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Making the making speak by David Marques & Teresa Silva, 2026

'Making the making speak' is rooted in a desire to bring artists and audiences together around the issues that drive and permeate artistic practices in dance, recognising them as fundamental sources of knowledge production. Through this project, we seek to develop various mechanisms that encourage and support thought, speech and listening, exploring the possible relationships between their performative nature – as public expression and sharing – and the deeper, more intimate dimension of the reflections that arise.

The project format adapts to the context of each presentation and includes a moment of reflection among the artists and public sharing sessions of varying duration. These sharing sessions consist of the activation of speaking and listening mechanisms, previously developed by David and Teresa and specifically chosen for each edition. These moments of knowledge circulation and transmission are conceived as performative situations in which the audience plays an active role. Their participation is encouraged through the spatial arrangement of the audience, suggestions for simple actions, or invitations to direct their attention in particular ways, thereby enriching the collective experience. The diversity of the devices presented is highlighted by including different ways of engaging the body, languages that are more factual, metaphorical or speculative, as well as the use of objects and the activation of spatial or scenographic compositions. The aim is thus to create an atmosphere of closeness between artists, and between artists and the audience, and to cultivate an expanded form of speaking and listening.

Credits

Concept
David Marques & Teresa Silva

Participating artists
to be confirmed for each edition

Light
Tiago Cadete

Space
David Marques, Teresa Silva and Tiago Cadete

Support
GDA – Gestão dos Direitos dos Artistas, República Portuguesa – Cultura, Desporto e Juventude / DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes (Internacionalização)

Co-production
OPART / Estúdios Victor Córdon, Camões – Centro Cultural Português em Maputo, Parca Associação Cultural, Mugangueni Mozambique – International Dance Training

Editions #2, #3 and #4 are taking place as part of Encontros Para o Futuro VIII, a programme organised by Estúdios Victor Córdon

O Rumo do Fumo is joining this project from 2027 onwards, through its support for the artist Teresa Silva as part of its programme for 2027–2030, and will be responsible for the production and distribution of the project.

Timeline

15 October 2026: Edition #3: Teatro Viriato, Viseu/Portugal
   Artists: Assunta Chioze, Carla Guerra, Leonor Keil, Osvaldo Passirivo
9 - 10 October 2026:
Edition #2: Estúdios Victor Córdon, Lisbon/Portugal
   Artists: Assunta Chioze, Henrique Furtado, Natacha Campos, Osvaldo Passirivo
30 November 2024
: Edition #1: Estúdios Victor Córdon, Lisboa/Portugal
   Artists: Ana Rita Teodoro, Andresa Soares, David Marques, Francisco Rolo and Teresa Silva

Making the making speak

by David Marques & Teresa Silva

Casa Velha, Maputo/Mozambique

Thursday at 7pm

Invited Artists: Assunta Chioze, David Marques, Natacha Campos and Osvaldo Passirivo

 

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