Renan Martins

Renan Martins is a Brazilian choreographer and performer based in Barcelona. He started his artistic path as a young actor in Rio de Janeiro and at the age of 17 moved to Europe to study contemporary dance. He graduated from both SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) and P.A.R.T.S (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) where he started developing his choreographic work. His very first full evening piece Let Me Die In My Footsteps was chosen by Aerowaves as one of the top works of 2016. Since then he has been making work, performing and touring in various cities in Europe and Brazil. He is a member of Sekoia Artes Performativas, a Portuguese platform that has produced his work since 2018 and is managed by Tina Agency.

Parallel to his choreographic practice, he has been a performer for Iztok Kovac, Marysia Stoklosa, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Alexandra Waierstall, Ceren Oran, Daniel Linehan and Peter Savel.

Renan Martins is an active teacher sharing his work in various dance schools, festivals and companies around Europe and Brazil such as Impulstanz, Ballet National de Marseille, Norwegian Theatre Academy, Theater Bremen, B12, Danish National School of Performing Arts, Dance Theatre Heidelberg, SKH, Danscentrum Stockholm, Tictac Art Center, Antwerp Royal Conservatory, Centro de Artes da Maré/Lia Rodrigues and P.A.R.T.S., to name a few. Since 2013 he has been a member of Damaged Goods/Meg Stuart performing in Violet, Atelier III, Projecting [Space[ and most recently CASCADE. He is was part of DDE, a research project on diversity and inclusion together with the faculty of P.A.R.T.S. (BE), Manufacture (CH) and SKH (SK) from 2021 to 2024.

As choreographer he has presented his independent work around Europe and Brasil and has choreographed for companies such as ME-SA (CZ), BOD.Y (SK), Dance Theatre Heidelberg (DE), Unusual Symptoms/Theater Bremen (DE) and Danish Dance Theatre (DK).