Assis carreiro biography samples

Assis Carreiro MBE is an international cultural entrepreneur who works with individuals and organisations around the globe to nurture talent and innovate creative initiatives and partnerships. From 2000-2012, Assis was Artistic Director and CEO of DanceEast, steering the organisation through a period of reorganisation, expansion and transformation, and leading the multi-million-pound capital campaign to build the Jerwood DanceHouse. In 2014, Assis was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours for her services to Dance.

Assis says, “I’m very proud to have been the Artistic Director and CEO and to have led the team and the vision that took what was Suffolk Dance in a small office at Northgate Arts Centre, when I arrived in 2000, to transforming it into what it is today, DanceEast at the Jerwood DanceHouse.”

When Assis started the job in 2000, she had a strong vision for what she wanted to achieve: “my dream was that you c