Marta Alves Silva, a former student of the Master's Degree in Culture Studies, received an honourable mention for her master's dissertation on “Emotional Contagion: The Transformative Potential of Performance Art”. This honourable mention was awarded as part of the Estudar a Dança Award, an initiative of the Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança (MNTD) and Museus e Monumentos de Portugal, sponsored by the Millenium bcp Foundation.

The jury of the award considered Marta Alves Silva's dissertation to be a “proposal for an original theoretical reflection on the inclusion of the audience in performance practice, through strategies of emotional stimulation that enhance collective creativity”.

At the time of the ceremony, Marta Alves Silva was in an artistic residence and could not be present in person, but accepted the Honorary Mention via videoconference.

The Estudar a Dança Award, which celebrates the MNTD's extraordinary collection, is intended to reward master's and doctoral academic work of exceptional quality that contributes to the knowledge of this Art, and stimulates the development of a disciplinary area that has been little cultivated in our country.

Congratulations, Marta!