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Born in 1976. Living and working in Lisbon, Portugal.

Choreographer, performer, visual artist, art teacher and producer.

Holding a Post-Graduate degree in Communication Sciences – Contemporary Culture and New Technologies at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, he graduated in Education through Art and Stage and Costume Design at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema.

He has continuously participated in several workshops in contemporary dance (1995-2005) in Portugal and abroad.

Between 2000 and 2002 he was granted a scholarship in dance from Centro Nacional de Cultura.

Since 1997 he has been developing choreographical and visual arts projects, along with educational/training projects, which have been presented in Portugal, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, France, Belgium, United Arab Emirates and Brazil.

As a dancer, he has worked with Amalgama Dance Company (Portugal, 2002), with the choreographer Lynda Gaudreau (France, 2004) and with the choreographer Christian Rizzo (Lisbon, 2005) developing an artistic research project. In theater, he was worked with Luis Castro (Karnart/National Theatre), as a performer and as movement assistant.

He has also taught in the domain of Contemporary Dance and Education through Art in several artistic institutions and universities. He is Artistic Director, Resident Choreographer and Teacher at PLURAL| Inclusive Dance Company of the LPDM – Social Resources Center. Presently, he supervises the workshop on Contemporary Dance for seniors at EIRA 33, which he has been coordinating since 2001 in several institutions (Centro Cultural de Belém, Fórum Dança, Rede Comum).

Recently he was involved in “COLABORAtÓRIO”, an international collaboration project involving several choreographers from Europe and South America, developed in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Fortaleza, Brazil (co-production: Festival Panorama/BZ, Artsadmin/UK, Alkantara/PT) co-creating and performing the group piece “Carmen Miranda is dead” in Brazil.

He presented the solo work “Private Collection”, which follows the solo “Last Call”, both part of a trilogy about Identity, Objects, Travels and Love relations concluded with the group piece "Long Distance Call" recently presented in Frankfurt (co-production: PLATEAUX Festival/Mousonturm and Festival Temps d'Images).

His last solo piece "Fatigues" result of 3 residencies developed between 2007 and 2009 in Paris, Brussels and Lisbon will be premièred in May (co-production: CDCE, Núcleo de Criação do Dirceu and Eira).

He is associated artist of EIRA (Production Company).

CONTEMPORARY DANCE

PRESENTATIONS CHOREOGRAPHIC PROJECTS

2009 #

LONG DISTANCE CALL, Plateaux Festival, Mousunturm Kunstlerhaus, Frankfurt;

FATIGUES, Residence+informal presentation, LES BAINS CONNECTIVE, Brussels;

2008 #

LAST CALL, European Dance Platform, Mousunturm Kunstlerhaus, Frankfurt;

2007 #

SÜSS, co-op with Sílvia Pinto Coelho, Teatro da Politécnica, Lisbon;

SÜSS, co-op with Sílvia Pinto Coelho, AUSLAND, Berlin;

LAST CALL, IDEE, International Dance Platform, Faro;

PRIVATE COLLECTION, Festival CITEMOR, Montemor-o-Velho e NEGÓCIO, Lisbon; [support Institute of Arts/Portuguese Ministry of Culture]

LAST CALL Festival CITEMOR, Montemor-o-Velho e NEGÓCIO, Lisbon;

Cármen Miranda is dead, co-op: Luís Guerra, Ioana Popovici, Francisca Sazie; Colaboratório, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;

2006 #

LAST CALL, LA MEKANICA, Barcelona ;

2005 #

LAST CALL, NÚMERO FESTIVAL 2005 – 6º Festival Internacional de Multimédia, Filme e Música de Lisbon,Teatro Taborda;

LAST CALL, work in progress, Galeria Zé dos Bois

DUST, Teatro del Fiume, Boretto, Italy

Blu Bob, with Massimo Biacchi, Teatro del Fiume, Boretto, Italy

2004 #

Exercício para colar de diamantes, Festival Ile Danse, Ajaccio – Córsega, France

EU-Dance, Festival EU-Dance (org. PLURA/LPDM.CRS), Centro Cultural de Belém;

2003 #

Exercício para colar de diamantes, Biennale Nationale de Danse du Val-de-Marne, Les Plateaux, Créteil, France ;

Natura dei Teatri - Bellezza e Paura, Teatro Comunale, Fontanellato, Parma, Italy;

1ª Mostra de Coreógrafos Portugueses, (Ministério da Cultura/IA), Teatro Nacional D. Maria II;

2002 #

Tø, video, Festival d´Avignon (através da Biennale Nat. de Danse du Val-de-Marne), France;

Mostra Nacional de Jovens Criadores, CPAI, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Coimbra;

Body Walk, Body Talk, III Número Festival, Fórum Lisbon;

Match Nulo, Festival Internacional Danças na Cidade, Centro Cultural de Belém (co-produção Danças na Cidade);

Exercício para colar de diamantes, Para a Mónica, Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon;

TransEuropeHalles, Spring Meeting, Lugar Comum, Fábrica da Pólvora de Barcarena;

2001 #

Tø, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon;

Biennale Nat. De Danse du Val de Marne, Les Plateaux, Créteil, France ;

Bosque, Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon (supported by IPAE/Ministério da Cultura);

Projecto Contact´Art /Plural-Núcleo de Dança Contemporânea- org.: LPDM.CRS “Em três tempos” - (partners: Escola Superior Dança, CandoCo Dance Company, Vi-Kap/Haias Bolonha), Stratford Circus, Londres; Teatri di Vita, Bolonha; Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém;

2000 #

Ar.Condicionado, Cartographies Portugaises, CDC, Toulouse, France;

Festival de Danse Contemporaine, Halle aux Grains, Blois, France;

Triangle de la Danse, Rennes, France;

Festival Nouvelles, Pôle Sud, Strasbourg, France;

Biennale Nationale de Danse du Val de Marne, L´Hay les Roses, France;

Biennale Nationale de Danse du Val de Marne, Champigny, France;

Safe Concert, Lugar à Dança, Festival de Dança em Paisagens Urbanas, Centro Cultural de Belém;

Safe Concert e A Lover´s Complaint, CEM Autor, Teatro da Trindade, Lisbon;

Self-service, Mudanças 2000 / CAM Acarte, Centro Cultural de Belém;

1999 #

Ar.Condicionado, Biennale Nationale de Danse du Val de Marne, Créteil,France;

Festival d´Annemassez Dansez, Thêatre de l´Usine, Genéve, Switzerland;

Festival Tanztendenzen, Siemens kulturprogramm, Greifswald, Germany;

Game Over, Universidade da Beira Interior, AEUBI, Covilhã;

Spell-SPELL, Semana da Juventude, CML, Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon;

Galeria Bulhosa Livreiros, Lisbon;

Self-service, Festival Danças na Cidade, Teatro Taborda, Lisbon (supported by IPAE/Ministério da Cultura);

1998 #

Ar.Condicionado, XV Marató de l´Spectacle, Barcelona, Espanha;

Semana da Juventude, CML, Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon;

Mostra Nacional de Jovens Criadores, CPAI, Aveiro;

Intra.Venoso, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon (supported by IPAE/Ministério da Cultura);

1997 #

Go rest my love, I close the doors (withPedro Valdez Cardoso), Semana da Juventude, CML, Teatro Taborda, Lisbon;

VISUAL ARTS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004 #

Under, Casa dos Dias da Água, Lisboa (supported by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian)

2002 #

Operation/1PVC2RA3Q/Falling with Pedro Valdez Cardoso, Quadrum Gallery Lisboa (curated by António Cerveira Pinto);

2001 #

Livros de Cabeceira e Polaroids, Café-Galeria Valentim, Valentim de Carvalho, Chiado; Lisbon

GRUOP EXHBITIONS

2004 #

Euroland, Centro de Artes Visuais de Coimbra (curated by Miguel Amado, Pedro Valdez Cardoso e Maria Lusitano);

2002 #

Falling, Manège Central Ehxibition Hall, IV Internacional Festival Experiments & Performance, S. Petersburgh, Russia (curated by Larissa Skobkina / supported by GRI);

Condutas Privadas, Artemosferas, Porto;

My Own Private Lisboa, III Número Festival, Fórum Lisboa, Lisbon (curated by Diniz Guarda);

Pavilhão 21 C, Hospital Júlio de Matos, Lisbon;

Falling, Mostra Nacional de Jovens Criadores, CPAI, Coimbra;

2001 #

No more perfection, Lugar Comum, Fábrica da Pólvora de Barcarena, Oeiras.

2000 #

Conspiração Internacional, Galeria 30 Dias, Caldas da Rainha.