Quinzena de Dança de Almada - Contemporary Dance Platform

Since 1992, Quinzena de Dança de Almada – Contemporary Dance Festival is a space for dance presentation and promotion, offering its audiences a complex of events well representative of national and international contemporary dance. Beyond the performances, the Festival offers other dance related activities such as workshops, exhibitions, meetings, video-dance, etc. Included in this Festival the creation of an International Platform for Choreographers has opened the event to the participation of many contemporary dance companies and independent creators from all over the world, becoming an important meeting point for choreographers and dancers, a place for exchanges and divulgation, attracting local and international audiences as a showcase of the most contemporary tendencies in dance.
Supported by Almada Municipality and frequently by the Ministry of Culture, this platform is now in its 10th edition. During a period between 3 and 5 days, three different spaces are alloted to the performances, between 20 and 30 creations being performed, selected from around 200 proposals.