Gustavo Ciríaco

Gustavo Ciríaco (Rio de Janeiro) is a choreographer and contextual artist whose work moves between the performing arts and the arts of the image, performance, architecture, anthropology and landscaping. A political scientist and ballet dancer by training, with degrees from the Angel Vianna School (Rio de Janeiro) and the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences-UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro), Ciríaco formed the Ikswalsinats Dance Duo with Frederico Paredes for 10 years, a pioneer in the use of humour in contemporary Brazilian dance. Marked by a pronounced site-specific profile, his works create a dialogue between context and architecture, geography and dwelling, reality and fiction, in continuous research over the last 20 years into the extensive fields of dance-making. Ciríaco has worked transversally across different fields of knowledge and the arts, and their distinct modes of interaction, gathering tools and insights into how to deal with common time and space. To this end, his work has involved dance, theatre, video, landscape constructions, storytelling and urban actions in conversation pieces where the dimensions of the encounter are the inspiration for fictions and shared situations. Themes such as present & presence, landscape representation, perception, urban space, situated performance, cognitive immersion are constantly addressed in her work.