About 

Edivaldo begins to dance in 1997 with the Tsemba dance group, where he learns Mozambican traditional dance for 4 years. In 2001 he is invited to be a member of Ussoforal, a western African traditional dance group. In 2003 he starts dancing with the contemporary dance company “Esculturas Humanas”. That same year he is accepted for the 1st stage of a choreographic development project, a six months training program organized by CulturArte (Maputo-Mozambique) and Danças nas Cidades (Lisbon-Portugal). Through this program, he attends several workshops with Boyzie Cekwana and Desire Davids (South Africa), David Zambrano and Mat Voorter (Venezuela-Holland). In 2005 he participates in the Dance Web Scholarship Impulstanz for six weeks in Vienna. Since 2010 he has been working as an assistant and performer with David Zambrano. He assisted in the intensive workshops of “Flying Low” and “Passing Through”, in the 50 Days program (Costa Rica), at ImPulseTaz Festival (Vienna), DansCentrum Jette (Belgium), FUZIONI Improvisation Festival (Italy) and EX>IN series in 2014, 2016  and 2018. And performed in the pieces  “Twelve flies went out at noon”,  “Soul project”, ”SHOCK” and “Land in love" directed by David Zambrano. 

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He has been working in Berlin (Germany) with Sasha Waltz and Guests since 2007, with the pieces “Travelogue-Twenty to eight”, “Jagden und Formen”, “Continue”, “Metamorphoses”, “Passion”, “Gefaltet”, “Sacre”, “Rauchen”, “In C”, “ Symphonie MMXX” and in various Dialogue-project.