Tânia Carvalho (born

Viana do Castelo Viana do Castelo () is a municipality and seat of the district of Viana do Castelo in the Norte Region of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 88,725, in an area of 319.02 km². The urbanized area of the municipality, comprising the city, ...

, 1976) is a Portuguese artist with a career spanning over 20 years. Best known as a choreographer, she also works in other artistic fields, such as

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and

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Biography

Carvalho was born in Viana do Castelo and lives in

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

. Carvalho's choreography work includes pieces for the

Lyon Opera Ballet Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of th ...

(''Xylographie''), the Company of Elders in

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(''I Walk, You Sing''), the

National Ballet of Portugal Companhia Nacional de Bailado (CNB), the National Ballet Company of Portugal, was established in Lisbon in 1977 and the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos was its home for the first two decades of its existence. CNB is the only state company in Portuga ...

(''S''), the Paulo Ribeiro Company (''How will I do this?'' interpreted by Leonor Keil), and Dançando com a Diferença (''Doesdicon''). In 2018, Teatro Maria Matos, Teatro São Luiz and the

performed the ''Tânia Carvalho Cycle'' to celebrate her twenty years of artistic creation. She has been developing several musical projects, of which stand out, among others, ''Madmud'', ''Idiolecto'' and ''dubloc barulin''. She occasionally composes soundtracks for her creations, as well as for other choreographers, such as Luís Guerra. In 2018, Carvalho directed ''A Bag and a Stone – dance piece for screen'', her first film. She was part of the international network of programmers and choreographers Modul Dance (2011-2014) and programmed the national section of the Cumplicidades Festival (Portugal, 2018). She participated in the Festival Best Of (

Les Subsistances Les Subsistances is a cultural centre of diffuse artistic production and located in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon. Since 2007, it has housed a creative laboratory (theater, dance and contemporary circus) and the École nationale des beaux-arts de ...

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, 2018), with ''The Recoil of Words''. In 2021, Tânia was one of four women invited to develop a choreography for the

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, within a program that includes pieces by choreographers Lucinda Childs, American, Lasseindra Ninja, Guyanese, and the Irish Oona Doherty. In 2022, as part of the Portugal-France Cultural Season, the

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dedicates a focus on her work, presenting several shows in Paris. Winner of the Young Creators Award 2000 (Programa Jovens Criadores), with ''Inicialmente Previsto'', she participated, in that capacity, in a festival in

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. She was also awarded the

2012 Prémio Autores The 2012 Prémio Autores was the third edition of the Prémio Autores. It took place on 27 February 2012 and was broadcast by RTP. Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Film *Best Screenplay ** João Canijo (' ...

and the 2021 Prémio Autores from the Portuguese Society of Authors, for the creation of ''Icosahedron'' and ''onironauta''.

Selected works

Choreography

* Por Baixo de Mão (2021) * Young Dancers Project (2021) * one of four periods in time (2021) * onironauta (2020) * muiças (2019) * S (2018) * Doesdicon (2017) * Grasped By Intuition (2017) * GLIMPSE – 5 Room Puzzle (2016) * Xylographie (2016) * Weaving Chaos (2014) * Síncopa (2013) * Coral (2013) * The Recoil of Words (2013) * 27 Bones (2012) * Icosahedron (2011) * Der Mann ist verrückt (2009) * Danza Ricercata (2008) * But From Me I Can't Escape, Have Patience! (2008) * Orquestica (2006) * Exploding In Silence Never Becomes Disturbing (2005)

Music

* Papillons d'éternité (2021) * duploc barulin (2019) * Madmud (2007)

Visual art

* Exhibition by Tânia Carvalho and Luís Guerra, in partnership with Dançando com a Diferença, Galeria Marca d’Água,

Funchal Funchal () is the largest city, the municipal seat and the capital of Portugal's Madeira, Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The city has a population of 105,795, making it the sixth largest city in Portugal. Because of ...

, 2019 * ''Toledo'', by Tânia Carvalho (within BoCA - Bienal de Artes Contemporâneas), Teatro da Politécnica,

, Palacete Viscondes de Balsemão,

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

and Teatro Viriato, Viseu, 2017 * ''Dessins'', by Tânia Carvalho, KLAP Maison Pour la Danse,

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

Film

* A Bag and a Stone - dance piece for screen (2018)

Awards

* 2000 – Young Creators Award from Programa Jovens Criadores, with ''Inicialmente Previsto'' * 2012 – Best Choreography Award from Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, with ''Icosahedron'' * 2019 – Citizen of Merit by the

City Council * 2021 – Best Choreography Award from Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, with ''Onironauta''

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carvalho, Tânia 1976 births Living people Portuguese choreographers People from Viana do Castelo Portuguese female dancers