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Workshops & Performances


Selected list of recent and on-going  workshops and performative lectures

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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:

  • CosmoAngola, international gathering at Kilombo Tenondé, Bahia, Brazil (ongoing since 2021)

  • Performance and Somatics lab course, at UFBA, Brazil (2023).

  • ANDA, Brazil's national organization of dance scholars (2023).

  • Royal Conservatory of Schotland  in Glasgow (2022)

  • University of Roehampton in London (2021 and 2022)

  • Conference Pesquisa com Educação Somática no Brasil (2021).

  • The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD) 4th Biannual conference Fluid Black: Dance Back, Duke University, February 2020.

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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 

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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

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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
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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.

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Workshop
Independent Dance's Crossing Borders series

 

with Cristina Fernandes Rosa and Suzi Weber - UK, 2019

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Workshop
Capoeira demonstration with CM Marcelo (FICA Tenondé)

 

XX Internacional Encounter of the International Foundation of Capoeira Angola - Valença, Bahia, Brazil, 2016

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