Bárbara Faustino (BR/PT) is a dancer, performer and dance teacher who graduated from the Escola Municipal de Bailado do Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, where she studied: Classical Dance, Modern Dance (Martha Graham), Anatomy, Art History, Dance History, Music, Creativity and Improvisation. She also has a degree in Dance from the Dance and Movement course at Anhembi Morumbi University and took the Pre-Primary and Primary teachers' course at the Royal Academy of Dance of London. 

 

Based in Portugal since 2014, she has worked as a dancer, manager and dance teacher at Musibéria - International Center for Iberian World Music and Dance - in Serpa, Alentejo, where she developed authorial research in the areas of dance teaching and creation.

 

She currently lives in Lisbon, where she works as a dance teacher at venues such as the Inatel Academy and Fórum Dança, as well as continuing her artistic research at the crossroads between teaching, performance and creation. She recently took part in the revival of Jérôme Bel's play THE SHOW MUST GO ON. She founded HIDRA dance company, in partnership with Argentinian dancer Janice Iandritsky, and is also a member of Mosaicollective.