João Fiadeiro belongs to the generation of choreographers who emerged in the late 1980s in the wake of the American ‘post-modern’ movement and the French and Belgian Nouvelle Danse movements to originate the Nova Dança Portuguesa [New Portuguese Dance]. Most of his training took place in Lisbon, New York and Berlin. Afterwards, Fiadeiro went on to become a dancer with Companhia de Dança de Lisboa (1986-88) and Ballet Gulbenkian (1989-90). In 1990, he founded Companhia RE.AL which, alongside creating and divulging his regular shows across Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and South America, accompanied and represented emerging artists and also hosted resident artists and featured transdisciplinary artists and events in the context of the Atelier Real programming. From 1995 and 2003 he collaborated with Artistas Unidos in the ‘actor’s movement’ field and staged the work of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Sara Kane or Jon Fosse. From 2011 to 2014, together with anthropologist Fernanda Eugénio, Fiadeiro co-directed the research centre AND_Lab, in Lisbon, a platform for training and researching at the interface between creativity, sustainability and everyday life. After a six-year gap, in which he devoted himself exclusively to processing and systematizing the Real Time Composition Method, intersecting his research with scientific areas such as neuroscience or complex system sciences, João Fiadeiro has regularly been giving workshops at various national and international schools and colleges. He is currently working on his doctorate degree in Contemporary Art at Colégio das Artes (University of Coimbra).

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