is an artist, performer, and dance theater maker based in the Netherlands. Dedicated to fostering collaboration between different practices and performance vocabularies, she uses dance and spoken text as her main vehicles for storytelling. Her work is quirky, ironic, and inevitably social, very contrasting within itself- punk performances, theatrical dancy dance that aims to disrespect the conventions of theater, and contemporary comic tragedies.
Originally from Portugal, Constantino graduated from ArtEZ University of the Arts and has been based in the Netherlands since 2017. She worked with Nicole Beutler Projects (NL) and Companhia Instável (PT), where she was a resident artist twice. From 2021 to 2023, she was a dancer for LeineRoebana (NL).
She has choreographed for films, including Almost Like Home, Tao Naar Dis, and SCAPEGOAT, and created performances such as Sagração de quem Era, SELF-HELP: How to Make Babies, Have a Career and Eat Organic, Rite van wat Was, and Grains of Noise, presented at festivals and theaters including Bluest Monday Festival, Movies that Matter Festival, Café Theater Festival Utrecht, Delft Fringe, Amsterdam Fringe, Zingende Beelden, Cinedans, Vondelpark Openluchttheater, Frascati, and Theater a/d Rijn.
She performed for Henry Rodriguez, Christina Mastori, LeineRoebana, Carine Grizzo for PluggedLiveShows. Last year she worked as a performer for Lea Ellemann, co-production with Ulrike Quade Company and Event Robotics, as a actor and dancer for The Circle of Truth: Part II, and in her own work. She currently performs in NOW WE ARE EARTH / An Orchestra by Nicole Beutler (co-production with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen), is pursuing a master’s degree in theater directing at RITCS in Brussels, working with puppeteer Wojciech Stachura helping his vision come to life, and is project managing and creating new works for Platano.
Picture by Simon Duijs from 'WILD IS THE WIND'