Portugal
Daniela Morganiça
Artist
Daniela Morganiça (Portugal) is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on performing arts and writing. Has a degree in Theater from ESAD.CR (PT), and a master’s degree from the same institution in conjunction with LKA (LT). Works on her own creations since 2005, as well as in co-creations with other Portuguese and International creators.
Culturgest
Partner
Culturgest – Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos (Lisbon, Portugal) is dedicated to contemporary creation and presents a regular programme of performing arts, music, visual arts, cinema and contemporary thought aimed at a diverse public, which includes schools, children and young people, invited to enjoy national and international first-rate programmes and to partake in attractive and inspiring cultural activities.
Europe Beyond Access presents ‘Arts, disability and social change’
FilmResource
Discover how a generation of disabled dancers, choreographers and interdisciplinary artists are creating social change through the work that they make.
Naked and disabled: the body as a site of strength and beauty
OpinionResource
May 5, 2020
There is a long tradition of artists and performers being drawn towards nudity as a tool of shock, vulnerability, truth and raw self-expression. It places the body in the public eye, revealing what is usually hidden, and uses explicitness and intimacy to spotlight the audience’s gaze as part of the meaning-forming process. Voyeurs, spectators, observers are not as innocently passive as once thought.
From Portugal to Poland: coming to Warsaw as an international disabled artist-in-residence
OpinionResource
April 7, 2020
The first disabled artist to receive the EU’s i-Portunus fund, Portuguese dancer Diana Bastos Niepce speaks about her experience undertaking a residency in Poland with learning disabled-led company Teatr 21. During the residency, Diana collaborated with the choreographer Justyna Wielgus, performing in her directorial debut “PokaZ” at Warsaw’s Zachęta National Gallery of Art. The piece interrogated the act of looking, what we see and what remains hidden, the limitations that stereotypes place on our identities – a challenge to the ‘socially acceptable’.
Diana Niepce
Artist
Diana Niepce is a dancer, choreographer, and writer. At the age of 28, a life-changing accident reshaped her relationship with her body, dance, and performance, leading her to explore language and hybridism as political action. Her work challenges and redefines the identity of the performative body beyond conventional norms.
Dançando com a Diferença
Artist
Dançando com a Diferença’s daily challenge is to change the image society has of the disabled and to carve out a space for human diversity within the professional universe of the contemporary arts.