Paulo Henrique (choreographer)

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Paulo Henrique (born Paulo Henrique Carreira Jorge; 1968 in Luanda, Angola) is a Portuguese choreographer and multimedia performance artist. As a choreographer, he has created several performance and installation works, integrating different media such as video, sound, text, voice, and plastic arts. Since 2009 Paulo Henrique has been based in Paris, France.

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Biography

Originally from Luanda, Angola, Henrique's family moved to Leiria, Portugal, in 1975 as a result of the civil war in Angola. He studied at Forum Dança in Lisbon. In addition, he took part in several artistic residencies such as "European Choreographic Forum"/Shinkansen and "Korper – technik|Body – Technology". Paulo Henrique was awarded a grant from Centro Nacional de Cultura, the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso–American Foundation to attend the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York, where he also attended the Film/Video Arts Institute. From 1997 to 1999, he undertook an internship with the Trisha Brown Dance Company and collaborated with various other artists and disciplines.[ citation needed ]

He has worked on projects and works with Vera Dentro, Bernardo Montet, Margarida Bettencout, Meg Stuart, Meredith Monk, Robert Flynt, Jack Shamblin, Lance Gries, Olga Mesa, Lidia Martinez, Madalena Vitorino, David Zambrano, Barbara Duchow. He has taught at Forum Dança, CEM, and Arte Total, and has been a guest lecturer at Brighton University (Postgraduate diploma in Digital Media Arts). Several of his works are now stored as part of the Digital Performance Archive (DPA) in London and his work has been discussed in the 2007 book "Digital Performance". [1]

His work has been performed throughout Europe, Brazil, Africa, and in the United States at venues such as the Dance Theater Workshop [2] and La Mama in New York, the Mousonturm in Frankfurt, and the Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon. He has had works commissioned by the Festival Danças Na Cidade and for Lisbon's Expo 98. Paulo Henrique was one of the first Portuguese artists to integrate new technology and video into the performances to create stage multimedia pieces.[ citation needed ]

Projects

He has worked on projects and works with Vera Dentro, Bernardo Montet, Margarida Bettencout, Meg Stuart, Meredith Monk, Robert Flynt, Jack Shamblin, Lance Gries, Olga Mesa, Lidia Martinez, Madalena Vitorino, David Zambrano, Barbara Duchow. He has taught at Forum Dança, CEM, and Arte Total, and has been a guest lecturer at Brighton University (postgraduate diploma in digital media arts). Several of his works are now stored as part of the Digital Performance Archive (DPA) in London and his work has been discussed in the book "Digital Performance" [13] by Steve Dixon, MIT Press, 2007.

Collaborations

Other collaborations: Bernardo Montet, Margarida Bettencourt & Carlos Zingaro, Cristina Benedita & Carlos Zingaro, Laurent Simões, Manuel Granja, Helder Luis, André Guedes, Luciana Fina, Filipe Lopes/ PlayBleu.[ citation needed ]

Producers: Mark Deputter – Dances in the City Festival/ Alkantara Festival. Gil Mendo – Dance Forum. Rita Castro Neves. Genoveva Oliveira, Ana David – Musée m|i|mo. Graça Passos – CENTA. Sofia Neuparth – CEM Ghislaine Boddington – Butterfly Effect Network. Sue Gollifer – Brighton University. Cristina Mendanha – Arte Total/ Salvo Conduto and GUELRA with GNRation.[ citation needed ]

Photography: Bill Jacbson, Eric Rhein, Christophe Apatie.[ citation needed ]

References

  1. ↑ Dixon, Steve (2007). Digital Performance. MIT Press. ISBN   978-0262042352.
  2. ↑ Dunning, Jennifer (September 13, 1998). "The New Season/Dance; The Annotated Listings". New York Times .
  3. ↑ McMahon, Jeff. "Dance & Technology Zone" . Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  4. ↑ Tércio, Daniel, ed. (2009). Tedance. Perspectives on Technologically Expanded Dance. Lisbon: FMH. ISBN   978-972-735-160-2. OCLC   643609028.
  5. ↑ Dixon, Steve (2007). Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN   978-0-262-04235-2.
  6. ↑ "Festival Dancas na Cidade, 2002"., Scores and Landscapes
  7. ↑ "photomonth 2009"., East London 2009
  8. ↑ 60x60 60x60, London 2010.
  9. ↑ "Frame & Re-Frame"., Box Nova CCB, Lisbon 2010
  10. ↑ "photolounge photomonth 2010". The Old Truman Brewery, East London 2010
  11. ↑ 'Casa Provisoria' 'I Am This Also' curated by Colin Ginks,
  12. ↑ noise-from-others / 'GUELRA' artistic residency
  13. ↑ Dixon, Steve; Smith, Barry (2007). "Digital Performance". MIT Press. ISBN   978-0262042352. "Digital Performance" by Steve Dixon, MIT Press, 2007
  14. ↑ 'Partial Disclosures', Robert Flynt
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