Drawing on the world of Skiagrafia, this laboratory invites participants to explore the shadow as “other selves”: the invisible presences, memories and absences that inhabit the body.
Grounded in the concept of the body’s phantasmatic dimension, we will bring bodily fabulation into dialogue with our own spectralities, exploring new contours and pulsating gestures. Through performative self-writing and Butoh dance practices, participants are invited to give form to what lies hidden within them, creating space for absences to emerge as presence.
A creative experience for those wishing to listen to their own bodies and discover the other narratives they hold.
She is a postdoctoral researcher in Performance Arts at the Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and holds a PhD in Arts, specialising in Body Performance, from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO, Brazil). An award-winning choreographer and artistic director since 1995, she is also a performer and visual artist, having created numerous installations and screendance works exploring body poetics, self-performance and autobiographical memory. Her repertoire includes more than 31 choreographic works created for her own company and for national and international companies. Since 2018, she has been based in Portugal, where she develops her artistic and pedagogical practice centred on self-performative poetics.
She is the author of three books on contemporary dance, the most recent being Dança: criação autobiográfica e memória (2022, 7 Letras Publishing House, Brazil).