About
Flavia Pinheiro is a choreographer and performer from Recife, Brazil currently based in Amsterdam. Her research foregrounds networks of resilience and resistance to systems of knowledge by fabulative speculations around Science and Technologies. Her artistic practice in an ongoing attempt to create breathing and vital conditions; in an unstoppable dance she creates improbable exchanges with the nonhumans such as bacterias, plants, birds, antelopes and ghosts. She focuses in states of survival and refusal of captivity by proposing a radical ontological turn. She navigates in different medias (photography, video, performance, urban interventions, installation, sound, writing ) to underline how diversity and transversality can contribute to (un)learning colonial pedagogies.
COLLABORATIONS
Change Now! program [choreographer participant]
November 2021 to April 2023 @ Amsterdam
Erasmus Strategic Partnership project. For this project, five European theater schools have formed an alliance in order to foster change: Poland/ Netherlands / France / United Kingdom / Germany
SOUTH BOOM BOOM [coordinator, editor, writer]
January 2022 - October 2022 @ Amsterdam
Publication project and a series of performative conferences. in support by DAS Third, Diversity inclusion Platform (AHK), Goethe Institute and Performance Philosophy.
Rizoom [perfomer]
October/ November 2021 @ Amsterdam, Groningen
Collaboration with Lotte van den Berg for Jonge Harten Theater Festival Groningen
Silent Waves, DUST [performer]
July 2021 @ Various public spaces, Amsterdam
Public dance installation with four performers in various public spaces in central Amsterdam. Funding by Fonds Podiumkunsten.
Three Walks of Arts Against Isolation, DUST [performer]
Feb-Jul 2021 @ Various public spaces, Amsterdam
Performed a 1-1 proposal in public space in Amsterdam. Funding by Fonds Podiumkunsten.
The Scavenger [performer]
October 2021 @Utrecht
Collaboration in the perfomance developed by Thais di Marco at Het Huis Utrecht.
Kidnapped Theater [performer]
November 2020 @ Amsterdam
Collaboration with Rodrigo Batista for Kidnaped Theater, sponsored by Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam.
EXHIBITIONS
Abismos de um corpo que falha
2020 @ Galeria Massangana - Fundaj Recife
Individual - (videos , perfomance, objects/sculptures and photography ) Commioned by the V Concurso de Residências Artísticas Fundação Joaquim Nabuco,/ Diretoria de Memória, Educação, Cultura e Arte (Dimeca),
Ruinas de um futuro em desaparecimento [Collective Exhibition]
2019 @ II Bienal do Barro Caruaru
Installation and perfomance curated by Marcio Harum.
Mulheres que frequentam [Collective Exhibition]
2019 @ Maumau galeria de Arte Recife
Exhibited the photograph “PE Devir animal”
Cataclismo [Collective Exhibition]
2019 @ Garrido Galeria Recife-PE
Exhibited the photograph “Arida Utopia”. Curated by Phantom Five art
VERBO [Collective Exhibition]
2017 @ Galeria Vermelho Sao Paulo SP Brazil
Showed the perfomance “Diafragma Dispositivo versão Beta”
KISU [Individual Exhibition]
2014 @ Manta residency, San Martin de Los andes Patagonia, Argentina.
Exhibition as part of residency
Interactives
2012 @Telefónica Foundation in Buenos Aires.
Showed the installation “Aires de Cambio”
EDUCATION
Master II in Art History
2013-2015 @ UNSAM, National University of San Martín. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2013 to 2015.
Dissertation: "Low Tech interventions from an aesthetic-political perspective. The case of the machines of Leonello Zambón. "Advisor: Gabriela D'Odorico
Master I in Combined Arts
2011-2014 @ Languages: Acting, Dance, Performance, technology, creation IUNA, National University Institute of Art. Advisor: Alfredo Rosembaum.
Monography: Contato Sonoro
Bachelor Performing Arts
2002 to 2006 @ Department of Art Theory and Artistic Expression UFPE, Federal University of Pernambuco. Recife - Pernambuco, Brazil.
Complementary Degrees
2017_Regular Formation of the Dancer CND Centre Nacional de la Danse/ Pantin FRANCE Bolsa FUNARTE for Training in Performing Arts 2016, National Foundation of Arts / MinC, Ministry of Culture of Brazil.
2018 _ BMC® Somatic Movement Educator Program- School for Body-Mind Centering (BMC®) in Brazil São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil.
2014 >LEM, Línea En Movimiento [space for research, production and formation of the movement arts Buenos Aires, Argentina.2011 to 2014. Total: 550 class hours
