Teresa Silva is a Portuguese artist dedicated to research, creation and interpretation in contemporary dance and performance. She sees dance as something that goes beyond the physical body, resulting in a work of attentiveness and sensitivity, as well as a multidisciplinary approach to movement. She studied in the National Conservatory Dance School, in the Superior School of Dance of the Polytechnic of Lisbon, where she completed her degree in Dance, and she completed the Choreographic Creation, Dance Research and Training Programme at Forum Dança. Since 2008, she has been developing choreographic work intimately marked by collaborative processes. As a choreographer and performer, she has collaborated with artists such as Filipe Pereira, Elizabete Francisca, Sara Anjo, Margarida Bettencourt, Sabine Macher, Loïc Touzé, Vera Mantero, Kristina Norman, David Marques, the collective La Tierce, João dos Santos Martins, Marco d'Agostin, Ritó Natálio and Alain Michard. In 2022, she directed her first film, Enjoy the weather: the film, screened at the FID – Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille, and she collaborated with visual artist Kristina Norman in Orchidelirium – An appetite for Abundance, a film trilogy created for the Venice Biennale. After a number of pieces, among which she highlights Um espanto não se espera, O que fica do que passa and Nova Criação, she has recently created Por motivo de Força Maior and Um pequeno exercício de composição. Since 2019, she has been developing the laboratories Pode o corpo ser um oráculo? ["Can the body be an oracle?"] with Sara Anjo and Estados de atenção e cuidado através da prática performativa ["States of attention and care through the performative practice"]. In these, she draws on her experience of the body and movement to elaborate and make available a terrain of (self-)knowledge and transformation. She is an associate artist of the Lisbon-based production company Agência 25.
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