Is Coordinator Professor at the Escola Superior de Dança - Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (Lisbon Polytechnic’s Higher School of Dance). She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa. She is member of CRIA (Centre for Research in Anthropology-Portugal). She completed the School of Dance course - National Conservatoire (Lisbon, Portugal). She is author of Dança Teatral: Ideias, Experiências, Acções (2012, Colibri) and editor of Movimentos Presentes: Aspectos da Dança Independente em Portugal (1997, Cotovia/Danças na Cidade).
Aspects of Dance in Portugal in the post 25 de Abril
This session will focus on dance in Portugal after the 25 de Abril (1974’s Carnation Revolution which put an end to dictatorship and established a democratic regime).
We will view the main projects and esthetical options that make up the diverse Portuguese Dance scene: the activity of the two main dance companies — Ballet Gulbenkian and Companhia Nacional de Bailado (National Ballet Company); the New Dance movement; today’s plurality.
I — The post 25th April: the activity of two dance companies and two main choreographers
II — From the 1980’s to the beginning of the 1990’s: Portuguese New Dance
III — Nowadays: Plurality of styles ant thematic universes