BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
Dance, Video, Ecosystem

It is the first time that Argentine choreographer and dancer conducts a workshop in Portugal. In this workshop, Cecilia Bengolea proposes to dance and film inside (Casa da Dança de Almada) and outside the studio (Cais do Ginjal, in front of the Tagus river).

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
Performance / Visual Arts

The Spanish artist Dora García comes to Lisbon for the first time to conduct a performance workshop at MAAT Museum. How to react to a reality system that is not part of it? The feeling of strangeness is increasing, the distance is increasing, and it is increasingly difficult to find anchor points in a system that repeats the same mistakes over and over.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
Dance

Choreographers and artists Gerard & Kelly return to Lisbon to direct a workshop. How do we fall into and out of sync with each other? How is time the technical support of both performance art and social relations? How might an awareness of time lead us to history and to politics? What is queer, feminist, and post-colonial about time?

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
Theatre

Imagine a conference that nobody goes to. A performance in which the main invited scientists do not appear physically, but are represented by local artists. "Absentee Conference" is a project for which the company Rimini Protokoll is researching. In Lisbon, it will be a workshop on global cooperation in a global crisis for students and professionals in the performing arts, writing and related fields.

BoCA SUMMER SCHOOL 2020
Cinema

The filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata lead the workshop "Fiction 2 meters away", where they discuss what might be the cinema with restrictions / limitations / conditionalities / setbacks / obstacles / antagonisms / obstacles, that is , the daily constraints of cinematographic creation. Participants are invited to bring their film drafts or audiovisual projects.