Sílvia Pinto Coelho is a choreographer, dancer, performer, and researcher at ICNOVA-FCSH research center, based in Lisbon. Currently working on a Post-doctoral project, her research concerns choreographic thinking, dance studies, performance studies, and experimental choreography. She holds a PhD in Communication and Arts (Body, Image, and Choreographic Thinking, on choreographic research as speech, the examples of Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Olga Mesa, and João Fiadeiro, 2016), a Master degree in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies (2010), a degree in Anthropology (2005), a Bachelor degree in Dance Performance (1996) and did the professional contemporary dance course in Forum Dança (1997/1999). She collaborates with AND Lab, baldio - performance studies, RIA - artistic research net, and with a.pass. Coelho has been developing her professional activity as a choreographer, dancer, and performer since 1996. She has produced, choreographed, and participated in several choreographic research processes, live performances, and films with artists from different fields. She presented her own choreographic work in Portugal, Germany, and Spain (selection): Einzimmerwohnung (2004), Süss (2007), Un Femme (2009), Aprés 7 Ans de Malheures Elle Brisa Son Mirroir (2013), and Capricho#2, Outra Coisa (2017). Sílvia has been teaching dance practices at c.e.m., and attention practices at the AND Lab. Since 2015 she has taught the seminar “Dance in Context” as a guest professor in the Performing Arts and the Communication and Arts master degree courses at FCSH-UN Lisbon. Since 2012 she is an associated researcher of AND Lab and has been part of most of AND Summer Schools' teams, developing, in collaboration with Fernanda Eugenio, a research on the articulations of MO_AND and other Practices of Attention.