Dance festival — Parauapebas, Pará
Dança Carajás Festival.
A cultural platform created to strengthen dance in Amazônia, connect artists, promote training and expand circulation paths from South and Southeast Pará.
Inaugural edition carried out in 2023
Project origin
A dance platform created from the territory.
Dança Carajás Festival was created in 2022 with the mission of strengthening dance in Amazônia, valuing artists from South and Southeast Pará and creating connections with other territories and cultural circuits.
The project was structured by JA Produções Artísticas to integrate competitive showcase, technical training, specialized evaluation, circulation, communication, accessibility and institutional articulation.
Its inaugural edition was held in 2023 at Centro Cultural Parauapebas, consolidating a technical and operational base for developing new projects and connections.
- 2022Conception and structuring
- 2023Inaugural edition completed
- A stage to present.
- A space for training.
- A structure to connect.
- A base to continue.
Inaugural edition
The first cycle carried out in Parauapebas.
The inaugural edition was held at Centro Cultural Parauapebas and brought together artists, groups, choreographers, professionals and audiences in competitive and formative programming.
The edition established the festival’s curatorial, technical and institutional base and demonstrated JA Produções’ capacity to organize a multi-front cultural operation.
- Location
- Centro Cultural Parauapebas
Parauapebas, Pará - Year
- 2023
- Duration
- Three days of programming, according to the report confirmed in Institutional Portfolio 2026
- Venue capacity
- 200 spectators per session — physical capacity of the venue, not cumulative total audience
- States represented
- Pará, Piauí and Rio de Janeiro, according to Institutional Portfolio 2026
- Status
- Edition delivered
Promotional dates from September 21 to 24 appear in a piece reproduced in the portfolio; the page uses “three days of programming” as the confirmed official figure, without inferring four days of artistic programming.
Edition in numbers
Indicators of the inaugural edition.
Figures from the 2023 edition according to definitions recorded in Institutional Portfolio 2026 and the site’s approved institutional pages.
- 30registered groups
- 386accredited participants
- 248choreographies presented
- 3days of programming
- 200spectators per session
- 3states represented
Indicators use the definitions recorded in the 2023 edition documents. Accredited participants are not spectators; capacity per session is not cumulative audience.
Integrated programming
Competition, training and gathering in a single structure.
The festival was not conceived only as a sequence of presentations. The inaugural edition integrated artistic, formative, evaluative and dissemination dimensions.
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Competitive showcase
Presentation of choreographies and groups in categories or modalities provided in the edition’s official regulation.
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Specialized evaluation
Analysis by invited professionals, following criteria provided in the regulation.
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Training
Workshops, lectures and activities aimed at technical, artistic or professional development.
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Exchange
Encounter among groups, artists, teachers, choreographers and distinct territories.
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Broadcast
Live broadcast of the programming, according to records of the inaugural edition.
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Audience experience
Reception, programming, guidance, accessibility and relation to the cultural space.
Categories, modalities, names of jurors and teachers, and specific workshop titles are not listed here because the detailed official regulation and programming are not available for publication on this site.
Interstate reach
A territorial edition with participation from different states.
Beyond artists and groups from Pará, the inaugural edition received representatives from Piauí and Rio de Janeiro, expanding exchange and the festival’s presence in different contexts of Brazilian dance.
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Pará
Territorial base and main context for delivering the inaugural edition.
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Piauí
Interstate participation confirmed according to Institutional Portfolio 2026.
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Rio de Janeiro
Interstate participation confirmed according to Institutional Portfolio 2026.
A number of groups or artists by state, or broad national representation, is not claimed without specific documentation in the available public sources.
Institutional structure
A cultural project approved, funded, executed and documented.
The inaugural edition was made possible by a federal incentive mechanism and institutional sponsorship, requiring planning, budget, governance, execution and documentary organization.
- ApprovalSelection and framing under the federal mechanism
- FundraisingInstitutional sponsorship secured
- ExecutionMulti-front cultural operation
- AccountabilityDocumentation submitted to the competent authorities
- Project
- Dança Carajás Festival — 2023 edition
- PRONAC
- 221947
- Mechanism
- Federal Cultural Incentive Law — Lei Rouanet
- Classification
- 1st place in the selection process, according to the document presented in the portfolio
- Sponsorship
- Banco da Amazônia
- Amount raised
- R$ 250.000,00
Execution and accountability
- Project executed according to the approved scope, according to documentation available in the institutional portfolio.
- Accountability report submitted to Banco da Amazônia.
- Accountability report submitted to the Ministry of Culture.
- Compliance with the mechanism’s requirements, as reported in Institutional Portfolio 2026.
Homologation without caveats or final approval of accountability beyond what the portfolio records as presentation and reported compliance is not claimed.
Accessibility in execution
Cultural participation requires conditions of access.
The inaugural edition recorded accessibility resources in the festival operation. The page describes only what is documented in the portfolio and approved institutional pages.
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Monitoring
Support for guidance and circulation of participants and audiences during operations.
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Brazilian Sign Language
Interpretation provided according to the programming and the official record of the edition.
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Adapted space
Use of a space with physical accessibility resources, as reported in the project.
Full accessibility, universal audio description or total compliance with all standards are not claimed without specific audit of the edition documents.
Nutrindo Corações
Culture and community mobilization.
The inaugural edition integrated a solidarity campaign into the festival structure, connecting cultural participation and community responsibility.
609cans of powdered milk collected
Next activation goal
1,200 cans of milk. Future goal, not yet achieved.
Operations and memory
The edition also generated knowledge, data and content.
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Technology and processes
Hands-on festival experience helped identify challenges related to registrations, participants, evaluations, communication and data organization. Operational experience contributed to the development of festON.
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Communication and broadcast
Programming involved communication of registrations, activities, schedules, results and live streaming. Digital reach metrics for the edition’s specific campaign are not published without a dedicated source.
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Documentation and memory
Photographs, videos, documents and results formed an institutional base for communication, documentation and continuity.
From the festival to new circuits
The inaugural edition strengthened new paths of action.
The developments below describe documented contributions and connections. Not all paths were caused exclusively by the festival.
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MICA
The festival’s trajectory contributed to presenting and inserting JA’s work in an international creative-market environment.
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MICBR
Participation in a national creative-economy market and expansion of institutional relations.
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Internationalization
Connections built contributed to later exchange and circulation actions.
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Audiovisual
The later international experience generated documentary production and audiovisual dissemination. The documentary records the international exchange, not the festival’s 2023 edition.
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Technology
The festival’s operational challenges contributed to the development of festON.
Sector recognition
Public validation of cultural work.
Best Dance Festival of the Carajás Region
Project continuity
One edition completed and new cycles dependent on structure.
Current status
The inaugural edition remains the completed cycle. New editions depend on institutional and financial feasibility.
The festival was conceived for continuity and structured as a cultural platform for new cycles. There is no public documentation on this site of an edition after 2023, a new PRONAC, active fundraising, a confirmed sponsor, venue, or official dates for a next edition.
Older forecasts of a 2025 return and future audience estimates are not kept on this page, as they are temporally outdated.
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Conditional activation
EcoPassos
Environmental initiative structured and conditioned on a new cycle — not carried out.
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Conditional activation
Mercado em Movimento
Creative economy proposal articulated for a new cycle — not carried out.
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Conditional activation
Movimento e Carreira
Formative proposal articulated — not carried out as an executed program.
Edition memory
Records of the inaugural edition.
The edition generated photographs, videos, and institutional documents. This page publishes only web-ready assets available on this site.
There are currently no web-ready photographs of the 2023 edition in assets/img/ or assets/img/projetos/. The visual gallery will be incorporated when authorized records are converted and credited. Portfolio 2026 prints and artificial images are not used.
- PerformancesStage records pending ingestion
- TrainingWorkshops and educational activities
- Audience and accessibilityOperations and participation
- Social campaignNutrindo Corações — authorized records
- Behind the scenes and teamProduction and technical structure
- RecognitionRecord of the Artists’ Ball, if authorized
Delivery and cooperation
Institutions that took part in making the inaugural edition possible.
Proven links related to the 2023 cycle. Market, exchange or later-cycle partners are not mixed into this network.
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Delivery
JA Produções Artísticas
Conception, production and execution of the inaugural edition.
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Sponsorship
Banco da Amazônia
Sponsorship of the 2023 edition through an incentive mechanism.
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Mechanism
Federal Cultural Incentive Law
Lei Rouanet — PRONAC 221947.
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Social destination
Parauapebas CTA
Institutional recipient of the 609 cans collected by Nutrindo Corações.
Sponsorship and cooperation
Explore the structure and possible paths for cooperation.
The festival engages with institutions interested in culture, training, accessibility, circulation, technology and territorial development. Every cooperation must consider the current stage of the project, available mechanisms and each organization’s responsibilities.