Oficina Zero departs from the premise that we are all political bodies and Art, even if sometimes fails, has to be political enough. 

Oficina Zero Programme is not a formation from teachers to students but, from artists to artists, from person to person, from citizen to citizen. The Oficina Zero programme wants to question the conventional training/education of Dance/Arts or even the non artistic education by being connected to the real world, politically, ethically, bringing the difference together, committed to gender equality and equal rights , in order to invest in a better arts community. 

OZ questions its existence / objectives on a daily basis in an attempt not to fall into a formatted program without reflection on the present. Each year is now.

Oficina Zero places itself in a position of asking artists to be “learning” and the formation group to be responsible to give and share their knowledge. Often artists when they give a formation they are there to teach or share their practice to a group of students who want to learn. In Oficina Zero vision, all people want to learn and all people have something important to share and a voice to be heard. All, just at different times in their career. 

OZ program invests time in close and individual training where one-to-one feedback is regular in order to accompany the performer emotionally inside and outside of the program.

Oficina Zero particular selection of an heterogeneous group of performers/artists, with backgrounds in different artistic areas such as; Dance, Theatre, Performing arts; Circus; Dance-Theater; Visual Arts; Design and more, investing and believing in the learning through the sharing of knowledge and experiences that translates into a more real, consistent and mature evolution, be it physical, creative, mental, critical and reflective.

Oficina Zero – One Year programme, under the Artistic direction of Mafalda Deville, is designed for ambitious creative physical performers who wish to enhance their career and enroll in a program updated to the current field of Contemporary Dance. In this one-year journey, Oficina Zero programme wishes to nurture its selected performers with rich encounters, personalized training, fresh insights and diverse physical, artistic and intellectual input.