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Cecília de Lima
Currently Cecília is a professor at the University of Lisbon (Dance Bachelors course and doctoral degree) and at Escola Superior de Dança – Polytechnical Institute of Lisbon. She is also an integrated member of the research Institute of Ethnomusicology (Music and Dance) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices.
Her research focuses on the relation of dance with phenomenology, cognitive sciences, somatic practices, artistic education and digital-media art. Her work has been published in several academic and artistic venues.
She holds a Ph.D. in human kinetics/dance, from the University of Lisbon. Her Ph.D. research, entitled: 'Transversal thinking: The art of perceiving the world as the paradox of movement', was developed with a full scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). In 2008 Cecília received her master's degree in choreography from the ArteZ University of the Arts (NL) with a scholarship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Since 1999 Cecília has been developing her career as a dancer, choreographer and researcher, collaborating with diverse artists throughout Europe. From 2000 until 2006 she was a co-founder of Canvas Performing Art Dance Company (NL), where she co-created several multidisciplinary performances.