OPEN CALL | PACAP 9 / Performing Arts Advanced Programme Curatorship by Marcelo Evelin / “A lone swallow doesn’t make a summer”

PACAP 9 / A lone swallow doesn’t make a summer

Curatorship: Marcelo Evelin
Artistic Collaboration: Bruno Moreno, among others

‘An undisciplined experimentation and training programme, focused on instances of group creation and conditions of collaborative performativity.

We will invest in collective processes to the detriment of individual projects, believing that it is possible to bring the singularities of the artists and their personal artistic interests into group experimentation. We are interested in negotiating with the other as a conceptual and procedural procedure, betting on shared autonomy as an exercise in alterity, in order to think of gathering and sharing as a performative act and device.

From February to July 2026, we are proposing a series of interventions in the form of creative residencies, with artists involved in collective practices that exercise a thought of the common as a choreographic situation: the game, the rite, the circle, the party. These practices will be reworked together, renegotiated as a group and eventually performed at different times during the programme.

The programme addresses three axes of experimentation with no distinction between theory and practice: body, dramaturgy, and choreography. We think of the body as a tactile and media spectacle, an artefact of an incorporated and changing time-space. We imagine dramaturgy as the activation of living matter and normative disobedience, as the apprehension and unfolding of empirical knowledge, and as an ethical and aesthetic positioning in the face of the life of forms. We invent choreography as unstable and flexible structures of grouping, repercussion, and dissolution, and as a vibration that precedes the constitution of movement as a scope for an event.

We want to approach the multiple and the rhizomatic, the diverse and the unfolded, the drift and the reconstitution, the bifurcated and the complementary. From a decolonial and non-hegemonic understanding of the world, we want to reaffirm the existence of the sensible and the utopian in the social and political spheres, in a horizon that expands and recognizes other paradigms for thinking about life and living.’

[Marcelo Evelin]

1. Application stage

Fill in the application form on the Forum Dança website

2. Auditions stage

Auditions can be held in person at Espaço da Penha or, if you are outside Europe, online via the Zoom app

Target audience: Artists with experience in the performing arts fields, who are interested in collective creation processes. The programme values collaborative practices, the ability to listen and negotiate in groups, and openness to joint experimentation. It is not aimed at those who want to develop individual authorial projects, but rather at those who want to integrate and contribute to a context of shared creation.

Where: FORUM DANÇA | Espaço da Penha – Travessa do Calado 26-B, 1170-070 Lisboa | PORTUGAL

When: From 2nd February to 30th July 2026

Find more information at: https://www.forumdanca.pt/en/pacap9/