Ana Clara Guerra Marques

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Pioneer of contemporary dance in Angola

Choreographer is an Angolan Master in Artistic Performance - BA in Dance and Dance Education in Business. National Prize of Culture and Arts, began his dance studies in Luanda in 1970, and with only 16 years of age, the Ministry of Culture of Angola entrusts the direction of the only dance school in the country and director of the Company Contemporary Dance.

Its strategy for the defense and projection of dance as language arts and performance art in Angola, yet part your practice as a dancer and choreographer, founding in 1991 the Contemporary Dance Company of Angola, the first professional company in Angola with which produces a break in conservative aesthetic Angolan dance scene.

A pioneer of contemporary dance in Angola, introduces new concepts and ways of performing and inaugurates the use of unconventional spaces, with performances that mark his work with some of the most renowned writers and artists Angolans, in search of new languages through dialogue with other forms of expression. Bring to Angola Inclusive Dance.

By using dance as a tool for intervention ceases to perceive through their creations, their irreverence and critical sense.

He directed more than one hundred professional shows and was coordinator of the shows choreographer of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations Angola 2010.

As a teacher and researcher has had active participation in various meetings, seminars, conferences and workshops nationally and internationally and has published several articles in international academic journals and periodicals Angolans. She is author of the books The Alchemy of Dance, Contemporary Dance Company of Angola and Towards a History of Dance in Angola - Between School and Company: A Pedagogical Journey.

In the research area, is interested in the dances of Angola equity, devoting himself particularly to dance masks Cokwe.

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