Of African descent, born to Angolan parents, Natacha Campos (1997, Amadora) graduated from Escola Superior de Dança in 2018, where she studied with Jácome Filipe, Maria Ramos, Madalena Vitorino and Pietro Romani. In the period 2018-2020, she attended the Performact training program, in Torres Vedras (Portugal). It was there that she consolidated her training, crossing paths with Eddy Becquart, João Cardoso, Chloé Beilevaire, Ted Stoffer, Magalie Lanriot and Iñaki Azpillaga. She also attended a course on Production of Performing Arts, taught by Patrícia Pires. She is currently completing her master's degree in Performing Arts at FCSH, Faculdade Nova de Lisboa, and has joined the PACAP 8 creation and interpretation course at Fórum Dança, curated by Ana Rocha and Meg Stuart.
As a performer, she has worked on creations by Pietro Romani, Beatriz Cantinho, Marta Jardim, Sofia Dias, and Vítor Roriz, Rui Catalão, Constanza Givone, Jo Castro, Joana Providência, and Cláudia Semedo, notably Escala (2021) by Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, Ivone (2022) by Rui Catalão, “Casa com Árvores Dentro” (2022) by Cláudia Semedo, at CDA, and “Coral de Corpos sem Norte” (2025) by Kiluanji Kia Henda. She made her debut as a curator in “Ecossistema.danças.corpos” (Ecosystem.dances.bodies), a program of encounters co-curated with Cláudia Galhós as part of the Ordem do O program and in partnership with Estúdios Vítor Córdon.
As a creator, she developed the project THEFRUIT – an occidental title (part of the Residências Interferências’21 program), the solo Other than you, you (2020), and Faded (2019) (video-dance), Mechanical Animal (2023), and Íla (2023). She is currently developing a new project, “MA”, focusing on decolonizing the practices that lead to the production of a future artistic object.
Photography © Miguel Afonso
