Open Call | Real Time Composition [matrix] Lab with João Fiadeiro (Portugal)

Real Time Composition [matrix] intensive program, with João Fiadeiro;

A course organised as part of the ‘TECER’ project, an initiative by João Fiadeiro as Forum Dança’s Resident Artist-Researcher.

RTC_matrix is an advanced course in research and experimentation with the tool Real Time Composition, a field of study that moves between the disciplines of performance, improvisation and creation. Through Real Time Composition we aim to reduce the distance (and distinction) of territories normally split between theory and practice; the fictional and the documentary; or observation and action. Real Time Composition is a practice driven by the desire to find strategies for suspending certainty; for activating ways of making action think and making thought act; and its ultimate goal is the experience of ‘not knowing together’.

This will be an advanced and immersive course, led by João Fiadeiro and some occasional guests, which will enable access to Real Time Composition from the different angles and scales that make it up, with balanced and interconnected doses of thought, experimentation and action.

The first week of this five-week course will take place at Herdade do Freixo do Meio, an important Mediterranean ecosystem, about an hour from Lisbon, with almost 600 hectares of protected area, a biodiversity refuge recognised worldwide, where you can discover wildlife and domestic life as well as observe the integration of these two worlds in an agro-ecological model.

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“Perhaps present time and past time
Are both present in future time
And future time contained in past time.
If all time is eternally present
All time is irredeemable.” | T. S. Eliot, in Four Quartets

“Real Time Composition is a tool that puts into practice a radical decentring to approach what goes beyond human experience.” | Emma Bigé, philosopher, dancer, curator

“Real-Time Composition is a tool that “runs the risk” of being successful in solving decision and selection problems in improvisation or composition processes. That’s one of its strengths. But that’s not all that drives us. We’re driven by the desire to find strategies for suspending certainty. To find ways of thinking about action and making thoughts act. Finding ways of not knowing together.
TEMPO REAL LAB was born out of the desire to realise this statement.” | João Fiadeiro

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WHERE & WHEN:
28th September to 31st October 2025

First week at Herdade do Freixo do Meio:
9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. | 2.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. | 9 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.

Following weeks at Forum Dança, Espaço da Penha, Lisbon, Portugal:
10.00 a.m. to 13.00 p.m. | 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
At the end of each week, informal process presentations at 6pm (10th, 17th, 24th and 31st October).

APPLICATIONS:
until 16 June 2025
Selection: Online chat (Zoom), to be scheduled during the week of 23 June 2025;
Results: by 30 June 2025.

COMPLETE INFO

You can consult the full information and application form available on our website at:
https://www.forumdanca.pt/en/ctr_matrix/

[email protected]

Image © João Fiadeiro

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Forum Dança is an independent structure funded by Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Directorate General for the Arts and the Lisbon City Hall. Forum Dança is a member of REDE – Association of Structures for Contemporary Dance