Raí Gonçalves – Teacher & Choreographer

Raí Gonçalves is an artist and researcher of the language of dance from Pará, Brazil. He holds a degree in Dance from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA-2016), a degree in Pedagogy from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA-2020), and is a specialist in Methodology for teaching arts (UNIBF-2020). He is a specialist in clinical and institutional neuro psychopedagogy (FAMEESP-2022). He has completed teacher training courses in the areas of jazz dance, improvisation, dance education, movement awareness, somatic education, and contemporary dance. For ten years, he was the coordinator of the intensive dance training program for Christians ARTECULADANCA in the state of Pará, in the Amazon region of Brazil. Raí is involved in academic and theoretical research on Christian dance in Brazil, having written works on the subject and teaching dance theory at seminars, conferences, congresses, and universities in Brazil. He is currently developing his artistic and missionary work as a member of the Arrows International company in Oklahoma, USA. For 19 years he has dedicated himself to the practice, research, and teaching of dance in the Christian context in the Amazon region of Brazil.