The workshop, titled Spiraling Bodies, offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary dance techniques and choreographic composition methodologies, based on exercises developed within Tier 10 (Movement / Material Generation) of the European project iCoDaCo – International Contemporary Dance Collective, in collaboration with Instável – Centro Coreográfico.
Participants will work with spiral movements, transitions to and from the floor, spatial expansion through movement sequences, and guided improvisations that open and activate the body.
With support from the Criatório program by Ágora – Culture and Sport of Porto, E.M., S.A.
About Júlio Cerdeira
Júlio Cerdeira is a queer and transdisciplinary artist whose work intersects multiple artistic practices to rethink materiality, identity, and the politicisation of bodies. He reinvents contact-improvisation practices for the composition of fluid and transitional bodies, creates and stages feminist dramaturgies, and questions the place of violence in contemporary society. He holds a Master’s degree in Performing Arts (Artistic Direction and Performance) from ESMAE, a postgraduate degree in Contemporary Dance from ESMAE, and a BA in Theatre from the University of Minho. He is currently a PhD candidate in Contemporary Art at the Colégio das Artes, University of Coimbra. As a performer, creator, and choreographer, he has collaborated with artists and institutions such as Instável – Centro Coreográfico, Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, International Contemporary Dance Collective (iCoDaCo), Bosnian National Theatre Zenica, Hosek Contemporary (Berlin), Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, Né Barros, Elisabete Magalhães, Gustavo Ciríaco, Tales Frey, Rogério Nuno Costa, Sandro William Junqueira, Diogo Liberano, Lilian Walker, among others. In 2019, he co-founded BANQUETE – Association for Research and Creation in Performing Arts (Braga, PT), where he works as an artist, researcher, and programmer. He is currently a lecturer at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE – Polytechnic Institute of Porto), teaching in the BA in Theatre and the MA in Performing Arts.