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Bernardo Chatillon was born in Rebelva in 1982. Attended the Professional School of Arts and Crafts (Chapitô). He made his professional debut as an actor in 2005 with the play "A Mata", produced by Artistas Unidos. Between 2006 and 2009 he joined F.I.A at C.E.M (Accompanied Intensive Training), where he dedicates himself to several practices and participates in several projects with Sofia Neuparth , Peter Michael Dietz, Ainhoa Vidal, Mariana Lemos, Carlos Zingaro, Vitor Rua, Thienry Simões, among others. In 2006 he presents his first solo "São Ualocin" at the Urban Festival Pedras d ́Água. In 2007 he works as an actor at Karnart for the show "Visões Sobre Cemitério de Pianos", staged by Luis Castro. Between 2009 and 2012 he attends the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. In 2010 he takes part in the show "Esta Vida não é Tua" written by Miguel Castro Caldas and staged by André Teodósio. In 2011 he takes part in the show "Antes Que Tudo Acaba", staged by Tiago Vieira. In 2012 he collaborates with Francisco Salgado in the creation of "Montra" a theatre show for two people. From the same year she will be part of the cast of actors at Teatro Nacional D. Maria II until 2015. Between 2016 /2017 Collaborates with the choreographer Ana Rita Teodoro for the pieces Stage and Pavilion. He currently lives between Berlin and Lisbon. In Berlin he completed the Inter-University Center for Dance Berlin (HZT/UDK) the Master Solo/Dance/Authorship (SoDa) In 2018 he developed and presented the show "What Is Already Here" at the Ponderosa Artistic Centre, as part of the Ponderosa Tanzland Festival. In November 2019 he presented the show Reindeer Age #0 at Uferstudios, as the final show of his master's degree. He is currently developing projects related to dance and performance that question and frame the notion of Magic Thought associated with the ideas of Worlding and New Materialism.

photo: Marion Borriss

I situate myself in the lineage of theatre dance and post-modern artistic movements and currently, I feel myself boiling inside this current as if a counter-current is watching me.
There is a fever that consumes me and forces me to review and rework the state of dance today as I see the extreme need to become more real, more daily, more religious, more practice, more intellectual, more invisible, more brutal, more detached, more cosmic, more concrete.
So I claim my body in order to participate in the history of this time. I want to have a voice and a presence and I want to give voice and presence to whoever wants it. It is everyone's right to participate in history, to participate creatively, poetically and in a non-utilitarian way.
So I claim it is time to expand the notion of humanness and to get out of this spell that traps me and forces me to be what I'm not.
So I claim this space to write what I feel, wanting to know about the things of this planet, of this living thing that flows and does not provide a more rational logic than that of the mystery to unveil.
Out of respect for the mysterious, I claim nothing, and yet I claim space to claim
everything. EVERYTHING.

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Bernardo Chatillon pretende imaginar novos mundos, colocando a hipótese de nos relacionarmos com os espaços que estão obstruídos, camuflados, ilegíveis, ignorados, invisíveis. Conviver com os corpos, as paisagens e os movimentos que estão presentes, mas não têm visibilidade, em articulação com o conceito de Pensamento Mágico aplicado à dimensão teatral.

Estreou-se com os Artistas Unidos. Depois de completar o Chapitô integrou a Formação Intensiva Acompanhada no c.e.m e mais tarde a Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Licenciatura Teatro / Actor). Entre 2012 e 2015 integra o casting da companhia do Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. Em 2016 muda-se para Berlim onde colabora em diversos formatos e projectos através de práticas artísticas, encontros e espectáculos com Marc Lohr, Sigal Zouk, Mineral Wasser Kolective, Peter Pleyer, Stephanie Mahler, Jeremy Wade , Benoilt Lachambre, Keith Hennessy, Joy Mariama Smith, Meg Stuart, Sandra Noeth, entre outros e completa o mestrado Solo/Dance/Authorship (SODA) pela Inter-University Center for Dance Berlin (HZT/UDK).

Recentemente, criou os espetáculos Reindeer Age #0 (2019), Reindeer Age #1 (2021), O fazer do dizer (2022).