RENATA DE LÉLIS is a choreographer and director, with a master's degree in Artistic Dance Performance from FMH-UTL, Lisbon, in 2011. She trained in modern and contemporary dance with Eva Schul, and from 2007 to 2019 danced at Ânima Cia de Dança. She is a founding member of Coletivo Habitantes, which has been researching body and technology since 2015.

She directs the dance-theater-performance creation methodology of the Criação Kamikaze collective, developed during the quarantine, where she produced the performance film "CRIAÇÃO KAMIKAZE", which participates in the festival: http://stayathomefilmfest and was awarded the FAC-RS Emergency Grant. She received the PMPA Emergency Grant for Cultural Aid for the creation of the documentary "Maratona de Dança Kamikaze", based on the 24-hour performance party. In 2021, she directed the dance video "VÉRNIX", created by Coletivo festa remoto.

Directs and writes the script for the short film "Teratoma", by Coletivo Habitantes. Best short film at the CityBlue Films Awards, Spain. Selected for CINHOMO, Festival Internacional de Cine y Diversidad Sexual 2021, Spain.
In 2020, he films the dance video clip “Apatia”, music by Rita Zart, co-directed with Edu Rabin. Awarded with the ARTE COMO RESPIRO grant from Itaú Cultural. Also participating in the De Par Em Par exhibitions of the Ceará International Dance Biennial 2021 and the Corpos em Perspectiva exhibition of Vídeo Dança Pesquisa. Also in 2020, together with Edu Rabin, he makes the dance video “Quanto tempo dura um desastre”, integrating the 2nd Brazilian edition together with the 17th annual edition of the Sans Soucie Festival. Awarded for BEST DANCE VIDEO 2021 Mobile – Vídeo Dança Festival.
Awarded with the SOLOS ON grant from the Dança em Transito RJ festival, where she directs the solo “Técnica para Acordar” co-created with the dancer Emily da Silva.

In 2018, she directed and choreographed the contemporary dance performance “3°G” for the Opening of the 11th MERCOSUR BIENNIAL in Porto Alegre.

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RENATA DE LÉLIS, choreographer and director, Master in Dance at FMH-UTL and Graduated in Theater at UERGS. She is a founding member of COLETIVO HABITANTES, an interdisciplinary collective that has been researching body and technology since 2015 and of Coletivo Kamikaze, which was born in 2020 during the pandemic and is focused on dance, theater and performance. In 2021, she directed NAU, a shortfilm also written by her. In 2019, she wrote and directed the short film TERATOMA. The film won the 2020 Best Film award at CityBlue Film Festival, Spain, and is currently being distributed by the company. 2020 co-directed (also performed as dancer) with the DOP Edu Rabin, video clip “Apatia” from Rita Zart. It has been selected for two major Brazilian screendance festivals: International Dance Biennial of Ceará and the Festival Corpos em Perspectiva. With Coletivo Kamikaze she directed the video performance “Criação Kamikaze”, selected for Stay At Home Film Festival and awarded with a grant for works made during the pandemic. She also directed “VERNIX”, screen dance currently in post-production. The same year she choreographed and directed the screen dance “Técnica para awake”, selected for Corpos em Perspectiva Festival. Also in 2020, again with Edu Rabin, she made the screen dance video “How long a disaster lasts” and it was selected for the 17th Sans Soucie Festival. The film won Best Mobile Video Dance Award at Festival. In 2019, she co-directed and performed the screen dance video BEEJ, selected for Kinobeat festival, 2019 and Cine Esquema Novo, 2021. In 2018 she directed a contemporary dance performance “3 ° G” for the Opening of the 11th BIENNIAL OF MERCOSUL in Porto Alegre. In 2016, she directed and performed in the solo “Habitants d’Ela”.