Gustavo Gomes is a choreographer, performance and film artist. With choreographic works presented in venues and festivals such as Art Basel - Parcours, Schauspielhaus Köln, Ludwig Museum, Frankfurt Lab, Tanzfaktur, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Hellerau, PiK Deutz, KOLUMBA Museum, Watou Art Festival, VRHAM Festival Hamburg, Atelierfrankfurt, Quartier am Hafen and others. He has been creating with dance companies such as Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company/Jacopo Godani, Ballet of Difference/Richard Siegal and Osnabrück Tanz Theater. Gomes’ approach is in the investigation of speech though dance as well as the incorporation of body into the new thresholds of theatre. His films creates a dialog between framed image, rituals and the metaphysics of representation.
Presenting films in prestigious galleries such as Xavier Hufkens in collaboration with visual artist Esther Kläs, The Brussels Independent Film Festival, Thessaloniki Cinedance International, Kinesthesia Film Festival, Spring Grove Caledonia Film Festival, Ich. Morgen, InShadow Dance Film Festival, Art Site Festival Turin, Quinzena de Danca de Almada, Video Dance Studies of Valencia, IMAP- Moving Image Festival of Sao Paulo, F.Lab Festival Frankfurt and others.
As performer he was nominated with the ensemble of Ballet of Difference for Der Faust as best dancer in Germany in 2020, he has worked with artists such as Jacopo Godani, Richard Siegal, Roy Assaf, and danced works of William Forsythe. As a dancer he has been part of companies such as Osnabrück Stadttheater -Nanine Linning Dance Company, Mauro de Candia Dance Company, Braunschweig Staatstheater - Jan Pusch, Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company and Ballet of Difference.
As for books, Gomes published I am Pretty, I should be Famous with visual artist Harald Geissler and Variations on the Represented with photographer András Dobi.
As instructor he has been guest teaching Contact Improvisation and contemporary dance at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK), The Cologne University of Music and Dance (ZZT) and the Beijing International Dance Festival. His approach in movement is based on finding points of mobility, uncovering responsibilities of the body and mind through dancing and understanding group dynamics as a base for choreography.