Carol bertho
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2026
Objective/Summary: Pulse was the 2026 annual dance concert at Valdosta State University, in which I choreographed and performed.
Piece "Salve!" - Hip Hop and Brazilian Passinho piece I choreographed in collaboration with the dancers.
2025
Objective/Summary: In the Valdosta State University production of "A Christmas Carol ", I choreographed the ball scene and supported the director with blocking.
2025-2026
Objective/Summary: DWTSV is a fundraiser for VSU College of the Arts scholarships. I participated by being a PRO dancer, choreographing, and performing with Valdosta stars.
2025
Objective/Summary: Evolve was the 2025 annual dance concert at Valdosta State University, in which I choreographed and performed.
Pieces:
"Remanso" - Contemporary dance piece I choreographed in collaboration with the dancers.
"Resistência" - Hip Hop dance piece I restaged with the VSU students
"Gaia" - Contemporary dance piece choreographed by Melissa Pihos and Ali Duffy in which I performed.
2022-2024
Objective/Summary: As part of the MFA curriculum, I created 3 different independent projects.
1 - trio - "Gross Self"
2 - Group piece - "Back Home"
3 - Full cast piece - Washington University Dance Collective "Funk Brazil"
2024
Program Note: “Liveness is a technologically mediated relationship among human beings” (Philip Auslander, 2012, p 5). Swipe invites you to reflect on the “Liveness” of our technology-driven era and questions the changes in human interactions that it provokes. The digital world has invaded and facilitated our lives, becoming essential in our daily routines. However, who is benefiting from our constant swipes and online availability? What do we lose by making everything easier or automatic? Do our phones, laptops, and tablets make us whole or multiply our identities? Why do we perform our online habits? Does digital interaction influence how we perceive and relate to each other? The performers on stage embody the tensions between virtual and real, public and private, true and imagined, and necessity and choice to explore these questions and encourage you to swipe through your thoughts and put your “Liveness” into perspective.
Role: Director, dancer, and choreographer in collaboration with the dancers
2023
Objective/Summary: I collaborated with the MFA in Dance student, Erin Morris, by performing in her Final concert.
Role: dancer
2022
Objective/Summary: It was a show produced by the social project Grupo Performance de Rua about the origin and evolution of Brazilian Funk music and dance.
Role: Choreography director, producer
2021
Objective/Summary: It was an online show produced by the Cultural Center of the city of São Carlos in celebration of the International Day of Dance. With a Nitch poem as inspiration, dance academies and groups from the city were invited to create a choreography and perform it on Facebook Live.
Role: Dancer
Results: Performance of a Choreography with group "Street Performance" Dance Company and Ballet Expressão Dance Academy
2020
Objective/Summary: O “Expressão Dança Elvis” was a tribute dance movie directed by Ballet Expressão Dance Academy and produced by Moov.mente productions, which used many songs from the King of rock, Elvis.
Role: Choreographer
Results: Contemporary, Jazz, and Street Dance teen Groups.
2021
Objective/Summary: "Qual e o filme?"was a live concert produced by Ballet Expressão Dance Academy which used many songs from famous movies to create dance.
Role: Choreographer
Results: Contemporary, Jazz, and Street Dance teen Groups.
2019
Objective/Summary: “Queen” was a tribute show produced by Ballet Expressão Dance Academy, which used many songs from the Queen band.
Role: Choreographer
Results: Contemporary group with the song “How can I go on” and a Jazz Trio with “We are the champions.”
2018
Objective/Summary: Travessos was a project produced by Isabel Marques, Caleidos contemporary company Director. Three dances were designed to interact with the public, inviting them to join us with simple movements.
Role: Dancer
Results: Performances in the São Paulo Cultural Circuit and for young kids from public schools of the city of São Paulo.
2017
Objective/Summary: Choreograph created with my students from Studio Ballet & Cia’s Jazz Funk classes to perform in the Studio’s Showcase.
Role: Choreographer/Dancer
Results: Presentation in the studio’s Showcase
2016-2017
Objective/Summary: “Tarzan” is a musical based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios 1999 film of the same name, featuring Phil Collins songs inspired by David Henry Hwang’s book. The remake was produced by Studio Ballet & Cia, Campinas, SP, and I played the role of Jane Porter.
Role: Dancer/Actress
Results: Presentations in the Municipal Theatre of Campinas.
2016
Objective/Summary: It was a show choreographed by Wladimir Faccioni, who danced in Bayerische Staatsoper company in Munich, Germany, for fifteen years. It was made with songs by the Brazilian songwriter Daniel Salve.
Role: Dancer/ choreographer assistant
Results: Presentations in the Municipal Theatre of Campinas.
2016
Objective/Summary: “ Midsummer Night's Dream” is a two-act ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn's music to Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was a remake produced by Studio Iris Ativa Lina Penteado, Campinas, SP. I played the role of Hermia, who is caught in a romantic entanglement where she loves one man, Lysander, but is being courted by another, Demetrius, whose feelings she does not return.
Role: Dancer
Results: Presentations in the Municipal Theatre of Campinas.
2016
Objective/Summary: It was a show choreographed by Wladimir Faccioni, who danced in Bayerische Staatsoper company in Munich, Germany, for fifteen years. It was made with songs by the Brazilian songwriter Daniel Salve.
Role: Dancer/ choreographer assistant
Results: Presentations in the Municipal Theatre of Campinas.
2015
Objective/Summary: “The Sleeping Beauty” is a ballet first performed in 1890. The music was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographed by Marius Petipa. It was a remake produced by Studio Iris Ativa Lina Penteado, Campinas, SP. I played the role of the “White Cat.”
Role: Dancer
Results: Presentations in the Municipal Theatre of Campinas.
2014
Objective/Summary: “The Nutcracker” is an 1892 two-act ballet originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was a remake produced by Studio Iris Ativa Lina Penteado, Campinas, SP. I played the role of the “Chinese Tea.”
Role: Dancer
Results: Presentations in the Municipal Theatre of Campinas.
2014
Objective/Summary: “Don Quixote” is a ballet based on episodes taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Marius Petipa originally choreographed it to the music of Ludwig Minkus. It was a remake produced by Studio Iris Ativa Lina Penteado, Campinas, SP. I played the role of the “Cupid.”
Role: Dancer
Results: Presentations in the Municipal Theatre of Campinas.
2014
Objective/Summary:” The Little Mermaid” is a musical produced by Walt Disney Theatrical, based on a Disney movie with the same name. It was produced by Iris Ativa Lina Penteado Studio, Campinas, SP. I played the role of the “Eels” that served as minions to Ursula the Sea Witch.
Role: Dancer/Singer
Results: Presentations in the Municipal Theatre of Campinas.
2010-2006
Objective/Summary: “Tenda Móvel de Teatro” was a project sponsored by the city of São Carlos. For four years, a tent was set up monthly in the suburbs of São Carlos, featuring Circus, Theater, Dance, Magic, and movies presentations and workshops for free. The Hip Hop Company group "Street Performance" was hired to do the final show every month during the entire period of the project.
Role: Dancer
Results: Monthly Hip Hop Shows in several neighborhoods of São Carlos for four years
2008
Objective/Summary: “Peter pan” was a ballet produced by Compasso Centro de Danças, São Carlos, SP. It was based on James Matthew Barrie’s play “Peter and Wendy,” in which I played the role of the fairy “Tinker Bell.”
Role: Dancer
Results: Presentations in the Municipal Theatre of São Carlos
