ANDRÉ UERBA
Choreographer, sexological bodyworker, facilitator and researcher - working at the intersection of dance, somatics, intimacy, pleasure and social healing. Develops body-based practices that center consent, vulnerability, erotic and emotional expression as both choreographic tools and social healing strategies to unlearn conditionings. He situates himself within the queer and neurodivergent spectrum.
His work unfolds in group performances, workshops, one-on-one sessions, mentoring, s3x-positive and queer events - often held in dance settings and body-celebrating contexts. Across all formats, he cultivates and advocates for environments grounded in care, slowness, support systems and sustainable and safer working conditions within the dance landscape. With a master’s in Solo/Dance/Authorship from HZT Berlin (2015), he consistently prioritize collective authorship over solo creation. His performances emphasize spaces of sharing over display, creating permeable membranes between performers and audience.
In 2022, André completed his training and certification as a Sexological Bodyworker. What drew him to this field was the combination of verbal communication and hands-on work.
His practice is rooted in envisioning the studio as a laboratory for rethinking human relations from a non-normative perspective — a space where political activism, social healing, and artistic inquiry intersect, fostering the creation of new social relationships.
With a strong investment in individual processes as (inherently) collective, his work embraces the singularities of each person. Through a series of (choreographic) interventions involving collective practices - playfulness, rituals, repair, and celebration - the studio becomes a space for both reflection and embodied transformation.
Recent works include "Æffective Choreography" (2022–2025), "A hole the size of your touch" (2021), "Pool of Emotions" (2019), "Fire Starter" (2019) and "Burn Time" (2018). He has presented work in Taiwan, Bali, and across Europe, including venues such as Radialsystem, Halle am Berghain, Teatro São Luiz, Serralves Museum, Dance House Lefkosia, Tanzhaus NRW, De Studio, Norrlandsoperan, Grec Festival, and Tanzbiennale Heidelberg.
He received the Tanzpraxis grant (2022/23) and the Pina Bausch Fellowship (2023), assisting the program “N̶o̶r̶m̶” created by choreographer Diana Niepce, a training program designed for disabled and non-disabled artists. In 2021, Uerba took part in Re-Think (Accessibility & Sustainable Mobility), a year-long program supported by the Swedish Institute and Norrlandsoperan.
As a performer, he has worked with artists including: Tino Sehgal (This is so Contemporary), Antonija Livingstone (Male Breast Feeding), Clément Layes (The Eternal Return), Alexandra Pirici (Aggregate), Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (The Print of Sleep), among others. He began working with Ana Borralho & João Galante as a performer in Sexy MF and later as a group coordinator for their project Atlas (2012–2016), which featured 100 people on stage.
In 2024, he led the workshop "Space Weavers" at Casa da Dança. In 2023, he facilitated "Undisguised Matter" as part of the Theater Treffen – International Forum at Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin) and within the Dance and Mediation program at the University of Music and Dance Cologne (ZZT).
Central to his practice is the desire to generate spaces, encounters, and experiences that challenge and expand prevailing models of art consumption, extending artistic engagement beyond institutional frameworks and into everyday life. By integrating methodologies from the performing arts and holistic disciplines, his work facilitates encounters that cultivate mind-body connection, foregrounding the affective and transformative capacities of art beyond its visual dimension.