Alessandro Pereira

After his training in Sao Paulo, the Brazilian Alessandro Pereira danced with the Lina Pentiado Dance Company and with the Bahia Ballet at the Ballet do Teatro CastroAlves. In 2002, he moved to Austria to dance as a soloist with Tanz Graz. A year later he danced with the Ballettheater Munich in productions by choreographers such as Carolyn Carson, Jiri Kylián and Richard Alston.

In 2006 Alessandro Pereira received the Bayerischen Kunstförderpreis for his work as a dancer. From 2003 to 2007 his choreographies were presented in the programme for young choreographers of the Gärtnerplatz theatre in Munich.

In 2007, he created Crossing Silience for the New Danish Dance Theater in Copenhagen. With it he won in 2009 the Internationale Choreographen Concours Hannover and the Scapino Production Prize. Winners of this prize, instituted by artistic director Ed Wubbe, are given the opportunity to make a piece for the TWOOLS series at Scapino. He then made Absent for Tanz Theater Braunschweig. And in 2010 Unintended for the New Danish Dance Theater in Copenhagen, where he is still connected as a dancer today.

As winner of the Scapino Production Prize, in 2010 he worked with Ed Wubbe, Hans Tuerlings, Lucas Jervies and Loïc Perela on TWOOLS at the Opera.

In 2011 he created And I For You for the Danish Dance Theater.