Andressa Miyazato is a versatile Brazilian dance artist, choreographer, researcher, and educator with an international career spanning renowned dance companies and major stages worldwide. Originally from São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, she began her professional journey with the Ballet de Rio Preto before joining the acclaimed Cisne Negro Dance Company in São Paulo. Her European career includes performances at Staatstheater Darmstadt and Musiktheater Linz.
Miyazato has performed on prestigious stages across the globe, including the Joyce Theater Summer Dance Festival in New York, the Festival Internacional de Danza de la Habana in Cuba, the Impulstanz Festival at the Volkstheater in Austria, the Latin American Dance Festival in Ludwigshafen, the Seoul Performing Arts Festival in South Korea, the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts Weiwuying in Taiwan, and the Dubrovnik Festival.
Collaboration is a vital aspect of her artistic practice, both as a dancer and choreographer. She has worked with artists worldwide, including Taiwanese guqin player Li-Yu You and French composer Jean-Jacques Lemêtre at the Festival Daguan in Taipei, where she served as choreographer, dancer, and pedagogue in collaboration with the National Taiwan University of Arts. She created Lampejos: Uma Degustação Visual for the Cisne Negro Dance Company in São Paulo, with original music composed by Jean-Jacques Lemêtre. Additionally, she collaborated with baroque composer Christina Pluhar on Combattimento, performed at the Grand Théâtre de Genève alongside renowned ensemble L’Arpeggiata, Rolando Villazón, and Céline Scheen.
Miyazato has also partnered with choreographers and musicians such as Stasa Zurovac in Lulu, sharing the stage with composer and Balanescu Quartet founder Alexander Balanescu. Recently, she collaborated with Brazilian composer Fabio Cardia for Urutau, created for the Corpo de Dança do Amazonas. Additionally, she has choreographed for theater productions, including Tom auf dem Lande (Nestroy-nominated) and the critically acclaimed The Broken Circle, both directed by Sara Ostertag.
Her outstanding contributions to dance have earned her critical acclaim, including a nomination as “Dancer of the Year” by Tanznetz in 2017. In recognition of her work in education and the performing arts, she was honored in 2019 by the National University of Arts Taipei for an intercultural project. In 2025, she will serve as a choreographer for an interdisciplinary project at the Schäxpir International Theater Festival for Young Audiences, collaborating with the drama, jazz, and dance departments of Anton Bruckner Private University.
Miyazato holds a master’s degree (2020) from Anton Bruckner Private University, where she studied under Prof. Dr. Claudia Jeschke and Prof. Rose Breuss. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Art and Design Linz under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Amalia Barboza and Prof. Rose Breuss. Her research focuses on movement research and dance improvisation, exploring the intersections between theory and practice, artistic knowledge production, postcolonial theories, decolonial methodologies, and Indigenous new materialist approaches.
Her academic and artistic contributions include presenting Verräterische Bewegung (Treacherous Movement) at the De-/Colonization of Knowledge conference at the University of Vienna and contributing to an upcoming publication. She also participated in the panel The Muteness of Materials, organized by Amalia Barboza at the 8th Annual Conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, where she gave a lecture performance on her collaboration with the Amazonas Dance Company. Additionally, she has been a featured speaker at the Rosenberg Dance Research Festival in Linz (2023, 2024) and presented at Konspirationen I (2022) at the University of Art and Design Linz and Konspirationen II (2024) at Salzamt Linz.
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