Teresa Silva (Lisbon, 1988) is a portuguese artist, dedicated to research, creation and interpretation in contemporary dance and performance. She sees dance as something that exceeds the physical body, which translates into a work on attention and sensitivity, as well as into a multidisciplinary approach to movement.<\/p>\n
Graduated from the National Conservatory Dance School, the Lisbon Polythecnic\u2019s Higher School of Dance and the Choreographic Creation, Dance Research and Training Programme at Forum Dan\u00e7a, she has been developing choreographic work intimately marked by collaborative processes since 2008.<\/p>\n
Her projects include Due to Force Majeure (2023); A small composition exercise (2023) co-created with vera Mantero; Synecdoche (2022); the investigation project Enjoy the weather (2021); Oracle (2020) created in collaboration with Sara Anjo; the co-creations with Filipe Pereira, Letting Nature take over us again (2013), What remains of what has passed (2013) and New Creation (2017), piece selected to Aerowaves Priority Company 2019; Conquest (2011) a solo adaptation of a Deborah Hay choreography; Leva a m\u00e3o que eu levo o bra\u00e7o (2010) and Um Espanto n\u00e3o se Espera both (2011), both created in collaboration with Elizabete Francisca, both winners of the National Contest Jovens Criadores; A vida enorme\/La vie en or co-created (2009) with Maria Lemos; and the solo Ocooo (2008).<\/p>\n
In 2022 she create her first film, “Enjoy the weather: the film”, screened at the FID – Festival International de Cin\u00e9ma de Marseille. As a performer and co-creator, she has worked with artists and choreographers such as La Tierce in Construire un feu; Kristina Norman in Orchidelirium – An appetite for Abundance, a film triology created to La Biennale di Venezia 2022; Alain Michard in En Danseuse and L’Aurore, Vera Mantero in O susto \u00e9 um mundo, S\u00f3nia Baptista in The Anger! The Fury!, David Marques in Mist\u00e9rio da Cultura and Ressaca, Marco d\u2019Agostin in Avalanche, Lo\u00efc Touz\u00e9 in Forme Simple, Fanfare and \u00d4 Montagne, Marlene Monteiro Freitas in Bacantes – Prelude to a purge (replacement), Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard in For Claude Shannon, Rita Nat\u00e1lio in Museu Encantador, Tiago Guedes in Hoje, Lu\u00eds Guerra in Nevoeiro, T\u00e2nia Carvalho in Icosahedron and Sofia Dias & V\u00edtor Roriz in O mesmo mas ligeiramente diferente.<\/p>\n
Since 2019, she has been developing the laboratories “Can the body be an oracle?” with Sara Anjo and “States of attention and care through the performative practice”. In these, she highlights the way in which bodywork, along with movement and dance, constitutes a fundamental terrain of knowledge for being in the world today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1814,"template":"","class_list":["post-1878","artistas","type-artistas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n