This month, the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center launches the P rogram Território Corpo: Between Brazil and Black Africa , from 11/17 to 12/12. Created by artist and curator, Calu Zabel, the program proposes actions that foster the experience of moving and thinking about the body, dance, theater and performance in Brazil from the most diverse territories: geographic, affective, symbolic, generational, collective and copyrights. Through residencies, workshops, conversation circles, shows and continuing education activities, the program aims to foster exchanges between artists from Maranhão and from other Brazilian states. For the first edition of the program, the theme chosen was Between Brazil and Black Africa. The curatorship, shared with Ubiratã Trindade, coordinator of the Educational Center of the CCVM, brings talks and several workshops, affirming the black body as an original creative center, the basis for the formation of Brazilian culture and dance. Programming Workshops: Dancehall , with Fabi Silva (SP) – 11-18 and 19, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm Ancestral Body: creative processes in dance , with Bruno de Jesus (BA) – 11-18-21 , 10:00 to 11:00 am Gumboot, with group Gumboot Dance Brasil (SP) – 11-18 to 21, from 7 pm to 8 pm Frevo , with Jefferson Figueiredo (PE) – 20 and 11/21, 4:30 pm to 6 pm Passinho , with André Oliveira DB (RJ) – 25 and 26/ 11, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm NIMBA Dance , with Mariana Camara (Guinea Conakri/SP) – 11/25 to 28/11, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Afro-Brazilian Dance , with Luís Deveza (BA) – 11/25 to 28, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Vogue , with Zaila (SP) – 11/27 and 11/28, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm Hip Hop Freestyle , with Marcelo Negão (BH/SP) – December 2 and 3, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm Charme , with Jeff Antônio (RJ) – 12/04 and 12, from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm Mestre Sala and Porta-bandeira: Dance of Samba and Carnival , with Mestre Dionísio (RJ) and Lohane de Paula (RJ) – 12/02 to 05/12, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Corpo em Diaspora , with Luciane Ramos Silva (SP) – 09 to 11/12, from 10 am to 11 am Ara-ìtàn: Dance(s) of Rainhas de Blocos Afro , with Vânia Oliveir a (BA) – 12/09 and 12, from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm Tambor de Crioula , with Regina Arcanjo (MA)- December 11 and 12, from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm Caboclo de Pena , with Jhonatan Oliveira (Bumba meu Boi de Maracanã – MA) – 12/09 to 12, from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Traces and Macumbarias: Black ConversAções na Cena , with Tieta Macau – December 2 to 5, from 10:00 am to 11:00 am Conversation Rounds: Roundtable 1 – Black Territories: training and creation in dance , with Tieta Macau (MA), Luciane Ramos Silva (SP) and Inaicyra Falcão (BA) – 11/17, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Conversation Round 2 – The Ritual Body in Black Performance , with Renata Lima (GO ), Onisajé (BA) and Reginaldo Flores (BA) – 11/24, 7 pm to 9 pm Conversation Round 3 – Black Contemporary Dance: Bodies, Contexts and Subjectivities , with Gal Martins (SP), Fernando Ferraz (BA) and Bruno de Jesus (BA) – 12/01, from 7pm to 9pm Conversation Round 4 – The Audiovisual Discourse on Black Dance Production , with Carmen Luz (RJ), João Nascimento (SP) and Firmino Pitanga (SP) – 12/08 , 19:00 to 21:00 The program will be broadcast by Zoom Platform. Follow the disclosure of registration dates to participate in each workshop and conversation circle on our website and on our social networks: facebook.com/centroculturalvalema and instagram/centroculturalvalemaranhão. Free registration.