by Ana Claudia Antunes
by Ana Claudia Antunes
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I have been writing and composing since the day that I created a prelude, composing some notes (which I still have recorded on my brain) on a small piano toy at the age of three. But I first put my two feet at the theatre, playing the flute to a big audience at Mackenzie Institute, when I was seven years old. Since then I fell in love with the performing world. Then I graduated in Arts in 1990 with license in Artistic Education at the University FAAP in Sao Paulo. I started my career at an early age, performing in the Opera Carmina Burana at the Municipal Theatre in Sao Paulo, also dancing for the Young Ballet of Sao Paulo, at The Nutcracker for the Metropolitan Ballet Theatre in Washington, and for the Bicentenary of the French Revolution in the Pacaembu Stadium. I acted in many Dance/Theatre productions, such as the Ormand Dance Company from Germany. I also produced a play by Monteiro Lobato at the English Culture. From 2002 to 2003, I taught Creative Movements at the Montgomery College, in both Germantown and Rockville, in the US. As a Ballet teacher and choreographer, I worked at the Black Rock Centre for the Arts, and in 2003 I staged my students on their auditorium. I also choreographed the musical play "Man of La Mancha" in the occasion of the Fourth Centenary of the Quixote of Cervantes, performed on December, 2005 at the Santiago College. I had the opportunity to perform in a large number of TV commercials and soaps and other programs, as a model/actor, working with amazing talents such as the director Fernando Meirelles, also nominated for the Oscars 2004/05. I performed as a guest (literally!) in Dona Anja's Wedding at the Brazilian Soap Opera "Dona Anja" by SBT and as a "groupie" in "Tiro & Queda", a soup which was shown in both Brazil and Portugal. And I worked in a commercial film with the Chilean director Pablo Larrain, writer and producer of the movie "Fuga", winner as the Best First Movie at the Cartagena's Film Festival in 2007. I also participated in two films that reached the big screen, being one of them where I showcased some Martial Arts Mouvements. As an International Model/Athlete/Artist who loves to dance on wor(l)ds I've been travelling literally around the world! Once someone told me that I was too short (and too fat!) to be a model. But at that time I had already been in a dozen of Fashion Shows, TV Commercials and Interviews, and I've been shooting still in other thousands of photos and films, and have hundreds of magazines as witness, to really care about what that tall thin-legged blonde Modelling Agent had said to me. Once someone told to whoever could hear in that Ballet School Rehearsal that I could never be a ballerina. But I'd already endured two auditions with more than five thousand girls and I was one of the twelve who actually made it to the Company. I beat all the odds and, in spite of my flat feet, I became a professional dancer, not only at home, but also worldwide. Once someone told me that my English was flat. Now I just signed a contract with a Canadian Publisher and I have an anthology on the way by another American editor. To all those who got the nerves to say the word "never", this is my contribution to this wor(l)d: Take out all the negativity and... For-ever Yourself! I began to act and direct at an early age, making movies with my brother's Super 8 camera. The funny thing is that my sister created the main character for me which she named as "Sabrina" and she was a witch, making everything appear and disappear in a blink of an eye, and the use of pause and action was a real virtue with a side-effect of petrifying rather than having the resource of special effects. And all that back on 1977. Being around so many creative minds made me start to write and illustrate my poetic books and fictions, when I was nine, just to entertain myself but I always dreamed of making other kids enjoy my creations as well. When I was eleven years old I created a series of comic books, which I still keep on my hometown treasure island of Santos in Brazil. Since then, I wrote novels for adults based upon my life and Picture Books and Nursery Rhymes for children. I wrote poems and short-stories for an anthology by Mackenzie Publishing (1984). I illustrated the cover of the magazine Magia in 1990 (Editora Ondas). My poems were published on the National Literary Magazine "Mirante" (sept/2006) and on the ezine Aphelion (July/2007). One of my stories is part of the anthology Spiritual Visitations by Zumaya Publications. My writings can also be found on another anthology "A Thousand Voices" by Adventures Books of Seattle and my book "Life is Too Short...Make it a Big Shot" was published by Devine Destinies. I worked as a reviewer for HBO in LA from the movie "If These Walls Could Talk". One footage I made while traveling in Australia was chosen to be featured in an ABC Documentary about the Black Saturday in Australia. (2009) Also I'm the eye in the screen looking at you at a special video made by Demi Moore:
You can always share your feedback on my taltopia showcase. Thank You! Winners of National Swimming Competitions, both my grandmother (at 80) and I were interviewed by the Local News Globo Network Television, and also for a National Magazine in Brazil. My granny expressed her satisfaction on the competition for she had just started into sports some six years earlier. I, in the other hand, spoke about the importance of practising any kind of sports, to restart if stopped, or to just begin into it, and exercising together to keep the family ties.  Granny and Ana (Photo taken from a National Swimming Magazine) Ana's Resume in Spanish/Curriculo en Espanol (Click on Pic): 
...And The Rest is History: About the Author in Brazilian Portuguese(Click on Pic):
Ana Claudia Antunes, aka Deca, was born in 1968, in Santos, Brazil. She spent her childhood in the Beach City until 1973, when her family definetely decided to move to the big city of Sao Paulo. (See movie): My Childhood in Santos(Real Media) (Click here for a full version): "Dancing On Wor^l^ds" (on DVD)     
In 1973, she began her first drafts at a German School in Sao Paulo. Since then she wrote four novels for adults based upon her life and fifteen Picture Poem Books and Plays for children and adults which also contain her brush strokes and are replenished with spiritual messages. She was interviewed by a Brazilian magazine for an article about Tai-Chi-Chuan.  T'ai Ch'i Kung Movie(Real Audio) From 1980/88 she studied Classical Ballet. In 1987, she graduated at the official Ballet School of Sao Paulo. As a dancer from the Ballet of Sao Paulo she performed Carmina Burana at the Opera Theatre of Sao Paulo in 1983, and from 1986 to 1989 Chopinian Four Seasons" from Vivaldi and Nuages (from invited choreographers) in various stages around the State. She studied Dance and Artistic Education for about twenty years.
In 1984, she finished highschool with the course Translator and Interpreter in English at Mackenzie Institute in Brazil.In 1989/90 she worked at an advertising agency as an assistant for the Art Director. In the middle of the year 1990 she graduated in Arts with License in Artistic Education at the University in Sao Paulo (FAAP) In the same year she went to England, where she studied Holistic Therapies, at the Centre of Alternative Medicine in Southampton. From 1989 to 1991, she worked at Physics Academy where she taught Jazz/Ballet and also stretching and Aerobics. In 1993 and 1997, she went to Paris to work as a translator and interpreter for the Brazilian Publisher "Rede das Artes". She attended classes of Art and Literature at the University of Paris III/IV (at the Sorbonne Building) and French Theater at Alliance Franç¡©se in Paris . She worked as a volunteer, teaching Arts and Dance for underpriviledged children. From 1994/95 she finished a Master Class in Dance and Theater, where she learned Anatomy for Dance, Make-Up, Scenery, Costume Designs, History of Dance, Mime, Improvisation, Choreography, Acting, Modern Dance, Myth, Music, and Brazilian Dances (including Capoeira) among other elements, to create a Dance/Theater composition to perform on stage. In 1995/96 she lived in Los Angeles, where she studied dance from other cultures (African, Hindu, Indian and Folkloric Dances) at WAC (World Arts and Culture) in UCLA. There she worked as a Movie Reviewer for HBO. She also signed a contract with Ford Models in L.A. She produced a children's play called Emilias Marriage from the Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato with children at the English Culture. She also participated in many performances with Dance/Theatre groups, including the Ormand Dance Company (Contact Improvisation) from Germany. She made two guest appearances in Brazilian Soap Operas; she also performed Dance, Gymnastics and Fashion Shows for TV programs and TV commercials (and Cinema), photos, posters and catalogs for clients such as Nike, Volkswagen, Johnson's Shampoo, Coca-Cola, L'Oreal, Chevrolet, Lever, Peugeot, Aqualoco, Sherwin William's, Du Pont, Wal-mart, Sedona Pic(k), Flow Catalog, among many others: More Photos Here  Dance As One and you will be literally "Hippie-noticed"
From 1998/99, she taught Ballet and Yoga classes for children and adults at "Fitness World" academy. In 2000 and 2001 she became Master in Kung Fu teaching the children at the US Martial Arts Academy in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In 2002 she became a staff member at the Metropolitan Ballet Theatre in Rockville. She also started to teach Movement and Arts at the Montgomery College. She signed a contract as an employee at the Black Rock Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. In Dec/2002 she performed at The Nutcracker with the Metropolitan Ballet Theatre. In 2003 she choreographed at the Black Rock Center in Washington (music by the Brazilian composer Chico Buarque de Hollanda) and from 2003/05 she taught Yoga and Pilates at the Holistic Center "Cuerpo Unico" in Santiago, Chile.  She's been giving Dance/Drama Workshops and Chi Kung & YogaDance classes for both children and adults, also assisting in the creation of musicals and staging her own plays. She published her books, which are all so viable and also available at:  |
