Sílvia Real
Sílvia Real
Born in Alhandra, she began her studies in classical dance with Luna Andermatt. She studied at the London Studio Centre, the London Contemporary Dance School, and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute (SEC, GRI, IPAE and FCG/FLAD scholarship holder, 1997).
Sílvia participated in the Skite 92 and Skite 94, the ECF3, the Bates Festival 95, and the International Dancemaker Lab project in New York (MultiArts&Projects). She choreographed Bute-Bute (1986), Crua (1995) and Edina (1995), among other experimental works.
Sílvia has performed in several choreographers’ shows, including João Fiadeiro’s Retrato da Memória Enquanto Peso Morto (1990; awarded with that year’s Acarte/Maria Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão Prize) and O Que Ele Pensa Que Eu Penso Que Ele Pensa Que Eu Penso (1992); Vera Mantero’s Sob (1993), Para Enfastiadas e Profundas Tristezas (1994; awarded with the 1996 Bagnolet Prize); Miguel Pereira and Filipa Francisco’s Projecto Espiões (2017); and Francisco Camacho’s Live-Evil Evil-Live (2005), Lost Ride (2011), Andiamo! (2012), and VelhⒶs (2019).
Together with musician Sérgio Pelágio, Sílvia created Natasha (1995), Pour Bien (1995; awarded with the 1996 Clube Português de Artes e Ideias re-presentation prize [Prémio de Reposição O Teatro na Década]), and Road Movie (Serralves Foundation, 1996).
In 1997, she founded the association Produções Real Pelágio with Sérgio Pelágio. As a duo, they created the following shows: the trilogy Casio Tone (1997), Subtone (2003) and Tritone (2013), Assim Vai o Mundo (Festival Mergulho no Futuro, Expo 98), O Eco do Eco (Encontros Acarte/ FCG, 1999), Handy #23 (Festival Citemor, 2001), Solo para Dois Intérpretes (Centro Cultural de Belém, 2002). In-between these, they celebrated the 10th anniversary of Ms. Domicília, their trilogy’s iconic character (Culturgest, 2007), having also presented Domicília Magic Show (Serralves em Festa, 2013), and Invisible Person (Casa Fernando Pessoa, 2015). Their work has been presented in Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, UK, Ireland, Hungary, Brazil, and the USA.
Sílvia teaches regularly, having lectured between 2007 and 2011 in the Performance course, aimed at final year Theatre students, at Lisbon’s Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. Since 2011, she has worked with children on a regular basis in educational projects and institutions such as Projecto Orquestra Geração (2011/2013), Escola da Graça d'A Voz do Operário (since 2011), among others. In 2014, she co-created the operetta Rebola o Medo e Ri, directed by Rute Prates and Sofia Sequeira (Centro Cultural de Belém).
She was artistic director of Grupo 23: silêncio! (2015-2020), a collective composed of children, teenagers, and adults, with whom Silvia created and presented three shows: E Se Tudo Fosse Amarelo? (Culturgest, 2015), Agora, (São Luiz – Teatro Municipal, 2017), e A Laura Quer! (Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, 2019).
Since 2013, she has coordinated the Artistic Training Centre at Teatro da Voz (formerly known as Teatro da Graça) in close partnership with the school Voz do Operário and, until 2020, with EIRA.
In 2022, Sílvia premiered her Concerto N.º 1 para Laura, which she choreographed in collaboration with Francisco Camacho (São Luiz – Teatro Municipal, Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras, Cine-Teatro de Castelo Branco), and also staged and choreographed the chamber opera entitled Jeremias Fisher (OPERAFEST Lisboa, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga).