Professional Dancer and Hybrid Arts Specialist:
Choreographer, Filmmaker and Photographer
PROFILE
I am a Hybrid Artist (ballerina – performer – choreographer – filmmaker – photographer) with a Bachelor’s Degree in Dance and many years of professional experience in ballet, dance, improvisation, choreography, video creation and editing and use of Video technology. With a passion and interest in exploring all aspects of creativity and multiple artistic skills I have also created my own unique dance method called Art & Life inspired by life and imbued with principles to improve well-being and energise artistic and self-development within art. I put all these principles to use in 2022 in choreographing, producing and dancing my own show “Mosaico” in Teatro Paschoal Carlos Magno.
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
MOSAICO
February 2022 to October 2022
• During this period, I experimented and choreographed my own dance show called Mosaico which I produced and performed in the Teatro Paschoal Carlos Magno. Mosaico consists of 12 dance movements to the music of the internationally acclaimed Irish Composer Vincent Kennedy.
Dancer at Balé Teatro Guaíra, Curitiba/ PR
August 2008 – March 2017/ February 2018 – January 2022
• During this time, I danced in the creations of a huge array of Brazilian and international choreographers including Olga Roriz (Portugal), Gustavo Ramirez (Spain), Roberto Scafati (Italy), Christoph Winkler (Germany) and Katja Wachter (Germany). I Performed in all the creations and repertory of the Company including contemporary pieces and new imaginings of classics, such as Swan Lake, Carmen, Cinderella, and Romeu & Juliet.
• In 2021, I collaborated as a choreographer for the company, and created a solo called Flow to the music of Suite nº 8 BWV 779 by J.S. Bach within the “Café com Bach project”.
• At this same time, I also created the ballet project “Aulas como Unidade e Cooperação” (Lessons as Unity and Cooperation) through Zoom platform for the Balé Teatro Guaíra, which included improvised performances which I also recorded and edited into a series of videos.
Between January 2007 and July 2008 Juliana worked as a ballerina for Ballet de Londrina under the direction of Leonardo Ramos. She has worked at Curitiba Cia de Dança (July 2017 - January 2018) under the direction of Nicole Vanoni.
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EDUCATION
March 2018 - April 2019
Hybrid Arts Specialist Higher Degree, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná – UTFPR, Curitiba/ PR.
Awarded as Hybrid Arts Specialist.
Bachelor of Dance Degree, Universidade Estadual do Paraná, Curitiba/ PR
March 2009 – May 2015.
Graduated as bachelor’s degree in Dance.
Professional Dancer, Curso profissionalizante em bailarino para corpo de baile, Fundação Clovis Salgado, Belo Horizonte/ MG
February 2003 – December 2005
Graduated as a professional dancer.
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COMPLEMENTARY EDUCATION
2021 – 2021
• University extension in Rendering with V-RAY Next for Sketchup
Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, UEMA, Brasil.
• Developing High Performance Teams
Escola Nacional de Administração Pública, ENAP, Brasil.
• People Leadership in Practice
Centro Universitário FECAP, FECAP, Brasil.
• Nonviolent Communication
Centro Universitário FECAP, FECAP, Brasil.
• PHOTOGRAPHY
2017- 2017
WFour Courses, WFC, Brasil
• Royal Academy of Dance, Royal, Great Britain - Vocational Graded Examination in Dance
2002 – 2004
• Intermediate Classical Ballet – Awarded with Distinction
• Advanced 1 Classical Ballet - Awarded with Distinction
• Advanced 2 Classical Ballet - Awarded with Distinction
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FREELANCER
2018 – 2022
• As a Hybrid Artist , I have created and produced my own work beginning in 2018. I created many short films, often weekly, exploring different themes inspirations in which I expresses freely the intensity of my inspiration. I choose the music and create the choreography, then dance the dance having set up my cameras strategically to capture the movement. I then edit the film and produce the final product using Adobe Creative on my MacBook. The film is then distributed across my social media sites on Vimeo, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
• I have also completed collaborations with international composers from Europe and United States including:
Vincent Kennedy (Ireland), Jean-Christophe Rosaz (France), Klaus Damm (Germany), Stanley Grill (New Jersey), George M. Atwell (Florida), Suzanna Pavlovsky (Columbia, South Carolina).
• In 2019, I worked as a photographer and filmmaker for the performance “É um rio que corre” (It’s a flowing river) by Dancer Vitor Rosa for circulation in Curitiba.
• In 2018, I photographed “O Jogo da Amarelinha” (The Hopscotch Game) for the Virtual Companhia de Dança for publication in the newspaper of Rio Preto – São Paulo, “Virtual apresenta a sua literatura dançante”.
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METHOD ART & LIFE
Based on her professional career and the work involved in her short film projects, Juliana has created her own style and method called Art & Life inspired by life principles. The aim of Art and Life is to help dancers and artists develop and use their creativity and other artistic skills to bring forth new dance movements, while exploring spaces, angles, light and music and capturing all this on film and editing it down to a final short film. Each participant develops their improvisation skills by daily improvisations with the further aim of enhancing well-being and freedom and reflecting the artistic and human development within art.
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Magazine
"Art & Life" by Juliana Rodrigues. Emotions; Freedom; Strength ;Perseverance. Enjoy! Have a great day.
Music: November by Max Richter
My work and method called "Art & Life" includes daily improvisations inspired by life principles, exploration of spaces, footage, angles, camera inputs and outputs, film editing and video create.
"If you think you are outclassed, you are
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster,
But soon or late who wins
Is who thinks he can!"
Walter D. Wintle