Marlene Monteiro Freitas

Marlene Monteiro Freitas was born in Cape Verde. She studied dance at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), the Escola Superior de Dança and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon), before co-founding the Compass dance company in her native country. A dancer with Emmanuelle Huynh, Loïc Touzé, Tânia Carvalho and Boris Charmatz, she has also created several pieces, including Primeira Impressão in 2005, A Improbabilidade da Certeza and Larvar in 2006, Uns e Outros in 2008, A Seriedade do Animal in 2009, the solo Guintche in 2010, Paraìso, colecçao privada in 2012 and Jaguar in 2015. The Festival d'Automne invited him for the first time in 2017 with Bacchantes - prelude to a purge, based on the work by Euripides. A year later, the Batsheva Dance Company commissioned a piece from her, Canine Jaunâtre 3. In 2020, she created Mal - Embriaguez Divina at Kampnagel (Hamburg) and became co-programmer of (un)common ground, a project about the territorial and artistic inscription of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Marlene Monteiro Freitas has received numerous awards, including a Silver Lion at the 2018 Venice Biennale. In 2022, the Festival d'Automne is devoting a seven-part Portrait and an exhibition to her.