BIOGRAPHIES

CiM - Dance Company

Created in 2007, it has been promoting a pioneer approach to artistic creation in the face of inclusion, through dance and image. CiM seeks a diversity of paths and a constant enrichment through experiences, where multidisciplinarity emerges as an impulse for new methods and answers to artistic production and exploration. It develops a regular work of training and awareness focused on the particularities of movement and unique expressiveness of each dancer/performer, enhancing through choreography a more creative vision of the idea of capacity and limit, revealing diversity as a driving force.

Bruno Rodrigues

Born in Lisbon in 1981. He is a member of the International Dance Council of UNESCO. He is a certified teacher of the Danceability Method and member of Danceability International. Trainer certified by the IEFP. Graduated by Escola Superior de Dança/2010 and graduated by Instituto Superior Técnico/2005. Freelancer professional, currently pedagogical and artistic coordinator of CiM. Pedagogical responsible for the training MOVE YOUR SKILLS and for the staging and direction of actors/artistic direction of Immersive Gaming. Teacher of contemporary dance, creative, improvisation and inclusive dance.

Joana Gomes

Born in Braga, 1992. She attended a degree in Information Science at the University of Porto and a professional training course in the administrative area at ACAPO. Her first experience in inclusive dance was with the European project Fragile with choreographers Kjersti K. Engebrigtsen and Ana Rita Barata.

Part of CiM - Dance Company since 2013. In 2016, she worked with the artist Rodolfo Quintas, in the performance Darkless and with the choreographer Madalena Vitorino in the show "Estação Terminal". Currently, she does production and diffusion at Vo'Arte and is frequently involved in dance/movement trainings. 

Nelson Moniz

Born in Esposende, in 1976. He was followed to the Centre of Rehabilitation of Cerebral Paralysis, Calouste Gulbenkian (CRPCCG), where he did the 1st cycle and was trained as a person. In 1995, he followed a professional course of Computer Operator, staying in the regime of CAO - Centre of Occupational Activities afterwards.

With a multidisciplinary occupation, having his life crossed with the work of actor and director. He helped found AJOV - Associação Jovem Valor, the first youth association for people with disabilities. Since 2015 he joins CiM - Dance Company as a professional dancer and has participated in several shows.

Ana Rita Barata

Born in Paris in 1972. Studied at the Conservatório de Dança de Lisboa and at the European Dance Development Centre in Arnhem, Netherlands. As a performer she has worked with various choreographers such as Wim Vandekeybus, Steve Paxton, Samuel Louwick, Carolyn Carlson, João Fiadeiro and Joana Providência. Since 1994, as choreographer and artistic director of Vo'Arte, she has developed several transdisciplinary projects with Pedro Sena Nunes in various communities. Since 2010 programs InArt - Community Arts Festival, an unprecedented initiative in Portugal, with several artistic proposals that reveal the aggregative and inclusive potential of art. Participated as a dance commissioner in the Mental Health and Art Project of the National Programme for Mental Health of the Directorate-General for Health. Co-founder and artistic director of CIM - Dance Company since 2007. She directed the project Geração Soma within the programme PARTIS, co-financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Attends the master's degree in Accessible Communication at the Instituto Politécnico de Leiria.

Pedro Sena Nunes

Born on May 18th 1968 in Portugal. Finished his Film Course in 1992 at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. Co-founded the Companhia Teatro Meridional, Apordoc - for documentary film and Avanti.pt. Is a member of the Portuguese Directors Association and artistic director of Vo'Arte. Is a consultant for other associations and national and international artistic projects. Has simultaneously dedicated himself to the area of pedagogy, creating and directing laboratories dedicated to creation and experimentation, both documentary and fictional. At ETIC, besides being a teacher and project coordinator, has assumed the pedagogical and creative coordination, in the professional and technical education, designing courses and pedagogical and artistic projects in an authorial dimension. He is a PhD student at the University of Lisbon in "performance and moving images".