The Teatro São Luiz, in Lisbon, honors, on the 28th, the former artistic director of the theater Jorge Salavisa, on the day of the sixth anniversary of his death, considering him “a larger figure of contemporary artistic creation”, today announced that room.
21/09/2026
by
Lusa
Teatro São Luiz
A evocation “part of a deep recognition, of a felt will of the team of São Luiz, to honor the one who was its first director and the great responsible for the current model of operation and identity of the theater”, according to the statement of the institution, about an initiative with free entry whose tickets are available on the same day at the theater ticket office.
São Luiz also remembers that Jorge Salavisa was the artistic director of the Ballet Gulbenkian and the Companhia Nacional de Bailado (CNB), as well as that Lisbon theater, where “he left a deep mark in Portuguese culture, distinguishing himself by his vision, sensitivity and permanent commitment to artistic excellence”.
For São Luiz, Jorge Salavisa’s legacy “continues alive on stage, in the artists he inspired and in the memory of all those who learned to dance life with him”.
The tribute to Salavisa includes the descent of an evocative plaque, in the room Bernardo Sassetti, “which will permanently mark its passage through the São Luiz Theatre”, followed by interventions by the president of the Lisbon City Hall, Carlos Coins, the artistic director of S. Luiz, Miguel Loureiro, and family members.
The tribute will end with the exhibition, at 19:30, of the documentary “Jorge Salavisa – Keep Going”, by Marco Martins, from an idea by Luísa Taveira and Miguel Honorado, with production by Maria & Mayer.
Dancer and choreographer Jorge Salavisa died on September 28, 2020 at home in Lisbon, a victim of illness. I was 81 years old.
Born in Lisbon in 1939, Jorge Salavisa began his dance studies with Ana Máscolo and continued his artistic training in Paris, with Victor Gsovsky and Lubov Egorova, joining the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas, where he remained until the extinction of this company in June 1962.
Between 1977 and 1996 he was director of the Gulbenkian Ballet, a company that ended up extinct in 2005.
In 1998, he took charge of CNB, remaining in office until 2001. Jorge Salavisa also presided over the Artistic Production Organization, managing entity of the National Theatre of São Carlos and CNB, between May 2010 and January 2011.
Throughout his career, Jorge Salavisa worked with renowned dancers and choreographers such as Bronislava Nijinska, Robert Helpmann, Daniel Seillier, Nicholas Beriosoff, Maria Fay, Roland Petit, Mary Skeaping, John Taras, among others.