Artistic director Dance
Tiago Guedes is a cultural programmer and choreographer, graduate in dance at the Escola Superior de Dança of the Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa.
From 1 July 2022 he becomes director of the Maison de la danse de Lyon, co-director of the Biennale de Lyon and assumes the artistic direction of the Biennale de la danse.
From September 2014 to June 2022, he directed the Teatro Municipal do Porto – Rivoli and Campo Alegre, the Festival DDD – Dias da Dança and the research center and artistic residencies CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva.
He concurrently teaches in the post-graduate degree in contemporary dance at the Higher School of Music and Performing Arts (Polytechnic Institute of Porto) and at the Porto Lusófona University. He started choreographing in 2001 and has presented his work in theatres and festivals all over the world. He collaborated with RE.AL as associated choreographer from 2003 to 2007 and was artist in residence at Théâtre Le Vivat (Armentières) from 2006 to 2008. He founded the Materiais Diversos association in 2007, which he headed until 2014 and with which he created the Materiais Diversos Festival (whose first edition took place in 2009). Between 2011 and 2014, he was the artistic director of Cine-Teatro São Pedro (Alcanena) and Teatro Virgínia (Torres Novas), both in the central region of Portugal. In May of 2021, he was ordered Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, one of the most important cultural distinctions awarded by the French government.