Paulo Henrique (choreographer)

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Henrique in "From Now On"

Paulo Henrique (born Paulo Henrique Carreira Jorge; 1968 in

Luanda, Angola (Africa)) is a Portuguese choreographer and multimedia performance artist
. As a choreographer, he has created a number of performance and installation works, integrating different media such as video, sound, text, voice, and plastic arts. Since 2009 Paulo Henrique is based in Paris, France.

Biography

Originally from

Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York, where he also attended Film/Video Arts institute. From 1997 to 1999 he took an internship with the Trisha Brown
Dance Company and collaborated with various other artists and disciplines.

He has worked on projects and works with Vera Mantero, Bernardo Montet, Margarida Bettencout,Meg Stuart, Meredith Monk, Robert Flynt, Jack Shamblin, Lance Gries, Olga Mesa, Lidia Martinez, Madalena Vitorino, David Zambrano, Barbara Duchow. He has taught at Forum Dança, C.E.M., and Arte Total, and has been a guest lecturer at Brighton University (postgraduate diploma in digital media arts). Several of his works are now stored as part of the Digital Performance Archive (DPA) in London and his work has been discussed in the book "Digital Performance"[8] by Steve Dixon, MIT press 2007.

His work has been performed throughout Europe, Brazil, Africa, and in the United States at such venues as the Dance Theatre Workshop[1] and La Mama in New York, the Mousonturm in Frankfurt, and the Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon. He has had works commissioned by the Festival Danças Na Cidade and for Lisbon's Expo 98. Paulo Henrique was one of the first Portuguese artists to integrate new technology & video into the performances to create stage multimedia pieces.

Projects

  • "Discobulo" 1992
  • "Piano" 1993
  • "Ode", "Branco"(White) 1994
  • "Terra Plana" (Flat Earth) 1994
  • "From Now On" 1996[2]
  • "Minimally Invasive" 1998[3]
  • "Contract With The Skin" 2000,[4]
  • "Around One" 2002,[5]
  • "Suspended Lines [move//still]" + "Videoroom" Brighton Fringe Festival 2006
  • "Surface Tension" Brighton Photo Fringe Festival 2006
  • "DOC.10" | Dance&Video 2006/07, Box Nova CCB, Lisbon 2007
  • "Surface Tension' + 'Autographs" Brighton Photo Fringe Festival 2008
  • "Autographs + Surface Tension" at London photomonth 2009[6]
  • "Night Trip" | 60x60 Dance,[7] Stratford Theater, London 2010
  • "Frame & Re-Frame",[8] Box Nova CCB, Lisbon 2010
  • "Samples (Contract with The Skin)" at photolounge,[9] part of photomonth, East London 2010
  • "DOC.10" | Dance&Video | with Clara Leão Dance School | Teatro José Lúcio da Silva, Leiria (Portugal) 2010
  • "Live Performance" + video screening of "Contract With The Skin", Anymous Festival, Plzen (Czech Republic) 2011
  • "Man In The Park" performance/installation | 'I Am This Also',[10] Space Liberdade Provisoria, Lisbon 2012
  • "Hacker", live-act/performance (Non-official)|'Appropriated Spaces' series | European Capital of Culture, Guimarães 2012
  • "(in)translation", performance/video | Volksroom, Brussels 2012
  • "Transformation ou métamorphose" - Vers un progrès ininterrompu - video/photography, Paris 2012
  • "Minimally Invasive" (video)| artist collective | "Body and Bodies, transgressions and narratives” | MiMo, Image Museum, Leiria 2013
  • "Vecteurs du Corps"12, Vidéo-mapping José Budha, Semaine des cultures étrangères, Casa André de Gouveia, Paris 2013
  • "Mémoire d'une image absent", (299 ways to come down the steps/Stars on the Stairs), Lieux Publics, Marseille European capital of culture, 2013
  • "Vecteurs du Corps"(vidéo) + "Contract With The Skin" (vidéo), Special Effects Festival, New York, 2014
  • Vidéo Performance by Paulo Henrique, CHANTIERS d'EUROPE | Théâtre de la Ville, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian Paris, 2014
  • "Un homme. Une machine " (vidéo – improvisation), Intervention dance : Paulo Henrique, Digital Art: João Martinho Moura (WIDE/SIDE, 2015), video edition: Play Bleu: Arte total | GNRation Gallery, Braga, 2015.
  • Crucial Interventions (video: Play Bleu) / GUELRA | Arte Total, Braga 2015
  • Don't Look (video: Play Bleu) / GUELRA | Arte Total, Braga 2015
  • Performance Act created for 'Corps et Artivisme', Paris 2019
  • O meu corpo é feito de barulho dos outros[11] (my body is made of noise from others) / GUELRA - artistic residency / dance / multimedia - Arte Total and GNRation, Braga 2020

He has worked on projects and works with Vera Mantero, Bernardo Montet, Margarida Bettencout, Meg Stuart, Meredith Monk, Robert Flynt, Jack Shamblin, Lance Gries, Olga Mesa, Lidia Martinez, Madalena Vitorino, David Zambrano, Barbara Duchow. He has taught at Forum Dança, C.E.M., and Arte Total, and has been a guest lecturer at

Brighton University (postgraduate diploma in digital media arts). Several of his works are now stored as part of the Digital Performance Archive (DPA) in London and his work has been discussed in the book "Digital Performance"[12]
by Steve Dixon, MIT press 2007.

Collaborations

Other collaborations : Bernardo Montet, Margarida Bettencourt & Carlos Zingaro, Cristina Benedita & Carlos Zingaro, Laurent Simões, Manuel Granja, Helder Luis, André Guedes, Luciana Fina, Filipe Lopes/ PlayBleu.

Produceurs : Mark Deputter - Festival Danças na cidade/ Festival Alkantara. Gil Mendo - Forum Dança. Rita Castro Neves. Genoveva Oliveira, Ana David - Musée m|i|mo. Graça Passos - CENTA. Sofia Neuparth - C.E.M.. Ghislaine Boddington - Butterfly Effect Network. Sue Gollifer - Brighton University. Cristina Mendanha - Arte Total/ Salvo Conduto and GUELRA with GNRation.

Photography : Bill Jacbson, Eric Rhein, Christophe Apatie.

References

  1. ^ Dunning, Jennifer (September 13, 1998). "The New Season/Dance; The Annotated Listings". New York Times.
  2. ^ McMahon, Jeff. "Dance & Technology Zone". Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  3. OCLC 643609028
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  5. ^ "Festival Dancas na Cidade, 2002"., [1] Partituras e Paisagens (Scores and Landscapes)
  6. ^ "photomonth 2009"., East London 2009
  7. ^ 60x60 60x60, London 2010
  8. ^ "Frame & Re-Frame"., Box Nova CCB, Lisbon 2010
  9. ^ "photolounge photomonth 2010".The Old Truman Brewery, East London 2010
  10. ^ 'Casa Provisoria' 'I Am This Also' curated by Colin Ginks,
  11. ^ 'GUELRA' artistic residency
  12. ."Digital Performance" by Steve Dixon, MIT press 2007
  13. ^ 'Partial Disclosures', Robert Flynt

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