Victor Hugo Pontes

June 6, 2025, 18h30
Biblioteca Palácio Galveias • Lisbon

Free entry, subject to capacity.

Victor Hugo Pontes, teacher, director, set designer and best known as a choreographer, was born in 1978 in Guimarães and lives in Porto. His work reflects his multidisciplinary training in fine arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and in theater at the Balleteatro Professional School, complemented by further training in dance, in the Research and Choreographic Creation course at Fórum Dança. His work has been widely presented in Portugal, at theaters such as the Teatro Nacional São João, Teatro Municipal do Porto – Rivoli, Centro Cultural de Belém, and internationally in countries such as Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Russia.

He was nominated for the SPA Awards in the category of Dance – Best Choreography, with the shows A Ballet Story and Os Três Irmãos and, in 2019, he won in this category with the show Margem. He was part of the DanceWeb 2017 program at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna, with a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Since 2009, he has been artistic director of Nome Próprio, which he founded in 2000.