Cristina Fernandes Rosa
Workshops & Performances
Selected list of recent and on-going workshops and performative lectures
Practice workshop
Movimentos Cognitivos: Dancing the Bakongo Cosmogram (Dikenga dia Kongo)
This workshop series, previously known as Dançando com a linha da Kalunga (in Portuguese) is part of a wider research-creation project, also titled Cognitive Movements (Movimentos Cognitivos).
For more information about this on-going project here.
This workshop has been recently ministered at:
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CosmoAngola, international gathering at Kilombo Tenondé, Bahia, Brazil (ongoing since 2021)
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Performance and Somatics lab course, at UFBA, Brazil (2023).
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ANDA, Brazil's national organization of dance scholars (2023).
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Royal Conservatory of Schotland in Glasgow (2022)
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University of Roehampton in London (2021 and 2022)
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Conference Pesquisa com Educação Somática no Brasil (2021).
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The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD) 4th Biannual conference Fluid Black: Dance Back, Duke University, February 2020.
Intertícios ou o que precisa existir
Performance in November 2023 with the collective A-Feto, directed by Dr. Ciane Fernandes, at the Galeria Calizares, UFBA (Brazil)
photographs by Alessandro Malpasso
Site-Specific Performance
Luvemba
Luvemba is part of a series of site-specific performances [and dance-for-the-camera films], connected to the Bantu-Kongo cosmorama and the Cognitive Movements research-creation project.
Premiered March 2022
Research-creation workshop combining principles of somatic practices and Capoeira Angola re-directed with people with disabilities and mobility constrains due to auto-immune conditions. Video on the right is a warm up connected to the on-line version of this workshop [during the Covid 19 pandemic].
Research-creation workshop
Moviments of Sustentability
Performative Lecture
the Whiteness of Contemporary Dance
For this project I constructed three dioramas connected to systems of oppression, Patriarchy, Coloniality and Capitalism, which are manipulated in the course of the performative lecture.
It was first performed at the Theatre / Performance / Dance Studies is Too White. Roundtable organized by London Theatre Seminar at Birkbeck School of Arts (UK), May 2019.
Also performed at DSA conference in Chicago, IL October 2019.