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Theatre + Meeting-as-Performance + Dinner

Preview: March 2024 (ongoing)

Festival END - New Dramaturgy Encounters, Teatro Oficina (Guimarães, Portugal)

Text, Direction & Performance: Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Guests/Co-performers/Dramaturgists (Festival END: Mickaël de Oliveira, Beatriz Wellenkamp Carretas, Ana Mula, Nelson Guerreiro, Bruno dos Reis, Carlos Alves, Flora Miranda, Luís Araújo, Raquel S., Nuno Castro ¶ Guest Artist: Mafalda Banquart ¶ Live Video: Fábio Coelho ¶ Special appearances: Jani Nummela, Susana Mendes Silva, Sónia Baptista, Pedro Penim, André e. Teodósio.

First in-progress presentation of CONDOMINIUM within the frame of Festival END - New Dramaturgy Encounters organised by Colectivo 84 in partnership with Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Portugal). The series is part of the macro-project RETROSPECTIVA, co-produced by Festival Citemor, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente and O Espaço do Tempo (residency), with the publishing support of Teatro Praga. Hosting institutions and partnerships: STAGES - Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift (Creative Europe), Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Associação Bóia (Festival Paragem), Associação Prado, Companhia Inestética, Câmara Municipal de Vila Franca de Xira, Galeria Municipal de Arte de Almada, New Theatre Helsinki, Circular - Festival de Artes Performativas de Vila do Conde, Estrutura, Centro em Movimento, Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte and Associação Parasita.

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Theatre / Performance + Workshop + Podcast

Premieres: August 2022 + February 2023

Festival Citemor (Portugal) + Festival New Theatre Helsinki (Finland)

Text, Direction & Performance: Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Collaboration: João Pedro Fonseca, Nuno Patinho ¶ Special Guests (2022-23): Susana Mendes Silva, Pedro Penim, Patrícia Portela, Mafalda Banquart, Tiago Jácome, Emanuel Santos, Tiago Araújo, Bernardo Chatillon ¶ Soundscape: João Pedro Costa ¶ Artwork & Assistance: Jani Nummela ¶ Technical Direction: André Teixeira ¶ Light Design (Helsinki): Tobias Lönnquist & Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Stage Photography: Susana Paiva (Portugal).

Co-production: Festival Citemor and Teatro Académico Gil Vicente (PT). Residency Co-Production: O Espaço do Tempo (Associated Artist). Research Residencies: Teatro Esther de Carvalho/Festival Citemor (Montemor-o-Velho, PT), Companhia Inestética/Residências no Palácio (Via Franca de Xira, PT). Tour: Festival New Theatre Helsinki, Svenska Teatern (Helsinki, FI), Festival Citemor, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente (Coimbra, PT), as part of the macro-project RETROSPECTIVA. Support: Post Theatre Collective (FI), Galeria Municipal de Arte de Almada (PT).

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Artist Book

Launching: February 2022

Teatro Viriato, Viseu (Portugal)

Direction & Coordination: Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Graphic Design & Illustration: Jani Nummela ¶ Cover: Luís Lázaro Matos ¶ Production: Inês Carvalho e Lemos ¶ Contributions (Textual and Visual): Ana Rito & Hugo Barata, António Olaio, Colectivo FACA (Andreia Coutinho & Maribel Mendes Sobreira), Eduarda Neves, Graça dos Santos, Jani Nummela, João Pedro Azul, Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Pictures: David Pissarra, Miguel Refresco and Alípio Padilha ¶ Translations: Graça dos Santos, Francesca Rayner, Jani Nummela.

Special launchings, readings and artist talks: Mostra APNEIA (Lisbon, 2022); Université Paris Nanterre + Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris - Maison du Portugal (Paris, 2022); Festival END / Teatro Oficina (Guimarães, 2024). "Psychobiography of a Heroic Loser" is one of three parts of the performance-installation/workshop project "Missed-en-Abîme" (2021).

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Performance / Installation + Concept Book + Workshop

Premiere: September 2021

Serralves Contemporary Art Museum, "The Museum As Performance", Porto (Portugal)

Text, Direction & Performance: Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Production: Inês Carvalho e Lemos ¶ Painting: Luís Lázaro Matos ¶ Light Design: Kristian Palmu ¶ Sound Art: Niko Skorpio ¶ Movement Dramaturgy: Pie Kär ¶ Graphic Design, Animations & Assistance: Jani Nummela ¶ Dramaturgical Consultancy: Andreia Coutinho & Maribel Mendes Sobreira ¶ Stage Photography: Miguel Refresco & Alípio Padilha ¶ Video Footage & Chroma Key: Mário Jerónimo Negrão ¶ Translation (French): Graça dos Santos ¶ Translation (Finnish): Jani Nummela ¶ Translation (English): Francesca Rayner ¶ External Eye: Susana Otero ¶ Sound Recording: Vasco Rodrigues ¶ Light Design Adaptation (2022): João Pedro Fonseca ¶ Workshop “What histories are lost in the silence?”:  Colectivo FACA.

MISSED-EN-ABÎME is a project funded by República Portuguesa - Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes. Co-production: Teatro Viriato. Mobility Support: TelepART, Instituto Iberoamericano de Finlandia. Support: A Bela Associação, Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, Estrutura, Teatro Feiticeiro do Norte, Teatro do Bairro Alto, UMA Plataforma. Residencies: Rua das Gaivotas 6 (Lisbon), Là-Bas Studio/Kaapelitehdas (Helsinki), Aalto University (Espoo), Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris – Maison du Portugal, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (Porto). Preview presentations: Museum of Impossible Forms (Helsinki 2018), Parfums de Lisbonne (Paris 2021). Premiere: Serralves Museu de Arte Contemporânea, The Museum As Performance (September 2021). Tour: Festival Contradança (Covilhã), Festival Temps d’Images/Museu Coleção Berardo (Lisboa), Teatro Viriato/Festival END (Viseu), Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras, Chão de Oliva/Festival Periferias (Sintra), MUDAS Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira (Calheta), TAGV (Coimbra). This work was selected for the latest edition of the Portuguese Performing Arts Platform (O Espaço do Tempo, 2023).

Multiversity

Lecture-Performance

Premiere: May 2021

Rua das Gaivotas 6, Lisbon (Portugal)

Text, Performance & Publication: Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Sound Art & Graphic Design: Jani Nummela ¶ Photographic Documentation: Alípio Padilha.

MULTIVERSITY is co-funded by Aalto Arts, Department of Art Grants (Aalto University, Finland), Reclamar Tempo (Teatro Municipal do Porto) and Garantir Cultura/Fundo de Fomento Cultural (Portugal). Residencies: Kallio Stage (Helsinki, 2020) and CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (Porto, 2021). Support: Rua das Gaivotas 6 (Lisbon), Parasita Associação, Teatro do Bairro Alto. Laboratories: ArtEZ University of the Arts (Arnhem), Circular – Festival de Artes Performativas de Vila do Conde, E-motional / Re-Thinking Dance (Bucharest), Arthouse/Aalto University (Espoo), Porta33 (Funchal), Creative Commons Global Summit (Toronto), Núcleo de Investigação em Estudos Performativos / Universidade do Minho (Guimarães), Centro em Movimento (Lisbon), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo). Tour: Festival Atos de Fala, TBA, Lisbon (PT); Encontro de Artes Performativas RE=Iniciar / Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, Santa Maria da Feira (PT); University of Coimbra's Colégio das Artes, Art and Education Biennial (PT); Jobra Performing Arts School, Visões Úteis, Albergaria-a-Velha (PT); Universidade Católica do Porto, QUEERMESS / Teatro Praga (PT).

Sistema Infinitamente Imaterial

Infinitely Immaterial System

Book / Catalogue

Launching: November 2020

Cineteatro António Lamoso, Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal)

Publisher: Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte (Portugal) ¶ Editorial Coordination: Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Artistic Direction: Rogério Nuno Costa & Susana Otero ¶ Graphic Design & Illustration: Jani Nummela ¶ Authors: Ana Bigotte Vieira, Claudia Galhós, Joclécio Azevedo, Miguel Refresco, Rogério Nuno Costa, Susana Otero, Vânia Rodrigues ¶ Collaborators: Elisa Worm, Gil Ferreira, Jorge Gonçalves, Mariana Tengner Barros, Miguel Pereira ¶ Interviews: Dinis Machado, Diogo Machado, Filipe Pereira, Aurora Pinho, Flávio Rodrigues, Inês Nogueira, Jorge Gonçalves, Mariana Tengner Barros, Renata Portas, Rogério Nuno Costa, Sade Risku, Sérgio Diogo Matias and Susana Otero ¶ Pictures: André Mendes, Daniel Oliveira, Jani Nummela, José Pinto, Miguel Refresco, Susana Otero and Vítor Rosário ¶ Back Cover Photograph: José Viegas.

"Sistema Infinitamente Imaterial" was produced and published for the 25th anniversary of Portuguese contemporary dance company Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte [1995-2020]. Other launchings and appearances: Teatro Municipal do Porto (2021), Serralves Museum, Para Uma Timeline A Haver (2021). Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte is a company funded by Direção-Geral das Artes (Government of Portugal) and Santa Maria da Feira Town Hall.

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Curating Dance Programme

Launching: January 2019

Various locations (Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal)

Curatorial Direction & Documentation: Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Production: BCN - Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte in collaboration with Cineteatro António Lamoso (Feira, PT) ¶ Choreographers: Catarina Campos, Cátia Pinheiro & José Nunes (Estrutura), Joclécio Azevedo, Jorge Gonçalves and Mara Andrade ¶ Dancers/Performers: Carminda Soares, Catarina Campos, Maria Soares, Melissa Sousa, Renann Fontoura, Susana Otero, Thamiris Carvalho, Vinicius Massucato ¶ Dance Classes: Aleksander Vorontsov, Renann Fontoura, Kilamú Killa, Catarina Panguana, Rute Mar, NEFUP - Núcleo de Etnografia e Folcore da Universidade do Porto ¶ Talks: Joclécio Azevedo, Jorge Gonçalves, Rogério Nuno Costa, Luís Lima, Eduarda Neves, Colectivo FACA (Andreia Coutinho, Laura Falésia and Maribel Mendes Sobreira), Joacine Katar Moreira (INMUNE - Instituto da Mulher Negra em Portugal) ¶ Technical Director: Daniel Oliveira ¶ Costume Designer: Jordann Santos ¶ Stage Photographers: Miguel Refresco, Diana Santos, Jani Nummela ¶ Design & Artwork: Jani Nummela.

Support: Junta de Freguesia de São João de Ver, Paróquia de São João de Ver, Tuna Musical de Santa Marinha, mala voadora, Imaginarius Centro de Criação, TUP - Teatro Universitário do Porto. Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte is a company funded by Direção-Geral das Artes (Government of Portugal) and Santa Maria da Feira Town Hall.

UNFINISHED Summer School

Independent performing arts and artistic research course

Two editions: 2018 and 2019

Armazém 22 (Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal)

Curatorial Direction & Documentation: Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Production: Armazém 22 (Vila Nova de Gaia, PT) ¶ Mentoring: Ana Carvalho, Joclécio Azevedo, Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Masterclasses & Seminars: AND LAB (Fernanda Eugenio), BALDIO - performance studies (Ana Bigotte Vieira, Ana Mira & Joana Braga), BUALA (Ana Balona de Oliveira & Marta Lança), Eduarda Neves, Estrutura (Cátia Pinheiro & José Nunes), José Maria Vieira Mendes ¶ Experimental Laboratories: Ana Rita Teodoro, COPYWRONG (Daniel Pinheiro, Fátima São Simão, Rogério Nuno Costa & Teresa Nobre), Patrícia Portela, Susana Mendes Silva ¶ Lecture-Performances: João dos Santos Martins, Paula Caspão ¶ Dance Classes: Mariana Tengner Barros, Susana Otero ¶ Feedback Sessions: Joclécio Azevedo, Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ "Observing" Research Groups: Art and Critical Studies Research Group (CEAA, Escola Artística do Porto), Performing Studies Research Group (CEHUM, Minho University) ¶ Design, Artwork & Photography: Jani Nummela.

UNFINISHED Summer School is funded by Direção-Geral das Artes (Government of Portugal), with the support of Armazém 22 and Cia. Kale (Gaia, PT). Both editions were included in Rogério Nuno Costa's macro-project University/Yliopisto, under the scope of its YEAR TWO — The Academy As Performance (2018-20).

Meta-Educational Program

Launching: July 2015, Gabriela Tudor Foundation, Bucharest (Romania)

Continuous activities (ongoing). Conclusion: 2025.

Direction, Coordination, Curating & Documentation Management: Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ The global project will be concluded in 2024 with a retrospective publication and the building ("from scratch") of a precarious, temporary and peripatetic MULTIVERSITY in the cities of Vila do Conde (PT) and Helsinki (FI). A thorough timeline can be found in this link.

Dance Performance

Premiere: December 2014

Auditório de Milheirós de Poiares, Santa Maria da Feira (PT)

Included in program Other Formats curated by Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte

Artistic Direction, Choreography, Text, Video: Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Dancers (Current Cast): Diogo Santos, Júlio Cerdeira, Luís André Sá, Mariana Tengner Barros, Susana Otero ¶ Dramaturgic Consultancy: Joclécio Azevedo ¶ Light Design: Daniel Oliveira ¶ Costumes: Jordann Santos ¶ Stage Photography: Miguel Refresco ¶ Artwork: Diogo Mendes ¶ Remix & Cover: Belamix feat. Too Limited™ [Mariana Tengner Barros & Rogério Nuno Costa] ¶ Costumes Assistance: Cristiana Fonseca ¶ Former Cast Members: André Mendes, André Santos, Bruno Senune, Camila Neves, Dinis Machado, Aurora Pinho, Flávio Rodrigues, Luiz Antunes, Ricardo Pereira, Robalo, Sérgio Diogo Matias ¶ Production: Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte.

Tour: mala voadora (Porto, 2015), Armazém 22 (Vila Nova de Gaia, 2016), Teatro Sá da Bandeira (Santarém, 2016), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon, 2017), Festival Contradança (Covilhã, 2018), Casa de Teatro de Sintra/Chão de Oliva (Sintra, 2018), Festival Contradança (Gouveia, 2020), Cine-Teatro António Lamoso (Sta. Maria da Feira, 2020). Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte is a company funded by Direção-Geral das Artes (Government of Portugal) and Santa Maria da Feira Town Hall. Support: Sonoscopia, Teatro Municipal do Porto – Rivoli, ESMAE, TeCA.

Lecture-Performance

Premiere: September 2013

SOLAR, Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Vila do Conde (PT)

Included in the program "Intensive Care" curated by Joclécio Azevedo for Circular Festival (PT)

Artistic Direction, Installation, Performance, Text: Rogério Nuno Costa ¶ Light Design: Diogo Mendes ¶ Styling: Jordann Santos ¶ Webstreaming: Daniel Pinheiro ¶ Artwork & Promotional Video: Diogo Mendes ¶ Morphing “Mannerheim” Picture: António MV & Cátia Pinheiro ¶ Special Participation: Kirsi Poutanen ¶ Voice Off (Portuguese): Ágata Pinho ¶ Voice Off (English): Vanessa Kowalski ¶ Translation (Finnish): Mika Christian Tissari ¶ Translation (English): Vanessa Kowalski ¶ Support to Finnish Vocalisation: Sade Risku, Siina Levonoja, Jani Nummela ¶ Photographic Documentation: Daniela Silva, Pedro Costa, André Miguel, Jani Nummela.

Co-production: Circular Associação Cultural, Curtas Metragens CRL, Solar Galeria de Arte Cinemática, with financial support from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Production Support: Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte (Associated Artist). Support to artist-in-residence (Porto): Núcleo de Experimentação Coreográfica. Tour: Clube Ferroviário, Silly Season (Lisbon, 2013); Galeria ZDB, Rabbit Hole (Lisbon, 2014); Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Festival END/Colectivo 84 (Coimbra, 2015); mala voadora (Porto, 2015); CAAA (Guimarães, 2015); Rua das Gaivotas 6, Teatro Praga (Lisbon, 2015); Festival Teatro Construção (Joane, 2016); Armazém 22 (Vila Nova de Gaia, 2016); Teatro Sá da Bandeira (Santarém, 2016); desMOSTRA, Teatro Nacional São João (Porto, 2016); Arthouse, Aalto University (Espoo, 2016); Itse Kolmantena Festival, Là-Bas, Kaapelitehdas (Helsinki, 2017); Balcão Cristal, Teatro Feiticeiro do Norte (Funchal, 2017); Festival Periferias/Chão de Oliva, Casa da Cultura Mira Sinta (2019); Festival Política, gnration (Braga, 2019).

CHEF RØ

Series of food performances, texts, talks, curating projects and gastronomic collaborations signed by Rogério Nuno Costa's culinary alter-ego Chef Rø

2008-2018

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