Name of organisation Madrasta - Cultural Association (Madrasta Dance)

Country Portugal

Organisation website https://madrastamadrasta.wixsite.com/madrastadance

Contact person Clara Marchana - [email protected]

+351962911057

Organisation type Non-profit organization (Cultural Association)

Scale of the organization 5 employees

PIC number 883993108

Aims and activities of the

organisation

Founded in 2018, is a creation and audience mediation

structure and dance company, where contemporary dance is

the point of contact and departure for the research of ideas and

ecosystems that are in constant movement, dialogue and

interaction with various directions and layers.

Between 2023 and 2024, the company collaborated on the

international project (Creative Europe) PANG - Performing Arts

for the Next Generation, where artists work together in a

process of co-creation with teenagers, between four countries,

coordinated by Drama Teatro (Italy), Slovenia, Estonia and

Portugal.

In 2022, Madrasta opened her space C.A.R.MA. - Casa Artística

e Rural da Madrasta, in the small village Pias, located in

Ferreira do Zêzere (centre of Portugal), with the aim of bringing

together and developing projects in the area of contemporary

dance and the performing arts for the community and in the

central interior of Portugal.

It holds and promotes various workshops and regular classes in

dance and video editing. In October 2023, it premiered its 1st

Edition of the Zêzere Cinedança International Festival, a festival

aimed at professionals in the field of video-dance and choreo-

cine. In 2024, it created and organized the 1st edition of

ARADO - Dance and Performing Arts Festival, in the village of

Pias, in Ferreira do Zêzere.

Role of the organisation in

the project

Project partner

Previous EU grants

received

No grants received until now, only throughout unformal

collaboration with Project PANG 2023-2024 (Creative Europe)

From country or region All countries

Preferred field of expertise Contemporay dance, performing arts, interdisciplinary projects,

artistic residences, creative labs, multidisciplinary festival,

dance & theatre creation, cultural and artistic mediation, mental

health and inclusive dance/arts, artistic investigation.