After finishing his B.A. in Journalism, Eduardo Castro Neves, born in Rio de Janeiro, studied Performing Arts in Brazil and at the Wichita State University in the USA. In Brazil, among other companies, he danced with the BCRJ (Balé Contemporâneo do Rio de Janeiro) and in the USA with MADT (Mid-America Dance Theatre).
In order to develop his work, he moved in 1997 to Europe working at first as a performer at the Opera of Bonn in Germany and with many freelance choreographers such as Olivier Gabrys, Franck Baranek, Damien Dreux and Patrice Barthes (France), Eun-Ok Choi (Korea), Natassa Zouka (Greece), Catharina Gadelha, Josef Eder, André Buch, Rebecca Rashid, Petra Schmitz, Alexandra Dederichs and Guido Marcowitz (Germany), Heidi Weiss, Jennifer Mann, Tamara Stuart Ewing (USA) and Francesca Stampone (Italy).
In 2001 he met the Brazilian choreographer Catharina Gadelha, with whom he travelled throughout Germany with her prize-winning piece Abstractions – him and her. This encounter led him to develop and show in June of 2002 his first own piece in Germany, No longer alone in cooperation with Catharina Gadelha, for whom he holds great admiration. In that same year, he presented his solo piece Thirst at the Tanzblende Cologne.
In 2003, Thirst (extended-version) was again presented at the international festival Tanzwoche Dresden together with his trio Zwischenräume. Still in 2003, he created together with the German fashion designer Ute Hafke, a research group on interdisciplinary work called 7 cam.dance. That was also when he founded his dance company Giselle´s Cottage at the Bolshoi. Between 2003 and 2004 sponsored by the department of culture, he developed the group piece Histéricos working with 4 actors and 4 dancers.
In 2004, he was selected, together with 11 other international choreographers, to participate in a Choreographers Residency at the Fondation Royaumont outside of Paris, directed by the american choreographer, Susan Buirge, former dancer of Alwin Nikolais, where he developed the quintet The Crossing.
Since then, his company Giselle´s Cottage at the Bolshoi has been sponsored by different associations, among others, Kulturamt Köln, Kunststiftung NRW and NRW Landesbüro freie Kultur, developing productions that have been seen in different European cities. His latest works include "Outbreak" (2004), "The burden of being a necrophile" (2005), "Silence Undone" (2005) and "Manual for a for a better living" (2006/2007) and “Die VorStunde” (2007/2008).
He performed last at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin 2009.
