Margarida Constantino

margavconstantino@gmail.com 

margarida@platano.productions

Intagram:  @margarida1.61 

Platano

platano.works@gmail.com

Intagram:  @platano_productions

Languages

Portuguese: Native Language 

English: Excellent 

Spanish: Conversational 

Dutch: Learning

EDUCATION

 Ginasiano Dance School (PT) 2013-2016

Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Bachelor of Dance (PT) 2016-2017  

ArtEZ University of the Arts Bachelor for Dancer/Maker (NL) 2017-2021 

Honors Programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL) 2018-2020 

PERFORMANCE  EXPERIENCE

• ‘We Are Earth’ By Nicole Beautler co production with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (BE/NL) 2024-2025

• Performance for Lea Ellemann, co-production with Ulrike Quade Company and Event Robotics (NL) 2024

• Performance research with musician Mariavi Molina, co-production with the Zwolse theaters. (NL) 2024

• The Circle of Truth: Part II (NL) 2024

PluggedLiveShows with Carine Grizzo at Cybeles Palace, Madrid (ES) 2023

• ‘(enter the)fray’by Christina Mastori 2022/23 (NL)

• ‘OSMOSIS’ by Henry Rodriguez 2023 (NL)

• Dancer in the Company of LeineRoebana (NL) 2021-2023

• ‘Lowlands’ by Helder Seabra at Companhia Instável - Intern (PT) 2021  

• ‘OUR HOUSE IS ON FIRE’ by Nicole Beutler 2021 (NL)

OWN CREATIONS

• ‘Sites of Otherness’ Theater aan de Rijn.- residency. 

• ‘Sagração de quem Era’ rework for Pedra Dura Festival. (PT)2024

• Choreography for NACHTKRACHT by Justin de Verteller, Museumnacht (NL) 2024

• ‘Rite van wat Was’ with the support or in co-production with of AFK, Triplets, ICK, DoorFoudation, Bluest Monday Festival - DeHallen, Delft Fringe, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Frascati, CultuurFonds (NL) 2023-2024 

• ‘SCAPEGOAT’ choreography for film by Daan Sander and Casper Heijnneman. 2024- Cinedans 2025

• ‘Grains of Noise’ representing HJS at the Vondelpark Openluchttheater (NL) 2024

• Studio/K - Movies that Matter Festival, performance about “Samuel, and the Light” film. (NL) 2024

• ‘SELF-HELP: How to make babies, have a career and eat organic’ short film. (NL) 2023

• Reoden1800 Gallery Opening performance, (about the peruvian struggle), (NL) 2023

• ‘Almost like Home’ choreography and dance for film by Bezahd Safari, Hamburg  (DE) 2023

• ‘SELF-HELP: How to make babies, have a career and eat organic’, MagnezyDanceProductions, Het Amsterdams Theaterhuis (NL) 2023

• ‘Sagração de quem Era’ TMP/Companhia  Instável (PT) 2023 with the support of LeineRoebana Dance Company (NL)

• ‘That’s so Tapical’, with Laura Daelemans at TMP/Companhia Instável (PT)

• ’21’ at Korzo Theater - Meet the neXt (NL) 2021 

• ‘I don’t want to die stupid’ for Nienke RooijakkersArtEZ (2021) 

• ‘The Elephant Outside the room’ in collaboration with Justine Gouache ( NL) 2021  

• ‘CARMEN’ for StoryTailors colab- Photography piece (NL)2021 

• ‘The American Dream’ with composer Martijn Jongman (ArtEZ, NL) 2020 

• ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ with Laura Daelemans (ArtEZ, NL) 2020  

• ‘Come as you are’ duet performance with Laura Volpe (ArtEZ, NL) 2019  

• ‘To kill my darlings’ in collaboration with musician Dale Smeets (ArtEZ, NL) 2018 

• ‘iːkwɪpɔɪz’ in collaboration with Michael De Haan (ArtEZ, NL) 2018 

PERFORMANCE / Internships 

• Transmotion (dance score) by Dario Tortorelli - Repetitor (NL) 2021

• ‘Shoula’, Eldad Ben-Sasson (ArtEZ, NL) 2020 

• Ohad Naharin (masterclass) (NL) 2020  

• Hofesh Shechter (workshop) (NL) 2020 

• Sidi Larbi/Eastman Foundation (repertoire) (ArtEZ, NL) 2019 

• ‘Motus Mori’ (installation), Katja Heitmann at Museum Arnhem (ArtEZ, NL) 2019

• ‘Blushing’, Marco Goecke (ArtEZ, NL) 2019 

• ‘MAREA’, Roser Lopez Espinosa (ArtEZ, NL) 2018  

• Trisha Brown Repertoire, Eva Karczag (ArtEZ, NL) 2017 

• Michael Clark Company (company class) 2017 

• ‘They were not sleeping, just dreaming’, Philip Taylor (ArtEZ, NL) 2017 

• ‘O PONTO VIVO’ by Amélia Bentes (PT) 2017 

• ‘Se alguma vez precisares da minha vida, vem e toma-a’ Intern (Companhia Instável, PT) 2016 ‘MAMA’ by Mafalda Deville  (Companhia Instável, PT) 2015  

• Creation process with Gaël Domenger at Malandain Ballet Biarritz, 2015

TEACHING  

Amsterdam Dance Center (2023) DusDance (2023) Guest teacher at Modern Bruises (2022) Improvisation class at ArtEZ (2021). Composition workshop- Watapana Dance Company (2021)

MISCELLANEOUS

 Won the Linda Olthof Fund Scholarship in 2020. Invited to Choreograph at the t Kibbutzim  College in Israel - לאמנויות המחול - סמינר הקיבוצים הספר בית. I studied music theory, played the piano at AMVP in Portugal.

Researching and Writing

Honours Programme Student  

The Honours Programme- ‘Theory and Research’-offers a two-year track in English that supplements your Bachelor’s course. You attend lectures and workshops on current developments in various arts disciplines, the relation between academic and artistic research, arts philosophy and theory, and the social debate. In addition, you conduct your own research. The programme is taught by a team of research tutors along with many guest lecturers and has been developed by the Theory in the Arts Professorship.

Artistic Interests 

• Theater course- Contemporary School of arts and Performance, Porto, Portugal. (2015-2016) 

• Piano and Music Theory- AMVP Academia de Música de Vílar do Paraíso. 

Computer skills 

Experience with programs such as Audacity, Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve, Microsoft Office.