portfolio
Training activities
Acting in a Theatre of Intensities. Workshop with guest artist André Carreira (Brazil). The workshop aimed to introduce the concept of a Theatre of Intensities: a working method that places acting at the center of the creative process of theatre and in a territory of crisis. (Lisbon, December 6 and 7, 2026).
The poetic body in updating. Workshop with Mônica Emílio. (Lisbon, September 27, 2025).
Acting in the Unknown. Workshop based on practices investigated in the studio. (Lisbon, May 24, 2025).
Acting in the Unknown. Workshop based on practices investigated in the studio. (Lisbon, February 22, 2025).
Acting in the Unknown. Workshop based on practices investigated in the studio. (Rio de Janeiro, January 8-12, 2024).
Atuar no Desconhecido. Workshop a partir das práticas investigadas no estúdio. (Lisboa, 16 de Dezembro de 2023).
Acting in the Unknown. Workshop based on practices investigated in the studio. (Lisbon, October 1, 2023).
Acting in the exercise of difference. Workshop produced by the DAS Collective, São Paulo, August 26 and 27, 2023.
Acting in the Unknown. Workshop held at CAL - Casa das Artes de Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro, from August 21st to 24th, 2023.
Acting as an exercise in difference. Workshop based on practices investigated in the studio. (Lisbon, April 29 and 30, 2023.)
Acting as an exercise in difference. Workshop based on practices investigated in the studio. Location: Núcleo Cultural Tambor Carioca. (Rio de Janeiro, August 6th and 7th, 2022).
Creative actions
Acting in a way that makes a difference. Performance lecture. Presentation and demonstration of the assumptions, references, and exercises investigated by the studio. Deconstruction of the performance "Exercise for a Metamorphosis". Directed by: Alexandra Marinho de Oliveira. (Lisbon, March 27, 2025).
An exercise for metamorphosis. A creation based on the novel The Metamorphosis , by Franz Kafka. Dramaturgy and staging: André Paes Leme and Vitor Lemos. Acting: Geraldo Monteiro, Nisa Eliziário and Samuel MacDowell. Lighting design: Renato Machado. Movement direction: Monnica Emilio. Photos and graphic design: Flavio Luiz. (Lisbon, October 31, November 1, 2 and 3, 2024; Rio de Janeiro, March 27, 28, 29 and April 1, 2026).
One Encounter in 4 Films. Canto do Bode conducted acting and camera experiments that resulted in a 30-minute sequence shot. It features Nisa Eliziário and Samuel MacDowell. The cinematography is by Mauro Corage and the lighting by Renato Machado. The material was made available to four Brazilian and Portuguese artists: Fabio Rebelo (PT), Manoel Prazeres (BR), Mauro Corage (PT), and Vinicius Dratovsky (BR), who were invited to create their own montages based on the original: four short films. (Lisbon, July 24, 2023).
Beija -flor. Curta-metragem. Experimento com câmara. (Outubro de 2021)
Investigative Actions
Publications
Acting in the flow of life (and the stage): a conversation between Tatiana Motta Lima and Vitor Lemos. Article published in Urdimento Magazine. The authors reflect on the workshop held in Lisbon under the guidance of Motta Lima at the O Canto do Bode studio. (April 2026).
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Acting Laboratory: Circumstances of the Actor/Actress's Commitment. Article published in the e-book What is the importance of an acting laboratory today? Edited by: Lucienne Guedes, Matteo Bonfitto, Melissa Ferreira. Unicamp Publisher.
The practice of "swimming": notes on an investigation of Action in the "exercise of difference". Article published in the journal Sinais de Cena (3rd series, no. 2022) edited by CET/FLUL. (December 2022)
A. From the Creative Residency Singing the Sensitive Body: An Epistolary Dialogue between Vitor Lemos and Tiago Porteiro. Article published in Urdimento Magazine. The authors reflect on the artistic residency carried out by Carlos Simioni and Stéphan Brodt in Lisbon. (April 2022).
Investigative actions
process sharing
Sharing research processes. With the artist-researchers of O Canto do Bode. Location: Alexandre Mello's Studio. (Rio de Janeiro, March 23, 2026).
Sharing of research processes. With the artist-researchers of O Canto do Bode. Location: ESAD - Escola Sesc de Artes Dramáticas. (Rio de Janeiro, March 31, 2026).
Sharing research processes. With the artist-researchers of O Canto do Bode. (Lisbon, July 28, 2025).
Sharing research processes.With the artist-researchers of O Canto do Bode. (Lisbon, October 2, 2024).
Sharing of the research process. With the artist-researchers of O Canto do Bode. (Lisbon, March 27, 2024).
Surrealist Incursions. The event brought together in Lisbon the DIADEMA DANCE COMPANY (BRAZIL) and the PERFORMA NUCLEUS (BRAZIL) for a conversation about the creative processes of the award-winning company from the city of Diadema (São Paulo) and for a workshop around the creation of the show SCinestesia, a production by the Company created in partnership with the Performa Nucleus. After the workshop, an experiment was carried out in order to explore a process of "deconstructing" SCinestesia. (Lisbon, July 21 and 22, 2023)
Public demonstration of investigative practices.
With the research artists of O Canto do Bode. (Lisbon, June 26, 2023).
A collection of cases under investigation.
With the research artists of O Canto do Bode. (Lisbon, October 29, 2021).
Text is body. Body is text. Conversation-demonstration with choreographer and movement director Márcia Rubin. ( Lisbon, November 6, 2019).
Investigative actions
Study groups
Encounters with Brecht's Galileo. A study group, created in partnership with Teatro do Imigrante, centered around the play The Life of Galileo. The weekly sessions are dedicated to investigating Bertolt Brecht's text in order to delve into questions surrounding Brechtian theatre and to establish connections with contemporary political, philosophical, and artistic thought. (April to December 2024).
Contemporary performance. Study group (online).
Study group created during the Covid-19 pandemic with participants from Brazil, Portugal, and Peru. The group will remain active until 2025 with weekly meetings.
Investigative actions
Organization and participation in academic events
Conversations about acting. Roundtable discussion with Renato Ferracini (LUME/Campinas) and Vitor Lemosd (O Canto do Bode/Lisbon). Location: Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro - Unirio). January, March 26, 2026.
From Jerzy Grotowski's paratheatrical actions to TEATROdaCAMARA: a creative journey. Lecture with actor François Kahn (France). Event held as part of the Encounter Practices cycle, an initiative of the O Canto do Bode studio in partnership with the Centre for Theatre Studies of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon - CET/FLUL. Lisbon, November 11, 2024.
The (Grotowskian) notion of contact in the acting classroom: "more of less self". Lecture with Tatiana Motta Lima (UNIRIO/Brazil). Event held as part of the Encounter Practices cycle, an initiative of the O Canto do Bode studio in partnership with the Center for Theatre Studies of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon - CET/FLUL. Lisbon, May 6, 2024.
Focus on the actor/actress-performer: relationships between acting and lighting. With lighting artist Renato Machado (PUC/Rio). (Lisbon, July 12, 2021)
Stanislavski's physical action in the exercise of difference. A conversation with students of the curricular unit "Strategies for stepping outside oneself: other ways of perceiving and acting" of the Theater Course at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). Professor Tatiana Motta Lima. (December 16, 2020)
Action: What? Who? For what purpose? In dialogue with Stanislavski and Grotowski.Conversation with professor and scholar of Grotowski's work Tatiana Motta Lima (UNIRIO). Online event. (May 18, 2020)
Investigative actions
Meeting practices
Mobile Focuses: Encounter Practices. Event organized in partnership with CET/FLUL and led by guest artist Ana Kfouti (PUC-Rio/Brazil). The workshop promoted the sharing of concepts and dynamics of the mobile focus practice, focused on the art of acting, in the expanded field of performing arts, created and developed by Ana Kfouri throughout her artistic career. (Lisbon, February 28, 2026).
Theatrical Ecosystems or Intelligence of Mangroves. Encounter Practices. Event organized in partnership with CET/FLUL and led by guest artist Marcela Moura (Brazil). The workshop aimed, based on the observation of behaviors in complex natural systems, such as mangroves, to develop a transdisciplinary investigation/creation that integrates aesthetic, socio-environmental and political issues. (Lisbon, October 18, 2025).
Children of Main Street: Exercises. Encounter Practices. Event organized in partnership with CET/FLUL and led by guest artist François Kahn (France). In this workshop based on the short story Children of Main Street by Franz Kafka, participants will be guided through individual and group exercises with the aim of developing their own character and actions. The question that will underlie the entire process will be: how can the actor create their own score of action? (Lisbon, November 9th and 10th, 2024)
Somatic-Performative Approach, Intermodality, and Countercolonial Research. Encounter Practices. Event organized in partnership with CET/FLUL and led by guest artist Ciane Fernandes (UFBA). Principles of the Somatic-Performative Approach, applied to key contemporary issues, in the relational context of intermodality in Practice as Research. (Lisbon, July 6th and 7th, 2024)
So that we do not forget our childhood heritage. Encounter Practice. Event organized in partnership with CET/FLUL and led by guest artist Tatiana Motta Lima (UNIRIO). The notions of contact (from Grotowski), listening, floating attention, joint attention , extended perception and microperception were investigated for a reconnection with the "childhood heritage," with those moment-events in which action is not the property of a given individual, but participation in the flow of life (and the scene). (Lisbon, May 2, 4 and 5, 2024)
Agama-Fo: creation, performance and transcultural contemporary dance. Encounter Practice. Event organized in partnership with CET/FLUL and led by visiting artist Anani Sanouvi. In this edition, practices of the Agama Fo pedagogy were experimented with: a process of study, refinement, creation and representation of body-territories of resistance and resilience. (Lisbon, February 24 and 25, 2024)
What the Word Provokes in the Body. Encounter Practice. Event organized in partnership with CET/FLUL and led by visiting artist Jacyan Castilho (UFRJ/Brazil). In this edition, procedures for studying texts through bodily tools were experimented with. With the aim of analyzing discourses (dramatic and non-dramatic texts), movement analysis tools are used, mainly from the Laban Movement Analysis system and Body Awareness games. (Lisbon, May 20, 2023)
Nomadic Laboratories: Bodies, Voice and Soma. Encounter Practice. This event, organized in partnership with CET/FLUL and with the support of Forum Dança, was led by visiting artists Andrea Maciel and Patrick Campbell from Cross Pollination (UK/DK). In this second edition of the program, performative creation strategies were explored, emphasizing the actor's/actress's bodily, vocal, and somatic work, drawing from Wolfsohn-Hart voice work, physical theatre, and somatic techniques, filtered through a collaborative creative ethos inherent to Cross Pollination's practice. (Lisbon, September 16-18, 2022)
The sensitive gesture in the creation of the actor and actress. Encounter Practice. Event organized in partnership with CET/FLUL, was conducted by visiting artists from Cia. do Caminho Velho (São Paulo/BR) and O Canto do Bode (PT). In this first edition of the program, in addition to the workshop offered by the visiting artists, practices investigated by the Brazilian and Portuguese collectives were shared. (Lisbon, March 26 and 27, 2022).