Biography
Born in 1982 in Portugal, Catarina Miranda is a visual arts graduate from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto, where she currently lives. She also trained at ICI-CCN Montpellier, earning an EXERCE master’s degree; and studied Noh theatre at the Kyoto Art Center in Japan. She uses the body as a vessel to transform and mediate the hypnagogic state (a transitional stage between wakefulness and sleep), treating the body as a physical and sonic instrument. She works with languages such as voice, movement, light and scenography. Her choreographic pieces – Caraqimera, Dream is the dreamer, Boca Muralha and Mazeam – have been staged at the Pompidou Centre and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Materiais Diversos festival in Lisbon, at the Serralves contemporary art museum and the national theatre in Porto, but also in Liège, Cape Verde and Rome. She has presented several of her visual installations at the Pompidou Centre (Poromechanics), at the Fabric Arts Festival in Massachusetts (Diagonal Animal), at Dance Box in Kobe and Maizuru RB (Mountain Mouth).