Beo Da Silva is a transdisciplinary artist based in Berlin, whose practice unfolds across performance, space, and embodied research. Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Spatial Strategies at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee, she investigates the intersections of artistic practices, territories, and social contexts.
With a background in performing arts from the University of Rio de Janeiro and the National School of Circus Arts in Brazil, Beo Da Silva further specialized in aerial acrobatics with André Simard’s company Ler Gens D’R in Montreal. Her trajectory reflects a deeply multidisciplinary approach, weaving together theater, voice, circus arts, performance, literature, and pedagogy.
Her work operates at the threshold of disciplines, developing a transdisciplinary language that navigates between body, space, and narrative. This expanded practice has been presented internationally at major festivals and institutions, including the Melbourne Arts Festival, Cirque du Soleil, Tanz im August, and others.
In 2025, together with fellow students from the Spatial Strategies Master’s program at Kunsthochschule Weißensee, she participated in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo. Conceived by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and an international team, the Bienal foregrounds relational and embodied practices, engaging migration, listening, memory, and collective forms of knowledge—an approach that resonates with her research on gesture, corporeality, and narrative through movement.
Parallel to this, she also presented two collective experimental sonic works at Refuge Worldwide (February and July 2025), Orchestrated Noise & Worldmaking and Sound Subjects, contributing to a hybrid space of performance, radio, and shared sonic inquiry.
Together, these contexts situate her work within a transdisciplinary ecology that explores the body as both archive and interface, and artistic practice as a mode of relational world-making.
In 2012, she co-authored the graphic novel Once upon a time I, published by Planeta, extending her practice into visual storytelling.
Since 2016, she has been teaching at the National Circus School, where she develops a research-based pedagogy rooted in creative practice. Her teaching explores the construction of narratives through the observation of gestures and movement, proposing new configurations for circus dramaturgy and expanding the expressive possibilities of the body as a site of knowledge production.
. Full Vitae
(a) Education
Graduated in BA
Theater at the University of Rio de Janeiro (1995)
National Circus
School in Rio de Janeiro (1996)
Centre de recherché
Aérien – Les Gens D’R in Montreal (1997)
AHAB – Akademie in
Berlin (2014)
“Methodologie
Créative” - Fédération Suisse des Ecoles de Cirque
Lausanne (2014)
(b) Conference
CARD2 – Circus on
the Edge, UNIARTS, Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden
We Waste Project –
Cena Brasil Internacional , Rio de Janeiro (2012)
(c) Works
. Book
Era Uma Vez EU!
Creation: Beo Da
Silva – Mauricio Carneiro
Publishing House –
Abril, São Paulo (2014)
. Coaching
Staatliche Artistenschule Berlin (2016-2024)
L’Elastique
Citrique, Nyon Switzerland (2014-2016)
C’est Le Cirque,
Bercher Switzerland (2016)
Ecole Chantemerle,
Blonay Switzerland (2016)
Ecole de Cirque de
Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland (2014)
CCBB
(Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil) Residency Workshop, Rio de Janeiro Brazil
(2012)
Friedrichstadtpalast,
Berlin Germany (2010)
Zirkus Cabuwatzi,
Berlin Germany (2010-2009)
Le Cirque Du Monde
Cirque Du Soleil, Vancouver, Montreal, Rio de Janeiro, Recife (1995)
Se Essa Rua Fosse
Minha, Rio de Janeiro (1994)
. Artistic Direction, Chorégraphie, Jury
POROSITY (CIRCA) Auch (2025)
FESTICIRQUE, Jury, Lausanne Suisse
Gameover! K3 Hamburg (2023)
What can I offer you today? Berlin (2021)
Indiviesible – Dance- trapeze, Contortion (2016)
Cerceau Aérien - ECL
– 3ème Prix Festival de Cirque de Confignon (2014)
Corpo Lixo Da Alma –
Cena Brasil Internacional, CCBB Rio de Janeiro (2012)
Riverhouse Gallery –
Installation We Waste Project, Surrey England (2010)
Market State Project
– London (2010)
. Performance
36 Bienal of Sao Paulo - Brazil (2025)
Refugie Worldwide - Berlin (2025)
Cena Brasil Internacional – Rio de Janeiro (2012)
We Waste Project –
Market Estate Project, London (2010)
Mein Schiff - Baltic
Sea (2009)
Tanz im August –
Sommer.Bar - Berlin (2008)
Friedrichbau Varieté
– Stuttgart (2008)
Palazzo Witzigman – Frankfurt
(2004/05)
Savoy Dance
Orquestra – Braunschweig (2004)
Friedrichbau Varieté
– Stuttgart (2004)
Palazzo – Wien
(2003)
Wintergarten Varieté
– Berlin (2003)
Cirque Du Soleil –
Solstrom, Montréal (2003)
Zircus Roncalli –
Panem et Circenses (2002)
Apollo Varieté –
Düsseldorf (2002)
Pomp Duck and
Circunstance – Berlin (2001)
Apollo Varieté –
Savoy Dance Orquestra - Düsseldorf – (2001)
Pomp duck and
Circusntance – Frankfurt (2001)
Wintergarten Varieté
– Berlin (2000)
Pomp Duck and
Circunstance – München (2000)
Cirque Du Soleil –
La Nouba - Orlando / USA (1997/1999)
Wintergarten Varieté
– Berlin (1997)
Melboune Arts
Festival – Melboune, Australia (1997)
30th
Annual Country Music Award – Nashville, USA (1996)
Les Gens D’R –
Montreal, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte (1996/95)
Atrupelados – Rio de
Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Londrina, Belo Horizonte (1994/95)
