{"id":36957,"date":"2026-10-27T08:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/?p=36957"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:37:23","slug":"benvindo-fonseca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/benvindo-fonseca\/","title":{"rendered":"Benvindo Fonseca"},"content":{"rendered":"

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November 4, 2026, at 6:30 p.m.
\nBiblioteca Cam\u00f5es \u2022 Lisbon<\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text css=””]Benvindo Fonseca<\/strong><\/p>\n

Benvindo Fonseca, born in Mozambique in 1964, is a renowned dancer and choreographer. After studying at the National Conservatoire in Lisbon, he became a principal dancer with Ballet Gulbenkian. He studied at the National Conservatoire in Lisbon and at the Gulbenkian Foundation School, and continued his training in New York, London and Paris.<\/p>\n

A soloist with Companhia de Dan\u00e7a de Lisboa and Ballet Gulbenkian, where he became a principal dancer, he worked with leading figures such as Mats Ek, Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n, Hans Van Manen, Ohad Naharin, Itzik Galili, Vasco Wellenkamp, Olga Roriz, Paul Taylor, Christopher Bruce and Nacho Duato, among others. He co-founded Ballet Contempor\u00e2neo de Lisboa, serving as its Artistic Director and Choreographer.<\/p>\n

As a choreographer, he has created works for Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Teatro O Bando, Teatro Experimental do Porto, Ballet Gulbenkian, Companhia de Bailado Contempor\u00e2neo, the dance companies of Almada and \u00c9vora, the National Conservatoire, the Lisbon School of Dance, Academia de Bailado Cl\u00e1ssico Pirmin Treku, Stadttheater Hildesheim (Germany), the Berlin State Opera and Compa\u00f1\u00eda \u00darsula L\u00f3pez (Spain).<\/p>\n

Highlights of his multifaceted career include the solo dance piece “A Dan\u00e7a \u00c1rabe\u201d, set to Tchaikovsky and performed with Maria Jo\u00e3o Pires on piano; a pas de deux for \u201cPovo que Lavas no Rio\u201d, performed live in the presence of fado singer Am\u00e1lia Rodrigues; and the choreography for the ballet Dawn of an Announced End, accompanied by Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 2, performed live by the Musiktheater im Revier Symphony Orchestra in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.<\/p>\n

His choreographic works have been performed in Spain, Italy, Germany, the United States, Cuba, Brazil, Greece, Poland, Argentina, the Dominican Republic and Mexico.<\/p>\n

A multiple award-winning artist, he has received the \u201cJovens na Criatividade\u201d distinction, awarded by the United Nations, the Primo Canto \u2013 Cultural Association Career Award, the J\u00falio C\u00e9sar Andrino Career Award, as well as awards from the Oeiras City Council and RDP \u00c1frica, among many others. He was honoured at the Gala de Estrellas in the Dominican Republic and, in 2017, participated as a guest teacher in the 2nd Dance N\u2019Arts Winter Course.<\/p>\n

In 2026, he took on the role of Artistic Director of the RAMPA project in Coimbra. He is currently developing choreographic work as part of the MODUS project in Braga.<\/p>\n

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Lecture \u201cMy History of Dance,\u201d by Benvindo Fonseca, November 4, 2026 in Lisbon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":36958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,7,327,299,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","category-agenda-en","category-documentation","category-history","category-amhd-cdoc-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36959,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36957\/revisions\/36959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}