Fernanda Prata is an interdisciplinary artist working across theatre and dance for over 20 years. She has worked in collaboration with many UK and Brazilian companies, though her main collaboration has been with Punchdrunk, working as Assistant Director and performer for 14 years. As a performer Fernanda has worked with Vincent Dance Theatre, Protein, Stan Won’t Dance and Jasmin Vardimon. Other collaborations include working with director Lucy Bailey as assistant choreographer for productions at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Regent's Park Theatre, Tom Morris for London National Theatre, Dan Allum for the Romany Theatre Company and Sarah Dowling for the Royal Opera House.
Selected choreographic works include Kroppen Min for Stavanger University, Nos commissioned by Horniman Museum and Gardens, Midsummer Night’s Dream for Karamel Club Theatre in London, An Open Book commissioned by NSCD, I will do all that I can commissioned by London Contemporary Dance School, The Drowned Man for Punchdrunk Company, and No Contact commissioned by The Place.
Currently Fernanda is a lecturer at NSCD in performance, choreography and contextual studies for their BA Programme. She is also course leader on their MA Dance and Creative Enterprise course. Fernanda received a PhD scholarship from De Montfort University and is currently researching her project The Dancer Training Within an Integrative Approach: A Transpractice Methodology Towards the UK Dance Conservatoire. She is investigating how to offer a methodology for contemporary dancers with an integrative approach and ways that this methodology could offer potential for creating work.
