Melissa Patusco
Female Dancer
(1 Review)Country: Brazil
Based In: Brasília, Brazil
Performs: Worldwide
From: $150
Biography
My name is Melissa Cavalcante Patusco, i was born in Brasília, Brazil in 1979. People say i am a very typical brazilian woman. I guess it's true, and the fact that I am the daughter of a Portuguese father and a mother with Spanish outstanding traits, for sure explains. I am a dynamic person, who likes to move from different activities. I had been in touch to many arts in my life, such as artistic gymnastics, jazz, modern, african, and brazilian dances, capoeira and a variety of sports. Today I am an aerial dancer, kitesurf rider, "sambista", and also, i am a mother of a sweet 19 y.o. girl nam
... ed Maria Mel.
A lover of dancing since a child, I grew up watching my parents earn dance competitions much because of their ability to improvise new steps as they danced. As a shrewd observer and admirer of my parents, it was quite predictable that I would absorb that talent. I became an artist on my twenties, at the same time i was discovering my passion for the circus arts. For me, the circus were the challenging place where I would be able to exploit dance and lightness in another dimension: the air. At the beginning, as a self-taught, I started playing with my best gift ever: a pair of juggling poi, that not too late became my fire-manipulation dancing tool. And that was the botton line of my artistic career in Brazil, where I also started my studies in Circus Arts. Then, I moved to Canada and England. After 2 years working on several events as fire dancer in Canadá, where i improved my abilities during aerial dance classes with prior Cirque du Soleil aerialist Marité Lezard, whose words I will never forget: "What calls my attention on you is your ability to improvise while on stage". Definitely i found out that what calls me to the stage is because it is the place where i feel free to fell the song and express it for the audiance in form of dance. And everytime i did it was unique for me, each day was a different public, and that gives me new feelings and perceptions. Prior to Montreal, I had a short experience as street artist in Vancouver, where every new sunset I used to choose a new song to display my dancing with fire and aerial ballet on the oceanfront of the Canadian university town. But, it was in Montreal and London where I started to raise my career creating an aerial act in silks together with Marité, learning from other circus professionals, while I showed on a variety of events during my experience abroad. Today I hold a new act "Volante", a Flying Pole aerial dance with lots of my own Brazilian way of dance mixed with my Spanish descendent aspects as a tango lover.
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Previous Clients
AS AERIAL DANCER: Clube Med - Montreal; Cirque Du Soleil - Montreal; Club Pacha - Ibiza; Balako Productions - Brasília; Circo Marcus Frota - Rio de Janeiro; Noyanne Circo Show - Brasília; R2 Productions - Brasília; Plunge Cia - London; National Theater of Brasília; National Museum - Brasília; Cultural Secretary of Brasília; World Cup Entertainment Events. AS ACTRESS: Record TV series "Genesis" playing secondary character Neguebe. Short-Film "8-Ball" playing the principal role Ängela, Miami USA.
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Additional Information
I have double citizenship: Brazilian and Portuguese. I have European passport, issued in Portugal. I speak fluent English, and basic Spanish.
Virtual Services Offer
From teaching to show!
virtual performance postcards, full live performance and virtual skill classes about my aerial dance skills, or fire/poi manipulation dance, or teaching how to make your own fire poi, or silks poi for juggling.
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