Inês Carijó is a Brazilian performer, choreographer, and choreographic assistant currently based in Rio de Janeiro. In 2025, she completed her Master’s in Research in Dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp.
As a freelance performer, she has collaborated with artists such as Alexander Vantournhout, GoPlastik Cia, Insiemi Irreali Cia, CHATHA Cia, Stephan Herwig, Ian Keller, Henrique Rodovalho, among others.
For several years, she worked as a choreographic assistant and rehearsal director with Trodden Dreams, under the direction of Jos Baker. During this collaboration, she contributed to the creations Smallest Little Thing and Put Out the Flame (2019), commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival, as well as UNDERCURRENT (2022), Sinking (2022), and Know it All (2022). She was also involved in the award-winning short films Shift (2021) and The Hole (2021).
In 2022, she created her own choreographic work Funny How the Time Slips Away with the dancers of Performact in Portugal. She later returned to Performact to teach and develop her new piece Where the Lost May Be Found (2025).
As a choreographic assistant, Inês has also collaborated with the Companhia de Ballet de Niterói on MIRARE (2024), directed by Tamara Catharino, and with French choreographer Guilhem Chatir on his solo Vertiges (2021).
In the 2017–2018 season, she was a company member at Stadttheater Bielefeld in Germany, under the direction of Simone Sandroni, performing works by Eulalia Ayguadé, Gerhard Bohner, and Simone Sandroni.
Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Inês graduated from the LINES Ballet Training Program in San Francisco in 2013, and continued her education at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) (2015–2016), where she was a guest performer with BODHI PROJECT in Ha’omnam by Eldad Ben Sasson.
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