Daniela Cruz

Daniela Cruz is a creator, dancer and contemporary dance trainer. She completed the vocational course at the Ginasiano dance school, studied at Codarts (Rotterdam), and interned at the Krisztina de Châtel dance company (Amsterdam). She works as a freelancer and has performed for Marco da Silva Ferreira, Victor Hugo Pontes, Cristina Planas Leitão, André Braga and Cláudia Figueiredo/Circolando, Joana Providência, Madalena Victorino, Nuno M Cardoso, Nuno Preto, Jonathan Saldanha, Catarina Miranda, and Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz. She was choreography and rehearsal assistant at Companhia Instável, where she was also artistic coordinator of the Advanced Training in Performance and Choreographic Creation and of the Guided Training in Choreography for Architecture. She worked as movement director for Teatro Art'Imagem and Teatro do Bolhão, and she created pieces for K2, the Circle of Theatre Initiation of the Coimbra Academy, Kale Dance Company, Casa da Arquitectura – Portuguese Centre for Architecture (via Companhia Instável) and Presente (Viseu). She cocreated several projects for young audiences together with Nuno Preto. She is co-artistic director in several activities involving the community in the scope of the projects Aldear and Odisseia Nacional, both managed by Luís Sousa Ferreira. Her latest creation, dalila, was co-produced by Teatro Municipal do Porto.