Observers:

Cláudia Galhós (PT)

She was born in Lisbon, in 1972. Currently she writes on dance, performative arts and new circus for the weekly paper Expresso. She was editor of "Artes de Palco", weekly supplement of the program "Magazine", 2: RTP channel (from 2004 to 2006), and journalist of Diário Económico; theatre, dances and plastic arts editor of NetParque (the culture portal of Parque das Nações, former-Expo'98); dance critic at the newspaper Público and specialist on the same area at Jornal de Letras. From 2001 to 2003, she had a weekly program of interviews at Voxx radio, entitled «À Conversa sobre Artes».
Started in the area of fiction in 2001, with "Sensualistas", the first book of the Rock Trilogy, and after it "Story of Summer", in 2002 (book selected by the Instituto Português do Livro e da Biblioteca to be promoted in the Frankfurt Book Fair on the following year), both edited by Oficina do Livro. "O Tempo das Cerejas", romance that ends the trilogy, was edited in July 2007.
She has several short stories published in collections, in Portugal and abroad, and texts on theatre and dance in foreign publications, some presented in international conferences (for example, «Património da Inovação», at the «Contemporary 05» festival, that took place from 30 May to 7 June, 2005, in Prato, Italy; or the conference «Unidades de Sensação e a Continuidade como Ruptura», about the Portuguese performative arts, in Serralves, Porto, on 8 June, 2006; or, more recently, on June, 2007, at the Centro Coreográfico Galego).
She is, since March 2005, observer/consultant of Iris (a network of programmers from Italy, France, Spain and Portugal). Still in this area, she has recently published the book «Corpo de Cordas – 10 anos de Companhia Paulo Ribeiro», a biographical story about a life connected with dance, edited by Assírio & Alvim (February 2006), and she is now working on a book that follows the creative processes of Portuguese theatre companies.