Diniz Sanchez
Portugal

Born in the capital city of Portugal, Diniz Sanchez received his education at Lisbon’s Superior Dance School and at Forum Dança where he studied dance and choreography. He then completed his artistic education at Centre Chorégraphique National de Languedoc-Roussillon and at Aquitaine’s Superior School of Drama and Musical Theatre (France). His interest in the multidisciplinary world of dance to theatre, performance, improvisation, video, voice works and so on enabled him to start creating works of his own. After continuing to create and perform his own contemporary dance-theatre pieces, he found his performative character SPICY TUTUBOY during his work on identity issues. Since then he has continued his research on identity, sexualities and gender issues in the Indian context, following his fascination on the crossover of traditional cultures, mythologies and contemporary cultures of the Western and the Eastern World, to experiment with different forms and disciplines.

Work Title:  SPICY TUTUBOY – THE ELEMENTS

In 2019 I am working on The Elements: on April 16th 2018 I assisted, with my longtime collaborator, the Spanish playwright, dramatist and performer SERGIO HERRERO, to a performance of the Spanish Baroque Opera Los Elementos (The Elements) of the composer Antonio de Literes (1673-1747).

It instantly resonated in me and woke up my creativity and imagination to work on the project of a new production involving the Spanish music, creating a more personal performance on The Elements.

In our contemporary world, especially in the western(ized) hemisphere, Humanity has grown distant/apart from Mother Nature, the Natural World, and her basic 4 ELEMENTS: AIR, EARTH, FIRE and WATER. Our idea is to create and develop performance in Dhaka, using both “western” and “eastern” traditions, texts, rituals, music, objects, etc., 4 performances about these 4 ELEMENTS.