Rodrigo Gonçalves Sousa Loureiro

Who are you as a performer/artist?

I see myself as an artist in constant evolution by taking inspiration from everything surrounding me and all of my experiences. I like to think as performing and creating art as a very human and raw action where, in a very collaborative way, I find pleasure in thinking together and creating something very organically.

What are your ambitions?

I want to achieve a balance between career and personal life. I don’t want them to overpass each other and I don’t want to have to give up on one in order to get the other.
There’s this connection between body and mind that really interests me and I fully believe that they fully rely on each other at all times.

Of course I want to keep developing my practice as a dancer and choreographer in a safe and healthy working environment.

Where do you find inspiration?

I find inspiration on everyone working in the studio with me; on people walking alongside me in the streets; on the train looking out the window; when I’m silent for hours in my head or when I’m talking for hours with acolleague; on the quietness (but yet so alive) of nature; on my family; on the people I left behind; ON THE BUILDINGS, their stillness and all the movement surrounding them; in how everything can be looked at as a performance.

What did you do at your internship & what did you learn?

I did a 4 months internship at Skånes Dansteater in Malmö, Sweden. During this time I performed the pieces “Once a Whisper” by Helena Franzen and “Mozart’s Requiem” by Örjan Andersson. In Skånes, I got the chance to dive deep into this research of becoming a professional and to do this in such an amazing working environment full of loving and supportive people was the best I could have asked for.

From January on, I moved back to Portugal where I started teaching and freelancing. Thankfully, work appeared quite fast and I’m happily busy combining working full time with Companhia Paulo Ribeiro in Lisbon while doing projects as a freelance dancer and presenting and developing my own work.

What you’re doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it.” - Marina Abramović
Walk Through Walls, A Memoir

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