MASTERCLASS 8 NOV 2025 / 10h00
Escola de Dança de Lagos
180' / M16 / Application Form
Co-presentation: Pedra Dura Festival / Cama A.C.
A gym to train intuition, attentiveness, and the body’s openness to creation.
Invited by Festival Pedra Dura and Gymnasium, Bernardo Chatillon will lead a Masterclass open to the community – a laboratory where ambitions, practices and unfulfilled desires intersect and where doing, creating and presenting merge into a continuous exercise in communication, enthusiasm and experimentation.
A path between the school and the world, the individual and the collective.
Starting from studies of improvisation and composition, the masterclass will explore concepts such as presence, intuition, unpredictability, memory, failure, repetition, habit, authorship, adaptation, continuity, action-action, resistance, becoming, chorality and time.
Bernardo Chatillon is a choreographer and performer who works in dance, performance, artistic research, and practices that intertwine sensory, poetic, and narrative spaces.
He made his debut with Artistas Unidos. After completing his studies at Chapitô, he joined the Formação Intensiva Acompanhada program at c.e.m and later attended the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema). Between 2012 and 2015, he was part of the ensemble of the National Theatre D. Maria II. In 2016, he moved to Berlin, where he collaborated in various formats and projects through artistic practices, encounters, and performances with Marc Lohr, Sigal Zouk, Mineral Wasser Kollektive, Peter Pleyer, Jeremy Wade, Benoît Lachambre, Keith Hennessy, Meg Stuart, Sandra Noeth, among others. He holds a master’s degree in Solo/Dance/Authorship (SODA) from the Inter-University Center for Dance Berlin.
Recently, he created the performances Reindeer Age #0 (2019), Reindeer Age #1 (2021), and O fazer do dizer (2022).
In 2023, he began teaching at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and joined the board of the association R.I.Ju (Rancho Infantil e Juvenil de Coja) with the project Fôlego.
