Ballet Gulbenkian has performed more than 1100 shows since it started operating, both at the Gulbenkian Foundation and abroad. Among the numerous choreographers who contributed to the good development and performance of the company, the Portuguese Carlos Trincheiras, Vasco Wellenkamp and Olga Roriz, Rui Horta and Paulo Ribeiro stand out.

On July 5, 2005, the Board of Directors of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation announced the extinction of the ballet company, a decision that generated controversy and a wave of protests. His last show took place at Teatro Camões, in Lisbon, on July 31, 2005. Information from https://www.infopedia.pt

Since the disbanding of the Gulbenkian Ballet, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has focused its involvement in dance on awarding grants — for study, creation and internationalization — that fund independent contemporary dance projects from artists mainly at the start of their careers.

In 2022 the director Marco Martins signes the documentary Um Corpo que Dança – Ballet Gulbenkian 1965-2005, an alluring cinematic portrait of the history of the Gulbenkian Ballet, as well as the Portuguese sociopolitical environment from 1965-2005.

During those years, the Gulbenkian Ballet had six different artistic directors, and one of them was Jorge Salavisa, who was there for almost 20 years and to whom the film is dedicated. One of the ideas that prevails is the concept of identity. Most of what we see is in fact the Gulbenkian Ballet’s attempt to define its own identity, while at the same time there was a collective Portuguese attempt to (re)define what constituted its national identity. Teresa Vieira

When Dietrich Grosse start working with the Ballet Gullbenkian, Iracity Cardoso was the artistic director and when she went back to Brazil, he continues with Paulo Ribeiro till the company was disbanded.