I use movement to tell honest, meaningful stories that invite others to connect with them in their own way.
Ricardo Campos Freire is a Portuguese dancer, choreographer, and movement educator from Lisbon. He trained at the Lisbon Dance School (Escola Superior de Dança) and continued his studies at Stockholm University of the Arts.
He began his professional career with the Portuguese Contemporary Dance Company before joining renowned institutions including the Croatian National Theatre, Bitef Dance Company, Ballet Hagen, and Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with internationally acclaimed choreographers such as Mauro Bigonzetti, Marco Goecke, Cayetano Soto, Patrick Delcroix, James Sutherland, and Vasco Wellenkamp.
In 2015, Ricardo was awarded the Smiljana Mandukić Award for Best Dancer of the Year in Belgrade, Serbia, recognizing his artistic excellence and contribution to the dance scene.
His choreographic and teaching work has taken him across Europe, Asia, and North America, presenting performances, workshops, and creative projects in South Korea, Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, Serbia, Germany, the United States, Malta, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Montenegro, Vietnam, and Sweden.
Flowing Identity Workshop
Ricardo's choreographic practice explores continuity and fluidity of movement, cultivating a body that is more available, responsive, and present. His work is rooted in movement that carries intention, emerging from awareness, curiosity, and authentic physical experience rather than movement for its own sake.
This research gave rise to Flowing Identity, a workshop that invites dancers to develop their own movement language instead of reproducing predefined forms. Combining movement exercises, guided improvisation, and structured exploration, the workshop encourages participants to discover the body as both a creative source and a tool for communication. Working with space, rhythm, weight, and momentum, dancers expand their physical awareness and expressive range while uncovering movement qualities unique to their own artistic voice.
At its core, Flowing Identity explores a fundamental question: Why do we move the way we do? By recognizing and adapting their individual movement patterns, participants learn to transform physical limitations into possibilities, move with greater efficiency, and develop a deeper relationship with movement. The workshop provides practical tools that help dancers become more articulate, versatile, and conscious physical communicators.
Upcoming Dates
- Something in between at Emil Schumacher Museum | May 17th, 2026 | Hagen, Germany
- Flowing Identity Classes at Korea Youth Ballet Stars | May 24th, 2026 | Seoul, South Korea
- Flowing Identity Classes at Korea Youth Ballet Stars | Jun 07th, 2026 | Seoul, South Korea
- Something in between at Bocholter Kunst- und Kultur-Gemeinschaft | Sep 13th, 2026 | Bocholt, Germany
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