David Marques started dancing at the age of five with Helena Azevedo. He studied at Escola Superior de Dança, in Lisbon, and participated in the EXERCE program at Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, working on the theme Dance and Image, under the direction of Mathilde Monnier, with a grant by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He is currently attending the MA in Aesthetics and Artistic Studies – Art and Political Cultures at NOVA FCSH.
He began to develop his work as a choreographer with the support of EIRA, in Lisbon, which continued during the periods in which he lived in France and Israel. He has created pieces and collaborated with artists such as Ido Feder, Tiago Cadete, Teresa Silva and Diogo Brito in artistic projects with various media and platforms.
He choreographed the solos Motor de Busca, KIN and Dança Sem Vergonha, and the group pieces Ressaca, Mistério da Cultura and Teorias da Inspiração, co-produced by institutions such as Centro Cultural de Belém, Culturgest, Materiais Diversos Festival and Teatro do Bairro Alto (TBA).
His work has been shown has in Portugal, Spain (La Fundición), France (CCN Montpellier, Chorège Falaise), Israel (Tmuna Theatre, Jerusalem International Dance Week), Ukraine (Gogolfest), Brazil (SESC Consolação, SESC Sorocaba, Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto) ), Italy (Short Theater Festival) among others.
In his research, he deals with the multidimensionality of the relationships between attention, body and memory, as he looks for unexcepted relational spaces that challenge known temporalities. He was awarded the SPA Authors Prize for Choreography with the piece Mistério da Cultura.
Since 2014, he has collaborated regularly as a performer with the french choreographer Loïc Touzé (Fanfare, Forme Simple, Petit Trafic and Cabaret Brouillon) and also with authors such as David Wampach, Francisco Camacho, Filipa Francisco, Lucie Tuma, Raquel Castro, Tiago Guedes, Tiago Vieira and Emily Wardill. Marques accompanies projects by other choreographers as an external eye, namely Loïc Touzé, Madeleine Fournier, Rémy Héritier and Bruno Alexandre, and provides movement coaching for theater projects.
He regularly proposes laboratories as part of his projects for the stage and occasionally teaches at institutions such as Escola Superior de Dança – IPL, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Danslab Brussels. Between 2021 and 2023 he is working as a facilitator / curator within the scope of the Itinerários exchange program between artists and institutions from Portugal and Mozambique, an initiative of the EVC and the Camões Institute in Maputo.
David Marques belongs, since its foundation, in 2020, to the facilitating nucleus of Ação Cooperativista, an informal activist group that defends the rights of cultural professionals in Portugal.
He is the founder of PARCA cultural association.
