Ana Bigotte Vieira is Co-IR of the FCT Archiving Theatre project (PTDC/ART-PER/1651/2021). 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 "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). She graduated in Modern and Contemporary History at ISCTE, specializing in Contemporary Culture and Philosophy (NOVA), and in Theatre Studies (UL). She was a Visiting Scholar at NYU's Performance Studies department from 2009 to 2012. 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 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. She was awarded a Dwight Conquergood Honorable Mention by Performance Studies international in 2011. Together with João dos Santos Martins she is working on a collective exhibition project of historicization of Portuguese New Dance since 2016, of which the exhibition, catalogue and cycle of (re) performances Dança Não Dança - arqueologias da nova dança em Portugal (curated by Ana Bigotte Vieira, Ana Dinger Carlos Manuel Oliveira and João dos Santos Martins ) is the VII edition. She is currently preparing the exhibition Dança Não Dança - arqueologias da nova dança em Portugal, the seventh edition of the project Para Uma Timeline a Haver: genealogias da dança como prática artística em Portugal (October 2023 to February 2014, Gulbenkian Foundation). In 2015 she was co-curator of the cycle When Were the 1980s? IHC, Lisbon with Luís Trindade and Giulia Bonalli. 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.