Creations by Carolina Cantinho, Hugo Marmelada and Brian Scalini
Premiered on June 21, 2024, at the Auditório Fernando Lopes-Graça, Almada

Believing in the importance of experimentation and artistic freedom, the artistic direction of Companhia de Dança de Almada invited young Portuguese choreographers Carolina Cantinho and Hugo Marmelada to create original pieces, based on their own individual research, in artistic residences with the company's dancers. To complete this programme, we also invited the Italian choreographer Brian Scalini to restage the creation "Wuthering Days" with three of the company's dancers, taking advantage of his recent stay in Portugal.

quanto tempo o tempo tem? (how much time does time have?)
Carolina Cantinho intends to reflect on the ephemerality of time and the constant pressure it exerts on us.

“quanto tempo o tempo tem?” (how much time does time have?) reflects on the human bond with time, increasingly ephemeral and suffocating. Time, which, in the hypermodern world, simultaneously brings us closer and further away, causes a change in the state of presence in ourselves and in our relationships with others. We are busy, tired, obsessed with producing and not failing. Why? It is important to revive the search for a deeper and more authentic meaning. Carolina Cantinho

Creation: Carolina Cantinho
Performance and Co-creation: Bruno Duarte, Inês Barros, Lúcia Salgueiro, Mariana Romão, Raquel Tavares and Vítor Afonso
Music: Jacques, Superpoze, Porter Ricks, Bowery Electric, Murcof, Thom Yorke e Angus MacRae
Selection of Costumes: Carolina Cantinho

Contido
The rules imposed by society, by which we interact with each other, domesticate us. They create trends and habits, that we often lose the ability to question. They become a given. They become so intrinsic to our way of thinking and being, that it blinds us and limits our exploration and connection with our nature. From what we feel, from our instincts that are also linked to our ancestors, our animal and wilder side emerges. Inspired by the book “The Call Of The Wild” by Jack London, this piece’s source of development is the format that the organization of society ends up having on the individual, and the exploration of what is left out, all the sensations and actions considered outside the norm. Hugo Marmelada

Creation: Hugo Marmelada
Musical Composition: Marco Santos
Performance: Inês Barros and Lúcia Salgueiro
Selection of Costumes: Hugo Marmelada

Wuthering Days
Transfers of emotional states could be part of our everyday life and most of the time we probably don’t even realize. It is common for people experiencing anger to transfer this emotional state to the ones that are closer to them, initiating a chain of rage that can be hard to stop. Brian Scalini

Choreography: Brian Scalini
Costumes: Martina Drieschner, Brian Scalini
Music: “Mass” and “Blind Blackening”, by Roly Porter
Performance: Bruno Duarte, Mariana Romão and Vítor Afonso

Light Design: Paulo Santos - Stageplot
Rehearsal Direction: Maria João Lopes

Carolina Cantinho has been a contemporary dance teacher, performer and choreographer in collaboration with different creators and institutions for over 15 years. She is the co-founder of CAMADA - Centro Coreográfico, in Faro, where she has assumed artistic direction since 2020. She develops pedagogical and choreographic work with different age groups, in national and international dance institutions such as Opus Ballet (IT), Escola Artística de Dança do Conservatório Nacional, ESD - Escola Superior de Dança, Quorum Academy, Companhia de Dança do Algarve, Centro de Dança do Porto and AMDA/dansul project, among others. As a performer, she works with different national entities and creators on multidisciplinary artistic projects. She has international choreography awards, including Most Innovative Choreography (DWC Bucharest, 2015), 1st place in the Netherlands Choreography Competition (Harlem, 2017) and Best Choreography and Innovation Award (VIBE Vienna, 2019). She has choreographed for Projecto Quorum (Amadora, 2017), for Opus Ballet (Florença, 2019) and for AZul – Rede de Teatros do Algarve (2019). She has a master's degree in Contemporary Choreographic Creation (ESD, IPL, 2012), developing her own creations, of which she highlights: “Outra Voz” (2012), “And if you could explain it better?” (2014), “Ponto Zero” (2015), “Offline” (2016), “Antifrágil” (2018), “Chama-se amor, amor” (2021) and “iD” (2022).

Hugo Marmelada was born in Lisbon, in 1987. He graduated from the Academia de Dança Contemporânea de Setúbal. He worked as a freelancer with several choreographers such as Guilherme Botelho, Ohad Naharin, Itamar Serussi, Jo Stromgren, Amanda Miller, among others. He joined dance companies such as It Dansa, where he completed his postgraduate studies, Norwegian National Contemporary Dance Company, known as Carte Blanche, and Batsheva Dance Company. He has provided dance training at various institutions, such as the Carte Blanche company, Academy of Dance of Jerusalem, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Proda-Professional Dance Training and It Dansa. At the same time, since 2010, he has been choreographing for the “Kamuyot Creates” project the duet “I I”, presented at the Riksteatern in Stockholm, Sweden; “Stepping over stones” solo presented at the 16th International Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival Stuttgart, Germany, which received the awards for 2nd Best Performance and Audience Award, having been invited to tour Germany and Brazil; “Connect” and “Still, you can’t smile with me” presented at the Batsheva Dancers Create event. He choreographed with Jens Trinidad, “Flux”, performed at Dansens Hus in Oslo and “As it is / As it turns out”, performed at Baerum Kulturhus, Norway.

Brian Scalini is an Italian freelance choreographer based in Dresden, Germany. Before becoming a choreographer, he completed his academic studies with a Bachelor’s Degree in Product Design at the University of Bologna in Italy, to then take a different direction in pursuing his career as a professional dancer. In 2018, he finally discovered his passion for choreography, finding in it a new way of combining dance with his previous knowledge of graphics and design. In 2022, in order to get an additional upgrade, he got a Master of Arts in Choreography at Palucca University of Dance Dresden, Germany. During these past years, he had the possibility to create for Institutions such as Theater Pforzheim, Palucca University of Dance Dresden, and Tanzcompagnie Landesbühnen Sachsen, showcasing also his own creations to festivals and venues such as Hellerau – European Centre for the Arts Dresden, Hong Kong International Dance Festival, Machol Shalem Dance House Israel, Istanbul Fringe Festival, Festival Choregraphique International de Bloise France, Bauhaus Fest – Bauhaus Museum Dessau, and many others. Brian recently won the first prize at the 22 Certamen Internacional de Coreografia Burgos y Nueva York with his choreography “Meet you in the navel”.