Teresa Norton-Dias. Born in Beira/Mozambique, got her academic and artistic formation between this former Portuguese colony, Continental and Insular Portugal and London, England, at the Arts Educational Schools. She has a degree in History, variant History of Art, University of Lisbon and a Master in Intercultural Relations by Universidade Aberta/Portugal. She has a PhD in Intercultural Relations with the thesis "Intercultural'Participatory Creativity': The creation process in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater", for which she was awarded the "Letter of Merit" by Universidade Aberta. She is a member of InSEA (International Society for Education Through Art) and was founding member of AAEAM (Artistic Association of Education Through Art of Madeira). In 2011 joined CEMRI/UAb as a researcher. In 2013 was invited to join the team of researchers collaborators of CLEPUL ? Madeira and in 2014 join the CIERL-University of Madeira, team. Her main areas of interest are migration and intercultural phenomena, visual anthropology, media and cultural mediation, art and education, and body movement. Belongs to the Scientific Advisory Board of the book Collection Island Studies - 'Learn Madeira' project and of the Portuguese Journal of Education Through Art. Coordinates the Experimental Performance Laboratory (L.PE) and its Coreographic Research Center (N.PC) of the Culture Council of the University of Madeira. Codirects Cinema & Território - international journal of art and anthropology of images. Open Access journal launched June 16, 2016 and available at https://ct-journal.uma.pt. She was DAAD Scholar, in 2017 at HHU-Düsseldorf.Was DAAD Scholar in 2017.