Inês Carijó is a Brazilian performer, choreographer and choreographic assistant currently based in Brussels. Inês is currently doing a Master in Research in Dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp.
As a freelance performer she has had the opportunity to work with artists such as Alexander, Vantournhout, GoPlastik Cia, Insiemi Irreali Cia, CHATHA cia, Stephan Herwig, Ian Keller, Henrique Rodovalho and others.
For several years, she worked as a choreographic assistant and rehearsal director for Trodden Dreams directed by Jos Baker. She was involved in the creations Smallest Little Thing and Put Out the Flame (2019), commissioned by The Hong Kong Arts Festival, UNDERCURRENT (2022), Sinking (2022), Know it All (2022) as well as the awarded short films Shift (2021) and The Hole, (2021).
In 2022 she had the pleasure to create her own choreographic work Funny how the Time slips away with the dancers of Performact, in Portugal.
As a choreographic assistant she has also collaborated with French choreographer Guilhem Chatir on his solo Vertiges (2021).
In the season of 2017-2018 she was a company member at Stadttheater Bielefeld in Germany under the direction of Simone Sandroni, where she performed works by Eulalia Ayguadé, Gerhard Bohner and Simone Sandroni.
Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Inês Carijó graduated from Lines Ballet Training Program in San Francisco in 2013. She continued her education at Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (2015-2016) in which she was a guest performer at BODHI PROJECT for the piece Ha’omnam by Eldad Ben Sasson.
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