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A Noite Canta, A Turma, photograph Francisco Lobo

A TURMA

A Turma is a production and creation company that has been working continuously in the field of performing and audiovisual arts since 2008. Its repertoire comprises works by major authors in contemporary and new drama, original texts and hybrid works that transcend the limits of the theatre, such as film productions or audiowalks. It promotes collaboration between creators from various areas of the performing arts, investing in the creation of original content. Its main pursuit is the scenic and dramaturgic exploration of language and human interactions.

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amarelo silvestre

Amarelo Silvestre

Founded in 2009, the Amarelo Silvestre theatre company is based in Canas de Senhorim, Nelas Municipality. Contemporary theatre created in a semi-urban context, focused on the world and on life. Pride of place is given to Portuguese-language repertoire and to the choreographic presence of the actor’s body on the stage. The word and the body: these are the two cornerstones of Amarelo Silvestre’s artistic purpose.
Artistic direction: Fernando Giestas and Rafaela Santos. Administrative management: Paula Trepado. Executive production: Benedicte Garrido.
As previously in 2018-2019, in 2020-2021 the activities of Amarelo Silvestre are co-financed by Direção-Geral das Artes.

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ASSéDIO – Associação de Ideias Obscuras

Since its creation in 1998, ASSéDIO has been developing what it is proud to describe as one of the most consistent series of contemporary drama-based stage works in Portugal.

The distinct quality of ASSéDIO’s work stems from that confluence of coherent repertoire selection and innovative scenic forms, while the company’s identity and relationship with its audience is the result of an experience-based know-how and restless creativity.

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ASTRO FINGIDO – associação cultural

ASTRO FINGIDO, led by Ângela Marques and Fernando Moreira, works on three fronts: theatrical creation – focusing on circulation, Portuguese dramaturgy and the formation of audiences; educational service – aimed at the full development of students through Visual Arts, Dramatic Expression, Music and Philosophy for Children (P4C); community cultural project – involving the community of Lordelo-Paredes. In ten years, Astro Fingido created, among other productions: O Grito dos Pavões and A Torre dos Alcoforados (Romanesque Route), Mulheres- Móveis and A Rua Esquecida (Rede Artéria); it also runs a P4C workshop (Filosofário – Oficina do Pensar Crítico e Criativo) for the Porto Municipality, and manages Amateur Theatre for the Paredes Municipality.

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ATITUDES

The People of Today are on our sights: we wish to surprise them with a multidisciplinary project that can fulfil new needs and demands, bringing citizens to the theatre and turning a mere aggregation of houses into a space that can be experienced in more human terms.

Pursuing a work that is receptive to the various artistic trends, we do our best to adopt the new technologies and, by tracing a path that builds bridges into the city, reach parts of the population that are unfamiliar with the theatre, thus creating room for the kind of eminently playful creations that may coexist and engage with emerging theatrical expressions, because we believe that a city’s diversity of cultural offerings is also a sign of cosmopolitanism.

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Causas Comuns

Causas Comuns is a production structure that, in accordance with its mission, is largely focused on the creation and presentation of stage productions.

Founded in 2004, it adopted its present name [Common Causes] in 2011, because it better conveys its mobile character as a structure in which a number of regular associates endeavour to assemble a “dream team” for each project.

Its artistic and technical teams combine professionals of recognised standing with emerging creators, with a view to promote continuous training and a “cross-pollination” between different generations, thus ensuring innovation, coherence and quality for its various undertakings.

In partnership with other institutions, Causas Comuns keeps audiences in regular contact with classical and contemporary drama, promotes good practices of physical, social and economic accessibility, and touring productions as a means to diversify and decentralise cultural events.

Besides Portugal, its productions have been shown in Finland, Chile and Mexico.

Causas Comuns shares with Teatro do Eléctrico a work studio at Espaço da Penha – an open house for the Portuguese and international artistic community.

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CÍRCULO DE CULTURAL TEATRAL / TEATRO EXPERIMENTAL DO PORTO

Teatro Experimental do Porto (TEP) is the oldest still active Portuguese professional theatre company. A forerunner of modern theatre, its first show premiered in 1953, under the artistic direction of António Pedro. Gonçalo Amorim, who had been the company’s in-house stage director since 2010, became its artistic director in 2012. Over the past 67 years, some of the most charismatic Portuguese cultural figures have worked at TEP, and works by the most important Portuguese and foreign playwrights were played at its stage. Financed by the Portuguese Government/Ministry of Culture/Direção-Geral das Artes and supported by the Porto City Council, it is one of the companies housed at Teatro Campo Alegre, within the scope of the Teatro em Campo Aberto programme.

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Rogério Boane e Nora Covali, António e Beatrix, Companhia de Teatro de Braga, photograph Paulo Nogueira

COMPANHIA DE TEATRO DE BRAGA

Founded in Porto in 1980, but based on Braga since 1984, thanks to an agreement with that municipality, Companhia de Teatro de Braga (CTB) is a solid project of cultural decentralisation. The company’s artistic program combines an ever-renewed interest in new dramaturgy with experimentation, via its theatrical creations, with Humanity’s great dramaturgic legacy: the classics. CTB develops and furthers its artistic undertaking in the areas of stage creation, media arts and audience education. In all these areas, it develops partnership, exchange and co- production projects with various Portuguese and foreign groups and individuals. Being a repertoire company, CTB presents eight to nine productions per year.

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Jorge Pinto e Emília Silvestre, O Cerejal, Ensemble, photograph João Tuna

ENSEMBLE – SOCIEDADE DE ACTORES
Established in 1996 by actors Emília Silvestre and Jorge Pinto, ENSEMBLE is an artistic
creation, experimentation and training project. Over the years, it has presented shows
based on the work of classic writers such as Molière, Shakespeare, Chekhov or Ibsen, and
contemporaries like Brian Friel, Samuel Beckett, Arnold Wesker, Tom Kempinski or Jean
Cocteau, as well as commissioned and staged original texts by modern Portuguese
playwrights Luísa Costa Gomes, Jacinto Lucas Pires, Mickael de Oliveira and Ricardo
Alves, in productions that involved scores of actors, dancers and musicians, stage
directors and choreographers, light, sound, video, set and costume designers from all over
the country. The exacting quality standards of this unique artistic project are reflected on
their ambitious, and often daring, creations, which have always been welcomed
enthusiastically by the public.

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Pedro Carvalho, Flávio Hamilton e Daniela Pêgo, As Veias Abertas da Humanidade, Teatro Art’Imagem

TEATRO ART’IMAGEM

Founded in 1981, Teatro Art’Imagem has a body of work spanning more than 37 years, including over a hundred productions and the annual hosting of two International Theatre Festivals. The company’s headquarters are in Porto, where part of its documentation centre and archives can be found. Since 2008, thanks to an agreement with the Maia City Council, its creation and production unit, which includes an auditorium, an exhibition room, a library and an office, has been located at Quinta da Caverneira, in Águas Santas. Teatro Art’Imagem’s mission develops across six main fronts: Creation, Quinta da Caverneira Programming, Festivals, National/International Touring and Audience Education via Theatre Workshops and Community Events.

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Teatro da Garagem

TEATRO DA GARAGEM

Teatro da Garagem is a theatre company, founded in 1989, whose artistic work consists in exploring new forms of writing for the stage, as well as the new scenic forms that develop alongside them.

The company includes a resident author/stage director, a musician, a group of actors, a production team, a light designer and a stage/costume designer. Besides presenting its stage productions of texts by Carlos J. Pessoa, the company also works with the local community through the activities devised by its Educational Service and divulges the work of new authors via its Try Better, Fail Better cycle.

Since 2005, Teatro da Garagem resides at Teatro Taborda, by invitation of EGEAC/Lisbon City Council.

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TEATRO DA PALMILHA DENTADA

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Teatro do Noroeste

TEATRO DO NOROESTE – CENTRO DRAMÁTICO DE VIANA

Teatro do Noroeste – Centro Dramático de Viana is a professional theatre company based at Teatro Municipal Sá de Miranda, Viana do Castelo.

A pioneering case of professional artistic creation in the Upper Minho region and a Legal Person of Public Utility, Teatro do Noroeste provides a cultural offer focused on the development of audiences by providing inclusive accessibility to over 100 stage performances per year, including new creations, re-runs, hosting and touring of shows. Its Community Project and Educational Service provide several local groups with artistic events.

Sponsored by the Viana do Castelo City Council and the Portuguese Republic / DG Artes.

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João Villas-Boas, Onde não puderes amar não te demores, Teatro do Vão, photograph Miguel Leitão

TEATRO DO VÃO

Founded by Daniel Gorjão, Teresa Tavares and Sara Garrinhas, Teatro do Vão emerged out of a desire, shared by creators in many different artistic forms, to create a human and physical space for research, experimentation and freedom. Its main objective is the fostering of culture and creativity, viewed as means for the development of humans and their societies, as well as promoting artistic research and experimentation, thus raising public awareness of contemporary art.

The creation, organisation and promotion of multidisciplinary artistic objects that combine such disciplines as theatre, dance and the visual arts will facilitate dialogue, reflection and the diffusion of new forms of expression in Portugal and abroad.

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Juramentos, Teatro dos Aloés, photograph João Tuna

TEATRO DOS ALOÉS

Teatro dos Aloés was founded in 2000 by a group of actors who had previously shared a number of projects and experiences. The company was named after A Lesson From Aloes, a magnificent text by South African writer Athol Fugard that talks to us of friendship, mutual trust, the struggle for ideals, the beauty in poetry and art that makes men superior and happy beings, the power of ideas, the belief in the progress of humanity and the tranquil wisdom that comes from believing in such goals. A Lesson From Aloes shows us how to withstand adverse conditions, overcoming fear, suspicion and intrigue, when the utopia we wish to realise stands perfectly clear before our eyes.

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Teatro Meridional

TEATRO MERIDIONAL

Founded in Lisbon (1992), Teatro Meridional is a travelling company whose productions are focused on the actor’s performance, turning the construction of each scenic object into a work of research and experimentation. It joined Performart in 2017.

The main lines of its artistic activity include the staging of original texts, the creation of new dramaturgies based on adaptations of non-theatrical texts, the staging and adaptation of major dramatic texts, and the creation of shows in which the word is not the main form of on-stage communication.

So far, Teatro Meridional has been the recipient of 44 awards, most importantly the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities, in 2010.

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Sala Garrett, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, photograph Ana Paula Carvalho

TEATRO NACIONAL D. MARIA II, E.P.E.

Lisbon’s Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (TNDM II) opened its doors in 1846, during the commemorations of Queen Maria II’s 27th birthday. In 1964, it was completely destroyed in a fire, but would reopen fourteen years later, after a complete reconstruction that preserved the building’s original neoclassical style. It stands in Rossio’s D. Pedro IV Square, and in 2012 it was reclassified as a national monument.

Under the Artistic Direction of Tiago Rodrigues since 2015, the TNDM II works with the intent to open itself to the community, attracting and developing new audiences and bringing cultural and artistic activities to all strata of the society.

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Teatro O Bando, photograph Miguel Mares

Teatro O Bando
Founded in 1974, Teatro O Bando is one of Portugal’s oldest cultural cooperatives, a collective that has chosen aesthetic transfiguration as its means of operating on a civic and community level. Its roots can be found in street theatre and children’s entertainment. Teatro O Bando’s creations are largely defined by their visual impact, careful staging and a dramaturgical work that generally adapts texts by Portuguese-speaking authors that were not originally written for the stage. Teatro O Bando continues to strive for uniqueness in its productions, in order to create more powerful and unexpected works of art. The company’s latest home base is a farmhouse in Vale dos Barris, Palmela.

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Ventolão, Teatro Pé de Vento

PÉ DE VENTO, C.R.L

Pé de Vento began its work as a professional theatre company in Porto, in February 1978. In February of that same year, having received its first regular annual subsidy, it began its long career, largely dedicated to audiences consisting of children and young people. Since its foundation, the company’s artistic direction has been handled by a group consisting of stage director João Luiz, dramaturgist Maria João Reynaud and writer Manuel António Pina, whose work has been featured in many of the Pé de Vento’s shows until the present day.

In October 1996, the company opened to the public Teatro da Vilarinha, a 106-seat venue equipped with a catwalk and other necessary technical implements.

Pé de Vento became a Public Utility in 2013. In 2003, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the company was awarded the Porto City Council’s Medal of Merit – Silver Degree.

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