João dos Santos Martins is an artist. He studied at the Escola Superior de Dança (Lisbon), at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), at e.x.er.c.e, (Montpellier) and at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies (Giessen).

His work, usually developed in collaborative processes, encompasses various forms that focus on dance, whether through choreography, exhibition, or editing. These forms are crossed by issues that concern the genealogies of dance history, transmission processes, the relationship between practice and discourse, and paradoxes about the activity of dancing.

Together with Ana Bigotte Vieira, she created a device for the collective mapping of dance in Portugal - Para Uma Timeline a Haver. She has danced in works by Ana Rita Teodoro, Eszter Salamon, Moriah Evans, Xavier Le Roy, Jérôme Bel, Manuel Pelmuş, Rui Horta, among others. She founded Parasita in 2014, a cooperative of artists he is a member of.