Summer Workshops 2025
theatre&dance
16th to 19th July
Workshop with Samuel Lefeuvre + Florencia Demestri (dance)
Demestri + Lefeuvre
“Bending Reality”
During this workshop, we will share with the students a movement practice we have developed over the past few years, freely inspired by protocols used by glitch artists, known as Circuit Bending. This approach applies the concept of rewiring—the act of modifying the physical circuitry or internal connections of a machine to create glitches that generate new sounds and/or visual effects—to the body and movement. We believe this technique offers an original and liberating way to explore bodily organization in space, where error is not only welcomed but celebrated as a gateway to unexpected and novel forms. It opens up new pathways for improvisation and movement creation.
We would also like to share a range of research tools aimed at developing a non-anthropocentric approach to dance practice.
– What would it mean to conceive of the body not as an agent, but as a landscape or an ecosystem?
– How might we allow the human body to become a surface for projecting more-than-human imaginaries?
© Michiel Devijver
Florencia Demestri, argentinian multidisciplinary artist Florencia Demestri has been living in Brussels since 2003. She trained in theater, circus, and contemporary dance in Argentina, then in Brazil, Cuba, and Belgium. For the past 15 years, she has worked with choreographers such as Lisi Estaràs, David Zambrano, Finger Six, Groupe Entorse, Monia Montali, François Bodeux, and Tumbleweed. In 2014, she founded the company demestri+lefeuvre with Samuel Lefeuvre. Since 2023, she has been a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method. She explores somatic research and questions the hierarchies and imaginaries through which we relate to the world.
© Michiel Devijver
Samuel Lefeuvre, after training in dance in Caen and at the CNDC in Angers, Samuel moved to Brussels in 2001 and joined Les Ballets C. de la B., performing in Wolf by Alain Platel, as well as La Mancha, Patchagonia, and Primero/Erscht by Lisi Estaràs. He then worked with Peeping Tom for the productions Le Salon and Le Sous-Sol. In 2007, he founded the group ENTORSE with musician Raphaëlle Latini, creating performances such as ACCIDENS (ce qui arrive), [àut], Haute Résilience, and Hantologie. He collaborates regularly with Boris Charmatz/TERRAIN on projects like 10,000 Gestes, 20 Dancers for the 20th Century, La Ruée, and La Ronde. In 2014, he co-founded the company demestri+lefeuvre with Florencia Demestri.
Workshop with Mónica Calle (theatre)
Monica Calle
The starting point will be, firstly, the creation of the group as a collective. Working from the relationship with the body/movement, the sung and spoken word. The collective as a Choir. To then move on to the individual. Always working from the specificities of each participant. Problematizing critical and artistic thinking through practice.
Mónica Calle is artistic director, actress and theatre director at Casa Conveniente in Lisbon. In 1992, starts the project Casa Conveniente. Since then has worked from the texts of authors like Dagerman, Fiama Paes Brandão, Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, Pirandello, Strindberg, Beckett, Tchekhov, among others.
Since 2007 carries out several workshops blending actors and non-actors through classes/rehearsals and performances. In 2009 starts training actors in prison, and the integrating former inmates as actors. In 2013, Casa Conveniente migrates to the Zona J of Chelas, a council estate, to create a new theatre space in Lisbon. This marks a return to the founding idea: to work from the margins. In 2017, she honoured by the Portuguese government with the Women in Culture Recognition – The Maria Isabel Barreno Award.
Since the begining of her career, Mónica has been condecorated with several awards as an actress and theatre director, on the role of the portuguese cinema and theatre.
Mónica Calle is recognized in Portugal as part of a generation that took Portuguese theatrical creation to new paths in the early 1990s, and today sees her work as a stage director being widely recognized internationally, since her highly acclaimed creation ‘Ensaio Para Uma Cartografia’ (2017) and now with the new creation ‘Carta’ (2021), both co-produced and premiered at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II.
Her work has been circulating in countries such as: Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Switzerland, Vienna, and he is preparing to continue this path in Israel, Chile, Brazil, Canada, among others.
Workshop with Francisco Camacho (dance)
Francisco Camacho
“Choreographic aspects in improvisation”
The workshop proposes an approach to contemporary dance, through creative strategies explored individually and collectively, in an environment of openness and appreciation of different contributions.
The objective of the workshop is to stimulate and deepen the practice of improvisation, using it as a driver of choreographic possibilities. The aim is to exercise the operation on the movement that is emerging, identifying and testing different possibilities of directing, developing and reconfiguring it.
The work will be developed according to the particular characteristics of each participant, exploring their physical expressive qualities and their presence. However, interaction with the group will also be important, exploring the growing potential for creativity developed in dialogue and collaboration.
© Cláudio Marques
Francisco Camacho, is a choreographer, dancer, founding member and artistic director of EIRA. He has directed 22 group performances and 20 solo performances, some for stage and others for unconventional spaces, as well as 13 co-authored works and several others in an educational context, in the areas of dance and theatre.
He presentes his performances all over the world and received the Bordalo/Casa da Imprensa (1995 and 1997) and ACARTE/Maria Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão (1994/95) awards; and Special Mention 1992/93).
He has performed with Paula Massano, Alain Platel, Lúcia Sigalho, Filipa Francisco, Miguel Moreira and Tonan Quito. He highlights his regular collaboration with Meg Stuart, as well as his partnerships with Carlota Lagido, Sílvia Real and Fernanda Lapa.
Workshop with Luís Mestre (theatre)
Luís Mestre
The Mutation/Writing/Interpretation workshop, is held over three sessions, aims to sharpen the analysis and writing of theatre today.
In the first session, playwright and director Luís Mestre will share the movement of transformation of drama up to the present day, addressing dramatic authors and putting essayists in conflict, to then equip participants with tools for critical and theatrical analysis.
In the second session, participants, through writing exercises, will develop a short or brief dramatic text: first individually and then in a group.
And in the third and final session, they will develop the stage score and present it to the group.
Luís Mestre, has a Master in Theater Studies and postgraduated in Contemporary Dance. He is a playwright, director, theater teacher and contemporary dance coach.
As a playwright, he received several national and international awards and distinctions. He has attended masterclasses with Juan Mayorga, Emanuel Gat, Vera Mantero, Lisbeth Gruwez, Boris Charmatz, Laurence Yadi / Nicolas Cantillon, David Mamet, David Lynch, Werner Herzog, Margaret Atwood and workshops with Adriano and Raimondo Cortese, Jean-Pierre Sarrazac, Guillermo Heras, Sergio Boris, Mohamed El-Khatib.
He is the artistic director of Teatro Nova Europa.
Dates, times and other information
Workshop with Samuel Lefeuvre & Florencia Demestri
July 16, 17 and 18 from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm (total duration, 12 hours)
Workshop with Monica Calle
July 16, 17 and 18 from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm (total duration, 12 hours)
Workshop with Francisco Camacho
July 17, 18 and 19 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm (total duration, 12 hours)
Workshop with Luís Mestre
July 17, 18 and 19 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm (total duration, 12 hours)
price per workshop €50
M/16 with or without experience
*each participant may register for more than one workshop, taking care not to overlap schedules*
location CAPa, rua Frei Lourenço de Santa Maria 4 8000-352 Faro
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