Choreographer and contextual artist, Gustavo Ciríaco's work transits between the performing arts and the imaging arts, performance, architecture, anthropology and landscaping. Themes such as the present and presence, landscape representation, perception, urban space, situated performance and cognitive immersion are constantly addressed in his work. He now visits and works at the Diogo de Gouveia Secondary School (Beja).
BIOGRAPHY
Gustavo Ciríaco (Rio de Janeiro) is a choreographer and contextual artist, whose work transits between the performing arts and the imaging arts, performance, architecture, anthropology and landscaping. A political scientist and dancer by training, graduated from the Angel Vianna School (Rio de Janeiro) and the Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences-UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro), Ciríaco formed with Frederico Paredes the Ikswalsinats Dance Duo for 10 years, a pioneer in the use of of humor in Brazilian contemporary dance. Marked by a pronounced site-specific profile, his works make a dialogue between context and architecture, geography and housing, reality and fiction, in an ongoing research for 20 years on the extensive fields of the art of dance making. Ciríaco has worked transversally across different fields of knowledge and the arts, and their different modes of interaction, bringing together tools and insights on how to deal with common time and space. To this end, his work has involved dance, theater, video, landscape constructions, storytelling and urban actions in conversation pieces where the dimensions of the encounter are the inspirations for fictions and shared situations. Themes such as present & presence, landscape representation, perception, urban space, situated performance, cognitive immersion are constantly addressed in his work.
