Gaya de Medeiros

Artists

Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1990.

DANCER AND DIRECTOR

Gaya de Medeiros is a dancer, actress, director and producer. She studied Animated Film at UFMG/BR, classical ballet, contemporary dance, theater and dramaturgy. She also studied physical theater and butoh with Denise Stoklos, Tadashi Endo, Roberta Carrieri, Cie Dos a Deux, among others. Gaya worked for 9 years as a dancer and co-creator at the Palácio das Artes Dance Company (2010-2019). She was movement director for the theater shows Ciclos (2018), Kolakeia (2022) and for the short film Ouro Preto (2018), awarded at the Reel Sisters Film Festival/NY.

In Portugal she has worked as a dancer/creator with Gustavo Ciríaco in Em deriva (2021), Tiago Cadete in Brasa (2021), Sónia Baptista in WOW (2022), Victor Hugo Pontes in Corpo Clandestino (2022) and Olga Roriz in A hora em que não sabíamos nada dos uns outros (2023). In theater, she has collaborated with Alex Cassal in Biblioteca do Fim do Mundo (2022) and with Daniel Gorjão in Tudo sobre a minha mãe (2023). In cinema, she starred in the short film Um Caroço de Abacate, directed by Ary Zara, in which she co-starred with Ivo Canelas. The short was awarded prizes at prestigious festivals around the world. In 2021 she created ATLAS da BOCA, in co-production with Olga Roriz Companhia de Dança and Espaço Alkantara, distinguished by the Expresso newspaper as one of the best shows of 2021 and included in the program of Aerowaves 2023 (Dublin). She also created BAqUE, in co-production with Espaço do Tempo, TBA and CCVF. In 2023, she brought to DDD the avant premiere of Pai para Jantar, which premiered in November at the Alkantara Festival. She also founded BRABA, a platform that seeks to support, enable and finance initiatives aimed at the trans/non-binary community.

In 2023, she was one of the choreographers invited to take part in the Young Composers program at the EVC.

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