In children’s imagination, the night is perhaps the first of the great mysteries. The shadows, the darkness, the silence, the street sounds and the movements in the house inspire fantasies, a lot of fears and some fascination. In the children’s universe, night is synonymous with the unknown, on the one hand, and infinite possibility, on the other. Night terrors, monsters under the bed, heavy rain that won’t let you sleep, but also happy dreams, bedtime stories, lullabies, goodnight cuddles, moonlight.

The night is, by definition, a time of fantasy, and it remains that way in our adult life, becoming associated with loneliness, sleeplessness, deviation, but also with intimacy and reflection. For all these reasons, night is ancestrally linked to the artistic world, it rests somewhere between melancholy and transgression.

April 8th - 13th 2019

Estágio de Dança de Aveiro 2019, curated by Victor Hugo Pontes for the third consecutive year, is designed to continue with the programme of the previous two editions. The idea is to allow the participants to access, in an engaging way, different, technical and creative tools, in order to enrich their artistic language. This year, the offer will be more diverse and the participants will be able to choose between two areas: one more classic and the other one more inspired by urban dance.