A masterclass aimed at professionals and anyone interested in the various fields, who wish to experiment and engage with new approaches to artistic practice and research.
An opportunity for experimentation, based on the creative language and processes of Isabel Barros, artistic director of the Teatro de Marionetas do Porto. The intersection and interconnection between dance, theatre, and puppet and object theatre.
Target audience: Professionals and interested individuals with experience in the performing arts, as well as students and teachers from all disciplines
Number of participants: 20
Registration deadline: 15 May 2026
Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis upon payment.
INFO AND REGISTRATION
To register, please complete the registration form on Google Forms or in Word format – in the latter case, please send it to: fimfafestival@gmail.com
Starting from the body, the gesture, the movement and the relationship between bodies. The body as a fragment, which seeks to ‘represent’ a momentary reality, a kind of canvas through which new images are formed, a synthesis of bodies, a dialectic between the living and the inanimate.
The relationship between the object and the performer, the performer’s body as an extension of the puppet. Creation as a space for dialogue between bodies, objects, music and all the disciplines called upon in each creation.
BIO
Choreographer, director, co-founder of Balleteatro (1983), artistic director of the Porto Puppet Theatre since 2010 and of the Porto Puppet Museum, which opened in February 2013. She has a long and distinguished career in artistic creation, characterised by the interplay of different art forms, notably dance, theatre and puppetry. She received the Almada Prize (1999), awarded to Balleteatro, in recognition of the work carried out in the field of programming. She is a guest lecturer at the Lisbon Higher School of Education, on the Postgraduate Course in Puppetry and Animated Forms, the Summer School for Actors/Teatro do Noroeste – Viana Drama Centre, and at various national and international institutions.
In 2018, she received the Medal of Merit – Gold Class. Porto is her city of origin and choice, where she carries out much of her work, with a sense of urgency and a strong social dimension.
