Mônica Lira
- Category Choreographers
- Since 1987
- Interaction with countries 8
Presentation/Mini-bio:
Ballerina, choreographer, teacher, dance artist and producer. She is the Grupo Experimental’s (Recife) Director since 1993, the year of its foundation, where she has created over 20 dance projects. Over the group’s 25 years of existence she’s gone all over Brazil, three European Countries and 5 South American ones. For 10 years she was the head the social project “Núcleo de Formação de Dança” serving 500 young people. Post-graduate in “Cultural Production Management” and in “Specialization in Contemporary Dance Studies” by the Federal University of Bahia (FUB), in 2020 she gets into the PRODAN as a master in dance through the FUB. Today she researches the work “Pontilhados - Human Interventions in Urban Environments”, the urban intervention “Experiencidade”, and, during this pandemic year the “Experienciaathome”, a project created for the Rede SESC PE in September, 2020. In March, 2021 she released the video dance project “The Rats aren’t in the basement”, sponsored by the Aldir Blank Bill.
About her work:
- Zambo (Grupo Experimental- 1997);
- Lúmen (Grupo Experimental- 2002);
- Barro-macaxeira (Grupo Experimental- 2003);
- Quincunce (Grupo Experimental- 2000);
- Conceição (Grupo Experimental- 2007);
- Ilhados-encontrando as pontes (Grupo Experimental- 2010);
- Compartilhados (Grupo Experimental- 2013);
- Pontilhados (Grupo Experimental- 2016);
- Breguetu (Grupo Experimental- 2017);
- Pontilhados-intervenções humanas em ambientes urbanos (Grupo Experimental- 2018);
- Antes que desapareça- ato I (Grupo Experimental- 2019);
- Experiencidade (Grupo Experimental- 2019);
- Experienciaemcasa (Grupo Experimental- 2020);
- Os Ratos não Estão no Porão (Grupo Experimental- 2021).
