Miguel Santos started his dance training at Grupo de Danças de Salão João de Deus, in Faro (Portugal), and at the age of 7 he joined the Algarve Dance Company, where he began his training in classical and contemporary dance. During this period, he also took the International Dance Teachers Association course, obtaining professional recognition in ballroom dancing.
He has a degree in Dance from Escola Superior de Dança (ESD) and started his professional career working with Companhia de Dança de Almada, where he danced the pieces Casa do Rio e Muito Chão, by Benvindo Fonseca, La Ligne de Vie, by Carla Jordão, Jogos de Letras e Olhares by Nuno Gomes, Todo Para Sempre é Agora by Ricardo Ambrósio, Re-ligações by Rita Judas, Não Lugar by Daniela Andana, Dentro do Abraço by Bruno Duarte, and The Art of Losing by São Castro. Simultaneously, he collaborated with Gonçalo Ferreira Lobato and Companhia de Dança Contemporânea de Évora. In 2016, he attended the intensive course of the Nederlands Dans Theater and the Batsheva Dance Company GagaLab in Barcelona.
He is the author of Quase Mágico (2014), a solo piece created for Festival de Solos da Malaposta, and of a duet for Escola de Dança da Companhia de Dança de Almada (2017), presented at Festival Norte Dança. Also in 2017, he participated in the intensive course at Eastman Productions, Antwerp, and created a solo for the Solos program of that same course.
Between 2018 and 2021, he was part of Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo, where he danced pieces by Vasco Wellenkamp, Miguel Ramalho and Margarida Belo Costa. At the same time, he collaborated, as a freelancer, with Benvindo Fonseca, Companhia Paulo Ribeiro, São Castro, António Cabrita, and Henrique Rodovalho. In 2020, he danced Sagração da Primavera. Made in China, by Quorum Ballet, and in 2022 he began a collaboration with Sublime Dance Company, joining the cast of Push it Online.
In 2019, he co-created Desdémona with Alexandra Fonseca and Fernanda Pereira (and dramaturgy by Moncho Rodriguez), and, in 2021, he entered ESD's Master in Choreography and Professional Practices and created the solo Um Corpo em Manifesto. It was in 2022 that he began collaborating with Beatriz Mira to develop the work Atopos.
