Ricardo Campos Freire is a Dancer and Choreographer born in Lisbon, Portugal, and educated at Superior Dance School in Lisbon and Stockholm University of the Arts.

Started as a dancer with the Portuguese Company of Contemporary Dance went on to perform with the Croatian National Theatre, Bitef Dance Company, Ballet Hagen, and Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern. Worked with choreographers such as Mauro Bigonzetti, Patrick Delcroix, André Mesquita, James Sutherland, Cayetano Soto, Vasco Wellenkamp, Marco Goecke, Rui Lopes Graça, Maša Kolar, Francesco Nappa, and Ricardo Fernando.

In 2015, Ricardo won the Smiljana Mandukic Award for the best dancer of the year in Belgrade, Serbia.

He's developing his choreographic works since 2011, starting with the duet Mundo meu for the Portuguese Company of Contemporary Dance and choreographing Fallback and In Two for DLWorks in Lisbon.

Winner of the Audience Award at the 18th Festival of Choreographic Miniatures in Belgrade with the solo U meni, being present the following year as a special guest with his pieces In
between and Inverted Image.

Inserted in the project Tanzlabor, created Apart and Unstable ground for Ballet Hagen. Apart was chosen to be presented at the 31st international competition for choreographers in Hannover.

In 2017 created Clash and Outsider for the Korea Youth Ballet Stars in Seoul, and under de project Choreo Lab, Impressions of Myself for the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka. In the same year was invited to create the duet Unavoidable for the festival KOTID in Frankfurt.

More recently choreographed For those who can hear me for Dance Arts Faculty in Rome, Us for Yen Han Ballet Productions in Zürich, Num Instante for Companhia Nós da Dança in Póvoa do Varzim, and Public Domain for Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo.

Guest artist with Tanzkompanie bo komplex, Yen Han Ballet Productions, Julia Maria Koch, DAF (Dance Arts Faculty), Companhia Nós da Dança, Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo, Tanzgebiet, Choreoloop, WestDeutsches Tanztheater, animi motus, and Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern. Ricardo has been developing his work in South Korea, Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, Serbia, Egypt, Malta, USA, Germany, Bósnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Vietnam, and Sweden.

Dance Education

2008 Stockholm University of the Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 - 2008 Superior Dance School - Graduate Degree in Dance, Lisbon, Portugal

Work Experience

2019 - Freelance Dancer, Choreographer and Teacher
2018 - 2019 Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany | Director . James Sutherland
2017 - 2018 Croatian National Theatre, Rijeka, Croatia | Director - Maša Kolar
2015 - 2017 Ballet Hagen, Hagen, Germany | Director - Ricardo Fernando
2013 - 2014 Bitef Dance Company, Belgrade, Serbia | Director - Jelena Kajgo
2013 Croatian National Theatre, Rijeka, Croatia | Director - Ronald Savković
2008 - 2012 Portuguese Company of Contemporary Dance, Lisbon, Portugal | Director - Vasco Wellemkamp and Liliana Mendonça

Projects and Collaborations

2024 Something in between at Offene Ateliers am Hawerkamp. Münster, Germany
2024 Flowing Identity Workshop at Tanzmoto. Essen, Germany
2024 Flowing Identity Workshop at Theater Münster. Münster, Germany
2024 Flowing Identity Workshop at Tanzhaus NRW. Düsseldorf, Germany
2024 Created the piece Sou for Companhia Poveira Nós da Dança. Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal
2024 Dance Warm-Up Class at Freiraum. Düsseldorf, Germany
2024 Guest dancer in Alice wundert sich nicht mehr with Tanzgebiet. Essen, Germany
2024 Created the piece Tempo sem Tempo for Companhia Poveira Nós da Dança. Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal
2024 "Zwischen: Zeit" Tanzprojekt. Freren, Germany
2024 Flowing Identity workshop at Theater Münster. Münster, Germany
2024 Organizer Winter Dance Intensive. Seoul, South Korea
2024 Flowing Identity workshop at Ewha Womans University. Seoul, South Korea
2024 Flowing Identity workshop at Ballet X Schwerin. Schwerin, Germany
2023 Flowing Identity workshop Ricardo Campos Freire X CPBC. Lisbon, Portugal
2023 Flowing Identity workshop at Theater Lüneburg. Lüneburg, Germany
2023 Baghdad International Theater Festival with Tanzgebiet. Baghdad, Iraq
2023 Flowing Identity workshop at 5678 Dance Intensive vol.2. Belgrade, Serbia
2023 Partnering Workshop and residency project "Tanz im with Dazwischen" with Melánie Lopéz Lopéz. Lingen, Germany
2023 Created the piece Eco Sem Voz for Companhia Poveira Nós da Dança. Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal
2023 Flowing Identity workshop at Staatstheater. Augsburg, Germany
2023 Flowing Identity workshop at RüTanz. Essen, Germany
2023 Flowing Identity workshop at Tanzfaktur. Köln, Germany
2023 Flowing Identity workshop at Artist Hub Dance Competition. Strumica, North Macedonia
2023 Created the piece Num Instante for Companhia Poveira Nós da Dança. Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal
2023 Flowing Identity workshop at Moveo Dance Company. Gzira, Malta
2023 Something in Between at the 4. Internationale Tanzgala at Theater Lüneburg. Lüneburg, Germany
2023 Created the piece Public Domain for Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo. Lisbon, Portugal
2023 Guest dancer in Kontra Punkt by Jelena Ivanovic with Tanzgebiet. Essen, Germany
2022/23 Created Embrace, Inner Voice, and The One Left Behind for Korea Youth Ballet Stars. Seoul, South Korea
2022 Flowing Identity workshop at Proud Yejong Ballet. Seoul, South Korea
2022 Flowing Identity workshop at Theater Lüneburg. Lüneburg, Germany
2022 Flowing Identity workshop for Profitraining Köln at Tanzfaktur. Köln, Germany
2022 Something in between presented at Stroetmanns Fabrik. Emsdetten, Germany
2022 Something in between (work in progress with Melanie Lopez Lopez) presented at ESSENZIALE 2022. Essen, Germany
2022 Premiere of the solo And if it's over? at Schaukasten Tanz. Münster, Germany
2022 Flowing Identity workshops at TanzXchange. Münster, Germany
2022 DIS-TANZ-SOLO - Decoding the path. Essen, Germany
2022 Created the piece A procura do instante for Companhia Poveira Nós da Dança. Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal
2022 Guest dancer in "Nimm Platz!" by Diana Wöhrl with Choreoloop. Augsburg, Germany
2022 Guest dancer in n-e-t-w-o-r-k-i-n-g by Elisabeth Kindler-Abali with animi motus e. V. at CounterPulse. San Francisco, USA
2022 Created the piece For those who can hear me for DAF (Dance Arts Faculty). Rome, Italy
2021 Guest dancer in Deals with God by Julia Maria Koch at the 28th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre. Berlin / Cairo, Germany / Egypt
2021 Choreographer & Producer of the project Indirect Bond with Melanie Lopez Lopez, Davide Degano, Tiana Lara Hogan, and Péter Daniel Matkaicsek. Sponsored by Stipendienprogramm 2021 des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.
2021 Flowing Identity Workshop at TanzXchange. Münster, Germany
2021 Created the piece Us for Yen Han Ballet Productions. Zurich, Switzerland
2021 Guest dancer in 77Beethoven by Bärbel Stenzenberger and Olaf Reinecke, with Tanzkompanie bo komplex. Bonn, Germany
2021 Solo dancer in Pierrot Lunaire by Jozsef Hajzer at KunstFestPASSAGEN. Menden, Germany
2021 Guest dancer in the Third Choice by Sagí Gross, with WestDeutsches Tanztheater. Hagen, Germany
2021 Guest performer in a Film Project by Davide Degano. Udine, Italy
2021 Guest dancer in Sentilo by Diana Wöhrl with Choreoloop. Augsburg, Germany
2021 Guest dancer in Tartini's Sonatas by Yen Han with Yen Han Ballet Productions. Zurich, Switzerland
2021 Created the piece La bellezza del Niente for DAF (Dance Arts Faculty). Rome, Italy
2021 Film Project by Sagí Gross with WestDeutsches Tanztheater. Hagen, Germany
2021 Residency project with Choreoloop. Regen, Germany
2020 Guest dancer in moneypulation by Elisabeth Kindler-Abali with the company animi motus e. V.. Berlin, Germany
2020 Guest dancer in The Solitude of Memory by Sagí Gross with WestDeutsches Tanztheater. Hagen, Germany
2019 Guest dancer in Sacre by James Sutherland with Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern. Kaiserslautern, Germany
2019 Guest Dancer in Multidimensional by Huy Tien Tran at Hanoi Dance Fest. Hanoi, Vietnam
2019 Benefiz-Ballet-Gala Theater Lüneburg with Unavoidable. Lüneburg, Germany
2015 Danced the duet Trijada by Maša Kolar. Zagreb, Croatia
2015 Guest dancer in Prokleta Avlija by Dana Ruttenberg with the Serbian National Theatre. Belgrade, Serbia
2013 Ballet master responsible for re-staging Patrick's Delcroix État d'âme for Croatian National Theatre. Rijeka, Croatia
2012 Danced the duet Entre Nós, choreographer Benvindo Fonseca. Lisbon, Portugal