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.
𝗘𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
. Bodywork training, Institute for Somatic Learning, Sexuality and Bodywork (ISB Berlin), 2021 - 2022
. Master of Arts, Solo/ Dance/ Authorship, HZT Berlin, 2013 - 2015
. Photography, Ar.Co, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009 - 2011
. Theater Studies, Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Lisbon, 2007 - 2009
𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗖 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗦
. Communication, "A Tempo", created by André Uerba & Tony Weaver, Commissioned by Terra Amarela, Teatro São Luiz, Lisboa, 2025
. Æffective Choreography, Festival Transborda, Almada, 2025
. Æffective Choreography, Festival DDD / Serralves Museum, Porto, 2025
. Burn Time, CODA, Oslo, 2025
. Æffective Choreography, English Theater Berlin, in the frame of the 10th Expo Festival, 2024
. Æffective Choreography, Dance House Lefkosia, in the frame of "On Bodies Festival", Cyprus, 2024
. Æffective Choreography, La Caldera, Festival Grec, Barcelona, 2024
. Æffective Choreography, Tanzbiennale Heidelberg, Germany, 2023
. Burn Time, CushCush Gallery (Bali/Indonesia), 2023
. Burn Time, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, 2023
. Burn Time, Mineless / Double Grass (Taipei), 2023
. Æffective Choreography, Halle am Berghain (Berlin), 2023
. Æffective Choreography, DE STUDIO (Antwerp), Antwerp Queer Arts Festival, 2023
. Æffective Choreography, presentation of video excerpts and talk, Goethe Institut, Lisbon, 2023
. Æffective Choreography, Halle am Berghain, Berlin, 2023
. Burn Time, Mineless (Taipei, Taiwan), 2023
. Æffective Choreography, Tanzbiennale Heidelberg, 2023
. Burn Time, CushCush Gallery (Bali, Indonesia), 2023
. Burn Time, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf
. Æffective Choreography, Radialsystem, 2022
. Inviting Moments of Stillness, Radialsystem (Berlin), 2022
. Villa Arson (Nice, France), 2022
. Gallery Wedding (Berlin), 2022
. Fire Starter, ACROSS Movement Research / Galerie Wedding, Berlin, 2022
. A hole the size of your touch, Museum of Contemporary Art (Lisbon), BoCA - Bienial of Contemporary Arts (Lisbon), 2021
. Burn Time, Room for Performance Festival / Norrlandsoperan, Umeå (Sweden), 2021
. Fire Starter, Flutgraben Performances, Berlin, 2020
. Fire Starter, Dançar é a Minha Revolução #2", Mercado Forno do Tijolo, Lisbon, 2020
. Burn Time, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, 2020
. Burn Time, Radialsystem, in the frame of “New Empathies”, 2020
. Burn Time, The Museum as Performance, Serralves, Porto, 2020
. Fire Starter, Flutgraben Performances, Berlin, 2019
. Burn Time, Naves Matadero, Madrid, Spain, 2019
. Burn Time, Portuguese Platform for Performing Arts, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, 2019
. Burn Time, Verão Azul Festival, Loulé, Portugal, 2019
. Burn Time, Lighting Guerrilla, Festival UKREP, Glej, Slovenia, 2018
. Burn Time, Walk&Talk Festival, Arquipélago, Ponta Delgada, Azores/ Portugal, 2018
. Burn Time, Tanzfabrik, “Open Spaces”, Berlin, 2018
. Burn Time, Festival Temps d'Images Lisbon, Teatro do Bairro, Portugal, 2018
𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 / 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 & 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗦
. Cuddle Therapy Training, Kuschelraum, Berlin, 2025
. Intimacy Coordinator training, Level 2, Principal Intimacy Professionals, 2024
. Like a Pro, The School of Consent, 5-9 December 2024
. Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), Berlin, 17 & 24 August, 2024
. Intimacy Coordination, Principal Intimacy, Level 2, 2024
. Sacred Intimacy, at Casa Dorada, by Christian Gouttenoire, 29 Sept. – 5 October 2024
. Sexological Bodywork, Institute for somatic learning, sexuality and bodywork, Berlin, 2022-2023
. Introduction to Healing Dance Aquatic Bodywork, by Michael Hallock, Yoga Barn, Bali (Indonesia), 19 - 20 Feb., 2022
. Healing Dance Aquatic Bodywork 1 (Foundation), by Michael Hallock, Yoga Barn, Bali, 8 - 10 & 15 - 17 March, 2022
. Neo Emotional Release Workshop, Berlin, 17 December, 2022
. ISTA Level 1 (Spiritual, Sexual, Shamanic) training, International School of Temple Arts, Samothraki (Greece). Elaine Yonge (facilitator),
Bynoi Desouza & Diana Prem Shakti (co-facilitators), 28 May - 3 June, 2021
. Nada Yoga Seminar (3 days), Mahesh Ivan Pavlicek, Berlin, 2017
. Body Mind Balancing (7 days) Krisana, Berlin, 2017
. First Aid, Erste Hilfe Station, Berlin, 2024
𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗦
. Kulturaustauschstipendium des Landes Berlin - Global (Berlin), 2025
. Pina Bausch Fellowship, Kunststiftung NRW, Germany, 2023
. Tanzpraxis, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, 2022/2023
. Compendium of Care, Research Grant, Fonds Darstellende Künste, 2022
. Resonanz, Research Grant, Fonds Darstellende Künste (DE), 2021
𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗦
. Undisguised, Observatorio del Placer, Barcelona, 2024
. Re-think accessibility in Performing Arts (1 Year Program), organised by Norrlandsoperan and funded by the Swedish Institute, 2021
. Inviting Moments of Stillness, 4 Weeks Artistic Residency at Radialsystem, 2021
. Artistic Residency (1 Year) at Flutgraben Performances, 2019 - 2020
. Artistic Residency for Burn Time, PACT Zollverein, Essen, 2017
𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 / 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗣𝗦
. Space Weavers, Embodied Practices, Radialsystem, Berlin, 2025
. Space Weavers, LAB / Performance, Casa da Dança, Almada (Portugal), 2024
. Undisguised Matter, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in the frame of the "MA Mediation in Dance" Studies, 2023
. Undisguised Matter, in the frame of Theatertreffen / International Forum, Martin-Gropius-Bau, 2023
. Inviting Moments of Stillness, Laboratory at Le Dojo, Nice, France, 2022
𝗥𝗘𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘
. Trigger of Happiness, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, 2018
. Trigger of Happiness, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Short Theatre 12, Rome (Italy), 2017
. sexyMF, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Ciamlo Body Mind Festival (Poland), 2015
. sexyMF, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Zodiak-Side Step Festival (Helsinki), 2014
𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗖𝗢𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥
. Atlas, Ana Borralho & João Galante: Uferstudios, CIRCA, Théâtre Nanterre Amandiers, Le Parvis, Humain trop Humain, Le Phenix, Le Lieu Unique, TAP - Festival À Corps, Escenas do Cambio, Artium, Alhóndiga, Naves Matadero, Salmon Festival – Mercat de les Flors, Ciamlo BodyMind Festival - Teatr Powszcheny, Arsenic, MU Theatre, CESC Pompeia, CAOS - Up to you, Baltoscandal, Vooruit, Materiais Diversos, LÓKAL, 2012 - 2018
𝗔𝗦 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗥
. Reindeer Age #0, Bernardo Chatillon, 2019
. This is so Contemporary, Tino Sehgal, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2018
. Male Breast Feeding, Antonija Livingstone, HAU, Berlin, 2018
. The Eternal Return, Clément Layes, Potsdam Fabrik, 2018
. SELF, Christian Falsnaes, Gallery PSM Berlin, 2018
. The Eternal Return, Clément Layes, Potsdam Fabrik, 2017
. Aggregate, Alexandra Pirici, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 2017
. Narkosis. Moritz Majce & Sandra Man, Tanzfabrik, OpenSpaces#3, Berlin
. The Print of Sleep, Naufus Ramirez-Figuoera, KW - Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2016
. sexyMF, Ana Borralho & João Galante, HAU (Berlin), 2015
. sexyMF, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Teatro Maria Matos/ LUX (Lisboa), 2015
. Monster, Carlota Lagido, EIRA, Lisboa, 2011
. Húmus, Karnart, Monumental Galerie, Lisboa, 2010
. Bodies in Urban Spaces, Willi Dorner, Caldas da Rainha, Alcobaça &Torres Vedras, 2010
. Long Distance Call, Rafael Alvarez, Temps d’Images/ Negócio, Lisboa & Mousonturm, Frankfurt, 2009
. Ring, Felix Ruckert, Escrita na Paisagem, Évora, 2009
. Doce, Sílvia Pinto Coelho, CCB, Lisboa, 2008
. Se eu não puder dançar esta não é a minha revolução, Miguel Moreira, Espaço Ginjal, Lisboa, 2008
. I Put a Spell on You, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Forum Dança, Lisboa, 2008
. sexyMF, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Galeria Graça Brandão (Lisboa), 2006