I am Dagô, a Brazilian multidisciplinary choreographer and performer based in France. I am the son of a black jaguar who swallowed a live shark whole, and from her I learned to invent my own body. My movement is whispered by the enchanted beings of the Pantanal of my childhood, by the waves and infinite Atlantics of Jaguaruna, where I was born, and by the blazing trees of the Cerrado where I grew up.

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Drawing bodies was my first somatic practice. From a very early age, drawing taught me how to reimagine, recover, and save my own body — my first dance, though I did not yet know it. It also taught me to dream of “Others”. Years later, I continued dreaming of “Others” through words. I came to understand writing as a form of drawing, both haunted by the image. The Other is my wound-question. I have pursued this mystery since my training in Visual Arts, and it remains at the core of my work in the Live Arts. Being queer was my first great lesson in being Other, followed by becoming an immigrant in Europe. While studying Scenography in Lisbon, I felt the ache of Brazil’s colonial wounds. Through that finger pressing on the wound, I encountered my body anew. I danced in the streets, improvising with the city, and it was there that dance fully arrived. In 2019, fleeing the rise of the far right in Brazil, I migrated to France to study Choreography and to deepen the questions first opened in Boca Seca, the first piece I directed.

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Choreography became a space of agency and healing, of transdisciplinary and speculative invention. Vira-lata dogs taught me how to reclaim power in my first solo, Bâtard Sauvage, revealing a body that was also magical — unfinished, collective, a new liberating way of doing politics. I continued working in this way, transforming my body into a site inhabited by beautiful dancing ghosts: amulets that remind me not to be captured, guardians protecting my right to an enchanted (extra-real) anatomy. Within this ethic, I created the amulet-solos Vague sensations of an island, Asteroid AP-612, To Remember Not to Die, and UNLOADING. who carries? Since then, I have cared for my work as one cares for a garden, insisting on moving with the wound in one hand and healing in the other — resisting disenchantment and imagining, through choreography, ways of connecting more attentively to life and of reinventing both solitude and togetherness.

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• BA in Visual Arts, Brazil

UnB – University of Brasília, Brasília – 2016

Academic Exchange in Scenography, Portugal
ULisboa – University of Lisbon, Lisbon – 2012

• Master’s Degree in Artistic Creation in Performing Arts, France

UGA – Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble
(IdEX – Initiatives d’Excellence Scholarship) – 2021

• PACAP 5 – Advanced Program in Performing Arts Creation, Portugal

Fórum Dança, Lisbon (Curated by João Fiadeiro) – 2022

• Master Exerce – Choreographic Studies: Research and Performance, France

Agora – Cité Internationale de la Danse & UPVM3 – Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3
Montpellier (Artistes dans la cité Scholarship – Fondation Hermès) – 2025