Biography
José Eduardo Silva was born in Guimarães (Portugal) in December 1975 and is a performing artist, actor, director, researcher, and Assistant professor in theatre. Graduated in Theatre Studies from the Superior School of Music and Performative Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ESMAE - IPP) and holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP). Complementarily completed the Professional Theatre Course from the vocational theatre and dance school Balleteatro E.P. (Porto, Portugal); the Artistic Expertise in Street Theatre Course from the Contemporary Academy of Performance (ACE) vocational school (Porto, Portugal); and, the XII edition of the École de Maîtres International Theatre Course (Udine and Rome, Italy). Co-founder and co-artistic director of the independent theatre company Teatro do Frio since 2005, much of his artistic work has been done in collaboration with various authors, artists, and institutions in countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Brazil, and Japan. First experiences regarding involvement in the performative arts (music) date back to 1990, but only in 1994, he engaged in physically based theatre practices that soon led to the practice of contemporary dance. In 1998, became a resident dancer at the Balleteatro Contemporary Dance Company (Porto, Portugal); and in 1999 began to collaborate with the National Theatre of Porto (TNSJ). In 2001, became a resident actor of the Street Theatre Company of Porto 2001ECC. In 2005 worked for half a year at the Teatro Stabile Torino (ITA) under the direction of the theater maestro Giancarlo Cobelli (montage and tour in Italy with Georg Büchner's "Woyzeck") and at the end of that year joined the resident theatre company of the National Theatre of Porto (TNSJ) until its extinction in 2011. From mid-2011 until early 2013 worked as a resident actor of the theatre company Teatro Oficina, in the context of the Guimarães 2012 ECC. In addition he worked with theatre directors such as Ana Luísa Guimarães, António Durães, Isabel Barros, João Paulo Seara-Cardoso, Jorge Mota, José Carretas, Lautaro Vilo, Nuno Cardoso, Nuno Carinhas, Nuno M. Cardoso, Ricardo Pais, Sanja Mitrovic and Trevor Stuart; as well as cinema directors such as Frederico Serra and Tiago Guedes, Saguenail, José Pedro Sousa and Raquel Freire. As a director we can highlight, for example, his more recent theatre and performative authorial works "Eis o Homem - a partir Ecce Homo de Nietzsche" (Casa das Artes de Famalicão/TNSJ, 2013/2015); "(De)Individuation: (Dis)Concert for Bernard Stiegler" (TeCA, 2016); and "O Outro de Nós" (CCVF, 2018). Between 2015 and 2019, he conducted a postdoctoral research project, with a fellowship awarded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), intersecting areas of performative arts, theatre, psychological development, education and community intervention Interesses de investigação:
Theatre and Performative Arts, Aesthetics and Politics, Psychological development and Education, Citizenship and Social development.
Degrees
Ph.D. In Psychology of Theatre (Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto)
Licenciatura in Theatre Studies (Polytechnic Institute of Porto)
Bachelor degree in Theatre - Acting (Polytechnic Institute of Porto)
Work:
Assistant Professor (2021-...)
Senior Researcher - (2019-2021)
PostDoctoral Resercher - with grant (2015 -2019)
Professional Teatre and Cinema Actor (1994 to 2015)
Professor and Teatre director [in Higher Education and Vocational schools] (2003 -...)
Positions:
Coordinator of NIEP - Performative Studies Research Group
Coordinator of GIArtes - Artistic Studies Research Group
Deputy- director of CEHUM - Centre for Humanities of the University of Minho
Postdoctoral Researcher of the projet "Communitary Theatre: The construction of Aesthetic experience in the context of Psychosocial intervention projects" with the fellowship reference SFRH/BPD/100638/2014
Resident Actor of Teatro Oficina Theatre company (2011-2013)
Resident Actor of the National Theatre of Porto theatre company [TNSJ] (2005-2011)
Co-Artistic Director of Teatro do Frio Theatre company (2005...)
Resident Actor in Teatro Stabile Torino theatre company (01/2005 - 06/2005)
