Adriana La Selva, 29, Brazilian, is a performer and researcher of physical theatre and dance. In 2009 she concluded with merit her Master’s degree in Contemporary Arts at the University of Lancaster, UK. Since 2000, when she began her bachelor’s in performing arts at the University of São Paulo, she has been investigating actor training methods and the relation between expressivity and animality. From this perspective she engaged in an exchange with the LUME Theatre Group, where the study of the idea of a Personal Dance was developed. Adriana lives abroad since 2006 and has set residence in Australia, New Zealand , UK and currently Belgium. Through this experience she managed to study several training methods and performing styles with artists from butoh, contemporary dance and theatre. As performer she was co-creator of the group Vu-ha in Brazil. With the group she created and performed in several shows, including 3RG0N0^M1C4 (directed by Ravel Cabral) e Biotério (directed by Marcelo Lazzaratto). Furthermore, the group was the first guest of an artistic residency at Casa das Caldeiras, São Paulo, in 2004/05, where they developed not only performances but significant events such as The 1^st Week of Pre-Expressive Trainings and several workshops of physical theatre. As a teacher, she worked 2 years at Theatre School Celia Helena, coaching actors and giving classes of body expression. In parallel, since 200 Adriana develops projects of research and mise em scene in partnership with Berlin based director Mauricio Veloso, within the platform of TabulaRasa. These projects resulted in performances inside and outside academia and conceptual investigations such as the one developed for her master degree in practice-as-research (Kafka’s Burrow). At the moment she teaches actor training methods in Antwerp and Ghent, directs a theatre play for children ito be premiered next april in Antwerp (working title: Wasdief), works in a new research project at Ghent University and had just finished a cooperation- project with the Mexican group La Pocha Nostra resulting in the Belgiam version of the performance Corpo Ilicito.