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Arts in the studio
For several years, we inhabited Teatro da Voz with the production company EIRA, which in this space continued its program Um Lugar para a Dança, aimed at supporting choreographers and other artists, Portuguese and foreign, providing the rehearsal studio free of charge for the undertaking of their projects.
In 2020, when a new cycle began at Teatro da Voz following EIRA’s leaving, Produções Real Pelágio committed to keep Teatro da Voz available for the hosting, without rental costs, of performing arts projects and artists looking for a rehearsal space in Lisbon to develop their creations. Whenever possible, we promote contact between creators/creative processes and the school community/educational processes, thus adding another dimension to the work developed at the Art Training Centre for connecting arts and education.
Within the scope of this initiative, which we call Teatro da Voz welcomes... Artists in the Studio, in 2023 we launched the Artist Residencies at Teatro da Voz Support Program, an urgent and necessary support for many artists who face increased difficulties in accessing resources that allow the development of their work. This annual program grants a scholarship of 1000 euros (2026) to two selected projects/artists, as well as access to workspace and technical equipment for one month at Teatro da Voz, dissemination of an open rehearsal, and support for the dissemination of the public presentation of the work/premiere.
Since 2023, as part of this program, we have already supported 14 artists/projects, including scholarship recipients and artists who received access to the studio for a period of two weeks.
Teatro da Voz 2024 Artist Support Program
2 residencies + 2 artistic research/creation grants for performing arts and crossovers
Residency: 25 days (6h/day) in a black-box studio (with PA and speakers)
Period: October and December 2024
Grant: 1000 euros
We prioritise proposals from artists, either doing solo or group work, whose artistic practice is limited by economic, social, identity-based or any other forms of discrimination or oppression and associated violence.
Applications submission: From April 22 to June 15, 2024 (until 23:59:59) Selected projects announcement: July 31, 2024
Application form (in Portuguese and English) available at:
Opening note
Aiming to provide regular working conditions for artistic practice and cultural fruition in Portugal, the grant program at Teatro da Voz is meant to offer two scholarships for work development and/or artistic creation annually (until 2024) in any performing arts field, while also providing a studio for rehearsals at Teatro da Voz, formerly known as Teatro da Graça, located in the Lisbon centre, in the Graça neighbourhood.
This program aims to support projects, initiatives, activities, or research of a professional nature to be undertaken by individuals (artists, researchers, trainers, or any cultural professionals) and/or collectives who need a rehearsal space for performing arts practice.
Priority will be given to artists and other professionals, working either alone or collectively, with or without associated management structures, who endure economic, social, identity-related or any other form of marginalisation.
Please note: Teatro da Voz does not currently have an elevator or any suitable means for people with reduced mobility to access the studio, which is located on the lower floor.
Artists And Projects Supported By The Residencies And Scholarships Program Since 2023
2023
Isis Maria is a circus artist specialising in hula hoop juggling. She studied at INAC (Instituto Nacional de Artes do Circo), in Vila Nova de Famalicão, and is part of the production team of Encuentro Latinoamericano de Circo LGBTQIA+. She completed the Profac course at Circo Crescer e Viver (2019), the clown course at Escola de Palhaços do Circo da Dona Bilica, and Cultural Production at Faculdade Belas Artes. She worked as producer for Residência Artística Enlace Florianópolis 2020. She founded the Duo Delas Company (2021), and was part of Pedaço Dance Group (2017-22) and Casa Ventana.
During her creative residency at Teatro da Voz, Isis Maria developed Fala!, an intense and provocative performance that invites the audience to reflect on the limits imposed on us and the ways to overcome them. Through circus arts, the performer translates inner struggles into physical and emotional movements, seeking to rouse consciousness and transformation. The show is a visceral and cathartic experience that leads us to question our own prisons and find paths to freedom.
FALA!, de Isis Maria
Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti (1984), a dance, theatre and performance Brazilian artist, currently lives in Lisbon, where he founded the collective um cavalo disse mamãe (a horse said mommy). His works stem from observation, imagination, symbolism and research on animal behaviour, ethics, gestures and perspectives.
During his creative residency at Teatro da Voz, Francisco Cavalcanti developed a dance-performance solo accompanied by a guitar, 52BLUE, named after a whale that reaches a sound frequency of 52 hertz and is therefore forced to live alone, as no other living being can bear to live alongside it. The work stems from this impossibility of coexisting with others, and revolves around individualism, loneliness and melancholy, qualities of a contemporary era sustained by consumerism, immediacy, the ephemeral and the apparent.
52BLUE, de Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti
2024
Jo Castro (1988) is a queer artist whose projects lie at the intersection of dance, performance, voice, and sound, having presented work in Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, and Brazil. Drawing on an essentially autobiographical creative universe, involving issues such as death, destruction, and spectrality which invade Jo Castro’s personal and artistic experience, gender issues are equally transversal to the artist’s trajectory in researching on a body that de(re)constructs its image and operates in states BETWEEN – on the threshold of the boundaries of the human, without gender.
During their creative residency at Teatro da Voz, Jo Castro brought us another chapter of LABIA, a transdisciplinary research project of a processual and transforming nature. Presented with Francisca Manuel, Lui L’Abbate, Nara António, and ROD, the work takes up queer identity as a destabilising force, proposing a coexistence between bodies and voices from different areas that explore modes of shared and non-hierarchical creation.
LABIA, de Jo Castro
André de Campos. Gypsy. Bachelor's degree in Art History and in Dance. Dancer, rehearsal director, and assistant director at the Olga Roriz Company since 2015. Lighting designer for pieces by Beatriz Dias, Filipe Baptista, Helena Baronet, Diogo Melo, Violeta Luz, and Gaya de Medeiros. Creator of UNDERDOG and SAPO. Teaches movement and dance at various public and private institutions such as F.O.R., Estúdios Victor Cordon, Performact, and Escola de Teatro de Cascais.
During his creative residency at Teatro da Voz, André de Campos presented Lançamento (Launch), a piece that is a search, a rescue, a cry, a rite that strikes the flesh, a stamping of the ground to raise the earth and awaken those who walk beneath it. An oceanic route, a great Calunga that cradles drowned memories. Rescuing to remember a story. Reviving futures that are still buried.
LANÇAMENTO, de André de Campos
2025
Sofia Karol. Portuguese-Slovenian, raised in Trieste, Italy, 1996. Dancer, choreographer, teacher, and human being with a funny accent. She experiences her body as an archive, a place of deconstruction and celebration, in a continuous search for emancipation and pleasure.
During her creative residency at Teatro da Voz, Sofia Karol developed VORACE, an ode to the insistence that manifests in the roots and is savoured in the mouth. How can I be a body that I truly desire to be and that goes beyond the body I am allowed to lodge? It premieres on March 6, 2026, at Auditório Amélia Rey Colaço, in Algés (Lisbon).
VORACE, de Sofia Kafol
Rafa Jacinto graduated in Theatre (ESTC, 2016). He created Ad Bestias (2018), Chulo(choo-low) (2019), Via Crucis (2021) and Charlotte Forever (2023). He debuted as a performer in As Cidades Invisíveis by Alex Cassal (Teatro Maria Matos), and worked with Christophe Meierhans and Kate McIntosh. He performed in shows by Cão Solteiro, Teatro Praga, Luís Miguel Cintra, Tiago Bôto & Wagner Borges, Odete, ArDemente, Teatro da Garagem and Os Possessos. He wrote A música está na minha cabeça (Traça, 2023), Fiz Uma Coisa Ruim (Douda Correria, 2021), Regime (Douda Correria, 2020), and Európio (Flan de Tal, 2025).
Carolina Cunha e Costa (1993). She graduated from ACT (2014) and holds a Theatre degree (ESTC, 2019). In theatre, she worked with Teatro da Cornucópia, Teatro Praga, ESTE Estação Teatral, Teatro das Figuras, and Teatro Soco. She was assistant director in Nosso Esporte Preferido, Futuro Próximo (TNDMII, 2019). Recently, she performed in Passos na Floresta (Teatro da Garagem, 2024) and Coro das Águas by Seiva Trupe (2025). She debuted as co-creator and performer of the play Bang (Baal 17, 2024).
During their residency at Teatro da Voz, Rafa Jacinto & Carolina Cunha e Costa developed research for Duas Ratas (Two Rats), based on the children's story The Tale of Two Bad Mice written by Beatrix Potter in 1904. In the story, two rats invade and destroy a dollhouse after discovering that the food is fake. Their proposal draws from this symbolic insurrection to investigate their life as a queer couple with regards to the challenges that they face in the family and in society.
DUAS RATAS, de Rafa Jacinto & Carolina Cunha e Costa