Artistic Direction & Project Management: Angela Guerreiro
Press & Project Management Assistance: Cecília Amado
Technical Direction: Michael Lentner und Manuel Horstmann
Angela Guerreiro | Artistic Direction & Project Management
Angela Guerreiro was born in Lisbon in 1965 and lives in Hamburg since 1994. She was trained in classical dance with Norma Croner under the system of the Royal Academy of Dance (1975-86) and studied at the Superior Dance School, Lisbon, (1986-89) and at the Center of New Dance Development, Arnhem (1989-91). From 1991-94 danced for the company RE.Al from Joao Fiadeiro and performed around the world. From 1995-2003 she created eight full-length pieces at Kampnagel, which have been invited to international dance- and theatre festivals. Since 1995 she created full evening pieces at kampnagel Hamburg: Plant Hunters (1995), the Solo Bastard Memory (1996), Fade - A Triptych of Stolen Stories (1996), the 30-minutes short version was selected for the international Tour project DANCE ROADS 1997/98 and in 1998 nominated for the Tanzplattform Deutschland in München. Be nice or leave. Thank you. (1998) had Premiere at the Podewil, Berlin. Permanent Prints (1999), an evening made of two solos and one duet had Premiere at Kampnagel Hamburg and toured internationally. The Trilogy Project X (2000), Project Y (2001), Project Z (2002), based on latest scientific and technological developments and their examination of (future) medical interferences in the human body. Angela Guerreiro was an artist in Residence at the Künstlerinnenhof Die Höge und at Schloss Bröllin (2003). The solo-series exposure (2003-04) was presented in many dance festivals. In 2004 she develops the Work-in-Progress-Performance Hamburg 2 Shanghai, with a Live-Band at the StandArtBox, a container, placed at the Altonaer Balkon, Hamburg. The Last Party a performance by Irma Vep, a Performance-Figure created by Angela Guerreiro, was presented at the Glamour-Festival in Hamburg. At the same year she won a scholarship by the Stiftung Kulturfonds to write a book about creative processes in dance. Her project LivingRoomProject (2004) is a concept for a Research-Performance-Project, to be done in six European countries. Her last two solos exposure (2003), and MemoryPlay (2005), both had their premiere at the Hamburger Botschaft, Hamburg. In September 2005 she participated in the project “Move The Mount”, an interdisciplinary laboratory for choreographers from Germany and Poland, forming an international artists collective named ‘Veronika Blumstein Group’. Searching for Veronika, a solo performance presented at the festival Moving Exiles- Veronika Blumstein, Swankhalle in Bremen, Performance/Lecture about Veronika Blumstein, with Peter Pleyer und Karen Schaffman, Festival fabrikationen 07 at the Tanzfabrik in Berlin; Caught in the act –N°3 -Performance Installation was presented at the opening of the K3 –Zentrum für Choreographie, Oktober 2007 in Hamburg. She teaches in several dance and theater institutions in Hamburg. In 2005 her interest shifts from the exclusivity of being a choreographer and starts her 1st work as a curator with the project DanceKiosk-Hamburg and the Kiosk.Company. In 2007 the Dancekiosk-Hamburg produced the first big dance project for the Kiosk.Company, Die Kandidaten and the project DanceKiosk. Goes Island, a project by arts and credits supported by IBA Kunst & Kultur Sommer 2007 in Cooperation with DanceKiosk-Hamburg. Was board of directors of the umbrella association for Independent Theater in Hamburg (Dachverband Freier Theaterschaffender Hamburg e.V.) from 2006 – 08. Aside from her own productions, Angela Guerreiro has worked for several dance, theater, and music productions, like Jochen Roller, Show Case Beat le Mot and Hajusum, and taught at several dance and theater schools e.g. Actors School Frese, Dr. Eckhard Klutz Schule, University Hamburg - Performance Studies.
The performance ‘VoteZombieAndyBeuys’, created by Showcase Beat le Mot and Angela Guerreiro had its premiere in April 2008, at Kampnagel Hamburg. In 2008 she initiated the project ‘Tracing Dance from Addis Abeba to Nairobi and Hamburg’ in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Nairobi and the Goethe-Institut Addis Abeba. The 4th Edition of DanceKiosk-Hamburg in July 2009, included the pilot project ‘dance beyond borders’, initiated together by Sharing Arts e.V. and DanceKiosk-Hamburg in collaboration with five European countries, funded by the European Cultural Commission. At the moment she prepares the 5th edition of DanceKiosk-Hamburg 2010, which includes the premiere of the project ‘Tracing Dance Reloaded’.
Cecília Amado | Press & Project Management Assistance
Cecília Amado was born in Brazil, studied acting in Porto Alegre, São Paulo and New York, and did her M.A. in German Language and Literature at the Hamburg University, Germany. Between 1992 and 2002 she acted in, and staged, several productions of her own company Teatro Imediato in Brazil and Europe. In the year 2000, she managed the press department of the Brazilian Academy of Literature (ABL). She translated scientific publications in Literature and History of Art and acts since 2002 as spokeswoman for different theatre and dance projects, exhibitions, and culture and theatre festivals. Since 2005 she works for DanceKiosk-Hamburg as well as for Angela Guerreiro Prod.