Sara Martins

Graduated in Dance, in Escola Superior de Dança (2011), Lisbon. Trained in PEPCC (2013) and CGPAE (2020), Fórum Dança, Lisbon. Highlights in her training the contact with Meytal Blanaru, Benoit Lachambre, Tomislav English, Frey Faust, Tamar Raban, Jos Baker, Natalia Pieczuro, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Horacio Macacua, Roberto Olivan, Sofia Dias, Gustavo Ciríaco, Gonçalo M. Tavares and Margarida Bettencourt. As a creator she developed two solos “Il faut” (2012, Brussels, BE) and “Meet-ing” (2014, Wittenberg, ALE) and three co-creations with presentations in Faro, Brussels and Wittenberg (Germany) in collaboration with Omid Dashti, Guillaume Vanaspen and Andreia Afonso. As a performer she worked with Margarida Bettencourt (“What if…” 2010); Hofesh Shechter (“Percussion Project” 2012); Cyril Lamon (“La troupe s’immole”, 2014); Ana Borges (“hOOPERhOPE” and “Hoje, assim ao pé de mim”, 2018), Roberto Olivan (“A secret not to be told”, 2021) and Neusa Dias (“Morro como País”, 2022). For corpodehoje she choreographed “Lábios de Água” (2021, DiVaM program), at the Roman Ruins of Milreu. She has been teaching dance and education through art since 2014 and since 2017 she has been teaching at Escola Secundária Tomás Cabreira, in the professional courses of Contemporary Dance Interpretation and Performing Arts – Interpretation. She was a guest artist in the program Art times Education (AxE), promoted by the Municipality of Loulé, with presentation at Cineteatro Louletano (2018-2020). She is a founding member of the Cultural Association REDE More, based in Lisbon, which aims to create spaces for experimentation and develop collaborative practices in artistic production. At the moment he integrates the cast of “CENAS DE TEATRO”, creation and direction of Neusa Dias and the project “PUZZLE” with direction of João de Brito. In parallel, she is developing a new creation “Em vez de um corpo” with premiere in 2022, at Teatro das Figuras, in Faro.