Angelica is a storyteller, movement artist, and educator from the Brazilian Amazon. Her art comes from the complexity of growing up between the rainforest and the urban landscape. She combines movements from the umbrella of street dances and Amazonian traditional forms with western somatic techniques to creative her movement vocabulary. Her composition methodology merges ethnography, semiology, and embodied storytelling to perform ideas, connect communities, challenge our reality. Angelica is passionate about building bridges instead of borders which is visible through her work, such as A Riverside Tale, Narratives of the migrant Body, Under the Same Roof, and more, all collaborations between Amazonian and U.S. American artists. Angelica is an Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance at Amherst College, holds a M.F.A in dance from UT-Ausin, and a B.A. in dance and education from UFPA (Brazil). Her approach to dance creates fierce embodied research, ancestral knowledge and critical inquiry in the performing arts world.