About
Meet Our Directors
"We believe that the daily exercise of conquering individual freedom is concomitant with increasing the freedom of what surrounds us. This is the binomial that delimits and defines the quality and ambition of what we are and what we desire: that others may become increasingly free."
Meet Our Staff
Ademir Emboava
Assist. do Diretor Artístico & Ator
Edu Meira
Video & Editor
Irene Gaspar
Financial Manager
Janice Mayomona
Production
Leo Emilio
Actor & Technical Production
Miguel Durão Hilário
Digital
Natacha Ventura
Executive Assistant
Ramadane Matusse
Assist. do Diretor Artístico & Ator
Our Mission
CJGM, founded in 2002, is a contemporary creation company that researches artistic and creative development in performing arts, explored through theater. Its mission is to investigate the search for what it means to be human in each of us as individuals, and it is based on three structural axes: creation, publishing, and training including audience engagement.
These structural axes around which we move stand out for the importance of what they produce in interaction within the society we live in, contributing to the growth and improvement of individuals in the search for a project of humanity, shared through investment in creativity based on difference and the capacity to change the worlds we live in.
Our History & Reach
In an effort to disseminate our content, we make available records of our creations; original series and training programs. In Europe, it presents shows in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Romania. CJGM develops extensive work with Portuguese-speaking countries: Brazil - Assiduous presence of Brazilian artists in its resident cast in Portugal or in residence; and shows in São Paulo, as well as conducting training actions and masterclasses.
In 2023, it received support from IBERESCENA for the play "História do Coco" (History of Coconut) which in its evaluation emphasizes the importance that the project gives to oral tradition and aims to illustrate the passage from the observation of nature to formats of human behavior, overvaluing the relationship between the feminine and nature and its passage to the cycles of consciousness that transport us to the beginning of Theater.
Partnerships & Collaboration
It is in the context of this project that the partnership between CJGM and Palipalan Arte e Cultura is formalized. Angola and Mozambique, particularly with their artistic communities, marking their presence annually both in international theater and dance festivals, and receiving young people on internships in Portugal. Presence at conferences such as the Pan-African Creative Exchange in 2022, as well as the establishment of various partnerships including The Market, in South Africa.
It is a founding member of Ass. Descampado, which brings together a wide range of performing arts companies scattered throughout the national territory with the aim of establishing artistic relationships that reduce the impact of the interior in access to artistic production. In the field of accessibility, it is part of the national working group "Diversity, Accessibility, and Inclusion" promoted by Performart, Association of Performing Arts.
Structure & Ethos
CJGM is a structure continuously funded by the Government of Portugal; SEC; DGARTES under the Sustained Support Program, since 2002. New productions are the materialization of the company's desire and expression of will to meet others through art. The diversity of methods and approaches we use in creative processes promote journeys to interiority, emotional and corporeal, to places where the human and inhuman intersect.
CJGM also holds an editorial line focused on the publication of dramaturgical texts and documentary records with about 10 titles published. With an internal structure of 11 people on a permanent basis, as well as an extensive network of professionals, it is headquartered in Torres Vedras, at Espaço Arenes, a renovated industrial space, which offers a performance hall, various studios, classrooms as well as a residence space.