited: MATILDE CAMPILHO (writer)
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ECOTEMPORÂNEOS: Jorge Silva Melo
29 August 2020Quinta da Alfarrobeira (Junta de Freguesia de São Domingos de Benfica, Lisbon)read moreECOTEMPORÂNEOS
Ecotemporaries is a project that links literature with the green spaces of the city of Lisbon. Open, inclusive and accessible, in each session a new guest chooses a book and connects it to the green space where the public gathers. It has the presence of an Sign Language Interpreter and the printing book in braille.
Guest: Jorge Silva Melo (theatre and film director, author)
Chosen book: "O mundo dos outros" by José Gomes Ferreira
Green space: Quinta da Alfarrobeira, Lisbo