Born in the Azores islands, Francisco is a researcher of consciousness, ethics, movement and the beauty-full strangeness of life. He's a contact improvisation practitioner, event organizer & facilitator, moving phisolopher, performer, videographer, ecosomatic artist, poet, musician, freediver & meditation guide.

His work is deeply inspired by Silent Contact Retreats; Zen, Dzogchen, Vipassana.

Significant teachers

Sasha Dodo & Dolores Dewhurst-Marks [TOWARDS: Center for Practice and Research of Contact Improvisation]; No An & the Human Garden [Performative Pratices for Nature, as Nature]; The Original CI research of Steve Paxton, Nancy S. Smith, Nita Little, Ray Chung & Others; Ekaterina Basaeleva [Body that Can]; Geraldin Acevedo; Marco Solimeni [Aikido]; Sasha Bezrodnova [Authentic Movement & OceanDance]; Bari Kim