Born 1993 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Darío Barreto Damas started dancing at Espacio Cultural Victoria, Tenerife. For two years he studied the Grado Superior de Danza, Coreografía e Interpretación, at Institut del Teatre, Barcelona, directed by Alexis Eupierre. In 2014, Darío started his studies at DOCH, University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm, under the Bachelor of Dance and Performance, directed by Anna Grip and Kristine Slettevold.
Darío started as an apprentice at Cullbergbaletten in 2015 and has since then worked with Cullbergbaletten on different projects. He has been part of the creation and production of Figure a sea by Deborah Hay and Protagonist by Jefta Van Dinther. Darío has also performed in 11th floor by Edouard Lock and he is a part of the project Entities, theatre of gestures by Mirko Guido. Darío has worked by the side of Cristina Caprioli with the production A Line_up. In the summer of 2017 Darío was granted the DanceWEB Scholarship.
Since 2014 Darío is making his own work. His last one plays around fantasy, illusion, a licking shiny glitter-ish ego, utopian-dreamy spaces and meaning transformation. Darío is at the moment focusing on co-authorship works together with Aleksandar Georgiev and Zhana Pencheva. His co-authorship works have been supported by La Caldera, Barcelona and ICI-CCN Montpellier in residency programs.