The artistic director of the National Ballet Company, Luísa Taveira, has been appointed to the board of directors of Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém.
Luísa Taveira will be rendered in the Companhia Nacional de Bailado (CNB) by choreographer Paulo Ribeiro, announced the Ministry of Culture.
Luísa Taveira is part, as a member of the board of directors of Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), chaired by Elísio Summavielle, succeeding in charge of Miguel Leal Coelho, who also oversaw the areas of music and performances and ends functions in the next day, November 4, said the agency Lusa official source of the Ministry of Culture.
According to the statement from the office of the minister of Culture, Luísa Taveira has “an intense path as a curator, manager cultural and pedagogue”, assuming roles as a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation, after the termination of the mandate of Miguel Leal Coelho.
Luísa Taveira is a director of CNB since October 2010, where he came after the departure of Vasco Wellemkamp, who was director from 2007 to 2010, and had been reappointed in his position for three more years (2016-2018), by joint order of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Finance, in February last.
From 2002 to 2011, Luísa Taveira was curator of dance, theatre and opera in the Cultural Centre of Belém, where he created the Biggest Company, and, in 2010, a project of interpreters with more than 60 years – and was also the teacher coordinator of the branch of the spectacle of the Superior School of Dance, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon.
In 1982, Luísa Taveira was awarded the Prix Media for the Best Dancer and, in 1988, he joined the then Ballet Gulbenkian, leaving a year later to teach at the National Conservatory, where he remained for 13 years.
“For the artistic direction the National Ballet Company/Teatro Camões is named Paulo Ribeiro, a dancer and choreographer of recognized merit, national and international, who created his company in 1995, and with it, several emblematic works in the history of contemporary dance,” reads the same statement from the Ministry of Culture.
Paulo Ribeiro, who was the last director of the Gulbenkian Ballet (2003/05), before its extinction, and who founded the company with his own name in 1995, currently performs the functions of the director-general and the programming of the Teatro Viriato, in Viseu, who took over in 1998.
he Began by career as a dancer in several companies in belgium and france, and the debut as a choreographer was in 1984, in Paris, in the framework of the company Stridanse, of which he was a co-founder.
on his return to Portugal, in 1988, began by collaborating with the Dance Company of Lisbon with the Gulbenkian Ballet, in Lisbon also.
throughout his career, Paulo Ribeiro has played multiple roles, namely the commissioner of the cycle “Dance” 1996/97 at the National Theatre S. João, in Porto, and the commissioner for the Dance in Coimbra 2003 – European Capital of Culture.
In 1999, Paulo Ribeiro received the Prémio Almada, the Portuguese Institute of the Performing Arts, by the work developed in Teatro Viriato, in 2005, the Prize Bordalo of the House of the Press, by your action as a director of the Company that you have installed in Teatro Viriato, in 2009 was considered to be the Choreographer of the Contemporary, on 1.Th Portugal Dance Awards, and received the Audience Award, at the Dance Week Festival in Croatia.
In 2010, he received the Award for Best Choreography for her piece “Landscapes — where the black is the color” from the Portuguese Society of Authors.
In the past day 21, the choreographer presented at the Teatro S. Luiz in Lisbon, the dance performance “The Feast (of insignificance)”, created in 2015 to mark 20 years of the Companhia Paulo Ribeiro.
In the document today released, “the minister of Culture thanks to Miguel Leal Coelho by the public service”.
Luísa Taveira and Paulo Ribeiro are to take office “as soon as possible, certainly until the end of the first fortnight of November,” he said to the agency Lusa official source of the Ministry of Culture.