Teresa Silva was born in Lisbon in 1988. She is dedicated to research, creation and interpretation in the areas of contemporary dance and performance. She sees dance as something that goes beyond the physical body, which translates into a work of attention and sensitivity, as well as a multidisciplinary approach to movement.  Graduated from Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional, Escola Superior de Dança and PEPCC at Forum Dança, she has been developing choreographic work marked by collaborative processes since 2008. From her path as a choreographer and performer she highlights the collaborations with Filipe Pereira, Elizabete Francisca, Sara Anjo, Loïc Touzé, Vera Mantero, David Marques, La Tierce, João dos Santos Martins, Marco d'Agostin, Rita Natálio and Alain Michard. Since 2019, she has been developing the research laboratories ‘Can the body be an oracle?’ with Sara Anjo and ‘States of attention and care through performative practice’. In these, she draws on her experience of the body and movement to elaborate and make available a terrain of (self-)knowledge and transformation. In 2022, she made her first film, Enjoy the weather: the film, presented at the FID Festival - Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille. That same year, she collaborated with visual artist Kristina Norman on Orchidelirium - An appetite for Abundance, a trilogy of films created for the Venice Art Biennale. After producing a dozen pieces, including ‘Um Espanto não se Espera’, ‘What remains of what has passed’ and ‘New Creation’, she recently created ‘Synecdoche’, ‘Due to Force Majeure’ in complicity with Margarida Bettencourt and Sabine Macher and ‘A small composition exercise’ in collaboration with Vera Mantero. She is an associate artist of the Lisbon-based production company Agência 25.  www.silvateresa.weebly.com

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