João dos Santos Martins

João dos Santos Martins (Santarém, Portugal, 1989) is an artist, who studied at the Escola Superior de Dança (Lisbon), at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), at e.x.er.c.e, (Montpellier) and at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies (Giessen). His work, usually developed in collaborative processes, encompasses various forms that focus on dance, whether through choreography or exhibition. These forms are traversed by questions concerning genealogies of dance history, processes of transmission, the relationship between practice and discourse, and paradoxes about the activity of dancing. Together with Ana Bigotte Vieira, he has created a structure for the collective mapping of dance in Portugal - Para Uma Timeline a Haver. He has performed in dance pieces by Ana Rita Teodoro, Eszter Salamon, Moriah Evans, Xavier Le Roy, Jérôme Bel, Manuel Pelmuş, Rui Horta, among others. In 2014, he founded Parasita, a cooperative of artists of which he is a member.