Marlene Monteiro Freitas

Marlene Monteiro Freitas (Cape Verde, 1979) studied dance at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, at ESD - Escola Superior de Dança and at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. She has worked with choreographers such as Loic Touzé, Emmanuelle Huynh, Tânia Carvalho and Boris Charmatz. Among others, her creations include: Canine Jaunâtre 3 (2024), LULU (2023), RI TE (2022), ÔSS (2022), the performance Idiota and exhibition X AND (2022), Pierrot Lunaire (2021), Mal - Embriaguez Divina (2020), the installation Cattivo (2019), Canine Jaunâtre 3 (2018), Bacantes - Prelúdio para uma Purga (2017), Jaguar (2015), De Marfim e Carne Estátuas Também Sofrem (2014), Paraíso-Colecção Privada (2012), (M)imosa (2011), Guintche (2010), A Seriedade do Animal (2009), Uns e Outros (2008), A Improbabilidade da Certeza (2006), Larvar (2006), Primeira Impressão (2005). NÔT is Marlene’s latest creation for the Avignon Festival. The common denominator of these works is openness, hybridity, impurity and intensity. In 2015, in Lisbon, she co-founded P.OR.K, the structure that has produced his work ever since. In 2017, Jaguar received the SPA Award for Choreography and the Government of Cape Verde honored her cultural achievements. In 2018, she was awarded a Silver Lion by the Venice Biennale. In 2020, Bacchae received the Best International Performance Award from Les Prémis de la Critica d'Arts Escèniques de Barcelona, and in 2022, she was awarded the Chanel Next Prize and the Evens Arts Prize. Since 2020, she has been co-curator of the (un)common ground project, about the artistic and cultural inscription of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.