KEF Portugal renews support for Forum Dança

05 Apr - 09 May 2026

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In collaboration with the Advanced Programme in Creation in Performing Arts - PACAP, from Forum Dança, KEF Portugal welcomes to Casa Mísia, within the scope of its Ateliê support line, the Brazilian Christine Greiner, who will conduct a workshop at KEF, the Frenchman Jocelyn Cottencin and the Sri Lankan Venuri Perera.

The artists will be in Lisbon from April 5th to May 9th, as members of the ninth edition of PACAP: "One swallow does not make a summer", curated by Brazilian choreographer Marcelo Evelin and with the artistic collaboration of Brazilian performer Bruno Moreno.

PACAP is a collaborative creation program for professionals who intend to invest in a period of advanced experimentation, reconciling it with theoretical research and the exercise of body and movement practices.

KEF Portugal also supported PACAP 8 in 2025, offering an artistic residency to choreographer Meg Stuart for about 6 months.

 

Christine Greiner is an Associate Professor in Communication and Arts at PUC-SP. She teaches in the Postgraduate Program in Communication and Semiotics, where she coordinates the Centre for Oriental Studies, and in the undergraduate course in Communication of the Arts of the Body. She has served as a visiting professor at universities in Japan, the United States, and France, with support from the Japan Foundation, the Nichibunken Centre, and Capes/Fulbright, among other agencies. She is the author of several books and articles on Japanese culture, contemporary art, and body studies. She shares the conception of the "corpomídia" theory with Professor Helena Katz. She participates as a project curator with Ricardo Muniz Fernandes and Hideki Matsuka and collaborates with artists from the visual arts, performance, and dance.

Jocelyn Cottencin is a visual artist working with performance, choreography, books, installations, and film. His work examines how images, monuments, and architecture shape bodies, power, and collective narratives, opening shared spaces for perception, dialogue, and embodied experience.

Venuri Perera is a choreographer, performance artist, curator, and educator from Colombo, currently based in Amsterdam. Her work explores the dynamics of visibility and opacity, in an attempt to destabilize the way we perceive the "other". Venuri’s creations deal with violent nationalism, patriarchy, immigration, colonial heritage, and class, and have been presented at festivals and biennials throughout Europe, South and East Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. She has collaborated with choreographers such as Geumhyung Jeong and Natsuko Tezuka. Venuri also conceived and curated the Colombo Dance Platform projects (2015–2020, Goethe-Institut) and remains committed to creating support networks for the independent dance scene in Sri Lanka.