Danilo Valpassos Cardoso - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 05/29/1994

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 This journey started when Danilo's mom offered him Olympic Gymnastic classes when he was six years old. Both parents being ex dancers and holistic therapists helped open the doors for his anatomic movement awareness and the physic-mental healthiness. He then experimented activities like Capoeira and Le Parkour until he went to a dance studio alongside break dancers, It was in Made in Brasil Crew that his passion for body expression (dance) started. After his experience with dancing he joined Deborah Colker's Center of Movement to try a scholarship for dance classes, being successful as he made his way to do Ballet, Jazz and Hip Hop.

  Afterwards he auditioned for Xstyle Dance Company, where he traveled through different places in Brazil to attend several Festivals in which he was the winner in most of them and danced as a guest in others. He did another audition for Lumini Dance Company. On the Lumini Art Space Danilo took Circus classes, Aerial Silk, Contemporary Dance and taught Hip Hop classes. There he danced for two years participating also as a choreographer. On October 2012, after two years working, he decided to do an audition for Dance Bachelor in Folkwang University of Art in Essen, Germany. Being accepted, he's taught by prestigious teachers such as: Malou Airaudo, Lutz Förster, Rodolpho Leoni and Stephan Brinkmann where he learns Modern Dance. Currently Danilo develops his pieces and projects in Germany, searching for funding to support his studies and group, living a dream and constructing the next one.