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CONSERVATÓRIO NACIONAL DE DANÇA LISBONA

 

Catarina Moreira  

She started her dance studies at 9 years old, in the Dance School of Orfeão de

 Leiria with the teacher Ana Manzoni. In 1994 she attends a dance course in

 London, in Sussex Summer School and joins the Escola Superior de Dança of

 Lisbon, where she finishes her bachelor degree in the performance area. Here,

 she not only meets teachers as Armando Jorge, Carlos Caldas, Cristina Graça,

 Graça Barroso, José Luís Vieira, Margarida Bettencourt, Ofélia Cardoso, Patrick

 Hurde, Vasco Wallenkamp, but she also has the opportunity to work with

 several choreographers, such as, Benvindo da Fonseca, Gaghik Ismailian,

Jean-Paul Bouchière, Luís Damas, Rui Pinto, Tindaro Silvano. She is also part of

 inumerous choreographies from colleagues and makes her first creation

 experiments in the discipline of Choreography Studies, «La Fúria de la Passion»

 (1995), «Embróglio» (co-production with the students of the 2nd degree). She

 works as well with Ofélia Cardoso, 1996) and choreographs (X+a)+bc=z* (1997),

 beyond «Hajakalma» (1998), a choreography developed by Catarina and Toni

 Tavares, presented in Leiria.

In 1997, she was a ballerina in the project «Som do Leque» from Vasco

 Wellenkamp, presented in Macao, in the Arts Festival of Macao. During the visit,

 she is invited to choreograph for the students of the Macao Conservatory

 «Força!».

Furthermore, she danced in many school projects, and continued to participate

 as interpreter in several projects of independent creators, namely: «Cenas de

 um Quotidiano», from Rita Judas (Young Creators Contest 97), «Vertigens de

 um Desejo», from Patrícia Henriques and «I Am Smelling Like a Rose That

 Somebody Gave Me At My Birthday Dead Bed», from Susana Lima (Biennial of

Young Creators 97), «Jardins Ocultos», from Margarida Silva and Rita Reis

 (Festive celebration of Loures), «S.S.Sem», from Dora Fonseca (Young

 Coreographers of Almada).

In 1997 she gets a scholar fund in the Company Companhia Paulo Ribeiro. Later,

 she joined the casting of the Portuguese Company of Contemporary Ballet of

 Lisbon, under Direction of Vasco Wellenkamp.

She was an invited choreographer of the Dance Company of Aveiro during the

 season 2002/2003 to which she created «Tomara Que Não Chova Hoje».

She teaches in the Dance School of the National Conservatory and in the Dance

 School of Orfeão de Leiria.