Fernando Belfiore

Fernando Belfiore

Bio

Fernando Belfiore (1983 – São Paulo, Brazil) is a choreographer, teacher, researcher, and performance artist currently based in Amsterdam. Fernando graduated from theSchool for New Dance Development at Amsterdam School of the Arts – SNDO/AHK.Before moving to Europe, Fernando studied theater at Escola de Arte Dramática at Universidade de São Paulo - EAD/USP.

Fernando has toured extensively in many European countries, America, and Asia in placessuch as American Realness Festival in New York, Fierce Festival in Birmingham, inGuangdong Dance Festival, Festival Contemporâneo de Dança in São Paulo, amongothers. At the end of 2014, the solo on alchemy and practices of the heart, Al13FB<3, wasselected to Aerowaves Top Twenty 2016. In 2016, Fernando represented The Netherlandsat the Olympic Cultural Program in Rio de Janeiro in the dance category creating a mass choreography and installation. Fernando is currently working on a series of social sculptures with THE CAVE, THE FOUNTAIN, and THE MARKET. During the season of2018-2019, Fernando got a mention as the most promising new maker in theTheaterjaarboek for the season of 2018- 2019 according to Alexander Hiskemuller fromTrouw.

Fernando’s works are transdisciplinary based on research, embodiment, and critical thinking, practicing movement as collective action in the public sphere towards critical thinking and social transformation. Fernando explores performance art having the body ashis main medium through the hybrid of theater, choreographic questions, and visual arts references. Each work proposes a sensibilization in perceptual experience and experiments with alternative modes of production. In teaching, Fernando facilitates working with each other's bodies, support strategies, transformative artistic acts, and visceral performative audience engagement, and break the normative.

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