AMADOR ALINA FOLINI (they / he) is a non-binary artist born in Argentina who has been circulating, fostering, and nurturing networks of Southern European and Latin American performance arts since 2011. Their work navigates between choreography, dance, writing, and curatorial practices, and is regularly developed between Lisbon, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Latin America.
They live in Southern Europe, in migrant transit, connecting worlds, driven by the urgency to create bodily experiences that can divert from the world's normalizing projects.
Master's degree in DAS CHOREOGRAPHY 2022/24 – Amsterdam University of the Arts, as a scholarship recipient from the Gulbenkian Museum Foundation (Lisbon); Master's degree in Performance Practice and Visual Culture from the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid) 2017/18; they participated in PACAP 2020 at Forum Danza (Lisbon).
He is the curator of the 2026 edition of CAMPAR CAMPO – Research, Practice, and Creation Program, in Barcelona, an initiative of La Caldera and La Poderosa, two historic structures for contemporary dance and performance. He co-created and coordinated FABULATORIO – Imagination Lab for Young People, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum's Educational Service (PT), between 2022 and 2024, with the artist Ritó Natalio (PT). He has directed and created the ARQUEOLOGÍAS DEL FUTURO platform since 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In 2020, they received support from O Rumo do Fumo – Emerging Artists (PT) and the Gulbenkian Foundation's Creation Grant for the creation of RUIDO ROSA, which premiered at the Materiais Diversos Festival (PT). They created AEROMANCIA (2025) with support from GDA (PT). The piece was presented in progress at the TERRA BATIDA / FESTIVAL ALKANTARA 2023 program. They created PROYECTO TÁCTIL (2017-2020) with light designer Leticia Skrycky (UY/PT).
Since 2015, he has presented her own work at: Center for Performance Research and Judson Church (USA), JUNTA International Dance Festival (BR), CCK (ARG), La Casa Encendida, Teatro Pradillo (ESP), Festival NIDO (UY), Centro NAVE (CL), Festival FIDCU (UY), Festival Materiais Diversos and Teatro Nacional Dona Maria (PT), among others.
He has worked as a dancer in Tamara Cubas's (UY) ANTHROPOPHOPHAGIC TRILOGY and CANNIBAL SERIES since 2016. He participates in the latest creations of choreographers Marco Ferreira da Silva (PT) and Jorge Jacome (PT), Gustavo Ciriaco (BR), and Luisa Saraiva (PT).
He collaborates artistically with Ana Rita Teodoro (PT), Amparo González Sola (ARG/NL), Maura Grimaldi (BR/PT), Carolina Campos (BR/ESP),Josefa Pereira (BR/PT), among others.
Amador has explored the relationship between dance, body, and voice in its various dimensions: physical, sonic, vocal, sensory, poetic, environmental, and political. “I’m interested in questioning the dominant perceptual orders based on the visual as a hegemonic and colonial system, shifting its prominence towards touch, vibration, intimacy, and the invisible,” they explained about one of their latest creations. “I conceive of choreography as an expanded structure to create and incorporate other stories from the entanglement of bodies, reconnecting with other forms of knowledge and their urgencies, and provoking somatopolitical transformations.”
