Biography Paulo Henrique is a choreographer and multimedia performance artist. As a choreographer he has created a number of performance and installation works integrating different media such as video, sound, text, voice, and plastic arts. His works include "From Now On", "Minimally Invasive", "Contract With The Skin", "Around One" “Surface Tension”and “DOC.10”. Paulo's work has been performed in the United States, Brazil, Japan, and Africa, and throughout Europe, at such venues as the Dance Theatre Workshop and La Mama in New York, the Mousonturm in Frankfurt, and the Belem Cultural Centre in Lisbon. He has had works commissioned by the Festival Dancas Na Cidade and for Lisbon's Expo 98. Paulo was one of the first Portuguese artists to integrate new technology into the performances to create multimedia pieces. Originally from Luanda, Angola, he moved to Portugal, as a result of the Angolan civil war. He studied at Forum Dança in Lisbon. He was awarded a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation and the Centro Nacional de Cultura to attend the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. From 1997 to 1999 he took an intern-ship with the Trisha Brown Dance Company. While in New York, Henrique collaborated with Robert Flynt and Meredith Monk. He has worked on projects and works with Vera Mantero, Meg Stuart, Olga Mesa and Lidia Martinez. He has taught at Forum Dança, C.E.M., 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. His most recent project is "Frame & Re-Frame" a Co Production Arte Total & CCB.
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.