Guilherme Garrido

From Sweet and Tender

Guilherme artistic work and education are connected to dance, choreography and fine arts. He is interested in performance as a story telling through becoming a showman disguised in contemporary dance. His artistic work always contains warm and subversive humor. He is occupied with how the body and movement can also give associations to films, hero figures, shows or rock concerts. At the same time he is interested in interweaving the fragility and intimacy of relationships on stage. He is a curator of “Show Rooms” within the frame of the annual Dance Festival “ A Fabrica” (Porto) and runs a research space called 555 also in Porto, Portugal. In the summer of 2008 he was the co-artistic director of the project Skite/Sweet and Tender Collaborations Porto 2008, together with António Pedro Lopes and Jean Marc-Adolphe. As a dancer he worked for Maria Clara Villa-Lobos in “Super!” (BE), for Ibrahim Quraishi, “My Private Himalaya”(EUA/NL) and for Tommy Noonan/ PVC company Stadttheater Freiburg in “Tout Court” (G). Since October 2007 he has been touring all around Europe with “Still Difficult Duet” - a work in collaboration with Pieter Ampe and is still working with Antonio Pedro Lopes in “I WANT MORE FANS YOU WANT MORE STAGE” and with Mia Habib in their duet called “ a couple dance” that premieres in the end of March in Oslo, Norway. He’s currently working with Pieter Ampe in their next duet “Still standing you” (working title) in Campo, Gent that will premiere in 2010. Together with Antonio Pedro Lopes and Anja Muller, they have a band called The Sing Songs, still fresh but for sure will cause heat waves around the globe.