Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Diniz Sanchez studied dance and choreography in the Superior School of Dance and Forum Dança (Lisbon) and Centre Chorégraphique de Montpellier – Mathilde Monnier (France), with a CNC scholarship (2000).
Dancer/performer for several companies in Portugal, France, Belgium and India since 1994, he started creating his own work spanning dance, theatre, video, singing, performance art….
Creator and director for Lua Company since its creation in 2004. Diniz has presented pieces in Portugal, Spain, France, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Since 2006 he has been developing the character Spicy Tutuboy based on whom he has done several performances questioning identity, gender, sexualities, nationalisms, etc.
Since 2007 he started working in the Opera world, mostly collaborating with Spanish director Emilio Sagi, creating more than a dozen operas and musical theatre productions, as choreographer and assistant director, in Theatres around the world (Spain, Portugal, France, Switzerland, United States of America, Brazil…).
He has also started doing his own stagings for opera and musical theatre, being the responsable for the first presentation in India of Menotti’s opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors”, for the Lyric Ensemble of Delhi.
After several years in and out of India, in 2019 he settled in Kerala, South of India, with a GDA scholarship for his research on Kerala performing arts forms.
His future plans are to continue to work in his projects for opera, dance and gender performance (with Spicy Tutuboy), and to share his acquired knowledges through teaching, therapy and human touch.
