Tânia Carvalho

Born in Portugal in 1976, Tânia Carvalho began classical dance at the age of 5 and took up contemporary dance at 14.

Between 1994 and 1999, she took three advanced courses: Visual Arts at ESTGAD in Caldas da Rainha (Portugal), a module at the Lisbon Higher School of Dance, and another in Contemporary Dance Performance at Fórum Dança.

The year 1997 marked a turning point in the artist's life when she founded “Bomba Suicida” with a few colleagues and friends, a cultural promotion association to which she remained attached until 2014.

In 2005, as a renowned choreographer, she led the choreography classes of the Artistic Creation program organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.

Tânia Carvalho frequently moves between the fields of choreography and musical composition. She has established herself as an artist whose desire to express herself is not limited to a single language. Her creations venture into gray areas, such as the revitalization of painting, expressionism, and the memory of cinema.

In 2021, she was invited by (LA)HORDE to create the piece One Of Four Periods In Time (Ellipsis) with dancers from the Ballet National de Marseille, as part of the shared program CHILDS/CARVALHO/LASSEINDRA/DOHERTY.