Cássio Diniz Santiago
b.1973 in São Paulo – Brazil.
Performance artist, theater and dance director, dramaturg, researcher, and teacher.
cassiodinizsantiago@gmail.com /  www.cassiodinizsantiago.com
 

EDUCATION
1992-1997 – BA Performing Arts – University of Campinas – Brazil.
 

FELLOWSHIP

2020 – Akademie der Künste – Werner Düttmann Fellowship – Berlin
2015-16 – Resident fellow in the program Art, Science and Business at Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart

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WORKS AS DIRECTOR/ DRAMATURG/ PERFORMER/ RESEARCHER/ COMPOSER (selection)
2020 – Wir werden erst sehen, wenn nichts mehr zu sehen ist (Dance performance converted into a sound installation due to the COVID – 19) – XXIX. Greizer Theaterherbst – Greiz – Germany. [director and dramaturg] – .

2018-19 – S.C.H.U.U.L.E. – Wagenhallen – Stuttgart, Turnhalle Obergrochlitz – Greiz, Akademie Der Künste – Berlin – Germany. [director, dramaturg and performer]
2016-18 – Ashes2Ashes – Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm (Rough Proposals Festival) – Frankfurt – Germany. [director, dramaturg and performer]
2018 – Lift and Carry – Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart – Germany, Faki Festival – Zagreb. [director, dramaturg and performer]
2018 – Krrrchhhck! by Susann Maria Hempel – Akademie Der Künste – Berlim – Germany. [conceptual cooperation]
2016 – They Lived and Laughed and Loved and Left – with Till Wyler von Ballmoos – Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart – Germany.[director, dramaturg and performer]
2015-16 – Who now? When now? Where now? – Funarte – São Paulo – Brazil. [dramaturg]
2016 – Psicotrópico – by Alvise Camozzi – Sesc Ipiranga – São Paulo – Brazil. [director and dramaturg]
2016 – Dentro do Coração – with Mauricio Paroni, Renato Rosati and Janine Correa – Municipal Theater of Vitoria – Espirito Santo – Brazil. [director]
2015 – Arf Arf Performance – with Marcus Bergner, at Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart – Germany. [performer]
2015 – Calendar Serie, Modern Art Museum, São Paulo – Brazil. [director, dramaturg, teacher, sound designer and performer]
2014 – Blade, Funarte and Capobianco Institute, São Paulo, Brazil. [dramaturg]
2013 – Astronomer, with Tero Nauha (Finland), Sesc Pinheiros – São Paulo – Brazil. [director, dramaturg and performer]
2012 – The Double of Rossmann, Le ChienPerdu, Brussels – Belgium. [director and dramaturg]
2011 – Amerika, ou o Desaparecido (integrates the Kafkamachine project) with Mollekulaarinen Organization (Finland), Presque Ruines (France) and Ueinzz-Theater Group (Brazil), Sesc Pinheiros/ Sesc Santos, São Paulo – Brazil. [director, dramaturg, researcher and performer]
2011 – Oklahama Theater Call, Casa Conveniente, Lisbon, Portugal. [director and dramaturg]
2010 – Zona de Risco with Coletivo Bruto, one-year residence, Centro Cultural São Paulo. São Paulo – Brazil. [dramaturg]
2007-10 – Finnegans Ueinzz, with Ueinzz Theater Group, International São Paulo Biennal and SESC Paulista in São Paulo, SESC Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro and Baltic Circle International Festival in Helsinki, Finland. [director and dramaturg]
2009 – X Moradias by Matthias Lilienthal, Sesc São Paulo, Brazil. [performer]
2007 – Trem Fantasma, by Christoph Schlingensief, Mostra Sesc Circulações, São Paulo – Brazil. [performer and director of the opening scene]
2005 – Farsas Libertinas, with Manufactura Suspeita (Suspect Culture), Teatro Crowne Plaza/ Dominna Club, São Paulo – Brazil. [performer]
2001-05 – Comendador Peçanha with Zaum Performance Group, Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, Day Hospital Água Funda, São Paulo – Brazil. [director, dramaturg, researcher, sound designer and performer]
2003-04 – Pornografia Barata, with Manufactura Suspeita (Suspect Culture), Sarajevo Club, São Paulo – Brazil. [performer]
2002 – Original Music: Performance Via de Regra, Goethe Institute/Cinemateca, São Paulo – Brazil. [composer]
2002 – Samba do mais Fraco, Vermelho Gallery/C.C.Chico Science/ Matrix, São Paulo, Brazil. [composer and performer]
1999 – Ventriloquist, with Dry Opera Company, Sesc Vila Mariana, São Paulo – Brazil. [performer]
1999 – The Book of Dreams, inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Oficina Cultural Grande Otelo in Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil. [director and dramaturg]
1998-99 – Dr. Faustus Lights the Light, by Gertrude Stein, dir. Renato Cohen, with Ka Group, Centro Cultural São Paulo/ Goethe Institute, São Paulo – Brazil. [performer]
1997-98 – KA – Opera Multimedia (assistant diretor), by Khlebnikov, directed by Renato Cohen, Museu da Cidade/Brazil-Japan House / Compos Seminar in PUC, São Paulo and International Poetry Festival, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais – Brazil. [performer, assistant director and composer]
1997 – A Conferência dos Pássaros, Unicamp, Campinas – Brazil. [performer]
1996 – Primeiras Estórias, dir. João das Neves, Parque Ecológico of Campinas, International Theater Festival of Belo Horizonte – Brazil. [performer]
1993 – Experiment – Oedipus Rex and the Plague in Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil. [director, dramaturg and researcher]
 

TEACHING RESPONSABILITIES (selection)
2018-19 – Performance and Otherness (BA/MA)- (invited professor) -Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft – Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen – Germany.
2011-17 – Performance and Theater, SP Drama School – Development Center for Stage Arts, São Paulo.
2016 – Theater and Performance – Stockholm Theatre Academy ( MA/BA). Stockholm – Sweden.
2015-16 – Performance Art – Escola Superior de Artes Célia Helena. São Paulo – Brazil.
2012-15 – Performance – MAM (Museum of Modern Art), São Paulo – Brazil.
2007-11 – Artistic-pedagogic coordinator – Programa Teatro Vocacional, da Secretaria Municipal de Cultura de São Paulo. Teatro e Performance São Paulo – Brazil.
2005 – Theater and Performance, BMA – Library of São Paulo – Brazil
2002-04 – Theatre and Performance, Casa de Cultura Chico Science, Água Funda Day Hospital, São Paulo – Brazil.
 

WORKSHOPS/ SEMINARS/ READINGS(selection)

2020 – Workshop – Dance-performance – XXIX. Greizer Theaterherbst – Greiz – Germany.
2018 – Workshop – Theater, Dance and Performance – Diakonie Carolinenfeld – Greiz – Germany.
2017 – Workshop – Ritualistic Theater – in partnership with Eero-Tapio Vuori (Theatre Academy – University of the Arts Helsinki). MT Escola de Teatro/ Xavante Tribe – Cuiabá – Brazil.
2016 – Seminar – Economies of Authorship: Ownership and Dispossession – Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart – Germany.
2015 – Workshop – Finance as a Place of Creation/ Risk Generating Practice – Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart – Germany.
2012 – Workshop – Núcleo de Dramaturgia do SESI – British Council, São Paulo – Brazil.
2011 – Seminar – Acessible Art, Oficina Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo – Brazil.
2010 – Workshop – Joseph Beuys International Seminar, Performance and the Expanded Concept of Art (creative devices), Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo – Brazil.
2010 – Workshop 1: Shamanism and Performance. Workshop 2: Ueinzz Theater Company’s creative process. With Mollecular Organization (Helsinki). PAF – Performing Arts Forum, St.Erme – France.
2009 – Workshop – Working Devices of Ueinzz Theatre Company, Theatre Academy, Helsinki – Finland.
2008 – Reading: Genova 01, Sesc Paulista, São Paulo – Brazil
2007 – Seminar: Everyone is an Artist, II Art Psychology Colloquium, USP (University of São Paulo), São Paulo – Brazil.
2003-04 – Reading – with ManufacturaSuspeita – Museu Lasar Segall, São Paulo – Brazil.
2002 – Workshop – Work in Process, Casa de Cultura Chico Science, São Paulo – Brazil.
 

PUBLISHING (selection)
2016 – Glossary – Finance and Affection (online). Schloss Post – Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart – Germany.
2015 – Aboard the Kafkamachine – (online). Schloss Post – Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart – Germany.
2015 – Performance and Reinvention of the Self – Equal Different Program catalog of MAM – Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo – Brazil.
2012 -The Expanded Concept of Art, Vocacional magazine, Nr. 1, São Paulo – Brazil
 

FILM AND VIDEO INSTALLATION (selection)

2020 – Urlaub in Deutschland – Theaterhaus Jena/ Wunderbaum – Jena – Germany.

2011 – Kafkamachine – Cinematic experiment based on Kafka’s novel America, on the Trans-Atlantic Cruise “Splendour of the Seas” from Lisbon to São Paulo. Lisbon – Portugal, Canarian Islands – Spain, Santos, and São Paulo – Brazil.
2009 – Video-installation – Sertão no Meio do Redemoinho, Cordisburgo, and São Paulo, Brazil.[Co-director]
2009 – Video-installation – Riverun, Nam June Paik Art Center in South Korea.[Director and Dramaturg]
2005 – Crime Delicado, by Beto Brant, Brazil.[Performer]
 

EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2020 – A Kids Headquarters – ACC Galerie – Weimar – Germany.

2019 – Strike Gently Away – Stuttgart – Germany.
2016 – Artist is online – Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart – Germany.
2015 – In Transit – Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart – Germany.
2015 – ROMER – Akademie Schloss Solitude – Stuttgart – Germany.

2015 – Dancing Museum – São Paulo Modern Art Museum – São Paulo – Brazil.

2010 – 29th São Paulo Art Biennial – São Paulo – Brazil.

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​CURATORIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECTS (selection)
2013 – Curator and co-organizer of Fin La! La! La! Finland-Brazil: Live Art Experiment: Performances, videos, workshops, and lectures supported by Sesc- SP, MAM ( São Paulo Museum of Modern Art), SP Drama School – Development Center for Stage Arts, Frame-Visual Art Finland, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, University of the Arts Helsinki- Theatre Academy. São Paulo – Brazil.
2011 – Co-organizer of Kafkamachine. Organizational, performative, and cinematographic experiment based on Kafka’s novel America, on the Trans-Atlantic Cruise “Splendour of the Seas” from Lisbon to São Paulo. With Mollecular Organization (Finland), Ueinzz (Brazil), and Presque Ruines (France). Lisbon/ Portugal, Canarian Islands/ Spain, Santos, and São Paulo/Brazil. [Conceptual Cooperation, Co-organizer, Director, Dramaturg and Performer]