Cláudia Dias

20th October 2021, at 18h30,
PALÁCIO GALVEIAS LIBRARY – LISBON
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to prior registration.

Cláudia Dias was born in Lisbon in 1972. She is a choreographer, performer and teacher. She began her dance training at the Academia Almadense, was awarded a scholarship at the Companhia de Dança de Lisboa, completed the Contemporary Dance Performers Training Course at Forum Dança, and attended the Master’s Degree in Performing Arts at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She began her work as a performer with the Almada Dance Group. She was a member of the collective Ninho de Víboras. She collaborated with Re.Al and was a central interpreter in João Fiadeiro’s creative strategy and in the development, systematisation and transmission of the Real-Time Composition Technique. She created the pieces Feedback, E.U. (entrevista-me urgentemente), Juntem-se 2 a 2, As águias não geram pombas, Per Ti, Histo, One Woman Show, Visita Guiada, Das coisas nascem coisas, Vontade de ter Vontade, 23 + 1 and Nem tudo o que dizem tem de ser feito nem tudo o que fazemos tem de ser dito. She was an associate artist at Re.Al and Espaço do Tempo and a resident artist at Alkantara. She has published texts in the magazines Boa União and Woman On Scene and in the books Correspondencias.Bad and Escenas do Cambio. Awarded by the Portuguese Arts and Ideas Club in the Young Creators competition, 1998. Nominated for the Best Choreography Award in 2013 and 2017 by the Portuguese Society of Authors. Since 2016 she has been developing the project Sete Anos Sete Peças (Seven Years, Seven Pieces), accumulating functions of direction, creation, interpretation and training. He created the association Sete Anos.

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