Darío Barreto Damas is a Canarian dancer who develops his work between Tenerife, Sofia, and Skopje. His artistic practice explores dance as an autonomous form of knowledge and disidentification practices as mechanisms of mediation.

He trained at Teatro Victoria (Tenerife), Institut del Teatre (Barcelona), DOCH – School of Dance and Circus (Stockholm), and JLU – University of Giessen (Germany). Throughout his career, he has collaborated as a dancer, co-creator, and performer with Cullberg, Aleksandar Georgiev, Deborah Hay, Cristina Caprioli, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Philip Berlin, and Poliana Lima, among others. 

He is a co-dreamer of ICC (Imaginative Choreographic Center) project-institution, co-founder artistic team STEAM ROOM, and a board member of the PiedeBase association (Canary Islands).

Darío co-directs, together with Beatriz Bello, LAV-C (Laboratory of Live Arts and Citizenship of the Canary Islands). 

This website summarizes Darío Bardam’s artistic work as a dancer. For his work related to cultural management and mediation, visit http://laboratorioartesvivas.org and http://imaginativecc.info.