JOÃO FIADEIRO (1965) belongs to the generation of choreographers that emerged towards the end of the 1980s and gave rise to the Nova Dança Portuguesa . A large part of his training was carried out between Lisbon, New York and Berlin.
In 1990 he founded the Atelier | RE.AL Company that supported the creation and diffusion of many choreographers including his works, regularly presented all over Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and South America.
Between 1995 and 2003 he collaborated with the Portuguese theatre company Artistas Unidos where he staged plays by Samuel Beckett, Sarah Kane and Jon Fosse.
Between 2008 and 2014 he co-directed with anthropologist Fernanda Eugenio the AND_Lab, a research laboratory around sustainable coexistence, working on the relation between ethics, aesthetics and politics.
In 2014, after a 6 year hiatus, João Fiadeiro come back to his chorographic work trough the re-enactment of some of his early solos and by creating a new group piece called “What to do with what remains” in 2015.
Real Time Composition a research developed for the past 20 years in cooperation with many other disciplines besides contemporary dance - such as economy, neurobiology or complex systems sciences - has lead João Fiadeiro to coordinate workshops in Masters and PhDs in several national and international schools and universities. João Fiadeiro is currently attending a PhD degree in Contemporary Art at the University of Coimbra in Portugal.