Choreographer, interpreter and dance teacher. Her work has circulated since 1997, and has received support from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. She is the author of more than two dozen dance creations and her work has been presented in the Netherlands, Germany, France, England, Italy, Spain, Brazil and Portugal. "Eternuridade" and "Sem Chão Sem Fim" are her last creations having circulated throughout the country. “Ego Skin” was distinguished by Guia dos Teatros as the best choreography of 2007. As an interpreter, she was a dancer in the Amsterdam Dance Theater Company (Holland), Mary Fulkerson Dance Alliance (England), and the Hard Knocks Group, directed by Yoshiko Shuma in New York. At Companhia Clara Andermatt (Portugal), she was an interpreter and choreographic assistant in several productions. Amélia graduated from the European Dance Development Center (Netherlands) and the Superior School of Dance (Portugal). She is a recipient of the Master of Science in Communication from UNL. She did several workshops with Steve Paxton, Stephen Petronio, Nadine Ganase (Rosas Company), Wim Wandekeybus, Carolyn Carlson, Alain Platel and David Zambrano, amongst others. Parallel to her choreographic work, she is a teacher at the Superior School of Dance in Portugal.
Master Class - Repertoire/Composition
The focus of my class will be on the transmission of some of my own vocabulary. I will choose an excerpt from a recent choreographic piece, with precise and expressive movements. I will explain the meaning of the movements and their intentions, which is also a way of understanding the specificity of my work. At the same time, we will improvise from the material approached during class, trying to reincorporate the movement, in order to reconstruct the emotions.
Contact: Practical and Laboratorial