In Practice

Lígia Soares, Henrique Frazão

Lígia Soares

Portuguese choreographer and playwright based in Lisbon. She studied dance, but since 1999 her work has moved between the disciplines of dance, theatre and performance. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally (Portugal, Brazil, Germany, France, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Serbia, Croatia, among others). Between 2001 and 2014 she was the artistic director of Máquina Agradável. She has also developed various programming contexts with other artists such as Demimonde or Face-a-Face. Following works such as “Romance” (2015), “O Ato da Primavera” (2017), “Turning Backs” (2016), “Jogo de Lençóis” (2019) she continues her research into scenic devices that include the presence of the spectator as a constituent element of the show’s dramaturgy, incorporating or replacing the role of the performer. She is a mentor in several stage writing programmes and regularly collaborates as a dramaturge in dance and theatre projects. The plays “Romance”, “Cinderela”, “Civilização”, “Memorial” and “A Minha Vitória Como Ginasta de Alta Competição” are published by Douda Correria. She was awarded the DGLAB artistic and literary creation grant in 2020.

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Henrique Frazão

Henrique Frazão is a Portuguese artist and climate activist.
The fear of amnesia led him, from an early age, to want to record and save much of what he saw, learnt, thought and felt. In this sense, photography has played an increasingly important role, being seen as a means of immortalising concepts.
Since 2017 he has been developing a time capsule in which he intends to exhaustively archive sequentially recorded images. The clash with climate science data in 2018 made him see this project as even more urgent. In recent years he has been preparing an ambitious project called Voyager Ø, which was launched at Burning Man 2023.
The world as we know it will disappear in a few decades.
Let some memory remain.

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Zero-Impact or Can We Still Imagine a Future?

In the next edition of Na Prática, Lígia Soares and Henrique Frazão invite us to look at the political impact of art-making and activism by bringing together different ways of thinking and acting in the world. Looking into the symbolic, literal, aesthetic and social dimension that an artistic gesture or a protest action take on, we will seek to explore perspectives and approaches that reinforce the political value of both practices around common causes. We will also pay attention to the way in which contexts define how our actions are interpreted — how the same discourse is received by different audiences on different occasions. Do artistic gesture and protest action carry or oppose each other? What do we really have in common that we can share?

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PRATICAL INFORMATION

Participants: Artists, researchers and students from all disciplinary areas, or anyone interested in collaborative practices or activism.

Maximum of participants: 12

Applications:
Until May 31st

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Application fee
100 Eur

10% discount for FLUL students*

Every year, we offer a scholarship to the IN PRACTICE – Summer School to one person from each of the partner schools and under the following conditions:

— Students of the Program in Theater Studies or Researchers at the Center for Theater Studies at FLUL
— Students at the Master’s in Choreographic Creation and Professional Practices at the Superior School of Dance
— Students of the Theater’s and Fine Art’s Courses at ESAD.CR – Superior School of Arts and Design, Caldas da Rainha

*If this is your case, please fill the fields in thr form marked with ✤

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The interested people must fill this form.

The applications will be analyzed and there will be a selection, considering the diversity and relevance of the profile of the participants int the constitution of a workgroup and in the development of the proposed issues.