Cristina Fernandes Rosa
Workshops & Performances
Selected list of recent and on-going workshops and performative lectures

Practice workshop
Dancing the Bakongo Cosmogram (Dikenga)
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This workshop series, also known as Dançando com a linha da Kalunga (in Portuguese) is part of a wider research-creation project CosmoAngola.
It has been recently ministered at:
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I CosmoAngola at Kilombo Tenondé, Bahia, Brazil, January 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.

Site-Specific Performance
[Re]Birth
Forthcoming performance at Ilha de Itaparica, Brazil, connected to the Movements of Sustainability research-creation project. Images from rehearsals.
Premiere March 2022





Research-creation workshop combining principles of somatic practices and Capoeira Angola. Video on the right is a warm up connected to the on-line version of this workshop.
Research-creation workshop
Moviments of Sustentability

Performative Lecture
the Whiteness of Contemporary Dance
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.