CATARINA BARBOSA

Catarina is honored to be part of the Réseau Grand Luxe, proudly representing Luxembourg as an artist for the year 2025

Catarina Barbosa is originally from Portugal. She joined the Portuguese  National Conservatory in Lisbon in 2009 for a 2-year course. She completed  her professional training abroad at the Ballet Junior de Genève, where she  remained until 2014. During this training, she had the opportunity to work on  pieces by Stjin Celis, Roy Assaf, Gustavo Ramirez, Thierry Malandain, Barack  Marshall, Cie 7273, Ken Ossola, Lucinda Childs, and others. During her last year  with Ballet Junior, Catarina also joined Compagnie Gilles Jobin (CH) and took part in the creation "Quantum" in July 2013, which toured internationally.

Based in Luxembourg since 2016, she works for her company AWA As We Are,  of which she is Co-founder and Artistic Director with Baptiste Hilbert, and also works as a freelance artist. She collaborates with various choreographers  including Benvindo da Fonseca (PT), Bernard Baumgarten (LU), Saeed Hani  (SY), Sarah Baltzinger (FR), Sandy Flinto and Pierrick Grobety (LU/ CH),  Giovanni Zazzera (LU), Corps in Situe (LU/FR), Arthur Pita (UK) and Léa  Tirabasso (LU/UK). Léa Tirabasso's piece 'The Ephemeral Life of an Octopus'  gave her the chance to perform in one of the 'Last twenty' pieces in the renowned Aerowaves competition.

Catarina is now leading the artistic part of the company creating the trio "MARY'S DAUGHTERS", opening in May 2025, and a solo "estranha forma", opening in November 2025.