Joana von Mayer Trindade (Portugal 1975)- Choreographer, Performer and Teacher works in between Berlin and Porto since 2011. In 2013 she got a Master degree in Dance, MA SODA (Solo/Dance/ Authorship) at the University for the Arts in Berlin-UDK / HZT and received a scholarship to attend her studies by GDA- Gestão dos Direitos dos Artistas. She attended the Course of Contemporary Dance Performers (1998/1999) run by Forum Dança as well as “Essais” (2006) at the “Centre National de la Danse Contenporaine d’Angers direction d’Emmanuelle Huynh (France)”, she received a scholarship to attend “Essais” by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She works as a creator, performer and teacher in the fields of performance art, dance and yoga. She has a degree in Psychology, University of Oporto. Together with Hugo Calhim Cristovão, she is a member and co-founder of NuIsIs ZoBoP. Her two latest solos “She Will Not Live” and “Veleda”, created together with Hugo Calhim Cristovão were presented in several festivals and cultural centers in Portugal such as Serralves Museum and Festival Materiais Diversos. She has worked with several choreographers and was a scholarship holder at the National Culture Centre in Japan (2002), where she researched and practiced Butoh with Min Tanaka at the Body Weather Farm, and Soto Zen Buddhism at the Zazen Dojo Antai-Ji. In 2008 she traveled during six months in India where she finished "Certificate Course in Yoga" in the Benares Hindu University in Varanasi and "Intensive Yoga Teachers Training Course" on Patanjali Yoga Foundation in Rishikesh. As a performer she worked in collaboration with artists such as Antonio Carrallo, Filipe Viegas, Sonia Baptista, Deborah Hay, Eric Didry, Emmanuelle Huynh, Ana Clara Guerra Marques, Paulo Henrique, Olga Roriz, Ana Trincão and Danya Hammoud. In 2012 she accompanied as an artist the development of the exhibition: “Moments. A History of Performance in 10 Acts which lasted 8 weeks from March 8 to April 29, April 2012 at ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe/Germany, in the context of this exhibition she published the following article: "Truthful Images” for the internet magazine CORPUS for dance, choreography and performance: <http://www.corpusweb.net/truthful-images-2.htm>