DISJUNTOR
SUMMER SCHOOL
Wanderings, Migrations and Diasporas
When One Body Ends and Another Begins
João Cardoso + Bharath Yadav
João Cardoso is a dance performer, choreographer, and co-founder of Pétala Colateral – Cultural and Artistic Association. His work is driven by an interest in movement as a form of communication, in text as a way of giving form to the abstraction of contemporary dance, and in the concern for the real, rather than virtual, human being.
He was born in Lisbon, where he studied at the D. Dinis Music Conservatory and later graduated from the Escola Superior de Dança in 2014. In the same year, he worked with Companhia Instável and, between 2015 and 2018, was a performer with Companhia Paulo Ribeiro.
He has also performed in Olhar Indiscreto by Patrícia Henriques (2017), and in 2018 joined Se Alguma Vez precisares da minha vida vem e toma-a by Victor Hugo Pontes, as well as Brother by Marco da Silva Ferreira (2019–2023). In 2020, he joined TIMBER by Roberto Olivan with Companhia Instável; in 2021, VIADUTO by Renan Martins; and in 2024, Há qualquer coisa prestes a acontecer by Victor Hugo Pontes (currently on tour).
Alongside his work as a performer, he has developed his own choreographic practice, highlighting works such as Stay Still, Stand Silent, and Adapted to Y&Y (co-created with Victor Gomes), as well as several pieces for the Performact programme, and Um Abraço ou Um Beijinho, co-created with Ricardo Machado.
He is also co-founder and director of the AN-TRE programme.
Bharath Yadav is a contemporary dancer, performer, and creator from India, currently based in Portugal. In 2018, he began his training in contemporary dance, Kalaripayattu (Indian martial art), and Indian classical dance at Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore, India. After graduating from Attakkalari with a diploma in 2019, he continued working as a performer and co-creator in numerous projects, engaging closely with diverse communities in Bangalore. Dance and movement is his primary means of inquiry, through which he examines the multifaceted nature of human existence, including its social structures, political struggles, and psychological landscapes. He sees the body as a tool to explore and communicate these layered realities, using movement as a language beyond words. In 2023, seeking to expand and deepen his artistic practice, he joined the Contemporary Dance Interpreter / Choreographer program at Performact in Torres Vedras, Portugal. Where, he trained and collaborated with several renowned teachers and choreographers, including Tijen Lawton, Eduardo Torroja, Mate Meszaros, Cruz Isael Mata, Joao Cardoso, Juliana Fernandess, Gonçalo Lobato, Beno Novak and many others. During his final year at Performact, he specialized in choreography and presented his own works on stage: To What Time Do the Shadows Belong? (2024) and NO(W)HERE (2025). At present, his practice is driven by an ongoing research into the consciousness of the body. The living, thinking, and moving body as a physical entity in a constant state of change, balance, and renewal. Rediscovering the body as a process and not as an object. This inquiry forms the essence of his artistic practice.
Um corpo racializado que nunca toca o chão durante toda a duração da performance. Outro corpo que se torna chão do primeiro. WE MIGHT ASWELL TALK, parte de uma pesquisa sobre o toque, através de uma posição forçada/imposta a dois corpos, um em cima de outro, que nunca se inverte, onde se vêm obrigados a comunicar e cooperar para um fim comum. Um cruzamento interdisciplinar entre o teatro e a dança, entre a palavra e as técnicas de contacto improvisação, entre a voz e o corpo. Um dueto que se questiona sobre as relações possíveis quando dois corpos são colocados nesta situação de extrema dependência e uma procura dos limites máximos físicos e mentais que conseguimos alcançar.
Partindo do processo criativo de WE MIGHT ASWELL TALK, este workshop inspira-se nas técnicas de contacto improvisação, convidando os participantes a focar a sua atenção no toque, na partilha de peso, na escuta e no trabalho de grupo. Apesar deste projecto de criação, WE MIGHT ASWELL TALK, ser feito a dois, neste workshop, vamos tentar encontrar formas de aplicar as mesmas propostas deste processo criativo a um grupo. Iremos descobrir juntos talvez outras, possibilidades de peças coreográficas. Uma partilha entre a prática e a pesquisa, e um olhar atento sobre a curiosidade no toque.
Dates and schedules :8 to 9 July, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Fee: €20
Registration deadline: 5 July
Fee for both workshops: €40
Participants: Artists, performers, researchers, and anyone with an interest in dance, performance, film/video, visual arts, theatre, literature, philosophy, or critical thought.
Local: CRL – Central Elétrica, Rua do Freixo, 1071 4300-219 Porto
Transports: Metro – Campanhã; STCP – 205, 400, 403 e ZC (paragem EDP)
Informations: geral@circolando.com
Full programme available here.
ZONES OF INVISIBILITY
Conversations Among Bodies, Matter, and Fragmented Worlds
Carolina Campos
Carolina Campos works across dance and performance, with a focus on dramaturgy, curating, and pedagogy. She is interested in the micropolitics of collectivity within creative processes and investigates the performativity of speech as a tool for imagination, attention, and listening. In 2023, she published Interrogar el Acompañar with Impremta LIO. She co-coordinates the independent space Fondo in Barcelona and participates in curatorial projects at institutions such as Fundación Miró and Centre d’Arts Santa Mònica. She is also the pedagogical coordinator of Campar Campo – Dance Research and Creation Program, directed by La Caldera and La Poderosa. She collaborates with Letícia Skrycky on Matéria Leve, a research and training project focused on stage lighting. Since 2012, she has been researching Real-Time Composition alongside choreographer João Fiadeiro. Between 2008 and 2011, she was a member of Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças in Brazil.
This workshop focuses on conversation (in its broadest sense) as a site of experimentation and a tool for creating connections between people and worlds that do not always converge. It proposes an exploration of speech as a material action, as well as the body and objects as devices for dialogue, generating contingency, re-enchantment, affect, presence, and possible forms of collectivity compatible with the fragmented lives available to us in the present moment.
Drawing on methodologies from the performing arts, such as Real-Time Composition and co-accompaniment practices, we will approach conversation as a fertile territory for connecting worlds, while also practicing listening, attention, negotiation, incoherence, and disagreement.
Our capacity to converse expands, energizes, and problematizes our relationship with the world. At the same time, conversation can overshadow events and occupy a hierarchical position, using language as a tool of power, violence, disaffection, and disembodiment.
Preserving the capacity to imagine within precarious and collapsing systems requires understanding language beyond a simple relationship of cause and effect, emancipating it from representation, and unfolding it into non-linear and life-generating materialities. Conversation is an open channel through which images proliferate, and within this flow lies the possibility of collectively imagining less hegemonic forms of organization and experimenting with connections between worlds that would not normally come into contact.
Dates and schedules : 22 to 24 July, 6:00pm – 9:00pm and 25 July, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Fee: €30
Registration deadline: 19 July
Fee for both workshops: €40