bio

BEATRIZ GARRUCHO lives in a small village called Ermida until she’s 14. In 2008 she moved to the city of Aveiro to pursue Visual Arts and she joined the local theater group GRETUA. She moves to Lisbon in 2012 to start her studies at ESCS while simultaneously in 2014 and 2015 she was a part of GTN. She pursued formal training in the performative arts at ACT from 2016. * In 2018, she integrated the play Jornalismo, Amadorismo e Hipnotismo by Rui Catalão part of the programing of the theatre Dona Maria II.
Since 2016 to the present date, she has developed work and assisted the sexual therapist Catia Leitão, facilitating courses for Women’s Sexuality & the Alchemy of Intimacy workshops; Couples, through Sexuality Tantra workshops: Sacredness, Tantra & the Alchemy of pleasure; and mixed groups at Somatic Sexuality,Conscious Communication, Authentic relating and tantra massage technique workshops.
She was part of two productions of CasaBranca, O Gatilho da Felicidade (2017) and Romance Familiar (2019) both by Ana Borralho and João Galante. In 2019 she was invited by Filipa Matta to participate in Bioluminescência, joining the team as a performer and co-creator, the piece was screened on Portuguese national tv, RTP2. In May of 2021 she presented her first creation, O Laranjal on Rua das Gaivotas 6. She is then invited by Agência 25 to integrate the project Sabotagem, to promote several artistic residencies as well as several other agencies and performative spaces such as Kebra3000 by Jaja Rolim. She has also integrated as an artist the production of O Sétimo céu of Momento, directed by Diogo Freitas. And between October and November of 2021 she was in artist residency at Pedreira in Oporto for Águasmil, her newest creation through which she has explored a new creative process from the interchangeability of installation, presented at Lavadouro da Presa Velha. She also participated as a performer for COSMIC MONEY HEALERS, a performance by Luísa Mota.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

— 2022
ÁGUASMIL de Beatriz Garrucho
Criação, Direção Artística e performer
Estreia a Outubro 2022 na Rua das Gaivotas 6

— 2021
COSMIC MONEY HEALERS de Luísa Mota
Performer
Performance na Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto

GUT FLORAS READINGS de Nani Bazar
Performer
Performance - Instalação na Flora Estúdio, Porto
Produção: Pedreira, Porto

Sétimo Céu de Caryl Churchill dirigido por Diogo Freitas
Intérprete
Teatro no Armazém X

Kebra3000 de JAJA Rolim
Performer
Performance no Espaço Alkantara

GREICE de Leonardo Mouramateus
Actriz, personagem Sefora
Cinema

O Laranjal de Beatriz Garrucho
Criação, Direção Artística, Cenografia e performer
Rua das Gaivotas 6

SABOTAGEM, Agência 25
Performer
Residências Artísticas online, Agência 25

— 2019

Bioluminescência de Filipa Matta
Interpretação e co-criação
Episódio de um programa da RTP2: A Peça que faltava

Romance Familiar e a Realidade Aumentada de Ana Borralho e João Galante
Performer
Performance na Culturgest

As troianas de Eurípedes, uma encenação de António Pires
Interpretação
Espectáculo nas Ruínas do Carmo

— 2018
Jornalismo, Amadorismo e Hipnotismo de Rui Catalão
Interpretação
Teatro no Teatro Nacional DªMariaII

— 2017
Gatilho da Felicidade de Ana Borralho e João Galante
Performer
Performance no Teatro Maria Matos

STUDIES

— 2012 | 2015
3º ano da Licenciatura em Audiovisual e Multimédia
pela Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Lisboa.

— 2015 | 2019
Interpretação para Actores
pela ACT – Escola de Actores.

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