Coreografia

João dos Santos Martins was born in Santarém in 1989. He studied dance and choreography at various institutions in Europe between 2007 and 2011, including at P.A.RT.S. and e.x.er.c.e. He works as choreographer and dancer since 2008, articulating his practice through several specific collaborations in pieces such as Le Sacre du Printemps (2013) with Min Kyoung Lee, Autointitulado, 2015, with Cyriaque Villemaux and Antropocenas, 2017, with Rita Natálio. João also collaborated on Teatro Praga shows, adapted the solo Conquest (2011) by Deborah Hay, produced by the Serralves Foundtion, and dances in works by Eszter Salamon, Xavier le Roy and Ana Rita Teodoro. In 2017 he organized the cycle Nova—Velha Dança as a reflection on the recent history of dance in Portugal where, together with the historian Ana Bigotte Vieira, he developed a Timeline for collectively documenting these practices. His work has been shown in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Romania, The Korean Republic, New Zealand, Mozambique, Chile, Brazil and Uruguay. His piece Projecto Continuado (2015) was awarded the prize for Choreography by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores in 2016.