Elisabete Monteiro

Biography

She holds a PhD in Dance, a Master in Educational Sciences, with a dissertation in Dance., and a Bachelor in Physical Education – option Dance. She has been working as a Dance Teacher in the Department of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities – Human Kinetics Faculty. Teacher of Improvisation and Dance Composition; Choreography Lab; Pedagogy and Didactics of Dance; Creative Dance; Contemporary Choreographic Repertoire, Fundamentals of Expressive Therapies. Co-coordinator of Bachelor Dance Course. Scientific advisor of several PhD theses in dance. Jury at PhD and Master’s theses. Coordinator of PhD Dance studies.

Coordinator of Dance Studies Research Group and also Integrated researcher at INET-MD, Institute of Ethnomusicology – Centre for studies in music and dance/Polo FMH. Member of the Centre for Performing Arts (CEAP). Nowadays she is member as an invited international researcher of Art in Motion Research Study Group (NEPAM – Brazil). She was Coordinator of the Pos Graduation ‘Dance in the Community’.

Participation in several National and International Congresses, through lectures, lecture-demonstrations. She has been involved in the past 5 years, in the research of both theoretical and practical experiences addressing dance in the community, inclusive practices and narrative as an artistic research. Responsible for dance workshops in Portugal and abroad (namely in Spain, France, Slovenia, Croatia, Brussels, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan)in the academic and also community field.

Participation in Conferences as an invited speaker and journal contributions with dance articles in Journals, namely in ‘Research in Dance Education’ and ‘Urdimento’. She is a member of some Editorial Boards, namely of the National Association of Dance Researchers, at UFBA and the Postgraduate Program in Dance at UFRJ (Brazil), Revista Cena and RED, Revista de Estu(i)os de Dança.

Elisabete Monteiro is an accredited teacher by the National Professional Accreditation (CCPFC). She is also responsible for two dance teachers training courses for National Dance Conservatoire. Choreographer for more than 30 years at the amateur level for dance community context. Since 2002 she starts training and do creative work with some inclusive dance companies and groups, namely ‘Companhia Dançando com a Diferença’ (Madeira – Portugal); Inclusive dance group ‘Cruor Arte Contemporânea’ (Natal – Brazil); Inclusive Dance Project, ‘DansaArtes’ at CERCIMA (Montijo – Portugal), all with stage performances. With this last Project an article was published in 2022 – a qualitative study aiming to describe the underlying conceptual framework, of the choreographic creative process – defined as ‘poetics of difference’ valuing creativity, diversity, artistry and sense of belonging.

She was also President of the evaluation jury of Higher Education and Assessment Accreditation Agency (A3Es) for the Master’s Course in Teaching at Superior Dance School – Polytechnic Lisbon Institute (ESD-IPL), in 2018. Since 2009, she is the national representative (Portugal) of the ‘Dance and the Child International’ organisation (Daci).

She integrate the group of one European funded Erasmus Project, titled Story Makers (Erasmus Plus) with four partners from United Kingdom, Poland, Cyprus and Portugal (2021/23).

In 2023-25 the Project OIAPODAN as coordinator for the Portuguese research team, a collaborative action between Ibero-American researchers and institutions interested in monitoring and analyzing dance policies (first phase with Brasil and Argentina).

In 2024 is one member of Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters – Joint Master in Resilience in Educational Contexts (FLOURISH); Collaborator Researcher in UNIWELL Project for Physical and Mental Awareness for University Students – Erasmus Plus (Czech Republic; Italy; Türkiye; Portugal; Estonia), 2024-2026.