Duda Paiva was trained as a dancer and actor in Brazil, India and Japan before arriving in the Netherlands. He has joined dance projects and dance movies from choreographers such as Paul Selwyn Norton, Itzik Galili, Ron Bunzl, Karin Post and the companies Raz and Rogie & Company.
In 2000 he was nominated for the Dutch dance prize and since then his performances have toured throughout the world. Paiva has created his own theater idiom and merges dance and puppetry disciplines with video, objects, and live music.Duda Paiva trained as a dancer and actor in Brazil, India and Japan before arriving in the Netherlands. He has joined dance projects and dance movies from choreographers such as Paul Selwyn Norton, Itzik Galili, Ron Bunzl, Karin Post and the companies Raz and Rogie & Company. In 2000 he was nominated for the Dutch dance prize and since then his performances have toured throughout the world. Paiva has created his own theatre idiom and merges dance and puppetry disciplines with video, objects, and live music
