2. BIO
Hybrid artist, Paulo was born in 1989, São Paulo, SP. Contemporary dancer, pianist and performer. His first
experiences in music and dance started in Mairiporã, SP, between the years 2005 and 2006. His aesthetic research in
the arts goes through the multidisciplinary practice, the philosophy of the body, and experimental essays integrating
the human movement along with musicality, visualities, and new media.
SPECIFIC TRAINING IN ARTS
Studied contemporary dance mainly with Mauricio de Oliveira and Claudia de Souza, and also with Morena
Nascimento, Ismael Ivo, Sandro Borelli, Edy Wilson and Márcio Dantas. His background in classical dance occurred
mainly with Luis Ribeiro, Neyde Rossi and Eduardo Bonnis. Graduated in Classical Piano with Horacio Gouveia by
Escola de Música do Estado de São Paulo – EMESP/TOM JOBIM.
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
Graduated in International Trade by Universidade Paulista-UNIP, and still graduating, at the 4th year in the
course of Bachelor in Physical Activity Sciences at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of the University of
São Paulo (EACH-USP). Integrates academic research groups: 'ECOAR' (Studies in Body and Art), with guidance
by Marilia Velardi (EACH-USP), and 'Hybrid Poetics - the theater interface with the visual arts' at the Arts Institute
IA/UNESP, guidance by Agnus Valente.
ADDITIONAL FORMATION AND WORKSHOPS
Accomplished the courses: ‘Performance Creation/Live Art’ with Elisa Band in SP Escola de Teatro; ‘Cultural
Production for music' with Inty Queiroz in EPICENTRO CULTURAL and the philosophy course 'Body, thought
and freedom in Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson and Deleuze' with Amauri Ferreira, from Nomadic School of
Philosophy.
Recent workshops: Contemporary Dance with Rafaela Sahyoun at Capital 35 - Jorge Garcia Dance Company;
‘Still Life’ with Dimitris Papaioannou at Tusp Maria Antônia by MITsp; ‘Darkness Pomb’ with Modern Table
Contemporary Dance Company at Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP); 'Videodance creation' with André Uba,
Anselmo Mancini and Cynthia Domênico at SESC Pinheiros; 'Mind as Choreographic Body' with Ricardo Gali from
Cia Perversos Polimorfos at SESC Belenzinho; 'Afro-Brazilian dances and Mozambican experiences' with Lenna
Bahule in FUNARTE / SP; and 'Merce Cunningham Tecnique' with Gícia Amorim in OFICINA CULTURAL
OSWALD DE ANDRADE.
3. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Choreographer and contemporary dance teacher at Studio de Dança Sandra Sueli for about eight years. Paulo has
worked for the academies: Ballet Ismael Guiser Yoko Okada, Coreo Dance School, Studio Kitty Bodenheim, Bravo
Ballet and Dance Center Nice Leite-Ilara Lopes. In 2011, was a ballet pianist at Espaço Dança e Vida. In 2012 and
2013 was soloist at Cia Balé de Bolso, playing Romeo in the remake "Romeo and Juliet – neither one or another",
directed by Esmeralda Penha Gazal. In 2013, he joined the cast of the CIA DANÇAS - Claudia de Souza, with
whom he studied techniques of modern dance (Graham); and attended the opera AIDA, at the Municipal Theater of
São Paulo, directed by Marco Gandini. In 2014 he founded a project of integrated arts through video "E | P
Ensaios Poïéticos", forming the group Corpo Camerístico, with artists of music, dance, visual and performing arts.
The production of this group has achieved several exhibitions and awards in national and international festivals of
videodance, highlighting: CCSP Weeks of Dance 2015 - Exhibition of videoart in dance with the video CLOISTER;
and 23th Festival Mix Brazil 2015 in the official selection with the video LISTEN.
In 2015, he directed the show SUITE EM DEZ ATOS with the group Corpo Camerístico at SESC Belenzinho,
which was part of “Caminhos da Dança” Programme, proposition coming from artistic actions of Ismael Ivo and
Ivaldo Bertazzo. He has also danced in Bogotá, Colombia, at the II Encuentro latino Americano de investigadores
sobre el cuerpo y corporalidades en las culturas, with the piece Corpus Sonum, for piano (composition by Cauê
Muratt) and body. As a performer, attended the assembly of experimental performative theater show ANATOMY
OF THE FHAUN, based on the work of Arthur Rimbaud, and also linked to the Performing Arts Laboratory of
Escola de Comunicações e Artes (CAC / ECA-USP), also linked to the EAD (School of Dramatic Art, USP), TUSP
Maria Antonia and SP ESCOLA DE TEATRO.
In the year of 2016 Paulo joined the cast of SIAMESES DANCE COMPANY, directed by Maurício de Oliveira,
during the São Paulo Tour with the work ALBEDO (Project supported by PROAC).
VIDEOART PIECES DIRECTED
CHAOS MEDITATION | https://youtu.be/K-AJc7A818I
MATIZES DE TOXICIDADE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIbPQRwdy2A
OUVE (Listen)| https://youtu.be/g56aqhu6K_g
CLOISTER (Do Claustro) | https://youtu.be/9vDq9LiwhI8
FEL I CIDADE (Sullied) | https://youtu.be/g56aqhu6K_g
THEMA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooZ7sw24g1Q
4. CONTACT INFO
Mobile phone | +55 (11) 968-199-447
E-mails | paulo2.cavalcanti@usp.br; paulocavalcantti@hotmail.com
SOCIAL MEDIA
facebook.com/paulo.cavalcanti.18
instagram.com/lcavalcantipaulo
youtube.com/c/PauloCavalcantii
google.com/+PauloCavalcantii
corpocameristico.wix.com/projetoep
Photo: Alessandra Alves
