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Rencontres des Imbeciles (under erasure) | Open rehearsal

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Ted Stoffer & Sayaka Kaiwa ( EUA/Japan )
08 may 2010 9.30 pm, Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo

Rencontres des Imbeciles, is a chronicle of events which questions the concept of identify.Cultural theorist and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Open University in Birmingham, Stuart Hall stated; "The use of: cultural, political, statistical, social, personal, and digital identities changes with understanding of context. The notion of an integral, originally and unified concept of identity is under discursive explosion. Identity is such a concept - operating "under erasure" in the interval between reversal and emergence; an idea which cannot be thought in the old way, but without which certain key questions cannot be thought of at all."Inspired by these words we began to question how we deïfine ourselves and our comprehension of the barometers to which we measure our beliefs. If the concept of identity is under erasure, what else may be? Questions surrounding possessions, power, fear and love immediately surfaced. Do we possess power/fear/love or are we possessed by them? How can we physically confront such issues?Rencontres des Imbeciles is the result of these questions.Ted StofferTed Stoffer was born in the U.S. and has been working in Europe since 1991. He has danced for Les Ballets C de la B, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Rambert Dance Co., Scapino Ballet and various independent choreographers. He started Aphasia Dance Company in 1997 and has choreographed five full length productions including: an audience interactive installation and in 2008, Aphasiadisiac produced by Les Ballets C de la B. He has has acted as movement adviser to Koen Augustijnen of Les Ballets C de la B and Cie. Michele Anne De Mey.Sayaka Kaiwa was born in Japan and began her dance studies at Hampshire College in the USA. Most recently, she toured her solo "traces of sigh" in Europe with P.A.R.T.S.

The Tears of Saladin - Rui Horta

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Rui Horta ( Portugal )
04 to 31 january 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

Sooner or later the wind will blow again. And the houses will fly as well as the trees and the bodies of the uncareful. Our dreams will also fly into pieces as well as the doors that will leave our barns empty. After that, the calm will return and the only sound to be heard will be the dance of the flies.It will be hard to understand why so many things that we loved have disappeared without a trace. When the randomness from the tempest becomes controlled by men, there are storms that eclipse everything from the surface of the Earth, even the most resilient plants. Nevertheless some men have learned to master the power of storms.“The Tears of Saladin” is about ethics and compassion in our daily effort to reinvent communication, and by no means a politically correct piece about multiculturalism. Mankind only makes sense if it remains wild and untamed. Rui Horta

The Tears of Saladin

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Rui Horta ( Portugal )
01 to 28 february 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Blackbox and Convento da Saudacao

Sooner or later the wind will blow again. And the houses will fly as well as the trees and the bodies of the uncareful. Our dreams will also fly into pieces as well as the doors that will leave our barns empty. After that, the calm will return and the only sound to be heard will be the dance of the flies.It will be hard to understand why so many things that we loved have disappeared without a trace. When the randomness from the tempest becomes controlled by men, there are storms that eclipse everything from the surface of the Earth, even the most resilient plants. Nevertheless some men have learned to master the power of storms.“The Tears of Saladin” is about ethics and compassion in our daily effort to reinvent communication, and by no means a politically correct piece about multiculturalism. Mankind only makes sense if it remains wild and untamed.Rui Horta Tour 2010-2011Premiére : March 5th and 6th 2010, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa - PortugalMarch 11th 2010, Teatro Cine Curvo Semedo, Montemor-O-Novo - Portugal March 13th 2010, Centro Cultural Vila flor, Guimarães - Portugal March 19th 2010, Teatro José Lúcio da Silva, Leiria - Portugal March 20th 2010, Teatro Virginia, Torres Novas - Portugal September 25th 2010, Tempo - Teatro Municipal de Portimão, Portimão - Portugal February 5th and 6th 2011, Teatro Nacional de São João - Porto, Portugal

O Corpo que Pensa (The Thinking Body)

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Pia Kraemer ( Germany | Portugal )
09 to 10 january 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

The body as a concept of yourself, relationship with others and the world.The seminars are based in intensive practical work and in introducing new theoretical approaches: a space of experience and reflection. Through improvisation and creative experiment of dance and movement, as well as music and images, we are able to access the expressive complexity of each individual. Stimulating playful curiosity but transporting it into the adult sense of deepness.Recent investigations in child development area (Stern, Lichtenberg) and Neuropsycology, lead us to a methodology where we use motricity as a concept to transport self-awareness, an inner-concept for attatchement and a way of perceiving the world.These seminars are orientated to psychologists, psychotherapists, teachers and other professionals in areas like theatre and performative arts. O Corpo que Pensa I Seminar 1: active listening and look Seminar 2: words, music and movementSeminar 3: body as interface - development theory and motor development Seminar 4: relationship through movementSeminar 5: body and taboo

O Corpo que Pensa (The Thinking Body)

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Pia Kraemer ( Germany | Portugal )
13 to 14 february 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

The body as a concept of yourself, relationship with others and the world.The seminars are based in intensive practical work and in introducing new theoretical approaches: a space of experience and reflection. Through improvisation and creative experiment of dance and movement, as well as music and images, we are able to access the expressive complexity of each individual. Stimulating playful curiosity but transporting it into the adult sense of deepness.Recent investigations in child development area (Stern, Lichtenberg) and Neuropsycology, lead us to a methodology where we use motricity as a concept to transport self-awareness, an inner-concept for attatchement and a way of perceiving the world.These seminars are orientated to psychologists, psychotherapists, teachers and other professionals in areas like theatre and performative arts. O Corpo que Pensa ISeminar 1: active listening and look Seminar 2: words, music and movementSeminar 3: body as interface - development theory and motor development Seminar 4: relationship through movementSeminar 5: body and taboo

Dias pasan Cosas

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Guillermo Weickert ( Spain )
25 january to 11 february 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Blackbox

New creation by Spanish choreographer and dancer Guillermo Weickert.

Audiencia Zero

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LCD + AltLab + xDA ( Portugal )
01 to 07 march 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

Audiencia Zero is a cultural association dedicated to the creation and promotion of multidisciplinary and collaborative projects involving art, science and technology. A network of three laboratories / organizations based in Matosinhos (LCD), Lisbon (altlab) and Coimbra (xDA).Audiencia Zero is a cultural association dedicated to the creation and promotion of multidisciplinary and collaborative projects involving art, science and technology. A network of three laboratories / organizations based in Matosinhos (LCD), Lisbon (altlab) and Coimbra (xDA).During the residence at O Espaço do Tempo, participants will work for two weeks in collaborative projects ranging from interactive installations to performances (physical computing, robotics, etc).The organization of this residence is based on the same fundamental concepts that guide the work in the laboratories: sharing knowledge, experience and resources, cross-disciplinary work ,self-organization, research and collective research.Participants in this residence will be mainly the members of Audiencia Zero's aboratories, but the residence is open to further collaboration, particularly with individuals and organizations that are engaged in complementary artistic areas. During the residence at O Espaço do Tempo, participants will work for two weeks in collaborative projects ranging from interactive installations to performances (physical computing, robotics, etc).The organization of this residence is based on the same fundamental concepts that guide the work in the laboratories: sharing knowledge, experience and resources, cross-disciplinary work ,self-organization, research and collective research.Participants in this residence will be mainly the members of Audiencia Zero's aboratories, but the residence is open to further collaboration, particularly with individuals and organizations that are engaged in complementary artistic areas.

Dias Pasan Cosas

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Guillermo Weickert ( Spain )
12 to 13 february 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Blackbox | 21h30

On June 2009 and January 2010, the Spanish choreographer and dancer Guillermo Weickert was an artist-in-residence at O Espaco do Tempo. On February, Guillermo Weickert premieres his new production in Montemor-O-Novo: "Dias pasan Cosas".

3 D

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Mala Voadora ( Portugal )
11 to 24 january 2010Convento da Saudacao

3D is a triptych of fictions produced by 3 people in different cities: San Sebastian/Spain, Pontevedra/Spain and Lisbon/Portugal. To produce each of these fictions, the information is collected directly from the reality of the 3 participants in their cities (images, dialogues and sound environments).Then, these elements will be subjected to a free association process of the real contexts in which they're produced. It is intended that the "realistic" factor of these contexts turns into something purely fictional through its combination.

The Ghosts of the Conservatory (provisional title)

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Tiago Guedes ( Portugal )
18 to 26 february 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

In 2008 I returned to the Conservatory of music of the small town where I was born in Minde, where 24 years ago I began my musical education.I intended to revisit this place and this period of my life with the desire to find a starting point for a new creation.One night on July, I watched with great interest and with some nostalgia, the presentation of a year-end class of saxophone and clarinet.Some comical situation, this end of the year's concert was taking place in an auditorium occupied the day before and the next day by a classical orchestra and therefore the 'scene' had the same chairs, the same maestro pulpit, the same bookshelves and the same piano creating a kind of ghost scene and it was not really suiting the concert that happened that night.The same semi-circular composition of a classical music orchestra had remain in the space, made up of 40 white plastic chairs that stimulated my imagination about a past concert in the past and in the future, physically absent but present in my imagination.The students paraded one by one, having to rub in chairs that seemed to give life to a ghost orchestra. The piano accompanist was in the back of the room, with her back to the audience she began to play every time a new student arrived in the room. When it was time for advanced students to play then the music scores became longer and one student was placed next to the accompanist to turn the music scores pages .I was completely mesmerized by this ritual that seemed so sweet, quiet and poetic, that was mixing music, memory, action, suspended time, the balance between pause and action within a minimalist set design made of white plastic chairs .The premises for a new creation that I wanted to find in this Conservatory, where I spent my teenage years, suddenly appeared.Tiago Guedes

A land without people for a people without land

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Nuno Coelho ( Portugal )
22 february to 08 march 2010Escola EB 2 3 Sao Joao de Deus, Montemor-O-Novo

In this exhibition, "A Land Without People for a People Without Land", Portuguese graphic designer Nuno Coelho produces a visual discourse around the social tensions of daily life in this region where three continents collide, and proposes a new approach to exploring the Arab-Israeli conflict. This discourse is critical, but it is also ironic, and playfully exposes the absurdity in the current situation.The exhibition is comprised of large format posters, each with a black and white outline illustration, which visitors are invited to colour using the coloured pencils provided. Once again, Nuno Coelho is exploring the familiar concepts of his work such as the use of vernacular cultural reference and viewer interaction through print media. The posters display various maps and graphics, and also include material directly taken from photographs collected by the artist during a month long trip to Palestine in 2006, during which he had the opportunity to explore and research the complex situation in the region.The absurdity in the current sociopolitical situation is emphasized by the appropriation of infantile language and iconography. The work demonstrates the opinion of the artist that although there is a global discourse surrounding Palestine, few people can reach beyond shock images and headlines engineered by the Media and understand the basic principles of the conflict.The work also invites us to question whether it is possible for an artwork to have immense political focus without becoming one-sided, or attempting to be transgressive, subversive or an act of political activism. Arguably, denying philosophy is in itself a philosophical act, and so perhaps even attempting to create artwork that avoids dealing directly with politics is intrinsically to take a definite political position.Nuno Coelho is a communication Designer, who lives and works in Porto, Portugal. "A Land Without People for a People Without Land" is the first individual exhibition by the artist with work created specifically for the purpose.

Tudo Gira (...neste mundo tudo gira, que eu gire em redor de ti nao admira...)

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Margarida Mestre ( Portugal )
20 march 2010 march Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao | 5 p.m

"Tudo Gira" is poetic performance for children that proposes a visually magical set, a game of projection and metamorphosis of images followed by the agility of the imagination. A sound atmosphere that transmits and transforms the spoken word in melody and breath, an experience of all senses into which our bodies are invited.

The same but slightly different - premiere

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Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz ( Portugal )
26 to 27 march 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Blackbox - 21h

"The same but slightly different" is a title and a point of departure. On the one hand, it reflects something that we have come to realize in all our previous works. Although formally different, something we identify as transversal and similar , something that has been established and that we think is in the core of our collaboration and its search engine. That something that could be related to a "performative state" and a form of collaboratiion or composition. Elements that explore the meaning of the private and subjective and that reflect a vital and ambitious "slightly different". This is not more than an effort to resist to some types of interpretation and composition and to an empty experience.Sofia Dias & Vitor RorizSofia Dias and Vitor Roriz collaborate since 2006. Until now, they have presented: 25, Visegradska (2006); Under(the)line (2006); Sand Castle (2007), Involuntariamente (2007), Again from the beginning (2009) and Unfolding (2009). Their works have been presented in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, France and Germany. They are associated artists of O Espaço do Tempo

Talk Show

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Rui Horta ( Portugal )
06 march 2010 march Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo | 2.30 pm

(A work for 4 performers and 2 sound speakers)A man and a woman speak with one another in front of an audience. Their language are both voice and body. They talk about everything and especially through their bodies, time depositories, witnesses of a long journey. Body is everything we own, our sole property. Everything we do has its measure, both in space and in time. Talk Show is a road movie of the body. An exercise of curiosity and unrest towards the unknown.And what's left when the body fades out?

The Tears of Saladin

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Rui Horta ( Portugal )
11 march 2010 march Montemor-o-Novo | Cine Teatro Curvo Semedo | 9.30

Première: 5th and 6th of March| Big Auditorium - Centro Cultural de Belém | 9 pmSooner or later the wind will blow again. And the houses will fly as well as the trees and the bodies of the uncareful. Our dreams will also fly into pieces as well as the doors that will leave our barns empty. After that, the calm will return and the only sound to be heard will be the dance of the flies.It will be hard to understand why so many things that we loved have disappeared without a trace. When the randomness from the tempest becomes controlled by men, there are storms that eclipse everything from the surface of the Earth, even the most resilient plants. Nevertheless some men have learned to master the power of storms.“Saladin entered Jerusalem on a Friday, the 2nd October 1187 (the 27th Rajab of the year 583 of Hegira), in the very same day that the Muslims celebrate the nocturnal journey of the Prophet to Jerusalem. He entered Jerusalem, and ninety one years after a bloody occupation by the Christian crusaders, he gives order to his emirs and soldiers to spare the population and the fighters, avoid the pillage and the massacre, guarding the sacred places and announcing that everyone can pray there whenever they wish to. He, himself, went from sanctuary to sanctuary, crying, praying and prostrating himself, in an act of compassion without precedents in history of humanity.”Amin Maalouf “The Tears of Saladin” is about ethics and compassion in our daily effort to reinvent communication, and by no means a politically correct piece about multiculturalism. Mankind only makes sense if it remains wild and untamed. Tour 2010-2011March 13th 2010, Centro Cultural Vila flor, Guimarães - Portugal March 20th 2010, Teatro Virginia, Torres Novas - Portugal September 25th 2010, Tempo - Teatro Municipal de Portimão, Portimão - Portugal February 5th and 6th 2011, Teatro Nacional de São João - Porto, Portugal

Mala Aviada Library - Mala Arvore

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Mala Aviada ( Portugal )
29 to 30 january 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao | 29th - 10.30 am (schools) and 30th - 3 pm (general public)

performance/workshop for children aged between 6 and 10 years old.

Jogo das Perguntas (The Game of Questions)

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Patricia Portela & Claudia Jardim ( Portugal )
27 february 2010 january Montemor-o-Novo | Blackbox| 5 pm

The "game of questions" is a game.How many churches has the sky? There are more leaves in a pear tree or in a Harry Potter's book?Why do leaves commit suicide when they feel yellow? These are some of the major questions of a game made out of many games where you can score points, get lucky, win wars or countries, all this thanks to the eloquence of its players.A super-game full of questions and without a single answer.

The same but slightly different

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Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz ( Portugal )
08 to 25 march 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Blackbox

"The same but slightly different" is a title and a point of departure. On the one hand, it reflects something that we have come to realize in all our previous works. Although formally different, something we identify as transversal and similar , something that has been established and that we think is in the core of our collaboration and its search engine. That something that could be related to a "performative state" and a form of collaboratiion or composition. Elements that explore the meaning of the private and subjective and that reflect a vital and ambitious "slightly different". This is not more than an effort to resist to some types of interpretation and composition and to an empty experience.Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz collaborate since 2006. Until now, they have presented: 25, Visegradska (2006); Under(the)line (2006); Sand Castle (2007), Involuntariamente (2007), Again from the beginning (2009) and Unfolding (2009). Their works have been presented in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, France and Germany.

Canal Zero

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Joao Bento | Joao Bastos | Rodolfo Pimenta ( Portugal )
01 to 28 february 2010Montemor-O-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

Canal Zero project ( from Montemor-O-Novo) lives in a place where image and sound cross together into a mutual dialogue and development, initiating the construction of an uncertain narrative, influenced by musical language and real-time image. Carries us to an hybrid voyage where sound has visibility and images have noise. Electronic and acoustic music melt together through the use of tools such as sound capture, samplers and analogical modelling, rendering an organic composition where image is used as a visual and sonorous instrument On a lightning table, several materials (machinery, scrap, inks, and others) are exhibited and dissected under a glass, as if they were part of a rarity museum collection. They are also visualized in metamorphosis on a double projection. The voice from the mechanisms seems to emerge of timeless places to then dissolve in the air, where the enchanted and the real find the elective affinities. In laboratory environment, the rhythm of the composition is imposed by a sound that can be either electrifying or simple and devoid. The three performers are accomplices in a relationship of continuity and discontinuity, in order to make room for the image to becamebecome a sculpture element of sound and the sound an image composition.Canal Zero - Open Studio -Espaço do TempoEnviado por canalzero. - Ver mais videos criativos

A land without people for a people without land

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Nuno Coelho ( Escola EB 2 3 Sao Joao de Deus | Montemor-O-Novo )
01 to 11 march 2010Foyer do Cine Teatro Curvo Semedo

In this exhibition, "A Land Without People for a People Without Land", Portuguese graphic designer Nuno Coelho produces a visual discourse around the social tensions of daily life in this region where three continents collide, and proposes a new approach to exploring the Arab-Israeli conflict. This discourse is critical, but it is also ironic, and playfully exposes the absurdity in the current situation.The exhibition is comprised of large format posters, each with a black and white outline illustration, which visitors are invited to colour using the coloured pencils provided. Once again, Nuno Coelho is exploring the familiar concepts of his work such as the use of vernacular cultural reference and viewer interaction through print media. The posters display various maps and graphics, and also include material directly taken from photographs collected by the artist during a month long trip to Palestine in 2006, during which he had the opportunity to explore and research the complex situation in the region.The absurdity in the current sociopolitical situation is emphasized by the appropriation of infantile language and iconography. The work demonstrates the opinion of the artist that although there is a global discourse surrounding Palestine, few people can reach beyond shock images and headlines engineered by the Media and understand the basic principles of the conflict.The work also invites us to question whether it is possible for an artwork to have immense political focus without becoming one-sided, or attempting to be transgressive, subversive or an act of political activism. Arguably, denying philosophy is in itself a philosophical act, and so perhaps even attempting to create artwork that avoids dealing directly with politics is intrinsically to take a definite political position.Nuno Coelho is a communication Designer, who lives and works in Porto, Portugal. "A Land Without People for a People Without Land" is the first individual exhibition by the artist with work created specifically for the purpose.

Anita Vai a Nada

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Teatro Praga ( Portugal )
26 february 2010 march Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao | 10h30

Anita loves the mountains, the sea, nature, and also likes to play with dolls. Anita is sociable, a faithful companion, dynamic, cheerful, loving. Anita is really perfect.Anita was born in 1954 but will always be young and beautiful and never needs botox, prozac or moral support. Anita has always tasteful lingerie bought in petit bateau. And very expensive toys.Anita is always the best in everything you always know everything and has always the right thing.Anita can do everything and anything because Anita has everything. And if she can do everything, we can also, because Anita is the hero hidden inside any one of us.

IloveyouIloveyouIloveyouIyou (working title)

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Mariana Pimentel ( Brazil )
13 to 26 april 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

Following my research about common places, which i've started during the creation process of "We do not have money, but we are funny" (2009) - in this new project I intend to research on the opposite : to look as a Brazilian to the place where I belong today (Portugal). Mariana Pimentel

The Parallax View

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Rafaele Giovanola & Rainald Endrass | Cocoondance ( Germany )
29 march to 14 april 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

At a time of heightened alert in which we are increasingly asked to exchange our basic freedoms for a stronger sense of personal security, conspiracy and speculation become the cultural genres of the digital age. Elusive potential evils become unseen opponents in a battle of truth versus fiction where it is no longer possible to distinguish one from the other. The internet begins to reveal a world of mystery delineated by chatter and cryptic messages. With its new project "The parallax view" COCOONDANCE turns the obvious rhetoric of 9/11 hysteria around to focus on the conspiratorial act as a strategy, creative and poetic collaboration.Citing different genres like film, concert, literature, and internet, COCOONDANCE tries to differentiate the narrative form of dance, playing with different narrative strategies, transformations and forms of staging.COCOONDANCE was founded by choreographer Rafaële Giovanola and dramaturge Rainald Endraß on the occasion of an invitation to the Festival-Off Avignon in 2000. Swiss-born Giovanola was a soloist in Turin before being brought to the Frankfurt Ballett by William Forsythe for the duration of eight years. After this, she worked with Pavel Mikuláštik's Choreographical Theatre, with Bonn as the last station. Since 2004, COCOONDANCE plays at and is also the artistic direction for dance at the Bonn theaterimballsaal, "with admirable professionalism and to international acclaim." (Bettina Trouwborst, General-Anzeiger Bonn)

TKB Project | Public Conference

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Carla Fernandes | Centro de Linguistica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL) ( Portugal )
29 may 2010 april Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

Researchers participating in the TKB PROJECT LAB will present their own projects around the choreographic work of Emio Greco l PC (Bertha Bermudez and Scott DeLahunta: DS/DM installation) - The Netherlands;Rui Horta (Carla Fernandes: TKB Project) - Portugal; Siobhan Davies (Sarah Whatley: Archive Project) - United Kingdom; William Forsythe (Norah Shaw: Synchronous Objects) - USA/Germany.PROGRAM:10h00 - 10h40 : Carla Fernandes & Rui Horta: TKB Project - A Transmedia Knowledge-Base for contemporary danceOpen discussion11h00 - 11h40: Bertha Bermudez & Scott DeLahunta: IMK project - Inside Movement Knowledge project: Emio Greco l PCOpen discussion12h00 - 12h40: Sarah Whatley: Siobhan Davies Replay: the archive projectOpen discussionLunch: (buffet served at the convent cloisters): 13h00 - 14h0014h30: Norah Shaw: Synchronous Objects project: One Flat Thing, reproduced: William ForsytheOpen discussion16h00: Round-up ABOUT TKB PROJECT In the framework of the TKB research project (coordinated by Carla Fernandes - PhD Linguistics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa: FCSH), the Linguistics Centre of the New University of Lisbon (CLUNL) and Espaço do Tempo are organizing the 1st TKB hands-on Lab, combining an arts&science residency (24-28 May 2010) and an international conference (29 May 2010).The main focus will be "New models of documentation for contemporay dance", mainly focusing on the emerging "Transmedia Knowledge Base" project - while based on Rui Horta's material - and the follow-ups of the "Inside Movement Knowledge" project from Emio Greco/PC, Amsterdam, accomodating other research projects in this or similar domains, small or big-scale, based in Portugal or anywhere else in the world.Through the collaboration of Carla Fernandes and Rui Horta, the motivational idea is to provide a time and space for a hands-on Arts&Science Lab in the intersection of cognitive linguistics, performance studies and new media, leading to a productive interchange of research results or works-in-progress and to the natural development of simultaneous "art labs" / "science studios".

O Corpo que Pensa (The Thinking Body)

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Pia Kraemer ( Germany | Portugal )
06 to 07 march 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

These seminars are based in intensive practical work and in introducing new theoretical approaches: a space of experience and reflection. Through improvisation and creative experiment of dance and movement, as well as music and images, we are able to access the expressive complexity of each individual. Stimulating playful curiosity but transporting it into the adult sense of deepness.Recent investigations in child development area (Stern, Lichtenberg) and Neuropsycology, lead us to a methodology where we use motricity as a concept to transport self-awareness, an inner-concept for attatchement and a way of perceiving the world.These seminars are orientated to psychologists, psychotherapists, teachers and other professionals in areas like theatre and performative arts. O Corpo que Pensa IISeminar 1: stimulation/ impulses for a defined corporeality | March 6 and 7 2010Seminar 2: expressive fluxes and scripts (scores) | March 27 and 28 2010Seminar 3: the space of procedural expression | April 17 and 18 2010 Seminar 4: the unconsciousness in music and the body as an intermediate element | May 8 and 9 2010

Sherlock Jr.

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Buster Keaton | Antonio Pedro | Filipe Rocha ( Portugal )
17 april 2010 march Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo | 16h

SHERLOCK JR.a film-concertwith Buster Keaton | António Pedro | Filipe Rochafor children (older than 6 years)At the beginning of the performance, a "short-film appetizer", accompanied by the sound of a beamer (as it was in the early days of cinema), shows the dangerous adventures of two musicians. In this, as if jumping from the screen itself, Buster Pedro and Buster Rocha enter the room and the film-concert begins."Sherlock Jr." is one of the masterpieces of the "comic who never laughed," where Buster projectionist dreams that enters into the cinema screen and that is Sherlock Jr., the greatest detective of all times!

Escola Superior de Danca

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Escola Superior de Danca do Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa ( Portugal )
19 april to 01 may 2010Herdade do Freixo do Meio e Convento da Saudacao| Montemor-o-Novo

Escola Superior de Dança - IPL, will be in Residence, with the last year students from de Licenciatura de Interpretação / Criação in O Espaço do Tempo, between April 19 and May 1 2010, with two projects.Through de perception, experimentation, sensorial, spatial and architectonic analyses, and with Victoria Hunter's, Henri Lefebvre's, Brian Lawson´s, Yi Fu Tuan´s and Gaston Bachelard's study references, 14 students, thought the orientation of ESD teacher Francisco Pedro, they will create a dance performance Site-specific, in Herdade do Freixo, on the Abril 25.The second residence is centered in Pia Kraemer‘s artistic and pedagogical approach entitled "O Corpo que Pensa" (The Thinking Body)

Site Rural

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14 dance students of the Lisbon's Dance Conservatory ( Portugal )
24 april 2010 may Herdade do Freixo do Meio | Montemor-o-Novo

A site-specific project by and with 14 dance students of the Lisbon's Dance Conservatory, at Herdade do Freixo do Meio in Montemor-o-Novo.

The Parallax View

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Rafaele Giovanola & Rainald Endrass | Cocoondance ( Germany )
01 to 14 april 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

At a time of heightened alert in which we are increasingly asked to exchange our basic freedoms for a stronger sense of personal security, conspiracy and speculation become the cultural genres of the digital age. Elusive potential evils become unseen opponents in a battle of truth versus fiction where it is no longer possible to distinguish one from the other. The internet begins to reveal a world of mystery delineated by chatter and cryptic messages. With its new project "The parallax view" COCOONDANCE turns the obvious rhetoric of 9/11 hysteria around to focus on the conspiratorial act as a strategy, creative and poetic collaboration.Citing different genres like film, concert, literature, and internet, COCOONDANCE tries to differentiate the narrative form of dance, playing with different narrative strategies, transformations and forms of staging.COCOONDANCE was founded by choreographer Rafaële Giovanola and dramaturge Rainald Endraß on the occasion of an invitation to the Festival-Off Avignon in 2000. Swiss-born Giovanola was a soloist in Turin before being brought to the Frankfurt Ballett by William Forsythe for the duration of eight years. After this, she worked with Pavel Mikuláštik's Choreographical Theatre, with Bonn as the last station. Since 2004, COCOONDANCE plays at and is also the artistic direction for dance at the Bonn theaterimballsaal, "with admirable professionalism and to international acclaim." (Bettina Trouwborst, General-Anzeiger Bonn)

Rencontres des Imbeciles (under erasure)

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Ted Stoffer & Sayaka Kaiwa ( USA/ Japan )
01 to 07 may 2010Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo

Rencontres des Imbeciles, is a chronicle of events which questions the concept of identify.Cultural theorist and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Open University in Birmingham, Stuart Hall stated; "The use of: cultural, political, statistical, social, personal, and digital identities changes with understanding of context. The notion of an integral, originally and unified concept of identity is under discursive explosion. Identity is such a concept - operating "under erasure" in the interval between reversal and emergence; an idea which cannot be thought in the old way, but without which certain key questions cannot be thought of at all."Inspired by these words we began to question how we deïfine ourselves and our comprehension of the barometers to which we measure our beliefs. If the concept of identity is under erasure, what else may be? Questions surrounding possessions, power, fear and love immediately surfaced. Do we possess power/fear/love or are we possessed by them? How can we physically confront such issues?Rencontres des Imbeciles is the result of these questions.Ted StofferTed Stoffer was born in the U.S. and has been working in Europe since 1991. He has danced for Les Ballets C de la B, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Rambert Dance Co., Scapino Ballet and various independent choreographers. He started Aphasia Dance Company in 1997 and has choreographed five full length productions including: an audience interactive installation and in 2008, Aphasiadisiac produced by Les Ballets C de la B. He has has acted as movement adviser to Koen Augustijnen of Les Ballets C de la B and Cie. Michele Anne De Mey.Sayaka Kaiwa was born in Japan and began her dance studies at Hampshire College in the USA. Most recently, she toured her solo "traces of sigh" in Europe with P.A.R.T.S.

O Corpo que Pensa (The Thinking Body)

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Pia Kraemer ( Germany / Portugal )
17 to 18 april 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

The body as a concept of yourself, relationship with others and the world.These seminars are based in intensive practical work and in introducing new theoretical approaches: a space of experience and reflection. Through improvisation and creative experiment of dance and movement, as well as music and images, we are able to access the expressive complexity of each individual. Stimulating playful curiosity but transporting it into the adult sense of deepness.Recent investigations in child development area (Stern, Lichtenberg) and Neuropsycology, lead us to a methodology where we use motricity as a concept to transport self-awareness, an inner-concept for attatchement and a way of perceiving the world.These seminars are orientated to psychologists, psychotherapists, teachers and other professionals in areas like theatre and performative arts. O Corpo que Pensa ISeminar 1: active listening and look Seminar 2: words, music and movementSeminar 3: body as interface - development theory and motor development Seminar 4: relationship through movementSeminar 5: body and taboo

Local Geographic

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Rui Horta ( Portugal )
08 to 31 march 2010Convento da Saudacao e Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo

Slowly I realized that, at least one day a week, I needed to find a new place. I used to go out early in the morning and returned before "my day" really began. It was a preface, a prologue to an unpredictable day with a pre-established agenda. As always, I was on my bike searching for a new landscape. That day, I lost myself ...Local Geographic is a solo, a journey that, like any good journey is both outward and inward. A succession of discoveries, details and accidents that, ironically, bring questions about the loss of references and the search for identity.Rui Horta

O Corpo que Pensa (The Thinking Body) II

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Pia Kraemer ( Germany | Portugal )
27 to 28 march 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

These seminars are based in intensive practical work and in introducing new theoretical approaches: a space of experience and reflection. Through improvisation and creative experiment of dance and movement, as well as music and images, we are able to access the expressive complexity of each individual. Stimulating playful curiosity but transporting it into the adult sense of deepness.Recent investigations in child development area (Stern, Lichtenberg) and Neuropsycology, lead us to a methodology where we use motricity as a concept to transport self-awareness, an inner-concept for attatchement and a way of perceiving the world.These seminars are orientated to psychologists, psychotherapists, teachers and other professionals in areas like theatre and performative arts. O Corpo que Pensa IISeminar 1: stimulation/ impulses for a defined corporeality Seminar 2: expressive fluxes and scripts (scores)Seminar 3: the space of procedural expression

Local Geographic

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Rui Horta ( Portugal )
01 to 30 april 2010Convento da Saudacao e Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo

Slowly I realized that, at least one day a week, I needed to find a new place. I used to go out early in the morning and returned before "my day" really began. It was a preface, a prologue to an unpredictable day with a pre-established agenda. As always, I was on my bike searching for a new landscape. That day, I lost myself ...Local Geographic is a solo, a journey that, like any good journey is both outward and inward. A succession of discoveries, details and accidents that, ironically, bring questions about the loss of references and the search for identity.Rui Horta

Contemporary Dance and Tai-Chi classes

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Pia Kraemer and Susana Marques ( Germany | Portugal )
01 to 07 july 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

Body in Motion / Inside-outContemporary Dance classes by Pia Kraemer (Germany/Portugal)The core items of these classes are: to understand deeply the inner architecture of our body; to develop our sensitiveness for movement; to strengthen our most hidden muscles; to learn to relax and to breathe correctly, in motion and still; and later to recognize the wrong movement patterns which are harmful for a healthy position.The many years experience of Pia Kraemer as a dance pedagogue and a movement therapeutist lead to the following concepts: the importance of a correct and economic movement, dynamic energy as well as the stream between mind and body for a healthy life.These classes are meant for all those who want to become healthy through movement. It works also as a preparation for the contemporaneous dance classes or as a complementary class to any sport. Tai Chi - an internal martial artby Susana Marques (Portugal) Besides their martial function, the internal arts are also effective to fight stress and to keep healthy. At a more advanced level, they are a way of development of conscience. Tai-chi practice is characterized by slow and sequential movements, which encourage physical and psychical relaxing and the circulation of energy (chi). Tai-chi can be practised at any age, with clear benefits for health and general well-being.

Summer Bar

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O Espaco do Tempo ( Portugal )
01 to 31 july 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

For the 9th consecutive year we give life to the Square of the Convent of Salutation with our Summer Bar.From June till September, the evenings and late afternoons in Montemor-o-Novo are magic in a living space that has already become indispensable for many citizens from Montemor-o-Novo and became an essential meeting point between artists and audience.At our summer bar you can enjoy one of the most beautiful views over the city, imagine the impossible, read or write a book, give voice to the unknown, feeling the mystery that is in you, dive into it, dance and dream like when you were a child ... and all with the taste of a good coffee, a refreshing beer or a delicious caipirinha.

O Ginjal ou O Sonho das Cerejas (The Cherry Orchard or The Dream of Cherries)

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Monica Calle ( Portugal )
03 to 23 may 2010Convento da Saudacao e Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo

New creation 2010 by the Portuguese theater maker Mónica Calle based on a text by Anton Tchékhov.

Education for the Arts

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Miguel Horta ( Portugal )
23 to 25 march 2010Escola EB 23 Sao Joao de Deus | Montemor-o-Novo

A set of 10 art workshops by Miguel Horta at Montemor-o-Novo's primary school. The aim of these workshops are to develop children's artistic expression through the introduction to plastic arts and creative writing.

Education for the Arts

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Miguel Horta ( Portugal )
16 to 17 june 2010Montemor-o-Novo

"Hunting-Textures" Plastic arts workshop for primary school students of Montemor-o-Novo whose aim is to establish connections between art and urbanism.

747.5

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Andre Sier ( Portugal )
03 to 23 may 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

747.5 is the new creation by the Portuguese media artist André Sier. A co-production O Espaço do Tempo. André Sier is an intermedia artist-programmer that produces objects that involve audio-visual programming languages and has been exhibiting his own work since late 90's in several art venues and events in Portugal and abroad, as well as colaborating with visual artists, performers and musicians. 747.3 first public flight // sep 2006 from Andre Sier on Vimeo.

Rendez-Vous

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Victor Hugo Pontes ( Portugal )
12 june 2010 may Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo | 9.30 pm

In the world we live in, to speak about divergence and deviation from each other's course of life is mere common place. At Rendez-vous the cliché will be buried in order to talk about epiphanies: how do we reach the person or the things we encounter.The point of departure is the accomplished act, the step taken. Then we will retrogress and look behind, to the path we chose to walk. In this symbolic retrogression, also a physical one, there will be bodies in confrontment, images colliding, words in contradiction. The springboard of encounter is the difference between everything: men communicating, the place they share, the time they challenge. Identity and resemblance will get lost on the way.Victor Hugo PontesLOOPING | EU Project In October 2008, LOOPING, a partnership Uzès Danse (France), TanzWerkstatt Berlin (Germany) and O Espaço do Tempo (Portugal) was granted by the European Commission within the framework of ithe Culture 2007-2013 Program.LOOPING is a two-year cooperation project whose aim is to support new creations by twelve emerging choreographers, from six different countries: France, Germany, Portugal, Estonia, Romania and Turkey,. The partner organizations support the artists throughout their creative processes, from their research until the production of their works, as well as on its diffusion. Technical, financial and administrative resources are provided to the selected choreographers to enable them to create a short, 30-minute work. Cycles of residences are organized in each of the six partner countries, to enable the artists to work on their creations, with support and feedback from dramaturgs and theoriticians who bring their opinion to bear on the work, providing an objective gaze, criticism and feedback. At the same time, young production managers are invited to join the projects, ensuring its management.In 2010, six new creations by six emerging artists will be performed during the seasons and festivals organized by the three partner organizations.

Audiencia Zero - Exhibition

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LCD + AltLab + xDA ( Portugal )
12 to 31 july 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

Audiência Zero is a Portuguese cultural association formed in 2006 with the goals of fighting the dispersion of people and means in cultural production, to help form new audiences for culture and to embrace the Internet and new technologies as platforms for cultural development.Since 2008 the association has been developing a training program called Centro de Criatividade e Tecnologia (Center for Creativity and Technology) through which it organizes courses and workshops focused on the creative applications of technology, with a special emphasis on free and open source tools and the active sharing of knowledge they inspire.From this project's activity came forth the need for an informal space where people who are starting to learn how to use technology for creative purposes could gather to continue learning, to share knowledge and experience, and to develop projects together. That's how the Laboratórios Audiência Zero (Audiencia Zero Labs) project started, and in just two years it has grown from one to three spaces nationwide, Altlab in Lisbon, LCD in Porto and xDA in Coimbra.Nowadays these spaces serve as a regular meeting point for a new generation of creators, whether artists or not, connected across a countrywide network, without fear to tackle any technology and knowledge needed to bring their ideas to completion in an environment of open sharing and experimentation.This exhibition presents the results of a unique experiment. For 17 days, 30 members of the Audiencia Zero Labs for all over the country and also from abroad lived and worked together on collective projects. New teams were formed, infinite ideas proposed, new tools and technologies were experimented with, incredible adventures were lived and new friends were made. The projects we can find at this exhibit are just the tip of the veil, the true impact of this experience is yet to come.

Palimpseste

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Jean-Baptiste Bonillo ( France )
12 june 2010 july Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo | 21.30 pm

The Palimpseste presents an old piece of parchment paper from which the first writting has been deleted and a new script written on.What could resemble more a human physical body than a universal and natural palimpseste?A lot of information has been incessantly been ingraves on the palimpseste of our body, several layers have incessantly accumulated, covering other with forgetfulness. They are not dead, they´re just asleep.It´s in this sense that Jean-Batiste Bonillo esplores the body´s memory.Palimpseste is a kind of strip tease, in the real sense and also in the figured sense, that interrogates the body-whitness and it´s revelation ability, thanks to the use of hypnosis and lezxi-therapy processes.In a space, a body, voice, or even image and sound, are other constituent elements for the search of intimacy and relationship. LOOPING | EU Project In October 2008, LOOPING, a partnership Uzès Danse (France), TanzWerkstatt Berlin (Germany) and O Espaço do Tempo (Portugal) was granted by the European Commission within the framework of ithe Culture 2007-2013 Program.LOOPING is a two-year cooperation project whose aim is to support new creations by twelve emerging choreographers, from six different countries: France, Germany, Portugal, Estonia, Romania and Turkey,. The partner organizations support the artists throughout their creative processes, from their research until the production of their works, as well as on its diffusion. Technical, financial and administrative resources are provided to the selected choreographers to enable them to create a short, 30-minute work. Cycles of residences are organized in each of the six partner countries, to enable the artists to work on their creations, with support and feedback from dramaturgs and theoriticians who bring their opinion to bear on the work, providing an objective gaze, criticism and feedback. At the same time, young production managers are invited to join the projects, ensuring its management.In 2010, six new creations by six emerging artists will be performed during the seasons and festivals organized by the three partner organizations.

Anacronia

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Teresa Ranieri ( Italy )
15 to 30 june 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

"...to be honest, I could never have imagined that I would approach a solo creation again as an interpreter/choreographer. I thought that to experience that once, would be just fulfilling to conclude my 25 years long stage carrier.Strangely enough, instead of beating the edge, I opened a new door to a universe of self recognition and understanding.A creative process is indeed a transformation process..." ANACRONIA(Between departure and arrival)By collecting birthdays and becoming, what we generally call, a mature woman, an unusual perception of myself rose into my awareness: actually... I AM not this body, I HAVE this body. What I really am is an entity of experiences, wishes, reminiscences and all the possible aspects that create my identity.And this entity is timeless.So what would it happen if I would take the storyboard of my life, including the mental projection of a possible future, and change its chronological order? No yesterday, no tomorrow but only a process that gathers present, timeless moments.Would that help to switch off the "radio of thoughts" that goes constantly on into my mind and live not IN what it was, not IN what it will be, but only IN what it's now?Teresa Ranieri

Corps deployes ou l eventualite improbable

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Annabelle Bonnery and Francois Deneulin ( France )
24 to 30 june 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

"Corps déployés ou l'éventualité improbable", springs from the common desire of a choreographer and a composer to create a close connection between their respective disciplines since the very beginning of the writing process.Contrary to the traditional work pattern, where music pre-exists, or in which music is "written" based on a pre-defined choreography, this writing work is a process of constant dialogue between each medium, allowing a free hand for mutual influence and bridging of various sound and choreographic material, although without preventing each discipline to tend to its own unfolding.At the heart of this work, two elements allow to bring these disciplines together; on the one hand, the movements of the dancers and musicians are tracked via sensors, thus enabling the possibility to manage or transform sound elements and on the other hand, sound residuals peculiar to danced bodies (scrapings, smackings, breathings) are recorded by microphones, allowing to create a world of sound through amplification.Therefore, this unusual stage system forms a network providing greatly increased possibilities where all the different continuous data (movements or sounds) are processed and connected by a computer.However, far from being a source of technological inspiration, computing is still one of the ways to allow movements and sounds to act in close interaction with each other; it is an invisible framework, a custom lute-making for the performance enabling to intensify the relationship between existing inter-media, or to create unprecedented ones, although this technical process should remain unnoticed.The reason is that, above all, this quintet - three dancers, a drummer and an accordionist - questions the relationship and exchange between them. When one unfolds, how does he get in contact with the other, does he stop the other one to disclose himself or do they both contribute to a relation of domination that is accepted or self-inflicted?The unfolding of a human being weakens him because he is open and exposed at the same time. Exchange would take place during this moment of frailty facing the other, this unlikely quest to be fully understood by others. This piece attempts to question otherness through a desire to «live together».The very creative process - co-authorship between the choreographer and the composer- sheds lights on such issues as otherness, attempted exchanges and contacts by what it offers to see and live between the 5 performers.The imaginative world of each one of them scrapes and clashes together, taking the shape of a common language, full of these individualities and distorted by them.One wonders about the notions of unison, group and mass.The situations explored make music and dance overlap via the interplay between the dancer's movements and the music played live. This close relationship between body and music writings gives way to an unusual reading of the movement and urges us to reassess our codes.This quest for exchange wavers between listening and speaking, assertion and a will to understand, creating a dance piece composed of momentum, which is restrained or suspended by heightened enthusiasm.Annabelle Bonnéry and Sébastian Rivas

O Corpo que Pensa (The Thinking Body) II

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Pia Kraemer ( Germany | Portugal )
08 to 09 may 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

O Corpo que Pensa IISeminar 4: the unconscious in the music and the body as an intermediaryThe body as a concept of yourself, relationship with others and the world.These seminars are based in intensive practical work and in introducing new theoretical approaches: a space of experience and reflection. Through improvisation and creative experiment of dance and movement, as well as music and images, we are able to access the expressive complexity of each individual. Stimulating playful curiosity but transporting it into the adult sense of deepness.Recent investigations in child development area (Stern, Lichtenberg) and Neuropsycology, lead us to a methodology where we use motricity as a concept to transport self-awareness, an inner-concept for attatchement and a way of perceiving the world.These seminars are orientated to psychologists, psychotherapists, teachers and other professionals in areas like theatre and performative arts.

O Corpo que Pensa (The Thinking Body) III

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Pia Kraemer ( Germany | Portugal )
10 to 14 june 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

5 day's seminar ( only for participants who have completed the modules I and II)The body as a concept of yourself, relationship with others and the world.These seminars are based in intensive practical work and in introducing new theoretical approaches: a space of experience and reflection. Through improvisation and creative experiment of dance and movement, as well as music and images, we are able to access the expressive complexity of each individual. Stimulating playful curiosity but transporting it into the adult sense of deepness.Recent investigations in child development area (Stern, Lichtenberg) and Neuropsycology, lead us to a methodology where we use motricity as a concept to transport self-awareness, an inner-concept for attatchement and a way of perceiving the world.These seminars are orientated to psychologists, psychotherapists, teachers and other professionals in areas like theatre and performative arts.

Audiencia Zero

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LCD + AltLab + xDA ( Portugal )
14 to 23 june 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

Audiencia Zero is a cultural association dedicated to the creation and promotion of multidisciplinary and collaborative projects involving art, science and technology. A network of three laboratories / organizations based in Matosinhos (LCD), Lisbon (altlab) and Coimbra (xDA).Audiencia Zero is a cultural association dedicated to the creation and promotion of multidisciplinary and collaborative projects involving art, science and technology. A network of three laboratories / organizations based in Matosinhos (LCD), Lisbon (altlab) and Coimbra (xDA).During the residence at O Espaço do Tempo, participants will work for two weeks in collaborative projects ranging from interactive installations to performances (physical computing, robotics, etc).The organization of this residence is based on the same fundamental concepts that guide the work in the laboratories: sharing knowledge, experience and resources, cross-disciplinary work ,self-organization, research and collective research.Participants in this residence will be mainly the members of Audiencia Zero's aboratories, but the residence is open to further collaboration, particularly with individuals and organizations that are engaged in complementary artistic areas. During the residence at O Espaço do Tempo, participants will work for two weeks in collaborative projects ranging from interactive installations to performances (physical computing, robotics, etc).The organization of this residence is based on the same fundamental concepts that guide the work in the laboratories: sharing knowledge, experience and resources, cross-disciplinary work ,self-organization, research and collective research.Participants in this residence will be mainly the members of Audiencia Zero's aboratories, but the residence is open to further collaboration, particularly with individuals and organizations that are engaged in complementary artistic areas.

Mimikry

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Angela Melitopoulos and Stephanie Thiersch ( Germany )
05 to 25 july 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

The new piece by Stephanie Thiersch uses the mechanisms of camouflage (mimicry) as a starting point for an examination, both physical and with regard to content. To be examined will be the adaptation in modern working environments as a survival strategy. In the centre of research are gestures and movements that make adaptation possible. Assumed that people use a strategy of physical mimicry consciously, it would be interesting to see what happened if this strategy was decontextualised.In the centre of the piece, that combines elements of dance, theatre and film, is, besides the performers on stage, the work of media artist Angela Melitopoulos. The movements, pictures and texts of Mimikry are going to be created during the rehearsing process. They are going to be combined to a stage performance, video projection and soundscape.Content: In working and private life communities are build that have their own codes of belongingness and identification. We life in a time of community building, although individualism plays an important role in media, advertising and politics. We are planning to search, besides the gestures of adaptation, for gestures of social dislocation, for moments of doubt and insecurity, that mean an interruption. In this context we see moments of fragility as an act of creation in daily life.

Influencias (Influences)

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Mundo Perfeito ( Portugal )
23 august to 12 september 2010Blackbox and Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

"Influências" (Influences in Portuguese) is a project by the theater company Mundo Perfeito whose goal is the creation of two new works resulting from a commission to two young Portuguese theater makers : José Nunes and John Romão. Each one of these new works will have as a starting point an art work that have influenced these young theater makers. These projects are co-produced by Mundo Perfeito, O Espaço do Tempo and Galeria Zé dos Bois. Mundo Perfeito means: "perfect world". This company is based on a kitchen in a small apartment in Amadora, a city in the suburbs of Lisbon. The company's name translates the irony of a critic way of regarding the present and the idealism of an optimistic behaviour towards the future. It is also a name that makes people smile, for whatever reason.Organized around the artistic work of Tiago Rodrigues, this structure is also directed by Magda Bizarro and has produced 10 performances since 2003. Mundo Perfeito is recognised by the quality of its work and a permanent drive towards innovation. They stand out for an intense work with authors and new dramaturgy, and also for their spirit of collaboration with international artists such as the belgian company tg STAN, the light and set designer Thomas Walgrave, the lebanese artists Rabih Mroué and Tony Chakar, the congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula or Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, from the american company Nature Theatre of Oklahoma.Mundo Perfeito has presented its work in theatres and festivals in countries such as France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Lebanon and Brazil.

Ballroom

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Begum Erciyas ( Turkey )
11 june 2010 september Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo | 9.30 pm

Ping pong balls have mostly similar physicalities. They weigh around 2.7 grams, and are 40 mm in diameter. They can take distance, by rolling along the floor, by flying in a curve-like movement or by leaping through the space. Once dropped from 30 cm they only rise up 23 cm. On each bounce the height decreases according to this coefficient, until they cannot rise off the floor anymore. However, the specificities of the bounce depend largely on the ground surface. On the right dance floor they produce a hollow staccato sound on each touch. They are highly dependent on the strength of the initiating force that gives them the strength to fight friction. Eventually, due to the friction between them, the ground and the air, they come to a stop. Once they are in groups they behave unpredictably, and, sometimes, they deviate from their original trajectory."Ballroom" is a continuation of a kinetic and dramaturgic study of Ping Pong balls. Ping Pong I was premiered in K3- Center for Choreography in December 2009.Begüm ErciyasLOOPING | EU Project In October 2008, LOOPING, a partnership Uzès Danse (France), TanzWerkstatt Berlin (Germany) and O Espaço do Tempo (Portugal) was granted by the European Commission within the framework of ithe Culture 2007-2013 Program.LOOPING is a two-year cooperation project whose aim is to support new creations by twelve emerging choreographers, from six different countries: France, Germany, Portugal, Estonia, Romania and Turkey,. The partner organizations support the artists throughout their creative processes, from their research until the production of their works, as well as on its diffusion. Technical, financial and administrative resources are provided to the selected choreographers to enable them to create a short, 30-minute work. Cycles of residences are organized in each of the six partner countries, to enable the artists to work on their creations, with support and feedback from dramaturgs and theoriticians who bring their opinion to bear on the work, providing an objective gaze, criticism and feedback. At the same time, young production managers are invited to join the projects, ensuring its management.In 2010, six new creations by six emerging artists will be performed during the seasons and festivals organized by the three partner organizations.

Unfolded bodies or the unlikely possibility

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Annabelle Bonnery and Francois Deneulin ( France )
01 to 11 july 2010Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo

"Unfolded bodies or the unlikely possibility", springs from the common desire of a choreographer and a composer to create a close connection between their respective disciplines since the very beginning of the writing process.Contrary to the traditional work pattern, where music pre-exists, or in which music is "written" based on a pre-defined choreography, this writing work is a process of constant dialogue between each medium, allowing a free hand for mutual influence and bridging of various sound and choreographic material, although without preventing each discipline to tend to its own unfolding.At the heart of this work, two elements allow to bring these disciplines together; on the one hand, the movements of the dancers and musicians are tracked via sensors, thus enabling the possibility to manage or transform sound elements and on the other hand, sound residuals peculiar to danced bodies (scrapings, smackings, breathings) are recorded by microphones, allowing to create a world of sound through amplification.Therefore, this unusual stage system forms a network providing greatly increased possibilities where all the different continuous data (movements or sounds) are processed and connected by a computer.However, far from being a source of technological inspiration, computing is still one of the ways to allow movements and sounds to act in close interaction with each other; it is an invisible framework, a custom lute-making for the performance enabling to intensify the relationship between existing inter-media, or to create unprecedented ones, although this technical process should remain unnoticed.The reason is that, above all, this quintet - three dancers, a drummer and an accordionist - questions the relationship and exchange between them. When one unfolds, how does he get in contact with the other, does he stop the other one to disclose himself or do they both contribute to a relation of domination that is accepted or self-inflicted?The unfolding of a human being weakens him because he is open and exposed at the same time. Exchange would take place during this moment of frailty facing the other, this unlikely quest to be fully understood by others. This piece attempts to question otherness through a desire to «live together».The very creative process - co-authorship between the choreographer and the composer- sheds lights on such issues as otherness, attempted exchanges and contacts by what it offers to see and live between the 5 performers.The imaginative world of each one of them scrapes and clashes together, taking the shape of a common language, full of these individualities and distorted by them.One wonders about the notions of unison, group and mass.The situations explored make music and dance overlap via the interplay between the dancer's movements and the music played live. This close relationship between body and music writings gives way to an unusual reading of the movement and urges us to reassess our codes.This quest for exchange wavers between listening and speaking, assertion and a will to understand, creating a dance piece composed of momentum, which is restrained or suspended by heightened enthusiasm.Annabelle Bonnéry and Sébastian Rivas

O Ginjal ou O Sonho das Cerejas (The Cherry Orchard or The Dream of Cherries) | Open Rehearsal

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Monica Calle ( Portugal )
22 may 2010 july 9.30 pm, Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo

New creation 2010 by the Portuguese contemporary theater maker Mónica Calle based on a text by Anton Tchékhov.

TKB Project | Arts and Science Lab

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Carla Fernandes | Linguistics Centre of the New University of Lisbon (CLUNL) ( Portugal )
24 may to 28 april 2010Convento da Saudacao and Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo

TKB project: a Transmedia Knowledge-Base for contemporary danceIn the framework of the TKB research project (coordinated by Carla Fernandes - PhD Linguistics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa: FCSH), the Linguistics Centre of the New University of Lisbon (CLUNL) and Espaço do Tempo are organizing the 1st TKB hands-on Lab, combining an arts&science residency (24-28 May 2010) and an international conference (29 May 2010).The main focus will be "New models of documentation for contemporay dance", mainly focusing on the emerging "Transmedia Knowledge Base" project - while based on Rui Horta's material - and the follow-ups of the "Inside Movement Knowledge" project from Emio Greco/PC, Amsterdam, accomodating other research projects in this or similar domains, small or big-scale, based in Portugal or anywhere else in the world.Through the collaboration of Carla Fernandes and Rui Horta, the motivational idea is to provide a time and space for a hands-on Arts&Science Lab in the intersection of cognitive linguistics, performance studies and new media, leading to a productive interchange of research results or works-in-progress and to the natural development of simultaneous "art labs" / "science studios.Residency period: from Monday 24th to Friday 28th.Confirmed participants in the Lab :Scott DeLahunta (Writing Associates Amsterdam)Chris Ziegler (media artist and designer)Sarah Fdili Alaoui (LIMSI-CNRS, IRCAM)Bertha Bermudez (ICKamsterdam)Martin Bellardi (computer programmer)Frederic Bevilaqua (IRCAM)Pieter C. Scholten (ICKamsterdam)Nuno Correia (FCT/UNL)Rute Costa (FCSH/ CLUNL)Isabel Galhano (CLUP)Carla Fernandes (FCSH/ CLUNL)Rita Raimundo (FCSH/ CLUNL)Rui Horta (O Espaço do Tempo)André Sier (independent artist)Guilherme Martins (AlLab / Audiência Zero)Stephan Jürgens (indepedent choreographer and researcher)Lise Amy Hansen (Oslo School of Architecture and Design)Thembi Rosa (Universidade Federal da Baía, Brazil)Sarah Whatley (Siobhan Davies Archive)Urândia Carvalho (FCT/UNL)Diogo Cabral (FCT/UNL)Evi Dimakopoulou (CLUP)Carlos Oliveira (UT Austin | PT: Digital Media programme)

Contemporary Dance and Tai-Chi Classes

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Pia Kraemer and Susana Marques ( Germany | Portugal )
01 to 31 january 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

Body in Motion / Inside-outThe core items of these classes are: to understand deeply the inner architecture of our body; to develop our sensitiveness for movement; to strengthen our most hidden muscles; to learn to relax and to breathe correctly, in motion and still; and later to recognize the wrong movement patterns which are harmful for a healthy position.The many years experience of Pia Kraemer as a dance pedagogue and a movement therapeutist lead to the following concepts: the importance of a correct and economic movement, dynamic energy as well as the stream between mind and body for a healthy life.These classes are meant for all those who want to become healthy through movement. It works also as a preparation for the contemporaneous dance classes or as a complementary class to any sport. Tai Chi – an internal martial artBesides their martial function, the internal arts are also effective to fight stress and to keep healthy. At a more advanced level, they are a way of development of conscience. Tai-chi practice is characterized by slow and sequential movements, which encourage physical and psychical relaxing and the circulation of energy (chi). Tai-chi can be practised at any age, with clear benefits for health and general well-being.

Contemporaneous Dance and Tai-Chi classes

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Teachers: Pia Kraemer and Susana Marques ( Germany | Portugal )
01 to 28 february 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

Body in Motion / Inside-outThe core items of these classes are: to understand deeply the inner architecture of our body; to develop our sensitiveness for movement; to strengthen our most hidden muscles; to learn to relax and to breathe correctly, in motion and still; and later to recognize the wrong movement patterns which are harmful for a healthy position.The many years experience of Pia Kraemer as a dance pedagogue and a movement therapeutist lead to the following concepts: the importance of a correct and economic movement, dynamic energy as well as the stream between mind and body for a healthy life.These classes are meant for all those who want to become healthy through movement. It works also as a preparation for the contemporaneous dance classes or as a complementary class to any sport. Tai Chi – an internal martial artBesides their martial function, the internal arts are also effective to fight stress and to keep healthy. At a more advanced level, they are a way of development of conscience. Tai-chi practice is characterized by slow and sequential movements, which encourage physical and psychical relaxing and the circulation of energy (chi). Tai-chi can be practised at any age, with clear benefits for health and general well-being.

Contemporaneous Dance and Tai-Chi classes

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Teachers: Pia Kraemer and Susana Marques ( Germany | Portugal )
01 to 31 march 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

Body in Motion / Inside-outThe core items of these classes are: to understand deeply the inner architecture of our body; to develop our sensitiveness for movement; to strengthen our most hidden muscles; to learn to relax and to breathe correctly, in motion and still; and later to recognize the wrong movement patterns which are harmful for a healthy position.The many years experience of Pia Kraemer as a dance pedagogue and a movement therapeutist lead to the following concepts: the importance of a correct and economic movement, dynamic energy as well as the stream between mind and body for a healthy life.These classes are meant for all those who want to become healthy through movement. It works also as a preparation for the contemporaneous dance classes or as a complementary class to any sport. Tai Chi – an internal martial artBesides their martial function, the internal arts are also effective to fight stress and to keep healthy. At a more advanced level, they are a way of development of conscience. Tai-chi practice is characterized by slow and sequential movements, which encourage physical and psychical relaxing and the circulation of energy (chi). Tai-chi can be practised at any age, with clear benefits for health and general well-being.

Contemporaneous Dance and Tai-Chi classes

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Teachers: Pia Kraemer and Susana Marques ( Germany | Portugal )
01 to 30 april 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

Body in Motion / Inside-outThe core items of these classes are: to understand deeply the inner architecture of our body; to develop our sensitiveness for movement; to strengthen our most hidden muscles; to learn to relax and to breathe correctly, in motion and still; and later to recognize the wrong movement patterns which are harmful for a healthy position.The many years experience of Pia Kraemer as a dance pedagogue and a movement therapeutist lead to the following concepts: the importance of a correct and economic movement, dynamic energy as well as the stream between mind and body for a healthy life.These classes are meant for all those who want to become healthy through movement. It works also as a preparation for the contemporaneous dance classes or as a complementary class to any sport. Tai Chi – an internal martial artBesides their martial function, the internal arts are also effective to fight stress and to keep healthy. At a more advanced level, they are a way of development of conscience. Tai-chi practice is characterized by slow and sequential movements, which encourage physical and psychical relaxing and the circulation of energy (chi). Tai-chi can be practised at any age, with clear benefits for health and general well-being.

Contemporary Dance and Tai-Chi Classes

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Pia Kraemer and Susana Marques ( Germany | Portugal )
01 to 31 may 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

Body in Motion / Inside-outContemporary dance classes with Pia Kraemer (Germany/Portugal)The core items of these classes are: to understand deeply the inner architecture of our body; to develop our sensitiveness for movement; to strengthen our most hidden muscles; to learn to relax and to breathe correctly, in motion and still; and later to recognize the wrong movement patterns which are harmful for a healthy position.The many years experience of Pia Kraemer as a dance pedagogue and a movement therapeutist lead to the following concepts: the importance of a correct and economic movement, dynamic energy as well as the stream between mind and body for a healthy life.These classes are meant for all those who want to become healthy through movement. It works also as a preparation for the contemporaneous dance classes or as a complementary class to any sport.Tai Chi - an internal martial artTai-Chi classes with Susana Marques (Portugal)Besides their martial function, the internal arts are also effective to fight stress and to keep healthy. At a more advanced level, they are a way of development of conscience. Tai-chi practice is characterized by slow and sequential movements, which encourage physical and psychical relaxing and the circulation of energy (chi). Tai-chi can be practised at any age, with clear benefits for health and general well-being.

Contemporary Dance and Tai-Chi classes

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Pia Kraemer and Susana Marques ( Germany | Portugal )
01 to 30 june 2010Montemor-o-Novo | Convento da Saudacao

Body in Motion / Inside-outContemporary Dance classes by Pia Kraemer (Germany/Portugal)The core items of these classes are: to understand deeply the inner architecture of our body; to develop our sensitiveness for movement; to strengthen our most hidden muscles; to learn to relax and to breathe correctly, in motion and still; and later to recognize the wrong movement patterns which are harmful for a healthy position.The many years experience of Pia Kraemer as a dance pedagogue and a movement therapeutist lead to the following concepts: the importance of a correct and economic movement, dynamic energy as well as the stream between mind and body for a healthy life.These classes are meant for all those who want to become healthy through movement. It works also as a preparation for the contemporaneous dance classes or as a complementary class to any sport. Tai Chi - an internal martial artby Susana Marques (Portugal) Besides their martial function, the internal arts are also effective to fight stress and to keep healthy. At a more advanced level, they are a way of development of conscience. Tai-chi practice is characterized by slow and sequential movements, which encourage physical and psychical relaxing and the circulation of energy (chi). Tai-chi can be practised at any age, with clear benefits for health and general well-being.

Local Geographic

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Rui Horta ( Portugal )
11 to 16 may 2010CCB - Blackbox | Lisboa

Slowly I realized that, at least one day a week, I needed to find a new place. I used to go out early in the morning and returned before "my day" really began. It was a preface, a prologue to an unpredictable day with a pre-established agenda. As always, I was on my bike searching for a new landscape. That day, I lost myself ...Local Geographic is a solo, a journey that, like any good journey is both outward and inward. A succession of discoveries, details and accidents that, ironically, bring questions about the loss of references and the search for identity.Rui Horta TOUR 2010May 11th, 12th e 14th at 9 pm and May 15th and 16th at 7 pm | CCB, Lisbon PT (Prèmiere)May 21st at 9h30 pm | Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro PTMay 22th at 9h30 pm | Teatro Cine de Torres Vedras, Torres Vedras PT

Lingada d' Carvon

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Marlene Freitas ( Cap-Vert | Portugal )
01 to 09 june 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

Sometime ago i saw a concert. Later i did a drawing of it. Some months later that drawing was still on my mind. Than I though, why souldn't I do something with it and give life to this drawing? Time passed and nothing happen. Until the moment when it had to happen. The drawing should had a life and its own history. This is a performance about a drawing. PRÈMIERE: Galeria Zé dos Bois - Negócio (Lisbon) November 2010.

Looping 2010

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Begum Erciyas | Jean-Baptiste Bonillo | Victor Hugo Pontes ( Turkey | France | Portugal )
01 to 12 june 2010Convento da Saudacao and Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo

LOOPING | EU ProjectIn October 2008, LOOPING, a partnership Uzès Danse (France), TanzWerkstatt Berlin (Germany) and O Espaço do Tempo (Portugal) was granted by the European Commission within the framework of ithe Culture 2007-2013 Program.LOOPING is a two-year cooperation project whose aim is to support new creations by twelve emerging choreographers, from six different countries: France, Germany, Portugal, Estonia, Romania and Turkey,. The partner organizations support the artists throughout their creative processes, from their research until the production of their works, as well as on its diffusion. Technical, financial and administrative resources are provided to the selected choreographers to enable them to create a short, 30-minute work. Cycles of residences are organized in each of the six partner countries, to enable the artists to work on their creations, with support and feedback from dramaturgs and theoriticians who bring their opinion to bear on the work, providing an objective gaze, criticism and feedback. At the same time, young production managers are invited to join the projects, ensuring its management.In 2010, six new creations by six emerging artists will be performed during the seasons and festivals organized by the three partner organizations.Guest artists 2010: Begüm Erciyas (Turkey); Jean-Baptiste Bonillo (France); Marko Milic (Serbia); Melanie Lane (Germany); Nele Suisalu (Estonia) and Victor Hugo Pontes (Portugal).

Summer Bar

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04 june to 04 september 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

For the 9th consecutive year we give life to the Square of the Convent of Salutation with our Summer Bar.From June till September, the evenings and late afternoons in Montemor-o-Novo are magic in a living space that has already become indispensable for many citizens from Montemor-o-Novo and an essential meeting point between artists and audience.This summer we will have concerts and parties with DJs and VJs. The varied program will be announced throughout the season. You can enjoy one of the most beautiful views over the city, imagine the impossible, read or write a book, give voice to the unknown, feeling the mystery that is in you, dive into it, dance and dream like when you were a child ... and all with the taste of a good coffee, a refreshing beer or a delicious caipirinha.The Summer Bar opens on the 4th of June and Summer here it will sound like this ... 2010 by o espaço do tempo

Cidade Pre0cupada

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Oficinas do Convento ( Portugal )
04 july 2010 september Largo do Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

Na continuidade do Festival Ananil, a associação montemorense Oficinas do Convento organiza pelo segundo ano consecutivo o evento multidisciciplinar Cidade Pre0cupada.Oficinas do Convento - Associação Cultural de Arte e Comunicação, é uma associação cultural sem fins lucrativos com sede no Convento de S. Francisco, em Montemor-o-Novo.Em 2010 chegam ao O Espaço do Tempo as seguintes propostas:Oficina de Percussão Corporal com Marco Santos15.00 | Convento da SaudaçãoMáquina Lírica - Concerto de Música Improvisada 18:00 | Convento da SaudaçãoBento17 - Performance | Live Act e DJ Set 22:00 | Convento da SaudaçãoDj Analógico - DJ Set 23:00 | Convento da Saudação

A deux pas de la-haut

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Ultimo Momento | Joao Paulo Santos ( Portugal | France )
12 to 31 july 2010Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo

After 3 years of intense touring Joao Pereira Dos Santos, co-founder and artistic director of O Ultimo Momento, has decided to take his direction to another level, to get back into creation and to open up.Since his early stages, he has been working alone on his apparatus. The idea of this specific project is to confront others with visions to different sensitivities.The show is made up of Chinese pole and floor acrobatics, trampoline,object handling, dance and video.In Joao Pereira's word's "Circus is a metaphor of life and connections between people. Notions of risk and trust are inherent in the definition of circus."In this show he wants to confront the audience from a different approach,not just visually but emotionally. The idea is to let the audience experience the fear and loneliness of the performers ; to be carried away by the verticality of the Chinese pole, the height that is involved and the constant self-belief the performers must have to pull it off!The company "O Ultimo Momento" was created in 2004 by Joao Pereira Dos Santos (Portuguese acrobat) and Guillaume Dutrieux (French musician). In 2005 they created their first show in Strasbourg (France) called PEUT-ÊTRE. This show has been performed more that 50 times across Europe and South-East Asia.The last performance took place in 2009.In 2006 the company also created a show called CONTIGO ; this was a solo project co-written by Joao Pereira Dos Santos and the Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta. This show successively toured over 100 times in Europe, Asia, Africa, Northern and Southern America.In May 2009 the first performance of Vertigem took place in Portugal. This short form (solo) is the foreshadow of the newest performance which will be completed in January 2011

O Canto do Imperador

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Martim Pedroso ( Portugal )
02 to 22 august 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

new creation by young portuguese theater maker Martim Pedroso

Anacronia

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Teresa Ranieri ( Italy )
01 to 04 july 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

"...to be honest, I could never have imagined that I would approach a solo creation again as an interpreter/choreographer. I thought that to experience that once, would be just fulfilling to conclude my 25 years long stage carrier.Strangely enough, instead of beating the edge, I opened a new door to a universe of self recognition and understanding.A creative process is indeed a transformation process..." ANACRONIA(Between departure and arrival)By collecting birthdays and becoming, what we generally call, a mature woman, an unusual perception of myself rose into my awareness: actually... I AM not this body, I HAVE this body. What I really am is an entity of experiences, wishes, reminiscences and all the possible aspects that create my identity.And this entity is timeless.So what would it happen if I would take the storyboard of my life, including the mental projection of a possible future, and change its chronological order? No yesterday, no tomorrow but only a process that gathers present, timeless moments.Would that help to switch off the "radio of thoughts" that goes constantly on into my mind and live not IN what it was, not IN what it will be, but only IN what it's now?Teresa Ranieri

Summer Bar

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O Espaco do Tempo ( Portugal )
01 to 21 august 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

For the 9th consecutive year we give life to the Square of the Convent of Salutation with our Summer Bar.From June till September, the evenings and late afternoons in Montemor-o-Novo are magic in a living space that has already become indispensable for many citizens from Montemor-o-Novo and became an essential meeting point between artists and audience.At our summer bar you can enjoy one of the most beautiful views over the city, imagine the impossible, read or write a book, give voice to the unknown, feeling the mystery that is in you, dive into it, dance and dream like when you were a child ... and all with the taste of a good coffee, a refreshing beer or a delicious caipirinha.

Local Geographic

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Rui Horta ( Portugal )
03 july 2010 august Portalegre Arts Centre | Portalegre

Slowly I realized that, at least one day a week, I needed to find a new place. I used to go out early in the morning and returned before "my day" really began. It was a preface, a prologue to an unpredictable day with a pre-established agenda. As always, I was on my bike searching for a new landscape. That day, I lost myself ...Local Geographic is a solo, a journey that, like any good journey is both outward and inward. A succession of discoveries, details and accidents that, ironically, bring questions about the loss of references and the search for identity.Rui Horta

Bento 17

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Joao Bento ( Portugal )
04 july 2010 august Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

Live-Act and DJ Set by Portuguese musician and visual artist João Bento. An electrifying live act and dj set to listen and watch...Within the framework of the festival Cidade Pre0cupada, an initiative by Oficinas do Convento in co-production with O Espaço do Tempo and Câmara Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo

DJ Analogico

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Norberto Fernandes ( Portugal )
04 july 2010 august Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

The performance happens in an old car Plymouth Fury Hard Top from 1960. Its the support for an analogic vinil dj set with musics of the world and poems by Mário Viegas. Within the framework of the festival Cidade Pre0cupada, an initiative by Oficinas do Convento in co-production with O Espaço do Tempo and Câmara Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo

Maquina Lirica - Improvised Music Concert

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Marco Franco and Joana Sa ( Portugal )
04 july 2010 august Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

improvised music concert held within the framework of the festival Cidade Pre0cupada, an initiative by Oficinas do Convento in co-production with O Espaço do Tempo and Câmara Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo

Looping 2010

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Melanie Lane | Nele Suisalu | Marko Milic ( Germany | Serbia | Estonia )
13 to 18 september 2010Blackbox and Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

LOOPING | EU ProjectIn October 2008, LOOPING, a partnership Uzès Danse (France), TanzWerkstatt Berlin (Germany) and O Espaço do Tempo (Portugal) was granted by the European Commission within the framework of ithe Culture 2007-2013 Program.LOOPING is a two-year cooperation project whose aim is to support new creations by twelve emerging choreographers, from six different countries: France, Germany, Portugal, Estonia, Romania and Turkey,. The partner organizations support the artists throughout their creative processes, from their research until the production of their works, as well as on its diffusion. Technical, financial and administrative resources are provided to the selected choreographers to enable them to create a short, 30-minute work. Cycles of residences are organized in each of the six partner countries, to enable the artists to work on their creations, with support and feedback from dramaturgs and theoriticians who bring their opinion to bear on the work, providing an objective gaze, criticism and feedback. At the same time, young production managers are invited to join the projects, ensuring its management.In 2010, six new creations by six emerging artists will be performed during the seasons and festivals organized by the three partner organizations.Guest artists 2010: Begüm Erciyas (Turkey); Jean-Baptiste Bonillo (France); Marko Milic (Serbia); Melanie Lane (Germany); Nele Suisalu (Estonia) and Victor Hugo Pontes (Portugal).

Apres le Bain (working title)

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Mariana Tengner Barros ( Portugal )
25 september to 15 october 2010Buda Kunstencentrum | Kortrijk - Belgium

In October 2010 an on-going exchange project between the arts centres O Espaço do Tempo ( Montemor-o- Novo) and Buda Kunstencentrum (Kortrijk) will be initiated with the realization of an artistic residency in Kortrijk of the Portuguese young maker Mariana Tengner Barros. This exchange project consists in a joined co-production between these two arts centres of new works by young artists. "Apres le Bain" (working title) by Mariana Tengner Barros, it's the first project to be supported within this framework. After the realization of several artistic residencies in Portugal and Belgium, "Après Le Bain" première's will take place on the 25th and 26th of February 2011 at O Espaço do Tempo's Blackbox in Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal). About "Après Le Bain"There is something about our limited time here, that makes us want to pause it. Signs of ageing are regarded as flaws, plastic surgery becomes a must so one can adapt well to the most recent codes of representation of our bodies. In the quest for some kind of perfection, we go on morphing slightly, daily, comparing ourselves with the images we see all around, old and new. By attempting to construct the ideal image of a body we tend to get further and further away from the reality of that body, that is its details, its peculiarities, what makes it unique and complex. A will for immortality, for a ‘great shape', forever, takes over fully ‘living' each moment. ‘Looking like' and ‘looking at' become more important than ‘seeing' and ‘being'. As long as the ‘image' is what we want it to be, ‘forever' becomes the object where that image gets ‘frozen', the moment registered (a picture, a sculpture, a photo, a film).I am recurrently interested in the representation of the body in art, the body in the media, in publicity, its relevance in the cult of ‘fame' and in the phenomena of the ‘icon'. The way the body is presented, how it is destroyed, the degrees of intimacy and exposure and the mechanisms related with how we ‘cover' our bodies, how we define them.For this solo I wanted to work with a material that was unstable, which form had a short duration. In life nothing stays the same, everything reaches a point where it either ends or it becomes something else. ‘After the bath', after getting ‘clean', scrubbed, desinfected, we add other layers, in a narcissistic-like ritual, working against time.I began working from the idea of getting old in a fast-forward mode. Skin getting wobbly and loose, creams trying to hold it together, even reverting the process. The body undergoes constant and continuous changes, it is an infinite process of reconfigurations and adaptations. Nevertheless, we have that huge tendency to want to freeze them, in an anxious attempt to delay an end and keep a certain appeareance that suits a pre-determined model of beauty.The body of an image, or the image of a body? I try to enter in a place where these converge, where I manipulate my own image, articulating my state between the ‘created' and the ‘creator' (ie: the sculpture and the sculptor), wanting to transcend my countours, my identity, my gender and all the other cultural and social ‘tags' that are imposed.I work with 4 elements: my body, plastic sheets, light and cans of men's shaving foam.Remixing body, body of old, body of now, my body now, forms in my body, ends of my body, body of other, an attempt of body, an empty body, a body cover, ghost body, the body decaying, the body still. Body, still.Mariana Tengner Barros 2009Mariana Tengner Barros Graduated from The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (UK 2003). Was an apprentice dancer with Ballet Theatre Munich (GER 2004). Associate Artist in residency at NSCD (2004/2005)- choreographed ‘Best Imitation of Myself' for VERVE05. Completed the Choreographic Creation, Dance Research and Training Programe at Fórum Dança (POR 2009) with Francisco Camacho, Vera Mantero, Miguel Pereira, João Fiadeiro, Deborah Hay, Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Meg Stuart, amongst others. As a performer she has worked with Retina Dance Company- Filip van Huffel (Belgium/UK 2004-2006), Companhia Instável- Rui Horta (2006), Né Barros – Balletetro Companhia (2007), Andreas Dyrdal, Rudolfo Quintas and Tiago Dionísio (eDGe/SWAP-PROJECT 2007) and Francisco Camacho (2010). Worked with Deborah Hay as part of the SPCP project for the adaptation of the solo AT ONCE (2009). As a creator: starts the on-going work ‘Piece of the Heart' (2008), a theme to explore indefinitely and always in different versions of a solo with a choirus; creates the solo ‘And So?… THE END' (2010) in residency at Eira33 and has another solo ‘Aprés le bain'-(working title) under construction to premiere in early 2011.Collaborated with various artists in different projects: Said Dakash , Elizabete Francisca, Maria Lemos, Abraham Hurtado, Joa Gridfonte, Pedro Bandeira, João Costa, Paulo Matosinhos and António Mv, amongst others.She is a co-founder of the artistic collective The Resistance Movement and an associate artist of O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-novo, Portugal).

WTF?

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Catia Pinheiro e Jose Nunes ( Portugal )
01 to 12 september 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

WTF? is a reflection on the work of Marcel Duchamp, his legacy and influence on a whole post-modern generation, for which he has leaved his trail in several artistic and philosophic streams.In this project we will research on the presence of his concepts on today's world and how his work influenced/influences the contemporary art market of our times, always trying to "map" it (somehow) in a stage performance.

Hysterias Arche

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John Romao ( Portugal )
01 to 12 september 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

Rarely I take an artistic object as a starting point to create a piece. Not even when I give an explosive kiss to someone i love (Ryan McGinley), or when hide myself from my father (Santiago Sierra), or even when I throw a glass of juice in my brother's face (Bruce Nauman). Gestures, actions and movements concerning art works are always omnipresent in daily life.Taking as references some art works, bodies of gymnasts and sports techniques, in this new project i will work with a young gymnast and put him on stage.John Romão

Home (lessness) Sickness_

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Nele Suisalu ( Estonia )
18 september 2010 september Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo | 21h30

This is an attempt to circulate between 'here' and 'there' which might end up being interchangeable. Could that mean staying put? To exist in the time that is measurable by instant-messaging and by the growth of a tree. Not to lose concentration in a situation that Miguel Benasayag has described as “when everything becomes possible, nothing is possible anymore”. Thus ... seeking for the equilibrium of a flying aeroplane: speed versus gravity.This moving body on stage has been inspired by sleep, by the physical action of sleeping, by the space and location of a sleeping person. A sleeping body has an existence that is out of control and out of context (disconnected from the actual surroundings). A body that is consumed by the necessity to recycle, rebuild and re-organize itself in order to function. Sleep is our ultimate home. Home that we can't leave, rent or sell. This body won't sleep, it will displace itself instead. It navigates throughout recycled, rebuilt and re-organized materials which chase each other and face the audience, each in its proper manner. These nowhere-arrivals are accompanied by the (mechanical) sounds of going from one place to another and by a voice that anchors itself in the past - speaking of marriages and funerals.Nele Suisalu LOOPING | EU Project In October 2008, LOOPING, a partnership Uzès Danse (France), TanzWerkstatt Berlin (Germany) and O Espaço do Tempo (Portugal) was granted by the European Commission within the framework of ithe Culture 2007-2013 Program.LOOPING is a two-year cooperation project whose aim is to support new creations by twelve emerging choreographers, from six different countries: France, Germany, Portugal, Estonia, Romania and Turkey,. The partner organizations support the artists throughout their creative processes, from their research until the production of their works, as well as on its diffusion. Technical, financial and administrative resources are provided to the selected choreographers to enable them to create a short, 30-minute work. Cycles of residences are organized in each of the six partner countries, to enable the artists to work on their creations, with support and feedback from dramaturgs and theoriticians who bring their opinion to bear on the work, providing an objective gaze, criticism and feedback. At the same time, young production managers are invited to join the projects, ensuring its management.In 2010, six new creations by six emerging artists will be performed during the seasons and festivals organized by the three partner organizations.

Tilted Fawn

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Melanie Lane ( Germany )
17 september 2010 september Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo | 9.30 pm

The history of a person is documented in endless forms. Through sound, words and images, we can glimpse an imagined narrative of our past. Yet the past is immoveable, unknowable, ever elusive and often challenging to confront. Imagine if the power to change or manipulate our personal histories existed.Through the performers dialogue with documented sound history and anonymous objects, an environment is constructed in which one is confronted with the merging of two worlds; past and present. Here the environment takes on a role of power. It gives the opportunity to consider one's history and reflect on the possibilties of how our imagination can twist the reality of our past. From this experience there is a window of opportunity opened up to another dimension...a world of illusion and fantasy.In collaboration with reknowned electronic music artist CLARK (Warp records UK), Melanie and CLARK continue their working partnership for the second time after the successful production 'HELD' in collaboration with Morgan Belenguer (2008), this time developing a sound installation that is composed in co-ordination with objects and choreography in space. The sound is comprised of audio documentations, an ecclectic range of events that transform and influence the environment.In the intimacy of a solo performance, 'Tilted Fawn' builds a universe that offers a dialogue between fantasy and reality through sound and movement. It brings to the surface images that are absurd, dark, light and other-worldly.Melanie Lane LOOPING | EU Project In October 2008, LOOPING, a partnership Uzès Danse (France), TanzWerkstatt Berlin (Germany) and O Espaço do Tempo (Portugal) was granted by the European Commission within the framework of ithe Culture 2007-2013 Program.LOOPING is a two-year cooperation project whose aim is to support new creations by twelve emerging choreographers, from six different countries: France, Germany, Portugal, Estonia, Romania and Turkey,. The partner organizations support the artists throughout their creative processes, from their research until the production of their works, as well as on its diffusion. Technical, financial and administrative resources are provided to the selected choreographers to enable them to create a short, 30-minute work. Cycles of residences are organized in each of the six partner countries, to enable the artists to work on their creations, with support and feedback from dramaturgs and theoriticians who bring their opinion to bear on the work, providing an objective gaze, criticism and feedback. At the same time, young production managers are invited to join the projects, ensuring its management.In 2010, six new creations by six emerging artists will be performed during the seasons and festivals organized by the three partner organizations.

Series

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Marko Milic ( Serbia )
17 september 2010 september Blackbox | Montemor-o-Novo | 9.30pm

The main drive for this dance is inspired by the idea of possession. Marko Milic wants to propose very vivid dancing, almost like the dancer is connected to high voltage electricity and cannot stop, similar to trance parties. His interest is what can be the source or a motive, that push the movement to be fanatical. The starting point was spiritual séances where dance was used as a tool for presenting the communication with spirits and transmitting the message to followers.Marko Milic LOOPING | EU Project In October 2008, LOOPING, a partnership Uzès Danse (France), TanzWerkstatt Berlin (Germany) and O Espaço do Tempo (Portugal) was granted by the European Commission within the framework of ithe Culture 2007-2013 Program.LOOPING is a two-year cooperation project whose aim is to support new creations by twelve emerging choreographers, from six different countries: France, Germany, Portugal, Estonia, Romania and Turkey,. The partner organizations support the artists throughout their creative processes, from their research until the production of their works, as well as on its diffusion. Technical, financial and administrative resources are provided to the selected choreographers to enable them to create a short, 30-minute work. Cycles of residences are organized in each of the six partner countries, to enable the artists to work on their creations, with support and feedback from dramaturgs and theoriticians who bring their opinion to bear on the work, providing an objective gaze, criticism and feedback. At the same time, young production managers are invited to join the projects, ensuring its management.In 2010, six new creations by six emerging artists will be performed during the seasons and festivals organized by the three partner organizations.

Urbania

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Alfredo Martins and Maria Ruostepuro ( Portugal | Finland )
20 to 26 september 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

"URBANIA WELCOMES YOU. This city was founded after all the other ones. We are happy to have you here. The city doesn't know you. The city doesn't need you. But you are welcome here. The city didn't invite you. But you are welcome here.In the end we will be here again - so then we can start again. In the end you can forget the city, so that you can know the city again. We will repeat this journey as long as the city is here - in order to be sure that the city is here. WELCOME."URBANIA is a site-specific performance organized as a guided tour.URBANIA is not a city. Maybe it is the way to move through the city. Or maybe just a particular way to look at it: a lens. A guide will take us. A poetic state is evoked to live this place.

Lingada d' Carvon

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Marlene Freitas ( Cape Verde Islands | Portugal )
23 august to 09 september 2010Convento da Saudacao | Montemor-o-Novo

Sometime ago i saw a concert. Later i did a drawing of it. Some months later that drawing was still on my mind. Than I though, why souldn't I do something with it and give life to this drawing? Time passed and nothing happen. Until the moment when it had to happen. The drawing should had a life and its own history. This is a performance about a drawing. PRÈMIERE: Galeria Zé dos Bois - Negócio (Lisbon) November 2010.