Ana Bigotte Vieira is Co-IR of the FCT Archiving Theatre project (PTDC/ART-PER/1651/2021) and research fellow of LISBOA2030-FEDER-00914500: "Epistemologias da Documentação de Formas de Afeto e Devir nas Manifestações Culturais em Performance (1969-1979)" as well as "Performance y curadoría: transformaciones performativas del comisariado, el coleccionismo y la espectaduría desde una perspectiva comparada: España, Portugal, Brasil y Argentina, 2003-2028” (PID2024-156472NB-I00). Ana is an historian, a cultural critic, a dramaturg and a curator. Her research has focused on the relationship between experimentalism in the arts and cultural and urban transformations, addressing particularly the performing arts and embodied practices, such as dance, theatre, community based or radical pedagogy. She is co-editor of the collective anthological "dança não dança – archaeologies of new dance in Portugal" (Lisboa: INCM/ FCG, 2024) and editor of "A Caixa Preta e Outros Mal-Entendidos" (Lisboa: Sistema Solar, 2024). Her PhD research was published in both Portuguese and English under the title "A CURATORSHIP OF LACK - The ACARTE" Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 1984-1989 (Lisboa: Sistema Solar 2021). She is a researcher at the IHC Institute of Contemporary History, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, and was a collaborator at the Center for Theatre Studies, Universidade de Lisboa (2009-2023). Ana was a Visiting Scholar at NYU's Performance Studies department from 2009 to 2012. She graduated in Modern and Contemporary History at ISCTE, specializing in Contemporary Culture and Philosophy (NOVA), and in Theatre Studies (UL). From 2018 to 2023 she worked as a Discurse curator at Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon municipal theatre devoted to experimentalism and contemporary culture. She is the co-founder of baldio | | Performance Studies research collective and works as a theatre and dance dramaturg. Her research focuses on the relationship between experimentalism in the arts and cultural and urban transformations, addressing embodied practices, such as dance, theatre, community-based arts or radical pedagogy Her PhD thesis, on the work of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's ACARTE Service between 1984 and 1989 (Direcção de Madalena Perdigão), was awarded an Honorable Mention in Contemporary History by the Mário Soares Foundation and was published in both Portuguese and English under the title "A CURATORSHIP OF LACK - The ACARTE" Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 1984-1989 (Lisboa: Sistema Solar 2021). She was awarded a Dwight Conquergood Honorable Mention by Performance Studies international in 2011. Together with João dos Santos Martins, Ana Dinger and Carlos Manuel Oliveira, Ana is co-editor of the collective anthological "dança não dança – archaeologies of new dance in Portugal" (Lisboa: INCM/ FCG, 2024). Together with João dos Santos Martins she is director of the collective exhibition project of historicization of Portuguese New Dance "Para Uma Timeline a Haver", of which the Gulbenkian Foundation exhibition, catalogue and cycle of (re) performances Dança Não Dança - arqueologias da nova dança em Portugal is the VII edition. In 2015 she was co-curator of the cycle When Were the 1980s? IHC, Lisbon with Luís Trindade and Giulia Bonalli. She is the co-founder of baldio | | Performance Studies research collective (Performance Studies international regional research cluster 2013) . She has translated several authors, mainly from theater and philosophy, such as Luigi Pirandello, Giorgio Agamben and Maurizio Lazzarato. She is a member of the BUALA Association, and IRI - Institute of Radical Imagination research and curatorial international collective.