vaniagala: October 2013

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Inventing Futures - 3rd Dec.

(un)occupy The Body

by Vania Gala

Join Vania Gala on a presentation at Inventing Futures around the (un)occupation of the Body.

Included there will be excerpts of “Invited Guests”, of “Cooling Down Signs” and the ideas that gave shape to these two choreographic projects.

Join the conversation of round tables, workshops with other guest speakers reflecting on themes and notions through which theorists, artists have thought, challenged, imagined and invented future(s), in particular for choreography and institutional practice as research.

Inventing Futures-program

Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Invited Guests at Emergency Index 2012

Invited Guests is featured in the recent issue of Emergency Index 2012. The publication can be found at:

Emergency Index 2012

To all the performers Jodi Ann Nicholson, Panayotis Tofi, Teresa Noronha Feio and to the composer Jostein Fretland thanks for the wonderful inspiration that you gave to this project but also many thanks to all those of you that contributed with your feedback for this choreographic project.

Vania Gala

Vânia Gala is a choreographer and researcher based in London. She holds a BA in Dance from EDDC (European Dance Development Center, Arnhem) and Master of Arts in Choreography with Distinction (Trinity Laban). She is a PhD candidate at Kingston University and a PASS studentship awardee. Gala’s research, choreographies and "conversational performances" explore the critical potential of opacity and withdrawal in choreography in the present time. Latest performative interventions include the give&take series at Tate Modern and Mesa para Práticas de Cabeça para Baixo ou de Pernas para o Ar at Museum of Modern Art Calouste Gulbenkian (2019). Collaborations as performer have involved Les Ballets C. de La B., Constanza Macras and Sonia Boyce. She has collaborated as a choreographer with visual artists Sonia Boyce, Harold Hoffeh and Griot theatre company.. Commissions include “Cooling Down Signs” a Pan- European commission by Beyond Front@ performed at Dance Week Festival (HR), D.I.D (AT), Front@ Festival (SI), Bakelit (HU). In 2019 she was awarded Best Choreography Award by Theatre Guide Awards (Portugal) for her collaboration with GRIOT. Her choreographic work has been performed in Angola, Portugal, Norway, Germany, Ireland, UK, Russian Federation and Austria. In 2005 she was awarded with “Best Female Performance” at the Dublin Fringe Festival, was part of Aerowaves Festival at the Place, London and of the 1st Triennial of Luanda (Angola). In 2007 she performed at the 1st African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Vânia Gala has supervised MA and MFA dissertations (practice-based, practice-as-research and fully written) and has taught practice released based technique, Composition Modules and Choreography. Prior to Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance she taught undergraduate modules at Northampton and Kingston Universities.