Choreographic Assistant / Rehearsal Director

Rita Barão Soares

Rita Barão Soares trained at the Dance Academy in Setubal (Portugal) and joined the Contemporary Dance Company there in 1997. This was followed by engagements with the Portuguese Contemporary Dance Company, the Karlsruhe Ballet and, from 2003–2019, the ballet company of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. As a dancer she worked with choreographers such as Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Christian Spuck, Jiří Kylián, Itzik Galili, Philip Taylor, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Jo Strømgren, Marco Goecke, Christopher Roman and Dylan Newcomb. After various freelance engagements as choreographic assistant, including with Alessandro Pereira (Royal Danish Theatre, 2015) and with Cayetano Soto (Compañía Nacional de Danza Madrid and Theater Hagen, 2018), she joined the Gärtnerplatztheater in 2019 as choreographic assistant and rehearsal director.