Paulo Azevedo

Paulo Azevedo holds a postdoctoral degree in Social Policies and a PhD in Social Sciences, specializing in Anthropology of the Body and Cartography of Speech. He is a professor and guest lecturer at various higher education institutions.

In the field of live performance, he works as a creator, choreographer, and dramaturge. Paulo Azevedo is also a writer and consultant in the areas of education and culture. His research seeks to explore alternative forms of communication among the various protagonists and networks of sociability in contemporary society.

He has received several awards in Brazil, including FOCA from the Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat of Culture (2011); the FUNARJ Dance Award (2021); and Rumos Educação, Cultura e Arte (2008/10) through the Instituto Itaú Cultural. His projects Brasil sem Ponto Final (2023), Fio do Meio, Act No. 2: The Discredited Crossing of Shock (2023), and Éléments disponibles pour d’autres compositions (2024) were awarded respectively by Instituto Cultural Vale, Funarte, and Sesc Pulsar RJ.

Paulo Azevedo has also participated as a speaker at FLIP Paraty (2017) and later joined the group of writers of the Brazilian Literary Spring at Sorbonne Université. In 2018, he represented Brazil at the Study Day Cultures, Arts and Peripheral Literatures in the Americas: A Transnational Approach to Production, Circulation and Reception in Lyon, France. More recently, as a choreographer, he took part in the 2023 program La belle Seine Saint-Denis à Avignon.

Founder of Cia Gente (2012) and mentor of Fundação PAZ, a virtual platform dedicated to preserving, disseminating, and documenting his intellectual property, Paulo Azevedo is currently coordinating the stage research project tamUjUntU, the title of his new creation developed with professionals from South Africa and Brazil. He has published twenty-one books and is the father of Hiago—his masterpiece.