Workshop - Madalena Victorino
"Whenever I start a new work, I imagine how it will be. How will people be facing what I am going to propose to them. How will that which I carry in my imagination, which in the hands of others, will be transformed into another dance that I cannot reach before I arrive.
The others, when I don't know them yet, are like knights of a faraway country that I want to conquer. To conquer for my world. The world where dance gives us days and nights of pleasure, of ideas, of accomplishments, of happiness. The happiness of running, of wide gestures, of surrender to the movement that launches itself into space so that time runs ahead of us and takes us from here to there. There, the place where we will always dance. All.
I have high expectations, I have desire, I have immense respect."
Madalena Victorino, December 2010, two months before coming to meet the Grupo Dançando com a Diferença from Funchal, Madeira
Date: February 14 to 19, 2011
Place: São Martinho-Funchal Gymnasium
Trainer: Madalena Victorino
Training Hours: 15,30
Madalena Victorino
Choreographer, teacher and programmer.
She studied and trained in contemporary dance, choreographic composition and arts pedagogy at The Place, London School of Contemporary Dance, Laban Centre/Goldsmith's College, University of London and Exeter University in the 70's and 80's in the UK.
Since then she has been living in Portugal and in these last 3 decades her work has been evidenced by the creation of many cultural and artistic projects with a community dimension, always aiming to bring together artistic discourse and practice and society in general.
He is also interested in young audiences and created, between 1996 and 2008, at the Centro de Pedagogia e Animação do Centro Cultural de Belém, the first space in Portugal to program international artistic fruition for a young audience. He teaches in several institutions of Higher Education. He creates multiple choreographic pieces that often involve people of very different ages and life experiences and professional performers. He has won several awards for his projects. Her work is recognized for its humanistic charge. She is concerned about the importance of art education for each and every person.
