Leandro de Souza

Leandro de Souza (Brazil/The Netherlands) is a choreographer and dance artist. His artistic work is based on establishing partnerships and forming temporary groups around the achievement of shared artistic interests, which form a mobile collaborative network, providing support for ongoing research and production. He develops his choreographic work around concepts such as escape, opacity and entanglement. Leandro de Souza flirts with words, voice, body, movement, objects and diverse materialities, at a crossroads between practice and theory. He has a degree and a master’s degree in dance from the State University of Campinas. He graduated from the DAS Choreography programme (Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University of the Arts, The Netherlands). In 2018, he received the performance award from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics for his solo Sismos e Volts [Earthquakes and Volts]. His works include Eles fazem Dança Contemporânea [They Do Contemporary Dance] and A Gente é Sutil, Vocês são Explícitos [We’re Subtle, You’re Explicit].