BIOGRAPHY
Helena Salgueiro, born in 1995/ poet, theatre director, performance artist, playwright and researcher/ living between Galiza and Scotland.
Her interest for intermediality leads her to study literature, linguistics, dance, dramaturgy, music, physical theatre and martial arts in colleges, universities, dance schools, centres and theatre companies between Galiza, Scotland, Denmark, Poland and France.
Her work focuses on the performativity of the body and the gender through movement and language, pivoting between scenic and cinematographic works, written word and performance art. She has showcased her work in Galiza, Portugal, Sweden,UK and Saudi Arabia.
She is the artistic director of the theatre and dance company Columna Balteira.
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Selected works
Come and Go
Chiaroscuro
As paisaxes de Camille
Étude 1 Op 1 Fragmentos sobre o silencio
Ourografías
S/T
Esculpir a pulsión que habitas
Ferro, Federici
Nortear
Pan
The other daughter of William Tell
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Selected spaces
Dance Base- National Centre for Dance of Scotland, (Edinburgh, Scotland), Summerhall Theatre (Edinburgh, Scotland), Kärnan (Helsinborg, Sweden); Spain: Auditorio de Galicia, Salón Teatro, Teatro Colón da Coruna, Teatro Principal de Ourense, Teatro Principal de Santiago de Compostela, Museo do Mar de Vigo, Teatro Noela de Noia, Teatro Principal da Estrada, Auditorio Gustavo Freire, Teatro Jofre de Ferrol (...)
Selected collaborations
Centro Dramático Galego____coproduction
Festival Internacional de Teatro do Alentejo___coproduction
Festival Contradança
FIOT Carballo
Dance Base
Winter Droving Festival
Anatomy Arts
Magdalena Project_International Festival Women in Theatre
FITO Ourense
Festival C
Festival UScénica
Asociación Ámbar (functional diversity)
Verónica Moar(ceramicist)
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Talks
"Representaciones de la metamorfosis" Curtocircuíto Festival (2021)
with Antonio Ruz, Virginia Rota and Marta Ramos
"Pendentes de ouro negro" AAAG
Conference about women and wolfram, Eva Lootz work group organised by CGAC, with Faia Díaz and Patricia Coucheiro (2017)
Residencies
Festival Internacional de Teatro do Alentejo (2022)
Encuentros Magalia, Red de Teatros Alternativos (2021)
A Casa Vella (2021)
Residencias Paraíso, Colectivo RPM (2021)
Residencias Cruzadas, Centro Dramático Galego (2021)
Eden Arts (2018)
Books
Amor Palimpsesta, Espiral Maior (2025)
SORA, De Corpos Presentes (2024)
Todas as illas son unha illa, Edicións Positivas (2021)
As Flores, Concello de Padrón/Fundación Rosalía de Castro (2016)
Intermitencia da cidade, Edicións Fervenza (2012)
Awards
Premio Xuventude Crea de Artes Escénicas, Xunta de Galicia (2016)
Premio Rosalía de Castro de Poesía, Concello de Padrón/Fundación Rosalía de Castro, (2016)
Premio Avelina Valladares de Poesía, Concello da Estrada (2012)
Workshops and laboratories
Corpo-arquivo, NORMAL Espazo de intervención cultural da Universidade da Coruna (2022)
Movemento na interpretación, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (2021/22)
Iniciación ao teatro, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (2021/22)
Observatorio do corpo a través da linguaxe poética e performativa, Festival Uscénica (2021)
Metapheró, NORMAL Espazo de Intervención Cultural da Universidade da Coruna (2020/21)
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