Vanda Maria dos Santos Nascimento was born in Lubango, Angola (1963) where she began her training as a dancer and dance teacher at the Dance School of the Secretary of State for Culture, in Luanda/Angola, with Ana Clara Guerra Marques, Anatoli Fomine, Ludmila Lavrina, Zoila Fernandez, Ileana Balmori, Xiomara Ferrer and Núris Fojo. At the same time, he completed his formal academic training in Basic Education, High School Course in Administration and Management (Karl Marx Institute) and the 1st year of the Economics Course ((Universidade Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola). Graduated from the School of Dance (ESD) of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (IPL), with the degrees of Bachelor (1990) and Degree (1999) in Dance – Education Branch. PhD from the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Seville (2010), conducting a study on teachers of dance techniques in the Specialized Artistic Teaching of Dance, in mainland Portugal (thesis published online). Post-Graduate in "Dance Training" from the Faculty of Human Kinetics of UL. Coordinating Professor of the School of Dance of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon and has been teaching, since 2000, several Curricular Units, in the Bachelor's Degree Course; Classical Dance Technique and Vocabulary Analysis I, and in the Master's Course in Dance Teaching: Methodologies and Didactics of Classical Dance I and II, Research in Education II, Introduction to Internship, Internship I and II. Member of the Research Centre Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto (IS-UP) - Subgroup Artistic Creation, Practices and Cultural Policies. Between 1992 and 1999, she taught the discipline of Classical Dance Technique – Elementary (1 and 2) and Intermediate Dance (1, 2 and 3) at the Academy of Contemporary Dance of Setúbal. In this institution, she was also Director of the Elementary Grade, Director of Facilities and member of the Pedagogical Council. Director of ESD (between 4 April 2014 and 4 January 2021) and, inherently, member of the Permanent Council and the Quality Management Council of IPL. He chaired the Pedagogical Council (2010 to 2013) and the ESD Council of Representatives (2007 to 2010). He has been a member of the Technical Scientific Council since 2012. She was Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Dance Teaching Methodologies (2010 to 2011), and of the Master's Degree in Dance Teaching (2011 to 2014). Supervisor of several Internships, within the scope of the Master's Course in Dance Teaching and Master's and PhD theses outside the scope of ESD. She regularly participates in the Jury of Master's and PhD Exams, Exams and Exams in Schools of Specialized Artistic Education of Dance, Exams to obtain the Title of Specialist, Exams for Public Competitions, and Jury of International Dance Competitions. Works in the area(s) of Social Sciences with emphasis on Educational Sciences and Arts (Dance; Artistic Creation and Cultural Policies). In its Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the contextualization of scientific, technological, and artistic-cultural production are: "Education", "Dance", "Classical Dance", "Dance Methodologies and Techniques" “Teacher Training".