We would like to congratulate Marta Alves Silva (MA in Culture Studies) who received the Honorary Mention of the Estudar a Dança Award with the dissertation Emotional contagion: the transformative potential of performance art.
At the time of the ceremony, Marta Alves Silva was in an artistic residence and could not be present in person, but accepted the Honorary Mention via videoconference.
The Estudar a Dança Award is an initiative of the National Museum of Theatre and Dance (MNTD) and Museus e Monumentos de Portugal. It celebrates the extraordinary collection of the MNTD and aims to reward academic work of exceptional quality that contributes to the knowledge of this art and stimulates the development of this less studied disciplinary area in our country. The prize is sponsored by the Millenium BCP Foundation, which is associated with the recognition and promotion of academic research in the performing arts, especially in the field of theatrical dance.
The jury is composed of Nuno Costa Moura, José Carlos Alvarez, Luísa Taveira and Rui Vieira Nery. According to the jury, Silva’s work proposes “an original theoretical reflection on the inclusion of the public in performative practices, through strategies of emotional stimulation that enhance collective creativity, based on the case study of Silent Disco (2019), a performance by Alfredo Martins”.
The Estudar a Dança Award was attributed to Laura Rozas Letelier for the thesis Formas Coreográficas de Reflexão Histórica: Para uma Timeline a Haver. Genealogias de Dança enquanto prática artística em Portugal.
Congratulations to the winners!
The Lisbon Consortium 