Teresa Silva is a Portuguese artist dedicated to research, creation, and performance in the fields of contemporary dance and performance. She understands dance as a field that exceeds the physical body, which translates into a work on attention and sensitivity, as well as into a transdisciplinary approach to movement.
She graduated from the National Conservatory Dance School, the Lisbon Polythecnic’s Higher School of Dance (BA in Dance) and completed PEPCC - Choreographic Creation, Dance Research and Training Programme at Forum Dança.
Since 2008, she has performed in around twenty works and created about ten pieces, with collaborations including Vera Mantero, Loïc Touzé, Filipe Pereira, Sara Anjo, David Marques, Elizabete Francisca, Kristina Norman, João dos Santos Martins, the collective La Tierce, and Marco d’Agostin.
In 2019, her piece Nova Criação was selected as an Aerowaves Priority Company. In 2022, she made her first film, Enjoy the weather: the film, premiered at FID — Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille, and collaborated with visual artist Kristina Norman on Orchidelirium — An appetite for Abundance, a trilogy of films created for the Venice Art Biennale. In 2023, Por motivo de Força Maior was named one of the best pieces of the year by the newspapers Público and Expresso. In 2024, the Serralves Foundation dedicated a series to her choreographic work titled Dance pouring from our heads, and she was the invited artist in the EM CASA programme at Estúdios Victor Córdon.
More recently, she has been exploring formats beyond the stage through the creation of projects, laboratories, and encounter-based dispositifs at the intersection of research and performance. She is interested in creating and transmitting practices rooted in the singularities of performative experience, with the aim of offering contexts for reflection, (self-)knowledge, and transformation. Among these projects are Making the making speak, Expanded oracle, and Ah! - artistic practice as a tool for transformation.
She is an associated artist of the Lisbon-based production company agência 25.
Fotografia: Vitorino Coragem
