Paulo Henrique is a Portuguese choreographer and multimediaperformance artist. As a choreographer, he has created a number of performance and installation works, integrating different media such as video, sound, text, voice, and plastic arts. Since 2009 Paulo Henrique is based in Paris, France.
Biography
Originally from Luanda, Angola, Henrique's family moved to Leiria, Portugal, in 1975 as a result of the civil war in Angola. He studied at Forum Dança in Lisbon. In addition, he took part in several artistic residencies such as "European Choreographic Forum"/Shinkansen and "Korper-technik|Body-Technology". Paulo Henrique was awarded a grant from Centro Nacional de Cultura, the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Foundation to attend the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York, where he also attended Film/Video Arts institute. From 1997 to 1999 he took an internship with the Trisha BrownDance Company and collaborated with various other artists and disciplines. He has worked on projects and works with Vera Mantero, Bernardo Montet, Margarida Bettencout,Meg Stuart, Meredith Monk, Robert Flynt, Jack Shamblin, Lance Gries, Olga Mesa, Lidia Martinez, Madalena Vitorino, David Zambrano, Barbara Duchow. He has taught at Forum Dança, C.E.M., and Arte Total, and has been a guest lecturer at Brighton University. Several of his works are now stored as part of the Digital Performance Archive in London and his work has been discussed in the book "Digital Performance" by Steve Dixon, MIT press 2007. His work has been performed throughout Europe, Brazil, Africa, and in the United States at such venues as the Dance Theatre Workshop and La Mama in New York, the Mousonturm in Frankfurt, and the Belém Cultural Center in Lisbon. He has had works commissioned by the Festival Danças Na Cidade and for Lisbon's Expo 98. Paulo Henrique was one of the first Portuguese artists to integrate new technology & video into the performances to create stage multimedia pieces.
"Transformation ou métamorphose" - Vers un progrès ininterrompu - video/photography, Paris 2012
"Minimally Invasive" | artist collective | "Body and Bodies, transgressions and narratives” | MiMo, Image Museum, Leiria 2013
He has worked on projects and works with Vera Mantero, Bernardo Montet, Margarida Bettencout, Meg Stuart, Meredith Monk, Robert Flynt, Jack Shamblin, Lance Gries, Olga Mesa, Lidia Martinez, Madalena Vitorino, David Zambrano, Barbara Duchow. He has taught at Forum Dança, C.E.M., and Arte Total, and has been a guest lecturer at Brighton University. Several of his works are now stored as part of the Digital Performance Archive in London and his work has been discussed in the book "Digital Performance" by Steve Dixon, MIT press 2007. In 2009 Paulo Henrique moved to Paris. His most recent project is "Frame & Re-Frame", which premiered in Lisbon at the Belém Cultural Centre, September 18, 2010.
