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LABAN RIO SEMINAR - ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE AS RESEARCH

APRIL 18TH & 19TH 2023 - from 5pm to 10pm (Rio time)

Rio de Janeiro (in person) + Online Participants

LABAN RIO @ Tex Studios

Rua General Venâncio Flores, 305, sala 301

Leblon, Rio de Janeiro

Curators

Regina Miranda e Lígia Tourinho

Currently, when artistic practice has been legitimized as a form of thinking, artists-researchers of the Laban field have been taking up the challenge of exploring the concept, sharing an engagement with Laban and Bartenieff’s concepts as a continuous process in the making.

The Seminar will focus on discussing different aspects of LBMS as they appear in contemporary artistic performances. The 2 half-day program will be based on the presentation of short performances, followed by onsite + online dialogues. Our sharing of live performance is a deliberate strategy to avoid the traditional habit of giving more weight to what is written, rather than to how a concept is performed in embodied events.

When necessary, performances will have subtitles, or receive translation. Online discussions will happen in English to facilitate the understanding of all the Forum International Participants.

PROGRAM - TUESDAY, APRIL 18TH

5pm – WELCOME

5:15pm - EYES OF THE SKIN

Video excerpt from the performance, which presents labyrinthic interactive games of beginnings and restarts, connections, and reconnections, inspired by the work of Brazilian visual artist Helio Oiticica and activated by our mutual passion for moving, reading, and writing.

Conceived, Written and Directed by Regina Miranda

Performed by Marina Salomon, Fabiano Nunes, Lucas Popeta and Regina Miranda

Comments

Regina Miranda, MSc. CMA Self-writing embodying multiple texts

Adriana Bonfatti, PhD, CMA The Stage as Self-experience and Engagement with the Other

6pm - REVIRAVOLTA

The video dance is a turning back on 10 years of research with tetrahedrons. An experience of one’s own shadows and reflections, bouncing in the inner faces of the prism, and merging in one continuous movement.

Conceived, directed, and performed by Julia Franca

Comments

Julia Franca, MA, CMA Embodied Revolutions: Opening, turning, going down, lengthening, giving up, rotating, turning around, and returning.

Ligia Tourinho, PhD, CMA Creating a Dramaturgy from Trace Forms

7pm – ARTE MODERNA-22

Video excerpt from a multimedia Laban-based performance that embraces dance, movement and contemporary opera. The Performance reflects on Brazilian Modernism, focusing on Villa-Lobos' music compositions and aspects of Laban's Space Harmony.

Conceived, and directed by Denise Telles

Performed by Denise Telles (actress-singer), with the musicians Edvan Moraes (Pianist), and Daniel Silva (Cello), co-extensively with Elisabete Reis (Cube)

Comments

Denise Telles, PhD Rhythmic-Spatial Organizations Performing Arte Moderna 22

Elisabete Reis, PhD Co-extensive Geometry / Co-extensive Movement

8pm - THE MEMORY THAT RUNS THROUGH THE SPINE

A video fragment from the performance “24 Hours in a Woman’s Life”, a text that offers a moving portrait of a woman whose quest for passion and purpose comes at a steep price.

Text by Stefan Zweig (adaptation)

Directed by Gabriel Bulcão

Performed by Luciana Bicalho e Gabriel Bulcão

Comments

Luciana Bicalho Effort Qualities in the Development of the Character's Expressiveness

Marina Salomon Hon. CMA Body-Space Connections: Embodying a character

9pm – TRUFFAUT: CINEMA IS MY LIFE

Video excerpt from the play-film created by Patricia Niedermeier, which addresses the passion and creative process of the filmmaker François Truffaut.

Text by Rodrigo Fonseca and Patricia Niedermeier

Directed by Cavi Borges and Patricia Niedermeier

Performed by Patricia Niedermeier and Rodrigo Fonseca

Comments

Patricia Niedermeier Experiencing Miranda’s perspective of ‘Fluid Borders’

Denise Telles, PhD Crossing Boundaries

PROGRAM - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19TH

6pm - PAGU: SELF PORTRAITS

Inspired by writings, drawings and documents by Pagu, Patricia Galvão’s “stage name”, the performance captures some aspects of this libertarian woman, who exhausts herself and is reborn so many times in the experience of existence, surviving in the memory and imagination as a muse of modernism, but also as a militant worker, feminist writer and first political prisoner in Brazil.

Conceived by Lígia Tourinho and Regina Miranda

Directed by Regina Miranda

Performed by Lígia Tourinho

Comments

Lígia Tourinho, PhD, CMA Documental Feminist Performance

Agatha de Oliveira, PhD Brazilian Feminisms in Perspective

7pm - BETWEEN IMPERMANENCES AND RESIDUES

A sharing of a live performance built in an improvisation system. The idea is to develop from the TFR to Space. The moment when the oscillation of flow starts to move out in directions into Space, first near to the core, until the body establishes it’s own kinesphere.

Created and Performed by Bruna Fiuza, CMA

Directed by Paula Águas

Comments

Bruna Fiuza, CMA Tension Flow Rhythms gaining Space.

Julia Franca, MA, CMA Improvisations in Flow and Space

8pm - MOVEMENT-BRAZIL

A sharing of video excerpts of choreographic works created with/by high-school dance students, representing the teacher’s 12 years of Laban-based artistic-pedagogical processes in the context of public education in Rio de Janeiro.

Teacher/Choreographic Director: Luciana Carnout

Program Coordinator: Rosane Campello

Performed by students of ETEAB-FAETEC

Comments

Luciana Carnout, MA Contemporary Dance in the Public High-School System

Ana Bevilaqua, MA, CMA BESS Promoting Diversity

9pm - AFFECTIVE ARRANGEMENTS (live performance + video)

Video dance exploring a dancer’s space-time journey, when performing at home during the period of social confinement imposed by Covid-19.

Conceived and choreographed by Regina Miranda, with Marina Salomon

Written and directed by Regina Miranda

Performed by Marina Salomon

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