Tomaz Ribas

Who was Tomaz Ribas?

Tomaz Emídio Leopoldo de Carvalho Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Schiappa Pectra Sousa Ribas. Professor, writer, ethnologist and critic of theatre and dance.

He was born at Alcáçovas, Viana do Alentejo, on 20 June 1918, and died in Lisbon, Campolide, on 21 March 1999. He entered the Conservatório Nacional in Lisbon against his father’s will, where he concluded the Special Course of Dance and Choreography. He was awarded a degree in Hispanic Studies by the Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo de Santander and was granted scholarships by the Instituto de Alta Cultura, the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the State Department of the United States of America. He trained at the Académie Nationale de la Danse under Serge Lifar’s supervision, at the Archives Internationales de la Danse, at the Italian Archives of theatre and dance and at some of the most prestigious American theatre schools.

He was Archivist and Attaché to the Direction of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Secretary and Professor of the Centro de Estudos de Dança do Instituto para a Alta Cultura, Adjoint Director to the Teatro Nacional D.