About

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Harrison Rodrigues is a performer and dance artist. 

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He is currently a dancer at Folkwang Tanzstudio (FTS), an international dance company founded by Kurt Jooss in 1928 and currently under the direction of Rodolpho Leoni. We are working on the 23/24 season with choreography by Morena Nascimento, Carla Jordão, Pina Bausch, Rodolpho Leoni, Renate Graziadei, Jakub Truszkowski, and Maya M. Carroll.

 

During the 2022–23 season, he works at Nordharzer Städtebundtheater as a dancer in the following performances: "Der Froschkönig" by Gabriella Gilardi, "Sportomania" by Sara Angius, "Winterreise" by Tarek Assam, and "Oratio in Danza" by Steffen Fuchs, ballet director of the Koblenz Theater; Gianni Cuccaro, director of the dance department at the Bielefeld Theater; and Tarek Assam from Nordharzer Städtebundtheater.

 

In 2013, he completed his dance training at the ETEC de Artes and Núcleo Luz in São Paulo, and since then, he has been developing his own projects that have already been funded and financially supported by private companies and state aid.

 

He has been living in Germany as a freelancer since 2017; he develops and participates in projects in the North Rhine-Westphalia region. He is most present in the city of Essen, where he is based, but also in cities such as Euskirchen, Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Nancy in France. He is a graduate of Folkwang University (B.A. of Arts in Contemporary Dance) in Germany.

 

Recent works with artists: Jill Crovisier, Lucas Lopes, Cie Willi Dorner, Aalto Theater Essen, Jacopo Miliani, Hakan Sonakalan, Luca Bosani, Sara Angius, Gianni Cuccaro, Steffen Fuchs, Tarek Assam, and Rodolpho Leoni.