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Sílvia Pinto Coelho is a choreographer, dancer, performer, and researcher based in Lisbon. Currently working at ICNOVA, on a Post-doctoral project. Her research concerns choreographic thinking, dance studies, performance studies, and experimental choreography/experimental cinema. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Arts (Body, Image, and Choreographic Thinking 2016), a Master's degree in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies (2010), a License degree in Anthropology (2005), a Bachelor degree in Dance Performance at E.S.D. Lisbon (1996) and did the professional contemporary dance course in Forum Dança (1997/1999). She also collaborates with AND_Lab, baldio - performance studies, and with RIA - artistic research net. Coelho has been developing her professional activity as a choreographer, dancer, and performer since 1996. She has produced, choreographed, and participated in several choreographic research processes, live performances, and films with artists from different fields. She presented her own choreographic work in Portugal, Germany, and Spain (selection): Einzimmerwohnung (2004), Süss (2007), Un Femme (2009), Aprés 7 Ans de Malheures Elle Brisa Son Mirroir (2013), Capricho#2, Outra Coisa (2017), Capricho#12, Jogo de Espelhos. Sílvia has been teaching dance practices at c.e.m. and attention practices at the AND_Lab summer courses. Since 2015 she teaches the seminar “Dance in Context” as a guest professor for the Performing Arts and the Communication and Arts master degree courses at FCSH-UNL.