Horacio Macuacua
Improvisation specialist and international teacher and performer
Horacio is a Mozambican dancer and choreographer, and the artistic director of the dance company which bears his name. Having no aesthetic limitations, the company develops projects that are open to the creativity of all the collaborators and always with the intention that everyone has the room to explore their own choreographic universe.
He has carried out the projects COMUM, Orobroy, Stop! (1st Prize and Puma Creative Prize at Danse l’Afrique Danse Festival 2010), Smile If You Can!, Fighting room, Convoy, Trampled Rose and Paradise is not in the sky!
Horacio is a founding member of Culturarte, the first contemporary dance company of Mozambique. He has collaborated as dancer and creator with choreographers Cristina Moura, Thomas Hauert, Pablo Colbert, George Khumalo, and David Zambrano, considering him his maestro and mentor.