Teaching

Clara Andermatt has always implemented pedagogical activities in parallel with her choreographic work. She has been teaching in different institutional contexts, such as schools, universities, conservatoires and dance companies. The activities are mainly aimed at vocational education and training.

She is often invited by institutions, in Portugal and abroad, to direct workshops and other didactic initiatives, both in formal and informal contexts, for specific groups, ranging from children and young people to seniors, professionals or amateurs, and persons with disabilities, in dance as well as in multidisciplinary artistic fields such as theatre and music.

Selected training activities directed by Clara Andermatt:

 

2023 - "Body and Stage Seminar 2023" - Fundação L'Explose - Bogotá, Colombia

2019 / 2020 - "Laboratory of Artistic Creation" - INAC Instituto Nacional de Artes do Circo - Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

2019 - "Improvisation" - Summer Lab: Intensive Programme in Dance Training - Teatro Viriato - Viseu, Portugal

2019 - "Laboratory of Advanced Training in Performative Arts" - Balleteatro - Oporto, Portugal

2018 - "PACAP (Advanced Programme in Performative Arts Creation)" - Fórum Dança - Lisbon, Portugal

2017 - "LAB7: Laboratory of Dance" (with the composer Jonas Runa) - Associação Estufa - Torres Vedras, Portugal

2017 - "FACETS International Choreography Residency Programme" - Attakkalari India Biennial - Bangalore, India

2016 - "Festival Internacional de Música y Danza: dance workshop" - Obra Social La Caixa - Granada, Spain

2016 - "Workshop: The Power of Experiment” - ARTERIA / Galeria Quadrum - Lisbon, Portugal

2014 - "Short Story: An Exercise for the Memory" - MINDELACT Festival - Mindelo, Cape Verde

2012 - "Dance Week: workshop" - Teatro das Figuras - Faro, Portugal

2011 - "Laboratory of Inclusive performance" - Zurich, Switzerland

2011 - "Laboratory of Choreograpgy and musical composition" (with the musician Vítor Rua) - Budapest, Hungary

2010 / 2011 - "Contemporary Choreographic Creation" - Master's Degree invited teacher - Escola Superior de Dança - Lisbon, Portugal

2010 - "Workshop of Performing techniques" - Companhia Maior - Lisbon, Portugal

2010 - "Baralha: workshop of movement" (with the gipsy community) - Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal

2009 - "Contemporary dance techniques" - Companhia de Dança de Almada - Portugal

2009 - "Gracias por favor" - Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid - Spain

2009 - "Creation for public space" - Festival d’ Aurillac - Toulouse, France

2009 - "Workshop of Movement and choreographic creation" - Raiz Di Polon - Cape Verde

2008 - "VIII Taller de Coreografía y Composición Musical" (with music composer João Lucas) - Madrid, Spain

2007 -  "Training in choreographic creation, techniques and composition" - Guimarães Dance Week - Centro Cultural Vila Flor - Guimarães, Portugal

2007 - "Workshop: Nu Kre Bai Na Bu Onda" - Cova da Moura - Lisbon, Portugal

2007 - "Laboratory: In my Language" - Moscow, Russia

2007 - "Dance Unlimited: Project Assessment" - European Dance Development Center (EDDC) - Arnhem, Netherlands

2006 - "Choreographic project" - Balleteatro - Oporto, Portugal

2005 - "Choreographic creation and research" - Fórum Dança - Lisbon, Portugal

2004 - "Workshop of choreographic composition" - NEC, Núcleo de Experimentação Coreográfica - Oporto, Portugal

2003 - "Composition techniques" - Escola Superior de Dança - Lisbon, Portugal

1994 / 1995 - "CV SABE" Project (several training programmes with/for portuguese and cape-verdean artists) - Cape Verde

1993 - "Contemporary dance" - C.E.M, Centro em Movimento - Lisbon, Portugal

1992 - "Movement techniques" - Chapitô (Escola Profissional de Artes e Ofícios do Espetáculo) - Lisbon, Portugal

Photos by Vitorino Coragem, Carlos Gomes, ACCCA, INAC, Teatro Viriato