Paulo Henrique is a Portuguese choreographer and multimedia performance artist. As a choreographer, he has created a number of performance and installation works, integrating different media such as video, sound, text, voice, and plastic arts. Since 2009 Paulo Henrique is based in Paris, France.
Paulo Henrique was awarded a grant from Centro Nacional de Cultura, the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Foundation to attend the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York, where he also attended Film/Video Arts institute. From 1997 to 1999 he took an internship with the Trisha Brown Dance Company and collaborated with various other artists and disciplines.
He has worked on projects and works with Vera Mantero, Bernardo Montet, Margarida Bettencourt, Meg Stuart, Meredith Monk, Robert Flynt, Jack Shamblin, Lance Gries, Olga Mesa, Lidia Martinez, Madalena Vitorino, David Zambrano, Barbara Duchow, Iris Brosch, Play Bleu, João Martinho Moura, Roman Polański.
He has taught at Forum Dança, C.E.M., and Arte Total, and has been a guest lecturer at Brighton University (postgraduate diploma in digital media arts). Several of his works are now stored as part of the Digital Performance Archive (DPA) in London and his work has been discussed in the book “Digital Performance” by Steve Dixon, MIT press 2007.
Since 2014 he has participated in the GUELRA project, a choreographic research laboratory invited by ARTE TOTAL, Braga. Since 2016, he created and co-directed the “Braga Internacional Video Dança Festival”. On the one hand, to emphasize other ways of looking at the body and dance, investing it in another space and time and extending it to other purposes of looking at the body and possibilities of dance through other tools and concepts.
His work has been performed throughout Europe, Brazil, and the United States of America at such venues as the Dance Theatre Workshop and La Mama in New York, the Mousonturm in Frankfurt, and the Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon. He has had works commissioned by the Festival Danças Na Cidade, for Lisbon’s Expo 98 and Arte Total.
Paulo Henrique was one of the first Portuguese artists to integrate new technology & video into the performances to create stage multimedia pieces.
