DANCER AND DANCE PEDAGOGUE
GERMAN INSTITUTE OF PEDAGOGICAL DANCE EDUCATION, GERMANY

CHOREOGRAPHER AND MASTER OF ART IN CHOREOGRAPHY
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, LONDON, ENGLAND

ETHNOLOGIST
WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT, MÜNSTER, GERMANY

Vinicius studied European Ethnology at Wilhelms-University Münster, absorbed his training as a dance-theater dancer at the German dance school "Der kleine Bühnenboden" (Münster), graduated in dance pedagogy at the German Institute for Pedagogical Dance Education in Berlin, as well as a choreographer with a Masters (MA) in Choreography at Middlesex University, London.

He lives in Münster, Germany and conducts workshops and dance projects in Europe and Brazil in the areas of samba, improvisational dance and dance-theater. He teaches at the Universities of Music (stage performance / show design) and Applied Sciences (Interculturality and Body Language) in Münster, as well as at the Universities of Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg in Austria. Vinicius has already been awarded three awards: Best Latin Pop Song and Best Soundtrack by the German Pop Foundation for his Double-CD "Starting a new day - 2015" with 23 own poems, as well as the AEMB 2017 & DESENVOLVIMENTO 2021 awards.

He is the artistic and choreographic director of the Artistic Cloud Centre - MOMENTOS WORLD in the cities of Brasília, Curitiba, Innsbruck, Münster, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Vienna, having performed in them a total of more than 34 dance productions, and directed the realization of several other artistic projects (photo exhibition, films/documentaries, books, souvenirs etc) in the last 11 years of existence.