Beatriz Valentim

Beatriz Valentim is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She got her training from the National Conservatory Dance School, Budapest Dance Theatre and FOR Dance Theatre (Olga Roriz Company). She has a degree in sociology from ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and a postgraduate degree in contemporary dance from ESMAE – Higher School of Music and Performing Arts, finishing as a grantee at the Camping Festival 2020 by the National Dance Centre in Paris. She has worked professionally with Olga Roriz, Jérôme Bel, Raimund Hoghe, Mafalda Deville, Elisabeth Lambeck, Olatz de Andrés, Inês Jacques, Mão Morta, São Castro and António Cabrita, Teatro do Montemuro, Sílvia Real, Francisco Camacho, Ensemble – Sociedade de Actores, Né Barros, Jonas&Lander, Joana Magalhães and Comédias do Minho. She created VADO: solo sobre as coisas vazias (2018), NINA (2019) and Self (2021). She was an artistic trainer at Project GruA – Grupo de Apoio à Autonomia, by the Santo Tirso charitable organisation ASAS, and she often collaborates with such projects. Her creative interests focus on issues concerning education and sociology, seeking to open the discussion on childhood and youth problems.