Open Call | PACAP 8 - Performing Arts Advanced Programme, with Meg Stuart

PACAP 8 | Meg Stuart
Mystery School of Choreography
From 10th of February to 26th of July 2025

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Applications open: Until the 31st of May 2024

Applications for the next edition of PACAP – Performing Arts Advanced Programme are open.

PACAP 8 / Mystery School of Choreography
Concept and Artistic Direction: Meg Stuart
Artistic Collaboration: Ana Rocha

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“Every new beginning
leads you to a mystery.
Every beginning carries
that potential of the unknown.

It relates to how we move,
how we hear, how we listen,
how we spend time with something,
how we see what is around us.”
Meg Stuart

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Forum Dança invites choreographer Meg Stuart as a curator for the 8th edition of PACAP to take place in Lisbon, 2025, who proposes her concept and project Mystery School of Choreography. For this edition, Meg Stuart has invited Ana Rocha as artistic collaborator.

Mystery School of Choreography (MyS) is an unconventional experimental studies programme for performing artists. It’s a place where fascination for the metaphysical will be intertwined with composition, choreography, and art making.

During these six months, from February to July 2025, we will work in the studio at Forum Dança, in the theatre space at Teatro do Bairro Alto, in the galleries at Culturgest, surrounded by nature and far from the Portuguese capital at O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo, and in São Miguel Island, Azores, in Walk&Talk Biennial. From the indoor space to the street, we will go through these residencies together for reflection and practice.

\\ INVITED GUESTS
Benoît Lachambre, CA Conrad, Doug Weiss,Gaya de Medeiros, Isabela Santana, Justin F. Kennnedy, Keith Hennessy, Márcio Kerber Canabarro, Maria F. Scaroni, Mariana Tengner Barros, Mayfield Brooks, Mieko Suzuki, Odete, Renan Martins, Sigal Zouk, Xullaji, and others to be confirmed.

\\ APPLICATIONS
You can find all the information you need to send, as well as the application form, on our website.

• Applications deadline: 31.05.2024

• Results Pre-selection: 17.06.2024

• Audition Workshop: 29.07.2024 - 03.08.2024

• Final Results: 30.09.2024

• Programme dates: 10.02.2025 - 26.07.2025

\\ HOW TO APPLY/REGISTER 
The submission of applications is done solely and exclusively through the form available on the Forum Dança website. Applications will be accepted only in English. For more information and to apply, just fill out the form available on our website.

\\ SUPPORT AND PARTNERSHIPS
Co-Production PACAP 8: Teatro do Bairro Alto, Culturgest, Anda & Fala | Walk e Talk
Co-producer in Residency PACAP 8: O Espaço do Tempo
Support PACAP 8: Alkantara, Casa da Dança – Almada, Fundação GDA, OPART, E.P.E./Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Rumo do Fumo e Piscina

\\ COMPLETE INFORMATION
You can access the complete information available on our website at:

• www.forumdanca.pt/pacap8 – in Portuguese
• www.forumdanca.pt/en/pacap8 – in English

\\ MORE INFO 
FORUM DANÇA
Espaço da Penha – Travessa do Calado 26-B, 1170-070 Lisboa
Tel. +351 213 428 985 \ Tlmv. +351 925 103 596
E-mail: forumdanca@forumdanca.pt

Forum Dança is an independent structure funded by Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Directorate General for the Arts and the Lisbon City Hall. Forum Dança is a member of REDE – Association of Structures for Contemporary Dance

Photo © João Tabarra (2024)