Claudia de Serpa Soares
Desire Line Session Talk
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | 1:00 PM
ZOOM
Please join us for a Desire Line Session Talk with dancer, performer, choreographer, and teacher Claudia de Serpa Soares, organized by the SCA's Erika Latta..
Biography
Claudia de Serpa Soares is a dancer, performer, choreographer and teacher born in Lisbon, Portugal. She studied dance with Isabel Merlini and Luis Xarez , before joining the National Conservatory and the Superior Dance School in Lisbon and followed her studies in France at the Centre National de Dance Contemporaine d鈥橝ngers. Claudia danced with Iztok Kovac (Slovenia) and Paulo Ribeiro (Lisbon) and becomes a member of the dance ensemble of the Schaub眉hne Theatre in Berlin under the artistic direction of Sasha Waltz. Since 1999 she has performed many works by Sasha Waltz , and has also served as rehearsal master and assistant for Sasha Waltz & Guests creations. Meanwhile, Claudia has collaborated with a wide range of visual, theatrical, music, and opera artists including Junko Wada, Ronald Kukulies, Jonathan Bepler, Grayson Millwood, Lilo Baur, Daniel Pennac, Julian Rosefeldt, Nuno Cera, Eve Sussman and The Rufus Corporation, Jochen Sandig and the Rundfunkchor Berlin, Companhia Utero, Knowbotiq and Nicola Raab, among others. She assisted and choreographed at the Opera de Dijon for Lilo Baur in 鈥淒ido and Aeneas鈥� and for Nicola Raab in 鈥淢acbeth鈥�. She also assisted in the movement for 鈥淟a Maison de Bernarda d鈥橝lba 鈥� for Lilo Baur at La Comedie Fran莽aise and for 鈥淟鈥橝mour des Trois Oranges鈥� for Anna Bernreitner at Opera National de Lorraine. Claudia鈥檚 performance installation More Up A Tree, a collaboration with artist Eve Sussman (USA) and drummer Jim White (AUS), premiered at the Grand Theatre Luxembourg and was presented at BAM/Performa NYC and at the Melbourne Festival. Claudia received a Dis-Tanz-Solo grant to work on 鈥淚 am not here to Entertain 鈥�, an on going Performative and No Performative project, based on a personal photographic archive.