Daniel Tércio Ramos Guimarães (Daniel Tércio) holds a BA in Philosophy and another in Fine Arts, a MA in Art History and a PhD in Human Motricity, Dance. He was a fellow of the Fine Arts service of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation during the 1994/95 biennium. In 1997, he completed his Ph.D. with a study on the History of Dance in Portugal during the Ancient Regime. Following the research conducted at that time, he published the work "Dança e Azulejaria no Teatro do Mundo" (Dance and Tilework in the Theater of the World) (Lisbon, Inapa, 1999). He is currently a retired Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon, where he taught, at the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd cycles of dance training, subjects in the areas of Aesthetics, Art Theories, History of Dance, Expression and Communication, and Dance and Multimedia Technologies. Until 2021, he coordinated the doctoral program in Human Motricity in dance. Furthermore he was a member of the board of directors of the Institute of Ethnomusicology - Center for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md). Currently he is a member of the INET-md’s Ethics Committee. He has collaborated as a teacher and lecturer in other higher education institutions in Portugal, Spain, East Timor, Scotland, Belgium, France, and Brazil. In 2004, he was a cooperating professor at the University of Timor Lorosae, under the collaboration protocol with the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities (CRUP). In 2012, he was a visiting professor at the University of Sophia Antipolis in Nice. Recently, he was a senior visiting professor at PPGDança (CAPES-PRINT) in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. He published more than 20 articles in specialized journals, such as Performance Research (UK) and Repertório (Brazil). He authored several book chapters, some of which in volumes published by prestigious publishing houses such as Peter Lang, SAGE and Routledge. As Principal Investigator he has coordinated competitive projects such as: TEPe. Technologically Expanded Performance [PTDC/ART-PER/31263/2017, 2017-2022] - Project carried out in partnership with the Federal University of Ceará, FUNCAP; Research through practice: the states of the body and the body-archive / «Recherche par la pratique: les états de corps et le corps-archive» [Bilateral project between the University of Lille and FMH, 2014-2015]; «Etudes en Danse Europeennes In Progress: Methodologies et Interdisciplinarites» [Bilateral project between the Center for Studies in Performing Arts of FMH and the RiDIM laboratory at the University of Sophia Antipolis, in Nice, 2010 – 2011]; Technologically Expanded Dance [(POCI/EAT/61564/2004), 2005 – 2007]. He is author of two science fiction novels and several short stories issued by Portuguese and Brazilian publishers. As a critic, his dance reviews appear regularly in the Portuguese press since 2004. In his Ciência Vitae CV the most frequent keywords are: methodology, politics, technology, music, ethnography, masks, performance, choreography, treatises, education, iconography, body, criticism, drawing, agency, and dramaturgy. Currently, his interests range from aesthetics, dance history, to cultural studies, iconography, and deep ecology.