Fernando Belfiore
Fernando Belfiore (1983 – São Paulo, Brazil) is a choreographer, teacher, researcher, and performance artist currently based in Amsterdam. Fernando graduated from the School for New Dance Development at Amsterdam School of the Arts – SNDO/AHK. Before moving to Europe, Fernando studied theater at Escola de Arte Dramática at Universidade de São Paulo – EAD/USP. Fernando is a guest teacher of Movement-Research at SNDO since 2013 and has been teaching workshops, such as SISTER’s performance practice abroad, in places such as Impulstanz, Viena, and Garage Contemporary Museum, Moscow.
After graduating, Fernando received a mention of best direction in Spain at ACT Festival and was nominated for ITS Festival Choreography Award with The miserable Thing, a performance on meditations for wealth. Fernando was selected for the Impulstanz, DANCEWEB scholarship in 2013. Also in 2013, Fernando started to develop the performance improvisation practice called Supernatural together with Florentina Holzinger.
At the end of 2014, the solo on alchemy and practices of the heart, Al13FB<3, was selected to Aerowaves Top Twenty 2016. Since then, Fernando has toured extensively in many European countries, America, and Asia in places such as American Realness Festival in New York, Fierce Festival in Birmingham, in Guangdong Dance Festival, Festival Contemporâneo de Dança in São Paulo, among others. In 2016, Fernando represented The Netherlands at the Olympic Cultural Program in Rio de Janeiro in the dance category creating a mass choreography and installation in collaboration with Dani Lima. Fernando was commissioned to make work for students of FONTYS Academy in Tilburg and directed the gender-bending femme futuristic work D3US/X\M4CHIN4.. During the season of 2018-2019, Fernando got a mention as the most promising new maker in the Theaterjaarboek for the season of 2018- 2019 according to Alexander Hiskemuller from Trouw. Lately, Fernando has engaged in the problem of freelancer work.
Fernando has been artist-in-residence at Dansmakers Amsterdam and was a guest artist of ICK. Fernando is currently part of DANSCO, a nomadic structure for artistic exchange and production, founded together with Vincent Riebeek, Michele Rizzo, Florentina Holzinger, Renée Copraij, and Marieke van Bueren. Fernando also created a series of social practices in Amsterdam called EXPERIMENTS inspired by LOTE/Cristian Duarte residences and has been collaborating with artists from the local scene and abroad.
After graduating, Fernando received a mention of best direction in Spain at ACT Festival and was nominated for ITS Festival Choreography Award with The miserable Thing, a performance on meditations for wealth. Fernando was selected for the Impulstanz, DANCEWEB scholarship in 2013. Also in 2013, Fernando started to develop the performance improvisation practice called Supernatural together with Florentina Holzinger.
At the end of 2014, the solo on alchemy and practices of the heart, Al13FB<3, was selected to Aerowaves Top Twenty 2016. Since then, Fernando has toured extensively in many European countries, America, and Asia in places such as American Realness Festival in New York, Fierce Festival in Birmingham, in Guangdong Dance Festival, Festival Contemporâneo de Dança in São Paulo, among others. In 2016, Fernando represented The Netherlands at the Olympic Cultural Program in Rio de Janeiro in the dance category creating a mass choreography and installation in collaboration with Dani Lima. Fernando was commissioned to make work for students of FONTYS Academy in Tilburg and directed the gender-bending femme futuristic work D3US/X\M4CHIN4.. During the season of 2018-2019, Fernando got a mention as the most promising new maker in the Theaterjaarboek for the season of 2018- 2019 according to Alexander Hiskemuller from Trouw. Lately, Fernando has engaged in the problem of freelancer work.
Fernando has been artist-in-residence at Dansmakers Amsterdam and was a guest artist of ICK. Fernando is currently part of DANSCO, a nomadic structure for artistic exchange and production, founded together with Vincent Riebeek, Michele Rizzo, Florentina Holzinger, Renée Copraij, and Marieke van Bueren. Fernando also created a series of social practices in Amsterdam called EXPERIMENTS inspired by LOTE/Cristian Duarte residences and has been collaborating with artists from the local scene and abroad.
