Cristina
Planas Leitão

18 January 2024, at 18h30
Camões Library – Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to registration.

Choreographer, performing arts programmer and teacher. She is co-artistic director of Ágora’s Performing Arts Department (Teatro Municipal do Porto, DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva), having taken over as interim artistic director in July 2022, and the performing arts programme, under the artistic direction of Tiago Guedes, since 2019. In 2011, she was one of the initiators of the desNORTE meetings (2011-2017) and was a member of the Braga’27 consultancy group.

Her aggregative curatorial practice focuses on the development of sustainable creative formats, new narratives and caring relationships in the performing arts. She approaches her choreographic work as an act of resistance and affection, researching themes connected to social and political movements, and their relationship to the performing body in the intimacy of the theatre. She created The very delicious piece and The Very Boring Piece, with Jasmina Krizaj, bear me, FM [featuring mortuum] and UM [unimal], chosen as one of the best pieces in 2018 by JN and Expresso. In 2023 he premieres [O SISTEMA] in a co-production with 23 Milhas, TM Faro and TAGV.

Her work is documented in the RTP2 series Portugal que Dança. She has a degree in contemporary dance from ArtEZ, where she is a mentor and regular teacher. She teaches internationally, using a somatic and unconventional approach.

Photo © José Caldeira