Yola Pinto

Artists

1974

Choreographer, Interpreter & Teacher

She has a degree in Architecture (1999) from FAUL. After completing her training in Body and Movement studies at CEM (2000), she entered SNDO/ Amsterdam University of the Arts, where she also worked with the Magpie Company - transversal discourses, in the performance field (2001). Her multifaceted and multidisciplinary work has structured a broad spectrum artistic career, both in alternative and institutional spaces; as film actress in _Acordar _(2001) and _Mulher _(2008), Dance performer in Caixa para guardar o vazio (2006-2008), Nova Bailarina (2013- 2016), Lines of Newton (2014-2016) by Aldara Bizarro, performer in Titus (2003), Restitus (2004) and Perfinst Museum (2013-2014) by Luís Castro, Terra Chã (2017-2019) by Nélia Pinheiro CDCE. Since 2005 she regularly presents her work as director and creator, in close collaboration with musicians, visual artists and light designers. Examples are Continuos me (2005-07) Novo_Título Provisório (staging and choreography, 2015-18) _Poeira de Estrelas (choreography and performance, 2015-19), FIT (in) (choreography and performance, 2019-20). From her career highlights the partnership with musician and composer Simão Costa in C Vib (2012-19), _PI __(add)a Forte _(2013-15) and SYN.Tropia_concerto dance for the deaf and other auditions (2017-20). She develops contact with audiences of varied psycho-physicalities, namely as a resident teacher at CEM in the area of dance since 2003, as well as in artistic mediation in several museum spaces. She was an invited adjunct professor at the School of Dance, UC of INTERPRETATION II and PROJECT II in the academic year 2019-20. The engine of her work is unequivocal: Dance, movement, in direct contamination with her training in architecture and a permanent fascination for drawing as a form of thought and creation. Her work has been presented from north to south of the national territory as well as in Brazil, Holland, Italy, Spain and Hungary.

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