PACAP 7 arrives at the studio

In a moment dedicated to research, PACAP 7 is now at the studio at Espaço Alkantara. Curated by Miguel Pereira and Nuno Lucas in 2024, the Programme in Performing Arts returns to Lisbon after a week's residency at O Espaço do Tempo.

Over the course of six months, the programme aimed at professionals and students from different artistic fields offers a space for sharing and learning, promoting the creation of affinities and new complicities. Emphasising the process and favouring reflection and experimentation, the training aims to build a place where artistic relationships expand, with the contribution of a wide range of artists. The work developed will later be presented at Teatro do Bairro Alto.

This year's participants include Beatriz Baião (PT), Carlota Mantecón (ES), Damien Najean (FR), Giulia Romitelli (IT), Guillermina Gancio (UY), Hernie Harmon (DE), Jakob von Kietzell (DE), Joana Duvet (PT), Katerina Giannouli (GR), Luna Anais (CH), Marina de Moraes (BR), Marusya Byzova (RU), Maud Buckenmeyer (FR), Minjin Lee (KR), Renan Capivara (BR) and Sérgio Diogo Matias (PT).

PACAP is organised by Forum Dança, co-produced by Teatro do Bairro Alto, and supported by Alkantara, Casa da Dança - Almada, Fundação GDA, O Espaço do Tempo, OPART, E.P.E./Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Rumo do Fumo and Piscina.

Curatorial Team

Miguel Pereira attended The National Conservatory Dance School and School of Dance in Lisbon. He was awarded scholarships in Paris (Théâtre Contemporain de la Danse) and New York by the Ministry of Culture. As a performer he has worked with Filipa Francisco, Francisco Camacho, Vera Mantero, among others. His work has been presented throughout Europe, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile, and he is a guest lecturer at various national and international organisations. In 2003 he was the subject of a mini-retrospective in Caldas da Rainha as part of the ‘Maps’ cycle organised by Transforma-AC in collaboration with ESTGAD. In recent years he has created ‘False Friends’ (2021) in collaboration with Guillem Mont de Palol, and ‘Miquelina and Miguel’ (2022) based on the relationship between Miguel and his 87-year-old mother, who has been diagnosed with dementia.

Nuno Lucas attended Caldas da Rainha Conservatory of Music, where he studied classical guitar and singing. He later graduated in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He currently lives between Paris, Lisbon and Seoul. He works as a choreographer, actor, author, dancer and pedagogue. He began as a performer with choreographer Miguel Pereira at D. Maria II National Theatre (2001) and was later invited by João Fiadeiro to conceive his first choreographic sketches at LAB10 (2003). He has presented his work in Portugal, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Romania, Spain, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Argentina and South Korea. He regularly teaches composition/performance in various countries, for adults as well as children.