Projects

Artistic and community-based project combining dance, film, theatre and publishing with the territory of Água das Casas. Workshops, performances and collaborative creations as a space for encounter between artists and the local community.

To celebrate the show's 29th anniversary, Filipa Francisco and Bruno Cochat created a new version for Teatro São Luiz.

Of Glass and Sea is a collective creation project based on local memories of Marinha Grande.

This book and album tell the story of this journey and reflect on how cultural diversity and democracy are reinforced in this act of giving and receiving.

The Walk/Demonstration is the result of the invitation made by PNA — Plano Nacional das Artes — to the project Sharing Matter, to join the school celebrations of April 25th.

Sharing Matters (improvisation, dance, drama, thought) is a partnership between the Abrantes School Group, Municipality of Abrantes, PNA - Plano Nacional das Artes.

Comédias do Minho invites choreographer Filipa Francisco to create a piece with the local community inspired by the region.

Barro is a multidisciplinary piece created by Filipa Francisco and Hugo Cruz. Starting with clay, we embark on a journey where the memories of a region materialize and create the future.

Roda is a collective creation with elements of Rancho Folclórico da Casa do Concelho de Castro Daire, based in Lisbon, a region not yet worked by the choreographer.

Bom Anfitrião is a piece by choreographer Filipa Francisco focused on climate change.

A Festa is an artistic creation for the public space, with members of various folk dance groups from 14 municipalities.

An intercultural and intergenerational piece directed by Filipa Francisco. In its first version the project was developed between 2020 and 2022 with residents from Almada and financed by the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative, and was presented at Academia Almadense and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

The result of 7 months of work with 70 people from Gondomar aged 6 to 80, who became the lead actors. A piece that starts from the stories, memories and gestures of the population of this territory to bring to the stage a proposal that unites generations and different ways of being in the same common ground.

Caminho is a creation by Filipa Francisco where biographies, narratives and the historical dimension of Belmonte intersect, in co-creation with 6 local participants.

This collective contemporary creation directed by Bruno Cochat and Filipa Francisco stemmed from the experiences of the performers of Nepalese origin, their life stories, their dances, music and games.

Directed by Filipa Francisco, saal is a Rede Artéria piece based on stories from Figueira da Foz's Salterns. It's the result of an immersive process in the local reality, with the collection of testimonies from those who worked and still work with salt, it brings together professional and non-professional artists in a theater-dance piece that takes the audience on a poetic journey to an unknown world.

A solo with the complicity of Eleonora Fabião. A notebook with several voices, on the path of storytellers, in a spiral, combining memories of traditional Palestinian and Portuguese dances, family stories, of an entire village: Água das Casas.

Based on the individual and collective memories of some of the artists in her life — choreographers-performers Francisco Camacho, Miguel Pereira and Sílvia Real — Filipa Francisco identifies a unique heritage in the memory of these choreographers and designs a creative and affirmative gesture in the face of the scarcity of dance archives and documentation in the Portugal.

With Companhia Maior, choreographer Filipa Francisco praises the latent strength of bodies that we consider fragile and gives voice to people who want to talk about what is happening in the world.

A Viagem synthesizes the truth of the country's cultural borders and attempts to cross them, negotiating artistic conventions to produce something new.

“Where are we headed?” It is a performative walk and a show co-created and interpreted by Filipa Francisco and José Grossinho.

Íman is a choreography full of energy and color, based on the cultural richness of the Cova da Moura neighbourhood and the contemporary experience of the performers.

27 years with the characters Mila and Firmino, now in the NU MEIO - BAILÃO version that ends with a ball where everyone participates.