June 8 - 12

Francisco Camacho

Choreographies of Presence – Practices of Attention and Inner Landscapes in Motion

This workshop shares tools and themes that run through my work as a choreographer and performer, inviting participants to explore movement as a choreography of presence — a way of training attention, sensing inner landscapes, and expanding expressive range. Each session begins with physical warm-up, followed by practices that deepen perceptual clarity and widen movement possibilities.

Through guided improvisation, compositional tasks and creative research, participants will investigate dynamics, physical states and responses to diverse stimuli such as words, images and sound, cultivating attentive bodies in motion. Repetition and duration will be used as tools to deepen awareness and to observe how movement transforms over time, while reflecting on how that experience communicates to others.

We will develop personal and collective choreographic languages, exploring bodies in situation and theatrical pretexts that enhance communicability while embracing abstraction. The work unfolds individually and collaboratively, in an open environment where each contribution matters and where inner landscapes become visible through movement.

Photos : João Duarte

Francisco Camacho's biography

FRANCISCO CAMACHO is one of the protagonists of the contemporary dance movement born at the end of the 1980s in Portugal. He directed 23 group pieces and 20 solos for the stage and unconventional spaces, as well as 13 works as co-author, apart from creations within teaching contexts, in dance and theatre. He works extensively as a performer, both in his own creations and in others by diverse choreographers and theatre directors. In Belgium, he danced for Alain Platel and collaborates regularly with Meg Stuart, having co-created the duet “steal you for a moment”, after performing BLESSED for 110 times.

The National Theatre and Dance Museum in Lisbon recently dedicated its first ever exhibition on contemporary dance to his career, crowning a 40-year journey in the performing arts, in Europe, America, Africa and Asia.
He studied dance and theatre in Portugal and in New York, and followed studies in voice, screenwriting and creative writing. He regularly teaches in Portugal and abroad.

Discounts*

By reserving in one time 2 or more workshops for the same participant you can get the following discounts:

  • 2 workshops
    10%
  • 3 workshops
    15%
  • 4 or more workshops
    20%
  • 2 same week workshops
    15%

*Discounts only apply for one week or two week workshops. Discounts do not apply for intensive workshops (4 or more weeks).