Artist and researcher. Non-binary lesbian.

Their practice spaces combine essayistic writing and performance, whether in creation, teaching, research or the organisation of public programmes. Ritó has organised a series of lecture-performances dedicated to the relationship between language and geology, presented internationally in various artistic spaces, theatres and academic contexts: “Anthroposcenes” (2017) with João dos Santos Martins, “Geophagy” (2018), and “Fossil” (2020). One of their most recent works – “Spillovers” (2023) – proposes a fabled and collective reinterpretation of “Lesbian peoples: Material for a Dictionary” (1976), an iconic work of lesbian feminism by Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig. Ritó is currently completing a PhD in Artistic Studies and Anthropology with an FCT scholarship, focusing on the Anthropocene and perceptions of humanity-nature. Ritó has a degree in Choreographic Arts (Paris VIII University) and a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology (PUC-São Paulo). They have published academic articles, artists’ texts and independent publications linked to their research. In 2019, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Ritó co-organised an indigenous film exhibition with indigenous filmmakers and curators, together with a collective platform of researchers and activists from Portugal, namely Ailton Krenak. Since 2020, Ritó has been the coordinator of Terra Batida (terrabatida.org), a network of people, practices and knowledge in dispute with forms of ecological violence and policies of abandonment. Since 2023, they have been collaborating with the network least – an arts and ecology laboratory based in Geneva – on the project “Peau Pierre” (Stone Skin), a long-term project focusing on eco-queer pedagogies in co-creation with local associations. They have also coordinated two four-monthly laboratories with Alina Ruiz Folini for young people aged between 18 and 25, in the context of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Educational Service’s “Imagine” project (2022-23). Associate artist of Associação Parasita, a structure funded by the Portuguese Republic – Ministry of Culture/Directorate-General for the Arts between 2023-2024.

Networks and residences:

Writer and web manager for the EU project Departures and Arrivals Network between 2011 and 2018 . This network was collaboration between 13 European institutions. The project was initiated by PARTS, the school for contemporary dance based in Brussels, Belgium. [DNA] was active from October 2014 until September 2018. It is the heir of the network Départs, which was active between 2001 and 2014.

Treffen Total 2016 and Treffen Total 2018 was a unique four weeklong artist get together made available to 24 participants from Hamburg and all over the world. Together they will commit to collective artistic practices and formats as well as different forms of presentation at K3- Centre for Choreography  | Danceplan Hamburg. The project focuses on the first encounters between the artists, the development of complex common questions and the experimenting with different possibilities of presentation.

Sweet and Tender Collaborations – began as a grass-roots initiative from a group of participants in the 2006 DanceWEB program at ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna. Over the next year, it launched a variety of small projects in Portugal, Greece, Serbia, and Germany