Carlota Lagido

December 4, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.
Forum Dança • Espaço da Penha • Lisbon

Carlota Lagido

Dancer, choreographer, costume designer, and visual artist. She is a designer of birds and other natural subjects. She studied drawing at the New York Academy of Arts. She has a postgraduate degree in Stage Design (costumes) from IPL – Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. She attends the Nature Drawing and Scientific Illustration Course at MHN in Lisbon, with Pedro Salgado. She studied classical and modern dance at the Gulbenkian Ballet Professional School and in New York at the Peridance School.

She danced with Meg Stuart, Francisco Camacho, Rui Horta, and Joana Providência. Her work as a choreographer has transdisciplinary characteristics, combining drawing and video with performance practice. Her notable works include notforgetnotforgive (1999-2025), Monster (2009), The importance of nothing (2012), Ro.Ger (2014), 50 Toneladas (2015), Jungle Red (2018), MINA (2020/2021), Mina, song of myself (2022), Silvestre (2022), and Atlas (2024), projects supported by Dgartes and GDA. She curates the cycle of exhibitions of dancers and performers who draw – Brain, eyes, hands, and paper at Estudios Victor Cordon/Opart, in Lisbon.

She has been a costume designer for dance, theater, and cinema since 1988. She has collaborated with Francisco Camacho, Tiago Cadete, Albano Jerónimo, Francisca Manuel, Clara Andermatt, Vera Mantero, Companhia da Chanca, Paulo Ribeiro, Nuno M Cardoso, Aldara Bizarro, Lúcia Sigalho, Rita Vilhena, Bruno Senune, Yael Karavan, Amélia Bentes, Francisca Manuel, Jo Castro, Maurícia Barreira Neves, Rui Catalão, Teresa Coutinho, Carlos Pessoa/Teatro da Garagem, and Marco António Rodrigues/Teatrão, Teatro Mosca. She programmed artistic activities at the Eira space in Lisbon between 2003 and 2011, including training courses, residencies, and public presentations. In 2022, he founded O Lugar do Meio, a cultural and environmental association in Alfafar.