Alice Joana Gonçalves was born in Portugal at 1986.

 

She is a dancer and a choreographer as well as a performer.

 

In her work she has not only been gradually dwelling with the body’s physical presence but also developing the idea of her own body as pure art material; using it as an instrument, transforming and reshaping it, using her anatomical movements in accordance to her own wishes and needs.

 

It is difficult to separate her art from her own life at the same time. Alice’s own life feeds her art to the point of becoming two in one. Her private live becomes completely entangled with her own work being virtually impossible to differentiate where one ends and the other begins.

 

Her body becomes thus the artwork, fragmented both in time and space and at the same time the victim and the perpetrator of the immanent tension caused by its physical presence