Workshop with Marisa Paulo
Documentary Theatre Laboratories
© Vanessa Fernandes
About this workshop
‘Laboratórios de Teatro Documental’ (Documentary Theatre Laboratories) is a training activity run by the Hotel Europa company for theatre professionals who regularly collaborate with the company and is also open to other professionals and people involved in artistic creation. The aim of these laboratories is to work on documentary theatre from a multidisciplinary point of view, exercising the company’s creative disciplines, such as theatre, movement and sound. With these laboratories, we want to continue pushing the boundaries of what documentary theatre can be, as well as disseminating the knowledge gained over almost a decade to other performance professionals who are interested in this area of artistic creation.
From January to March 2025, the Documentary Theatre Laboratories activity will promote one workshop per month.
‘Corpos fluxos, corpos (in)fluxos’ is the first in this series of three workshops. In this workshop, participants will delve into understanding the body as a biomechanical system, a vehicle and a key communication tool for re-signifying experiences and relationships with other systems.
Based on Marisa Paulo’s diasporic and fusion art, conducted to live music by André Dez and Gueladjo Sané, participants will be invited and provoked to cross boundaries and question concepts such as creation, belonging and cycles.
For application and more information, send an e-mail to gestao@hoteleuropateatro.com
Deadline for applications: 9th January
Coach
Dates
13th – 17th January 2025
Time
Monday to Wednesday
2:30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m.
Friday
9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location
Recreios Desportivos da Trafaria (Casino)
Rua Guedes Coelho n.º 7, 2825-854 Trafaria
Price
Free
About the coach
Marisa Paulo
Born in Luanda, Marisa Paulo sees herself as an artist and researcher of African dances and movements.
She worked as a performer in the performance We’re Magic.
We’re Real #3 (These Walls), by Jeannette Ehlers (2024) and as a co-creator in the shows 3 Cores Negras (2023), by Iris de Brito; Rio de Muane (2023), by Denise Zenicola; MASK (2022), by the Muanes Dançateatro Collective, among other shows.
In recent years she has focussed her research on the body of black women in the Diaspora, having premiered the performances FRAGMENTOS, RE-trato and IN(visível), which have been presented in Portugal, Spain, Germany, Belgium and Brazil.