2. Brazilian, Paulo was born in 1989, São Paulo, SP. He is contemporary dancer (DRT 34570), pianist (OMB 54925) and
researcher. 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.
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. 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. 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.
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.
3. 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).
CHAOS MEDITATION | https://youtu.be/K-AJc7A818I
LISTEN| https://youtu.be/g56aqhu6K_g
CLOISTER | https://youtu.be/9vDq9LiwhI8
SULLIED | https://youtu.be/g56aqhu6K_g
TOXIC HUES| https://youtu.be/AIbPQRwdy2A
THEMA | https://youtu.be/ooZ7sw24g1Q
Mobile phone | +55 (11) 968-199-447
E-mails | paulo2.cavalcanti@usp.br; paulocavalcantti@hotmail.com
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