Amor Fati
SP Brutalista
Transforming Body into Dance
FIRST SEASON - home
"Transforming body into dance" is for recreating everyday life.
The first subject was “home”. In December 2018, I left my house in São Paulo (BRA) and moved to Espaço Transformando in the island of Florianópolis, Brazil. What started as an in-situ research later revealed itself as an arts-based and community-engaged research. Home was not the house, but not the body alone as well.
So I started to explore artistic dwelling environments as a creative collective experience. In an ongoing itinerant artistic residence, I have been in artistic residencies, communities and artists' homes and ateliers between South America and Europe. Experiments of expanded attention and movement practices were part of my personal repertoire, exploring principles from the Somatics, Contact Improvisation, improvisation techniques by Klauss Vianna, Psychophysical trainings and Eutony. At each experience, I explored my own body in relation with the new “home” in terms of self-reconfiguration and communication. Dwelling, and its intrinsic social implications, brought topics such as difference, (im)permanence, immigration, domestic violence, house work and private property. Dance performances, installations, workshops, interviews and chat circles were part of the project.
The first season ended with an online jam on August 2020 after 600 days. In the midst of quarantine, the hashtag #stayathome closed my personal research. So it belonged to all of us.
NossaJam # 23
Online jam facilitation
Project led by Pao Francez
August 2020
"here", "now" and "eat"
Text trilogy
Ponderosa Movement & Discovery (GER)
August - December 2019
“When you call me by my name”
Live interactive performance
Glasgow Theatre Arts Collective, Glasgow (SCO)
September 2019
"For Mrs. Madalena, From a bridge in a foreign land"
Narrated letter
Frankfurt am Main (GER)
June 2020
My Katja's home
Thematic micro-residence at Katja Wiegand's house (RUS / ALE) with creation of photography and text
Berlin (GER)
October 2019
“Between comfort and courage”
Workshop and collective urban intervention
Glasgow Theater Arts Collective and The Aitken Memorial Fountain, Glasgow (SCO)
September 2019
"A bodyhousework"
Microinstallation for clothesline
Ponderosa Movement & Discovery (GER)
March 2020
"The practice of things"
Microinstallation for tea corner area
Ponderosa Movement & Discovery (GER)
October 2019
Ponderosa Movement & Discovery
Self-directed residency
Lunow-Stolzenhagen (GER)
August 2019 to May 2020
“Bigger than Myself”
Chat circle at "Dance and Somatic Practices Conference 2019" of Centre for Dance Research (C-Dare)
Coventry University, Coventry (UK)
July 2019
“Sharing Homes”
Artistic residency followed by live performance, proposed by Aviv Sheyn
Ponderosa Movement & Discovery, Stolzenhagen (GER)
June 2019
Espaço Transformando
Self-directed residency
Florianopolis (BRA)
December 2018 to March 2019
second season - work
The second season of the project Transforming Body Into Dance started on September 16, 2019 and has been in the process since then. I'm now researching about "work".
The "work" is divided into two actions: one is as an artistresearcher in the Master's program at PPGDan-UFRJ, investigating the relationship between Gerda Alexander's formation and the transdisciplinarity of Eutony.
The second action is as eutonistarist in the movement between species. Topics such as anthropocentrism, movement between species, animal welfare, labor rights, intersections between art and health, among others, have been elaborated through actions such as improvisation series, interviews, workshops, lectures, audiovisual works and regular therapeutic horseback riding sessions.
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