Mimosa | Flavia Pinheiro

About Flavia Pinheiro

Flavia Pinheiro is a Brazilian choreographer and researcher currently based in Amsterdam. Her research foregrounds networks of resilience and resistance to systems of knowledge rethinking through speculative fabulation ways of unlearning and dismantling power hierarchies. Her practice entails performances, videos, installations and urban interventions, in collaboration with artists from different fields, such as contemporary music, visual art, cinema and digital art.

She graduated at DAS Choreography Master program, University of Amsterdam in 2022. Her Master’s research was carried out in Benin with a fellowship from the AHK Internationalization Fund and with the Talent Grant/ AHK. She is currently part of DAS Third research program developing M.I.M.O.S.A that intends to dismantle hegemonies of thoughts and species in an expanded choreographic and somatic approach. Her graduation piece 7 Abiku Solos for 11 bacteria falling through“ was supported by Aart Janszen Fund and ID Lab and awarded with the Andre Veltkamp Beurs. In 2022, Flavia Pinheiro was awarded the 3 Package Deal fund for International Talents by AFK for the ‘Engaged Art’ coalition. She has been in residency in CND/ Pantin (France 2018), La Caldera (Spain 2021) and Working-space Brussels (Belgium 2022). In 2020 together with many others she created SOUTH BOOM BOOM; a platform with a series of performative conferences and a publication for non-europeans students to voice out their experiences.