Júlio Cerdeira

Júlio Cerdeira (1994) is a queer artist who works at the intersection of artistic practices to rethink the materiality, identity and political dimension of queer bodies. He reinvents contact improvisation practices to compose fluid and transitory bodies, creates and stages feminist dramaturgies, and questions the place of violence in contemporary society. He holds a Master’s degree in performing arts, specialising in artistic direction and performance, from ESMAE – Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo. He holds a postgraduate qualification in contemporary dance from the same institution and a degree in theatre from the University of Minho. He is currently pursuing a PhD in contemporary art at the College of Arts, University of Coimbra. As a performer and artist, she has collaborated with creators and organisations such as Né Barros, Elisabete Magalhães, Gustavo Ciríaco, Tales Frey, Rogério Nuno Costa, Sandro William Junqueira, Diogo Liberano, the International Contemporary Dance Collective, the Bosnian National Theatre Zenica, the Festival of International Alternative Theatre (Podgorica), Hosek Contemporary, Instável – Choreographic Centre, Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte and the Cerveira International Art Biennial, amongst others. In 2019, he co-founded BANQUETE (Braga), where he works in the fields of creation, research and programming.