António Pinto Ribeiro

15th July 2021, 6.30pm, Alcântara Library
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to prior registration.

António Pinto Ribeiro
With a degree in Philosophy and a PhD in Cultural Studies, his professional activity is divided between cultural programming and research. He began his essay work in the area of the ‘Arts of the Body’ at the Escola Superior de Dança, followed by his role as programme assistant at ACARTE. He was a dance critic for Expresso, a contributor to Forum Dança and was, since its foundation, the artistic director of Culturgest (1993-2004) and director of programmes at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2004-2015), including the Gulbenkian Next Future Programme dedicated to the arts and cultures of the global south. The curator responsible for several international exhibitions, he was also the commissioner-general of ‘Lisbon Ibero-American Capital of Culture 2017’. He is currently a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, as part of the ERC project ‘MEMOIRS – Children of Empire and European Post-Memories’ and is an international programmer. He has published dozens of articles and sixteen books, including: ‘Dance in the age of cinema’, ‘Temporary contemporary dance’, ‘History of dance in Portugal’ (with José Sasportes), ‘Body to Body, possibilities and limits of criticism’. His latest publication is entitled ‘Peut-on Décolonizer les musées?’ (2019).