Francisca Pinto was born in Lisbon in 1988. She is a dancer, performer, and creator, a curious being, and a practitioner of the body and the imagination. She received her dance education at Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional, graduated in dance from Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa, and attended the Communication Sciences — Communication and the Arts master’s program at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has worked with Martine Pisani, Clara Andermatt, Lia Rodrigues, Jonas&Lander, Bruno Alexandre, Sofia Dias&Vítor Roriz, Catarina Miranda, Dani Lima, and Tânia Carvalho, among others. In 2025/2016, she collaborated as a performer and assistant with Lia Rodrigues and her company, Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças, in the piece Para que o Céu não caia. In this period, she also worked as a dance teacher as part of the Núcleo 2 project, at Escola Livre de Dança da Maré, in Rio de Janeiro. She teaches contemporary dance, performance, and a Performing Arts Workshop module to children, young people, and adults as a guest teacher at various schools and institutions, such as Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa, Estúdios Victor Córdon, and Escola Livre de Dança da Maré. She practices yoga since 2010, and she did a yoga teacher training course at CPYOGA, in Lisbon. She also practices kung fu, embroidery, forró, vegetarian cooking, and drawing, among other activities. In 2014, she attended modules 3 and 4 of Forum Dança’s Program for Study, Research and Choreographic Creation (PEPCC), in Lisbon, under the direction of Patrícia Portela and Lia Rodrigues. In 2020, she premiered her solo Querer para ver, as part of Forum Dança’s Cartografias program. She joined the collective um cavalo disse mamãe in 2022 and two co-creations ensued, namely Também se matam cavalos e Quando eu morrer, me enterrem na floresta, both presented for the first time in 2023 at Transborda Festival, in Almada.
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