About

Flaviana Xavier Antunes Sampaio is a Brazilian choreographer, dancer and lighting designer. Her dance training includes ballet, Afro Brazilian dance, modern and contemporary dance. She has experience in creating and performing solo, and she has worked with artists from Brazil, USA and Germany/Switzerland. Xavier Antunes Sampaio has collaborated with Pakito Lazaro (‘From the Abstract to the Concrete’ at Xisto Theatre, Salvador, Brazil, 2013), Leda Muhana and David Iannitelli (‘Mobius’ at Nelson Rodrigues Theatre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (November 2008), Daniel Gwirtzman (‘Renaissance’ at Gregorio de Mattos Theatre, Salvador, Brazil, 2003), Stefan Kaegi (‘Matraca Catraca’ Goethe-Institut, Salvador, Brazil, 2002), among other artists.

Currently, she is an Adjunct Professor in the Drama and Dance courses at the State University of Southwest Bahia in Brazil (2011 -).