Still from Conference or How to Avoid a Deluge, 2011
photo: Elizabeth Leal
Majored as actress in Teatro Escola Célia Helena (Célia Helena’s Theatre School) and graduated in philosophy at the University of São Paulo. She was also a student of the performing arts graduation course at Unicamp (state university in Campinas – SP) and of the acting course of EAD (Dramatic Arts School), University of São Paulo. Her interest in the notion of spectacle, still a dominating theme in the theatre world, as well as an urge to explore the limits of and intersections between languages led her to contemporary dance and finally to performance art. As a performance artist, she participated in such events as Periferias, multidisciplinary festival in Huesca, Spain; Dimanche Rouge, Paris, France; Spa das Artes, Recife, Brazil; Performa Paço, São Paulo, Brazil; V.E.R., Terra Una, Brazil; Trampolim, Vitoria, Brazil; several editions of the Apartments Festivals, São Carlos and Campinas, Brazil.
In April 2008, she took part in the Expedição Francisco project, supported by Funarte and Petrobrás. As an actress, recently she worked in collaboration with Teatro da Vertigem company, taking part in plays such as Kastelo, directed by Eliana Monteiro, and the scenic intervention Mauismo, directed by Eliana Monteiro and Guilherme Bonfanti. She is a member of Coletivo Catapulta, a collective of performers, actors and contemporary dancers. In January 2008 she participated in a course at GITIS, university of theatre and performing arts in Moscow, Russia. With her vocal experiments, she collaborated with a collective of contemporary electronic musicians, Al Revés (www.alreves.org), with whom in 2006 she recorded the album menagerie. She is also a writer and in 2010 published her first book, As Aventuras de Ana Clara. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.
Still from Conference or How to Avoid a Deluge, 2011
photo: Elizabeth Leal
Still from Undertow Eyes, 2012
photo: Vitor Butkus
Still from Haughtiness and penitence or the red shoes, 2010
photo: Bruno Makla.
Ventriloquist or Perhaps Everything Has Already Been Said, 2012
photo: Viviane Bezerra.