Biography
Born in 1986 in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Marco da Silva Ferreira has a degree in physical therapy from Piaget Institute in Vila Nova de Gaia. A professional dancer since 2008, he has worked with André Mesquita, Hofesh Shechter, Sylvia Rijmer, Tiago Guedes, Victor Hugo Pontes and Paulo Ribeiro, to name a few. He was artistic assistant to Victor Hugo Pontes for the pieces Fall and Se alguma vez precisares da minha vida, vem e toma-a, in 2014, then assistant choreographer for the Hamlet staged by theatrical company Mala Voadora. He began creating his own choreographic works in 2012, with Nevoeiro 21. Then came Réplica ... éplica ...éplica (2013) and, the same year, his piece Hu(r)mano received Portugal’s Best Young Artist prize, opening the doors to an international career. His next piece was Brother (2016), created for the Municipal Theatre in Porto and performed at the Biennale de la danse de Lyon in 2018. In 2019, he created Bisonte, again for the Municipal Theatre in Porto, before taking the show to Lisbon, Brussels and cities around France. SIRI (2021) was co-created with filmmaker Jorge Jácome. Between 2018 and 2019, da Silva Ferreira was associate artist of the Municipal Theatre in Porto, then at the National Choreography Centre (CCN) of Caen from 2019 to 2021. In 2022, he created Fantasie minor as part of the delegated productions of the Tout-terrain Collection of the CCN, a programme aimed at staging dance works throughout its catchment area. His work has centred on urban styles and the meaning of emerging dance forms.