Marco da Silva Ferreira graduated in physiotherapy from Instituto Piaget, in Gaia (2010). Started body practices in 1996 through sports - in particular, high-performance swimming. In 2002, he stopped swimming to give way to performing arts practices. His trajectory occurred in a self-taught way, crossing dance styles that emerged in an urban context. Between 2002 and 2010, the focus and lexicons of dance became more and more diversified and closer to contemporary improvisation and composition tools. And, in 2010, he won the television contest So You Think You Can Dance Portugal.
Working as a professional artist since 2008, he has danced with André Mesquita, Hofesh Shechter, Sylvia Rijmer, Tiago Guedes, Victor Hugo Pontes and Paulo Ribeiro, among others. As a choreographer, he highlights his work Hu(r)mano (2013), created in the context of the Aerowaves Priority Companies program (2015) and presented in the national and international circuit until 2018. In Brother(2016) he solidified an authorial discourse on dance and its meaning today, making connections with ancestral references and establishing a link with the contemporary body. The show premiered at Teatro Municipal do Porto-Rivoli and has toured extensively internationally and nationally, and was also part of the 2018 Aerowaves Priority Companies program. Bisonte (2019) is a performative identity fluctuating between hysteria and melancholy, playing with masks of gender, power and fragility. As for SIRI (2021), it is a collaborative work, created together with Portuguese filmmaker Jorge Jácome, and integrated in the "New Setting" program of the Foundation d'entreprise Hermès. It is a science fiction dance piece where light robots and humans dance together.
In 2022, he premiered førma Inførma with the South African company Via Katlehong at the Julidans festival, and also a duet entitled Fantasie Minor with Centre National de Danse de Caen. Later that year, he premiered the group piece (for 12 performers) _ C A R C A Ç A_ which is part of the "Big Pulse Dance Alliance" network of European festivals.
Between 2018/2019, Marco was an associated artist at Teatro Municipal do Porto and in 2019/2020/2021 he became an associated artist at Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen, in Normandy (France). As of 2023 he will be an associated artist at Maison de la Danse, in Lyon.
