Andressa
Miyazato

Andressa Miyazato was born in 1980 in Sao José do Rio Preto, Brazil. She began her dance career in 1995 with the Argentinean ballet master Juan Jose Suares. Andressa Miyazato has lived in Europe since 2007 and has made the city of Linz the center of her life and work since 2013.  

A multifaceted spectrum characterises her artistic career. From 1996 to 2000 Andressa was a dancer with the Ballet de Rio Preto. In 2000, she joined the ensemble of the Cisne Negro Dance Company until 2007. From 2007 to 2013, Miyazato moved to Europe to work as a dancer at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. From 2013 to 2019, she was a solo dancer at Musiktheater Linz. 
As a dancer, Miyazato has danced important leading roles such as "Lady Macbeth", "Ulrike Meinhof" and “Sylvia Plath” by the Austrian choreographer Johann Kresnik. In 2013, Miyazato received a nomination as "Hoffnungsträgerin" in the Jahrbuch Tanz Magazine, followed by a nomination in the category "Dancer of the Year 2017" by the renowned platform "tanznetz.de" and the award "Dancer of the Year" by the Freunde des Musiktheaters Linz. She has performed on major stages such as the Joyce Theater Summer Dance Festival, New York (2001 and 2005), and the Festival Internacional de Danza de la Habana, Cuba. She has also toured South America, South Africa, Mozambique and Asia. 

Since 2019, Miyazato has been a member of the Institute for Dance Arts- IDA at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. There she teaches dance studies, repertoire, improvisation and colloquium for Bachelor and Master programmes and leads in-depth seminars for Master programmes. 

In addition to her career as a dancer, teacher and choreographer, Miyazato is dedicated to research and is currently writing her dissertation at the Kunstuniversität Linz under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Amalia Barboza and Univ.-Prof. Mag. Rose Breuss. She is also a board member of the International Dance Council CID, Vienna Section, founded by Rose Breuss, and is involved in interdisciplinary research within the French project for applied research in "Augmented Scenography", together with the French artist Patrick Curran and the composer Jean-Jacques Lemêtre.