Horacio Macuacua

Mozambican dancer and choreographer, Horacio Macuacua is the artistic director of the Dance Company that bears his name. Without aesthetic limitations, the Company develops projects open to the creativity of all collaborators and always with the intention that all explore their choreographic universes. He has directed the projects COMUM, Orobroy, stop! (1st place at Festival Danse l’Áfrique Danse 2010), Smile if you can!, Fighting room, Convoy, Trampled Rose and Paradise is not in the sky! Horacio is a founding member of Culturarte, the first contemporary dance company in Mozambique. He has collaborated as a dancer and creator with choreographers Cristina Moura, Thomas Hauert, Pablo Colbert, George Khumalo and David Zambrano, whom he considers his master and mentor.