About me
I am a Brazilian dancer, choreographer, scholar, dance teacher, and screendance maker. My creative and scholarly research focuses on issues of immigration, identity, and diversity through media such as screendance, live choreography, and as a theme of my lectures. I am also studying Afro-Brazilian dances and how they have the potential to decolonize dance in tertiary education in the United States, both in the studio and on the concert stage.
I have performed and choreographed professionally for dance companies both in Brazil and in the USA and had my work funded by grants such as Pine River Arts in Michigan, FICC (Fund for Cultural Investments), and Capes (Federal Angency for the Improvement of Higher Education) in Brazil, additionally to being a CHA (Center of Humanities and Arts) Fellow and recipient of the Gail Pokoik Scholarship in Boulder- Colorado. My work has been presented at festivals and conferences nationally and internationally in Mexico, Brazil, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, and Barbados.
I have a BA in Dance, a MA in Performing Arts from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp - Brazil), and an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado at Boulder. I taught at Michigan State University (MSU) and Alma College and presently I am an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS).