
Vítor Manuel Mendes Garcia dos Santos
"His training notably includes teachers Jorge Trincheiras, Vera Ribeiro da Silva, Maria Luísa Carles, Carlos Caldas, Ulrike Caldas, Jorge Salavisa, Manuela Valadas, Vasco Wellenkamp, Rui Horta, Tony Hulbert, Patrick Hurde, Lynn Seymour, Marion Lane, Ruth Silk, William Louther, Dolores Laga, Magie Black, Jane Kosminsky, Igal Perry, Christine Right, Ivan Kramer, Kathy Bennets, Tom Koch, Mark Morris, Penny Hutchinson, Jenny Coogan, Katie Duck, and Gerry Houllihan.
As a dancer, he performed pieces by choreographers Rui Horta, Mark Haim, Igal Perry, David Parsons, Patrice Soriero, Marc Bogaertz, Mónica Levi, Paulo Ribeiro, Clara Andermatt, Vera Mantero, João Fiadeiro, Francisco Camacho, Conceição Abreu, Rui Nunes, Silvia Real, Joachim Schlömer, Amanda Miller, Michael Schumacher, Truus Bronkhorst, Paul Selwyn Norton, and Cláudio Bernardo, among others.
He has been an assistant and/or rehearsal director for choreographers Paulo Ribeiro, Amanda Miller, Dana Caspersen, Anouk van Dijk, David Parsons, Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Rodrigo Pederneiras, Henrique Rodovalho, Guilherme Botelho, Vera Mantero, Olga Roriz, Rui Lopes Graça, Juan Carlos Garcia, Cesc Gelabert, Didy Veldman, Itzik Galili, Bruno Listopad, Ron Bunzel, Truus Bronkhorst, and Marie Chouinard, among others.
In 1999, he joined the Gulbenkian Ballet as a teacher and rehearsal director until the company's dissolution in 2006. He received the ADAMI INTERPRETATION PRIZE at Bagnolet in 1994 and the UNSURPASSED MASTER OF DELIBERATE MOVEMENT mention at the Holland Dance Festival in 1998.