• WATCH NOW THE MINI-DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ODETE & CATY OLIVE’S NEW CREATION

    BoCA
    5 July 2024
    The last mini-documentary of BoCA 2023 has been released. We conclude the publication of this cycle of 8 small documentaries with a flourish, discovering the behind-the-scenes of Portuguese artist Odete’s investigation into “effeminate” stories – from the baroque Castrati to the dandies of the 19th century – and her collaboration with the French light designer […]
  • THE PENULTIMATE MINI-DOC IN THE 2023 SERIES IS ONLINE: CHIMERA BY HÉCTOR ZAMORA

    BoCA
    16 May 2024
    In their own countries, balloons were child’s play. When they cross borders, balloons become merchandise, a possible job. At BoCA, Héctor Zamora invited different immigrant people to populate the streets of Lisbon and Faro with their dreams – those that have fallen along the journey and those that endure and are renewed. On the penultimate […]
  • Mini-documentary: “Está Visto” by João dos Santos Martins, Ana Jotta, Joana Sá and Filipe Pereira

    BoCA
    3 April 2024
    At the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, surrounded by shelves of centuries-old books, João dos Santos Martins – with Joana Sá’s piano disarrangements, Ana Jotta’s costumes and Filipe Pereira’s lighting – dances love, in all its pleasures and pains. Bringing together Heine’s poetry, Schumann’s music and the sign language as a gestural vocabulary, “Está Visto” takes […]
  • MINI-DOCUMENTARY ABOUT TERRA COBRE, NEW CREATION BY MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA AND JOÃO PAIS FILIPE

    BoCA
    28 February 2024
    With and from the traditional rattle art of Alcáçovas – a heritage practice in Urgent Need of Safeguarding, according to UNESCO – “Terra Cobre” challenges traditional Portuguese iconography and symbolism, coming from an earthly and pastoral world, but also one of ecstasy and celebration. In this new choreographic and installation creation, the sensitivity and musical […]
  • WATCH NOW THE MINI-DOCUMENTARY ABOUT GABRIEL CHAILE’S NEW CREATION, COMMISSIONED BY BoCA

    BoCA
    19 February 2024
    In a commission from BoCA for the latest edition of the biennial, Argentinian Gabriel Chaile draws on the ancestral knowledge of his family, whose economy was based on baking bread, to forge a gesture of closeness, empathy, struggle and celebration towards Alcindo Monteiro. In days of reflection, debate, abundance and music, artist and audience were […]
  • THE FIRST OF 8 MINI-DOCS ABOUT BoCA 2023 IS OUT: WATCH THE FILM ABOUT “THE TALKING CAR” BY AGNIESZKA POLSKA NOW

    BoCA
    16 January 2024
    BoCA, together with Waves Of Youth, has produced 8 mini-documentaries on projects commissioned or inaugurated at the 4th edition of the biennial, in 2023. These are creations that mark the debut of established artists in new artistic territories, or celebrate unprecedented encounters between artists from different fields, such as dance and music, visual arts and […]
  • The documentary about the play that Capicua created for BoCA is online

    BoCA
    7 December 2022
    At the 2021 BoCA Biennial, rapper Capicua debuted in writing for theater with “A Tralha”, a project commissioned by BoCA that premiered in the garden of Palácio Pimenta/Museu de Lisboa. With text by Capicua and body and voice by Tiago Barbosa, “A Tralha” is an almost monologue about accumulation. An essay on waste and obsolescence […]
  • Watch here the documentary about “Anjo Solidão” by Gabriel Ferrandini

    BoCA
    19 June 2022
    Musician Gabriel Ferrandini created “Anjo Solidão”, a project commissioned by BoCA, presented at the Champalimaud Foundation amphitheater during the 2021 Biennale. The new creation composed and directed by the Portuguese drummer explores the possibilities of lyrical singing, with elements of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Choir, through successive repetitions of voices and contrasts between acoustic and […]
  • The documentary about Tânia Carvalho and Matthieu Ehrlacher’s musical creation is online

    BoCA
    22 May 2022
    When multidisciplinary artist Tânia Carvalho and performer and musician Matthieu Ehrlacher come together, they are called Papillons d’Éternité. Sharing the stage at the 3rd edition of the BoCA Biennial with Rancho Folclórico da Casa do Minho, at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, and with Rancho Folclórico de Faro, at Teatro Lethes, the duo finds […]