2026 Performance Calendar

​Instituto Guimarães Rosa - Barcelona, Spain
The Migrant Body,  screening and followed by a Q&A  
03/05/2026 - 7 pm

​Casa America Catalonia  - Barcelona, Spain
The Third Bank of the River, premiere
03/06/2026 - 7 pm

​Casa do Brasil - Madrid, Spain
The Third Bank of the River
04/22/2026 - 7 pm

​Past Performances

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• 2024

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Brasil de Nações - The Migrant Body
The Migrant Body, will be presented at Casa de las Conchas in Salamanca, Spain. A Q&A session will follow the screening.
09/10 at 7 pm - Biblioteca Pública de Salamanca - Casa de las Conchas
www.brasildenacoes.com
 
Brasihispana - Interview
YouTube channel - 09/07/2025
Brasileiros no Exterior: Cultura e Intercambio​


University of Salamanca - Brazilian Center Studies
Visiting faculty for the 2025-2026 academic year at the University of Salamanca in Spain.

Blue Rewind
PH D original choreography, Blue Rewind (2017), to be restaged at the Missouri State University Dance Program by dance faculty, Haley Bradstreet, and performed at the dance program’s annual Spring Dance Concert (April)

Embodied Expressions
April 5, 2025 at 2 pm
Lines Vermont Studio
10 Farrell St, Unit 6 (Studio A)
South Burlington, VT 05403
United States

Spring 2025 Symposium: Performing Latin America
THE BODY ON STAGE - DANCE
From Popular Cultures to Erudite Art:
Movimento Armorial in Brazil’s
Contemporary Dance
Guest Speaker: Paula Higa, Choreographer, and
Prof. of Dance, UVM School of the Arts
April 1, 2025
Cohen Hall 110 @ 6:00pm
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EMBRANGLEDSCAPE
January 30 & March 06,  2025 at 6:30 pm - Performances
Lafayette College - Williams Center Gallery 


WHITE RIVER INDIE FILM FESTIVAL 2025
The Migrant Body - screendance
February  13 - 16 at the Briggs Opera House & JAM – Junction Arts & Media, White River Junction, VT
​https://uvjam.org/white-river-indie-film-festival-2025/

Spain: IV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Brasileña "Homenaje a Ariano Suassuna", Salamanca
“A Dança Armorial na Movimentação do Grial” 

Austria: Impulstanz International Dance Festival – Participant at the artistic residency at Atlas Choreographic Training Program under choreographer Marco Berrettini mentorship in Vienna

USA: MHFF - Made Here Film Festival
The Migrant Body film screening. Opening Night at Burlington Beer Company in Burlington, VT
Greece: 15th Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts in Athens
“The Gray Dance – An Analysis of Ageism in Dance” (article selected but not presented)

 BCA – Migration and Contemporary Cultures in Vermont (panelist)

A Group Exhibition at BCA Center Explores the Meanings of Migration.  Published by Seven Days, Burlington, VT. Written by Pamela Polston
Terra em Transe
Performed at Impulstanz Dance Festival – ATLAS program in Vienna, Austria. Soundtrack by Susanne Kornhãusl & Fernando Paiva, Live music support Fernando Paiva.

The School of Bossa Nova at Middlebury College
Selection method: invitation from Professor Mario Higa.

Stunt Nite 2024 – Rice Memorial High School, VT : Guest choreographer
Madriver Dance Collective, VT: Master class - Guest teacher

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Celebrating our Differences, Weaving our Stories
November 10th, 2023
Champlain Valley Union High School
Paula Higa, Assistant Professor of Dance at UVM, spoke about her experience as an immigrant and her journey from Brazil to the United States. Paula also shared her latest work, The Migrant Body, which is a film that has been nominated for the 2023 Pitch to Screen Film Festival. 
​sites.google.com/cvsdvt.org/cvsd-dei/home

Escola de Dança UFBA
Master class and guest speaker
August 15 - 19, 2022
www.ufba.br

Holding the Center Still - solo improvisation
Friday, July 30, 2022 - 5:00 PM
Pinacoteca Benedito Calixto
Santos, Brazil


Holding the Center Still and Material Drawing Redux
A collaborative event with artist, Debra Weisberg
​Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA

Exhibition run:
March 4-27, 2022 
Performances by PH:
Friday, March 4, 2022 - 7:00pm
Sunday, March 27, 2022 - 4:00pm
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Sub Pelle Mea
Celebrating Diversity Voices
Exhibition run:
Spring Semester, 2022 
At University of Vermont - Davis Center
https://www.uvm.edu/diversity/sub-pelle-mea

​Dancer: Julie Peoples-Clark
​Videographer: Cal Hopwood

The One I Wanted To Be - Dance Film Premiere
​Hosted by UVM Theater and Dance Department Hear from film producers, Paula Higa and Jennifer Karson, Matthew Binginot Production team, and the cast. A short Q&A will follow the streaming.  Moderated by Paul Besaw.  MASKS ARE REQUIRED Special Thanks to our supporters: UVM Humanities Center, Vermont Community Foundation, and VDA - Vermont Dance Alliance

September 22, 2021, 7 - 8pm 
At University of Vermont Recital Hall
384 South Prospect Street
Burlington, VT 05401
United States
FREE
https://vimeo.com/538151572
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UVM Dancing Uphill Concert
Tour de Force
Friday, April 16, 2021 - 7:30 PM
Saturday, April 17, 2021 - 7:30 PM
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UVM Faculty Concert
Friends - Isolation (URBANO excerpt)
Improvisation Duet - Paula Higa and Patricia Julian
Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 7 PM
Flynn Space - Burlington, VT
https://www.flynntix.org/flynn-space/uvm-dance-faculty-showcase/Details?perfNo=17441&perfCodePrefix=FSD20U
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NACHMO - Vermont
The One That I Wanted To Be
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 7 PM
Karma Bird House  - Burlington, VT

Martha Graham Dance Company - EVE Project
Panelist: Paula Higa
​Saturday, January 18, 2020, 6:30 PM
Hopkins Center for the Arts - Dartmouth College
4 East Wheelock Street 
Hanover, NH ​​​

Daniel Bernard Roumain
Dancer: Paula Higa
​Thursday, December 12, 2019, 10 AM
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
​Tickets:
www.flynncenter.org/education/student-matinees/details.html?perf_no=16782&prefix=SMC20D

Vermont Dance Alliance - Live Auction & Annual Report
Improvisation solo: Paula Higa
​Friday, December 6, 2019,  7:00 PM
Light Club Lamp Shop
12 North Winooski Avenue
Burlington, VT, 05401

Quantum Complications
Artistic Director: Paula Higa
​Friday, November 8, 2019, 5:30 PM and 7:00 PM
Saturday, November 9, 2019, 5:30 PM and 7:00 PM
UVM Discovery Hall

24-Hour Protest Song with Daniel Bernard Roumain
Solo improvisation: Paula Higa
​Thursday, October 24, 2019, 2:00 PM
Burlington City Hall, 149 Church Street
 
URBANO
MAY 10 & 11th, 2019
Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center
Burlington, VT
For tickets click Here
 
Puppets in Education Dance Showcase
February 23, 2019
Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center
Burlington, VT
For tickets click Here
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Places Please!
Keigwin and Company
Guest participation: Paula Higa & Anna Martone
Friday, December 7, 2018, 8:00 PM
Saturday, December 8, 2018, 8:00 PM
https://www.flynntix.org

Feverish World Symposium
Improvisation
Saturday, October 20, 2018
5:00 PM
Burlington, Cherry Street.
https://ecoculturelab.net/saturday

Vermont Dance Sampler
Blue Rewind (excerpt)
Saturday, September 8, 2018
7:30 PM
Music Recital Hall (Redstone Campus)
Presented in collaboration with the Vermont Dance Alliance (vermontdance.org). Features choreography by a roster of professional Vermont dance artists.

​PH Dance & ErS
In/Voluntary Motion - Encounters - Blue Rewind
Saturday, May 5, 2018, 7:00 pm 
Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Black Box Theater
60 Lake Street, Burlington, VT
Tickets: $25 general public, $20 seniors, $15 students
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3225007


Puppets in Education: The 8th Annual Dance Showcase - 
Embracing Inclusion through Movement
to benefit Vermont Family Network
Saturday, February 17, 2018, 7:00 pm
Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Black Box Theater
60 Lake Street, Burlington, VT
Tickets: $25 in advance, $28 at the door 
available at Vermont Family Network, (802) 876-5315 x247
or at the Flynn Theater Box Office and FlynnTix.org
Ticket link: https://www.flynntix.org/see-description/8th-annual-dance-showcase/Details?perfNo=15475&perfCodePrefix=OPD18D
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MASTER CLASS
Stone Valley Arts  Dance OUTREACH Workshop
in collaboration with the Vermont Dance AllianceDate/time: Saturday, November 4th,  9:00 am – 6:00 pm
ntro to Turkish Belly Dance with Sehkmet (Yvonne Bruno)
 Modern dance with Paula Higa of PH Dance and ErS ( Burlington)
 Bollywood with Gina Deibel  of Hubbard Hall Cambridge , N.Y.
 Modern Dance with Hanna Satterlee founder and director of Vermont Dance Alliance (Burlington)
 Soul Training w/ Eugenia Silvera-Chirimini (Uruguayan dancer and choreographer)
Work-in-progress performance  w/  Eugenia Silvera-Chirimini  and Silvina Lopez Barrera, Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture at Middlebury College
Pot Luck dinner and Vermont Dance Alliance Meeting
Cost: $15 per class or $50 for all day, includes lunchLocation: Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill, 
145 E. Main Street, Poultney, VT 05764


"Blue Rewind"
DANCE MEDIA MIX #3 in POULTNEY - VT
Inter Media Performances
Friday, September 29
Saturday, September 30
7:30 pm - $10
www.stonevalleyarts.org

"Blue Rewind" - Vermont/Nebraska Dance Sampler
Thursday, September 7
Friday, September 8
7:30 pm - $5
UVM Music Building Recital Hall

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Workshop: "Cinesia em Improvisação"
Saturday, July 08 - 4 pm
​EAC - Escola de Artes Cênicas Wilson Geraldo
Santos/SP - Brazil

"No Pulso, No Corpo e Na Voz"
Direction: Maria Ines Adad
Choreography: Maria Ines Adad, Bianca Oliveira, Paula Higa
Saturday, July 08 - 8 pm
​EAC - Escola de Artes Cênicas Wilson Geraldo
Santos/SP - Brazil

Open class/audition
Thursday, May 25 - 7:30 to 9:30 pm
​UVM Mann Gym - Trinity Campus
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Encounters: 004
Sunday, February 26  - 3pm 
UVM Recital Hall
​Faculty Scholarship Concert

IN/VOLUNTARY MOTION
MFA Thesis Concert
Saturday, February 25  - 7pm 
Mann Gym - The University of Vermont
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IN/VOLUNTARY MOTION & Encounters: 003
MFA Thesis Concert
Friday, December 9 
Middlebury College - Mahaney Center Dance Theater

Dance Tramp “nonsensibility: every body plays the fool” : Sure Thing
Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1
7:30 PM
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (FlynnSpace)
Tickets: tba

Encounters: 002
03/30/16 at 6pm
Fleming Museum of Art
University of Vermont
61 Colchester Ave.
Burlington VT 05405
802 656 0750
www.flemingmuseum.org

Puppets in Education
The Dress
01/23/16 at 7pm
Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center
60 Lake St, Burlington, Vermont 05401
More information on https://www.facebook.com/events/530500443781793/
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​Encounters: 001
​12/11/15
​Middlebury College
Tickets will be available at the door or in advance from the Middlebury Website:
https://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/TicketRequest;jsessionid=971DC36D5C7DAFC5FFE85DF15B622D9E?eventId=1017232&presenter=MIDDLEBURY&venue&event&version

Vermont College Dance Festival
Malacarne
11/12/15
Middlebury College

Hoodoo Voodoo 2
The Dress
10/30/15
​Rose Street Artist's Gallery - 7pm

78 Rose Street, Burlington - VT
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Triskelions Art - Comedy in Dance
The Dress
03/21/15
​http://www.triskelionarts.org/comedy-in-dance-festival-2015
 
 

Professional Position  &  Education

Associate Professor at The University of Vermont - School of the Arts -
​Th​eater and Dance Program
Visiting Professor at the University of Salamanca - Center for Brazilian Studies in Spain.
MFA in Dance, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, WI (2016)
BS Chemical Engineering, Santa Cecilia University, Santos/SP, Brazil (2000)
BFA in Dance, UT Austin, Austin, TX, USA 
NYU – Performing Arts Industrial Essentials Certification (2021)
PBT – Progressing Ballet Technique Certification (2019)


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