Lecturer, Dance
Angelica Monteiro is an interdisciplinary movement artist, storyteller and educator from the Brazilian Amazon. She has over fifteen years of experience teaching and creating across Brazil and the United States. Monteiro's choreography combines U.S. and Brazilian street dances, Amazonian traditional forms and Western contemporary movement. She studies embodied storytelling through geographical and anthropological movement patterns such as immigration, colonization and deforestation. Monteiro received her B.A. in Dance and Education from Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil and her M.F.A. in Dance from The University of Texas at Austin, where she now teaches as a Lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Dance.
What do you enjoy most about being a part of UT Theatre and Dance?
The honest conversations, kind smiles and bright minds.
What is your favorite thing about Austin?
I love how pet-friendly Austin is. I love the outdoor life and, of course, the food!
U.S. and Brazilian street dances, Amazonian traditional dances, storytelling and performance, production, choreography and dance education.
Contemporary Dance Technique, Movement Composition, Projects in Dance Performance and Repertory, Intro to Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop II, Hip-Hop Devising
Narratives of the Migrant Body - presented with support from Planet Texas 2050, the University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance and ARCOS Dance (2023)
Vivos
A Riverside Tale (2022)
Under the Same Roof - presented during The Cohen New Works Festival (2021)
The Way of Water: Onion Creek
Em Melo Urbano
Assista-me
Webseries Connexa
Ordem e Regresso
Urbanos