Faro: CAPa organizes summer workshops in theater and contemporary dance

Mónica Calle and Luís Mestre give workshops in the area of ​​theatre. Francisco Camacho and the duo Samuel Lefeuvre and Florencia Demestri are in charge of the area of ​​contemporary dance.

According to CAPa, the objective is to guarantee “a multiplicity of approaches” to those interested in this type of training.

The proposal by Mónica Calle, director and actress, “goes in the direction of problematization through the practice of critical and artistic thinking”, informs CAPa.

This training will have as its starting point «the creation of the group as a collective, starting from the relationship with the body/movement, the sung and spoken word, to then move on to individual work, always based on the specificities of each participant».

Luís Mestre, playwright, director and theater teacher, will lead a workshop with the aim of helping participants acquire critical and theatrical analysis tools, so that they can later venture into the development of a short dramatic text — first individually, then in a group — which they will transform into a stage score.

In the area of ​​dance, Francisco Camacho, choreographer and dancer, will dedicate his workshop to “the choreographic aspects of improvisation. He proposes an approach through creative strategies, explored individually and collectively, in an atmosphere of openness and appreciation of different contributions. All work will be developed in accordance with the particular characteristics of each participant, exploring their physical expressive qualities and presence”.

The creative duo Samuel Lefeuvre (France) and Florencia Demestri (Argentina) propose to share a technique that explores the body's organization in space in an original and liberating way, celebrating error as a gateway to unexpected and new forms.

“What would it mean to conceive of the body not as an agent, but as a landscape or an ecosystem? How can we allow the human body to become a surface for projecting more-than-human imaginaries? These are more than questions, they are challenges to open up new paths for improvisation and movement creation,” the organization adds in a note sent to newsrooms.

This is how, over four days, the first edition of the summer workshops «DeVIR meetings» promotes «questioning and surrender, discovery and expansion, in the exploration of unformatted/free creative processes, essential for those with more or less training to develop their practices».

This activity serves as a preamble to the first edition of Advanced Training in Performing Arts, scheduled for January to July 2026, as reported by Barlavento .

Each workshop lasts 12 hours and costs 50 euros.

Registration is open and can be done using the online form .

This initiative is supported by the Directorate-General for the Arts, within the scope of the Sustained Support Programme, and has the partnership of Faro City Council.