Andressa Miyazato, originally from Brazil, is deeply passionate about social connection, transformation, kinaesthetic empathy, decolonisation, and community engagement. Growing up in Brazil, where arts and cultural activities are deeply embedded in community projects, Andressa first discovered her passion for dance through a community dance project. Subsequently, she shared her expertise by teaching contemporary dance in public schools. Andressa Miyazato's artistic journey is marked by versatility and depth. Her career spans various prestigious dance companies and stages across continents. She began as a dancer with the Ballet de Rio Preto and later joined the esteemed Cisne Negro Dance Company in Brazil. Her European stint saw her as a dancer at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and Musiktheater Linz, where she portrayed notable leading roles in works by Austrian choreographer Johann Kresnik, Jochen Ulrich, and Mei Hong Lin. Miyazato's performances have graced renowned stages worldwide, from the Joyce Theater Summer Dance Festival in New York to the Festival Internacional de Danza de la Habana in Cuba, and from the Volkstheater in the ImPulsTanz Festival in Austria to the Gran Théâtre de Genève in collaboration with Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata. She has toured extensively across South America, South Africa, Mozambique, Taiwan, and South Korea, and participated in festivals across Europe. Since 2021, Andressa has been a member of the Institute for Dance Arts (IDA) at Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, where she teaches repertoire, dance studies, dance improvisation, and colloquium for the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes. Besides her roles as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer, Andressa is dedicated to research. She is currently pursuing her dissertation at Kunstuniversität Linz under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Amalia Barboza and Prof. Mag. Rose Breuss. Rooted in movement research and improvisation, Andressa’s research focuses on corporeal scores and explores the body archive and repertoire as ‘devices’ for dancers to (re)connect with their ancestral bodies. She participated in De/Colonizing Knowledge conference at University in Vienna with the performance Verräterische Bewegung, as well as in the panel Muteness of materials: on cultural-scientific and artistic methods (Amalia Barboza and Georg Winter) at the 8th annual conference of Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft at the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, where she delivered a lecture performance on her collaboration with the Corpo de Dança do Amazonas.
22.04.2024
