DISJUNTOR is a project by CRL - Central Elétrica, comprising a training programme focused on the performing arts, oriented towards research, reflection, critical thinking and practical experimentation.
It arises from the desire to offer the public an immersive experience in the field of artistic training, inviting consolidated names from the performing arts scene, such as Paula Aros Gho, Thereza Rocha and Francis Wilker.
Coordinated by Pedro Vilela, the project includes two free training courses taking place during the month of July 2025 at the CRL - Central Elétrica facilities.
The programme is aimed at artists at any stage of their artistic career, performers with an interest in creation, researchers, creatives in the theatrical field (set design, costumes, light and sound, etc.), and others interested in areas such as theatre, dance, performance, film/video, visual arts, literature, philosophy or critical thinking.

8 - 10 JULY 2025, 5pm - 8pm
CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS LABORATORY LOCATED
PAULA AROS GHO

Deadline for applications: 02 July
Announcement of results: 04 July
Application: by sending a letter of motivation to p.vilela@circolando.com

A theoretical-practical programme that offers knowledge, tools and procedures for situated stage direction, based on the theories and practices of Performative Aesthetics (Erika Fischer-Lichte). The laboratory takes place over 3 days and its main focus is to guide and accompany the participants in a formative process, offering theoretical and methodological content and a practical space to experiment with authorial proposals, with the aim of deepening their own language and artistic signature.
Methodologies will be put into practice to create materials and design projects with a situated aesthetic and performativity with audiences.
This programme offers a space for training, research, reflection and creative practice that encourages the development of contemporary methodologies for scenic creation, based on the notion of situated performativity, understood as evidence of the copresence between bodies, spatialities, sonorities and narratives that make up an event or performance.
These aesthetics allow artists and researchers to engage with the territorial and social context in which they are inserted, while at the same time enabling audiences to develop a sense of belonging in relation to artistic creation, opening up new readings and integrating the cultural process into the socio-cultural context.