Andréia Nhur is a Brazilian dancer, actress, researcher and a professor in the Performing Arts Department of University of São Paulo-USP (Brazil). She has graduated in Dance from the University of Campinas (Brazil) and holds a doctoral degree in Semiotics and Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. In 2011, she did an internship at the Dance Department from University of Paris 8 (France). As a performer, she has already performed in International Festivals in Brazil, Portugal, Belgium, Argentina and Bolivia. Since 2004, she has been working in solo performances and collaborating with other artists. Since 2007, she has been taking part in collaborative processes with her mother, an important Brazilian choreographer named Janice Vieira, and Pró-Posição Group in autobiographical performances, mixing dance, music, theater and video. She also works as an actress in plays of Katharsis Theater Group, directed by her father, Roberto Gill Camargo, a Brazilian theater director and light designer. In her last creations, she has been interested in the relations between movement and voice creating a mutual choreographic design. She is the holder of the following awards: Association of Art Critics of São Paulo Award in 2013, nominated for the Best Actress Awards by the Association of Art Critics of São Paulo in 2015, Denilto Gomes Award of best dancer in 2017 and nominated for the Best Play Award by the Association of Art Critics of São Paulo Award. In 2020-2021, she worked as a Visiting Professor sponsored by CAPES-Brazil at Ghent University, in Belgium and carried out researches in the Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies.
FORMER ARTISTIC WORKS
SOLOS
SWAN - CORPO ADAPTADO (2007)
Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro, 2007)
Pac Award – São Paulo State Government (2007)
SWAN - CONTAMINAÇÕES INVOLUNTÁRIAS (2006)
Stimulus Award – Festival de Dança de Londrina (2006)
BUQUÊ (2004)
Festival Internacional da Novadança (Brasília, 2004); Festival Internacional da Fábrica (Portugal, 2006)
Other solos: Impermanências (2006); Levante ou Siga ou Mestre (2007 - Projeto "12 mentiras sobre a mesma garrafa"); and Nina (2003).
COLLABORATIONS
KATHARSIS GROUP
(actress and body-vocal coacher)
ASTROS PATAS E BANANAS (2010)
Cooperativa Paulista de Teatro Award 2010 (Best performance)
Best Actress Awards: Fentepira 2010
AVES, OVOS E PARAFUSOS (2006)
Best Performance, Best Dramaturgy and Best Actress Awards: Festival Nacional de Teatro de Blumenau (2007); Festival Nacional de Teatro de Rio das Ostras (2006) and Festival Nacional de Teatro de Americana (2006)
UM BONDE CHAMADO DESEJO (2002)
2º Best Performance at the Mapa Cultural Paulista Estadual; Best Actress Award at the Mapa Cultural Paulista Regional
OUTROS TRABALHOS
Fluxus (2015)
Endoscopia (2004)
A Casa de Bernarda Alba (2002)
Babilônia (2001)
Shopstrot (2001)
Morangos Urbanos (2000)
PRÓ-POSIÇÃO COMPANY
(dancer and creator)
O CISNE, MINHA MÃE E EU (2008)
Festival Contemporâneo de Dança
São Paulo Association of Art Critics Award - APCA 2013 (Dance Research)
OTHER WORKS
Miguilim, a luz dos olhos (1999)
Paixão segundo São Mateus (1998)
KD COLLECTIVE
(director and dancer)
CAMPO MINADO (2010)
Plataforma Estado da Dança
ProAC– 2010 Award (São Paulo State Government)
OUTROS TRABALHOS
Esquizo (2009)
Evolon (2006)