As a theatre and performance maker, I work as playwright, dramaturg, director and actor, often forming the scenography in between these approaches.
My father was an actor and founder of teatro o bando, a theatre company in Lisbon. From a first practice with youth theatre, they experimented further with literature, site-specific performance, scenographic machinery, acting styles. My first experience is as a spectator and a close observer of these shows and of the processes of making them.
As a teenager, I grew up in Barreiro, a city which is part of the greater Lisbon, and, in 1998, i joined the theatre company Arteviva, where I first gained experience as an actor, experimented with directing plays, and gave my first theatre classes. In 2004, together with a multidisciplinary group of local artists and friends (specific names?), we initiated our own theatre group, Vigilâmbulo Caolho and, moving to Lisbon, I started collaborating with more theatre makers and groups as actor and director (specific names?). Between 2009-10 I developed two research projects about participation and performance, which led me to work with the theatre of the Oppressed in Mozambique, and to investigate the field of community art in the Netherlands. in 2010 I joined the DasArts program in Amsterdam and initiated an individual trajectory as artist researcher.
development of artistic topics
inhabiting the worlds of other makers, experimenting seeing from inside: craig, kantor, performance, saramago, gonçalo m tavares
participatory performance and community art
from representation to materilalisation: the materialisation of visualization through performance and participation
distributed agency, automated performance, and a renewed curiosity with staging literary texts
