with BEATRIZ MARQUES DIAS
17 > 21 MAR 2025
5 > 9 MAY 2025
E.B.1 Chinicato
I’m reading a book and I feel like a mole with glasses without degrees. Yesterday I saw a woodpecker eating a pickled woodpecker for lunch. I’d like to have a family like seahorses and give birth to five hundred seahorses. This morning I didn’t want to go to school, I wanted to hide in my favorite bedspread like a chameleon. Tomorrow I want to be a ten-meter blanket and fly deep into the darkness of the sea.
That’s why I like dancing, I feel like I can transform myself into another animal and fly.
In this workshop we will talk, dance, draw, be and think like other animals. We’ll play at fables and autobiographies. How many animals are we?
Beatriz Marques Dias has been working as a performer and co-creator in projects related to contemporary dance, participatory art and childhood.
As a performer she has taken part in creations by Filipa Francisco, Francisco Camacho, Madalena Victorino and Tânia Carvalho and has collaborated as artistic assistant on several projects: VARA by Daniel Matos; A Viagem by Filipa Francisco; Atlas by Ana Borralho & João Galante.
She took part in the DDD Festival workshops with Meg Stuart, Matija Ferlin and Christian Rizzo (22) and the P.A.R.T.S Winter Workshop with Rakesh Sukesh, Sue Yeon Youn and Marie Goudot (Brussels 23). She regularly attends Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz’s creative workshops and Vera Mantero’s Corpo pensante workshop.
For children, she regularly participates as guest artist in the Gymnasium project (casaBranca. ac) in the creation of artistic experimentation workshops; co-created with Rita Pedro the performance-workshop A pensar morreu um burro (Comédias do Minho); is part of the performance A Grande Viagem do Pequeno Mi by Madalena Victorino; co-created with Alexandre Moniz the performance Universo no céu da Boca (Festival Pedra Dura, 24); and, more recently, collaborates as a performer and co-creator in Chão de Meninos (Madalena Victorino, 25).
She is a member of MEIO DO MATO – Associação Cultural, which develops the Largada: POVO DA CASA project in Monchique.
With a degree in Dance from the Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa, after several years working on artistic projects with a social, community and educational mediation focus, she decided to study Psychology and is currently in her second year at ISPA.
