Fabio Tavares is a Brazilian artist and movement educator who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus, where he got his first professional job as an acrobat at the age of 15. Fabio hasn’t stopped working since. In 1999 he moved to NYC, where he’s been performing, studying and teaching ever since.
Mr. Tavares has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fischerspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jon Kinzel, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson, Stanley Love, Anne Bogart/ SITI Company to name a few. He has also danced with STREB Extreme-Action for 14 years where he was also the company’s Associate Artistic Director for a decade.
His one-man show based on “The Hamletmachine” by Heiner Müller has been performed in Brazil, Europe and the U.S. in several different festivals.
Mr. Tavares is an AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher as well as a certified Klein Technique™ teacher and a certified Zero Balancing practitioner. He is currently a faculty member at Movement Research, the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and at The Juilliard School.
