Ana Pais

Biography

Ana Pais is a FCT postdoctoral fellow at CET – Centro de Estudos de Teatro at the University of Lisbon/FLUL, dramaturge and curator. She is the author of Discourse of Complicité. Contemporary Dramaturgies (Colibri 2004) and Affective Rhythms in the Performing Arts (Colibri 2018). She edited the volume Performance na Esfera Pública (2017, Orfeu Negro) and its online version in English available at www.performativa.pt. She has worked as theatre critic in the most distinguished Portuguese newspapers (Público and Expresso), as a dramaturge in both theatre and dance projects in Portugal, and as curator of several discursive practices events, namely the one week event Projecto P!Performance in the Public Sphere (2017) and In the Flow: Public feelings and practices of awareness (2019).