Clarice Franco

Clarice Franco is a queer Brazilian performer whose artistic path spans dance, theatre, and storytelling through movement. Beginning with ballet, she explored jazz, frevo, heels, theatre, and jazz funk before specialising in contemporarydance. She trained at EFG em Artes Basileu França in Goiânia, Brazil (2022/23), and continued her professional formation in SPECIFIC by Loris Petrillo in Tuscania, Italy (2023–2025). 

Throughout her journey, Clarice has been part of dance groups and collective creations that strengthened her belief in collaboration. In 2022, she participated in an artistic residency with Foco Cia de Dança in Brasília, followed in 2023 byanother residency with Dança em Trânsito in Goiânia; both culminated in performances that significantly shaped her artistic development. In the summer of 2024, she worked as a dancer at a resort in Scalea, Italy. 

In 2025, she performed in DOX Club Carmen (must die), directed by Giovanni Brand and Lynn Schutter, a contemporary reinterpretation of Carmen blending theatre and Flamenco elements, marking an important step in deepening herstage presence and performative maturity. 

Currently, Clarice is creating the interdisciplinary performance You Dream in a Language I Don’t Speak with DOX Lab alongside Danish dancer and circus artist Maddie Thomas. As a couple, they bring their cultural differences into the work, embodying both distance and deep connection on stage. Merging contemporary dance, circus, and theatre, the piece explores intimacy, migration, misunderstanding, and the radical act of loving across borders. Drawing from herexperience of relocation in Europe and their shared queer identity, the work amplifies immigrant and LGBTQ+ voices, proposing tenderness as strength and connection as resistance. Looking ahead, she intends to continue developinginterdisciplinary performances that remind audiences that what unites us: our need to love, belong, and care, is greater than what divides us.