Marlene Monteiro Freitas

In 2024, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the Festival d’Automne à Paris for the presentation of Canine Jaunâtre 3 by Marlene Monteiro Freitas.

Marlene Monteiro Freitas was born in Cape Verde. She studied dance at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), Escola Superior de Dança and Dança and at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon), then co-founded the Compass dance company in her native country. She has danced for Emmanuelle Huynh, Loïc Touzé, with Emmanuelle Huynh, Loïc Touzé, Tânia Carvalho and Boris Charmatz. several pieces, including Primeira Impressão in 2005, A Improbabilidade da Certeza and Larvar in 2006, Uns e Outros in 2008, A Seriedade do Animal in 2009, the solo Guintche in 2010, Paraìso, colecçao privada in 2012, Jaguar in 2015.

The Festival d'Automne invited her for the first time in 2017 with Bacchantes - prélude pour une purge, based on the work by Euripides. A year later, the Batsheva Dance Company commissioned a piece from her, Canine Jaunâtre 3. In 2020, she created Mal - Embriaguez Divina at Kampnagel (Hamburg) and became co-programmer of (un)common ground, a project looking at the territorial and artistic implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Marlene Monteiro Freitas has received numerous awards including a Silver Lion at the 2018 Venice Biennale. The Festival d'Automne is devoting a seven-part Portrait and and an exhibition.