July 31 to August 2, 2026
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
MAM RJ
The International Conference
LABAN 2026 JOURNEYS:
BODY–SPACE CARTOGRAPHIES
will invite artists, students, researchers, and educators from diverse fields to constitute territories of passage, understood as spaces of movement between memories and futures, between tradition and reinvention, between bodies, spaces, and ways of knowing.
The cartographies evoked here are simultaneously concrete actions and poetic gestures: traversing disciplines, languages, cultures, and modes of knowledge transmission. Such passages open space for the creation of zones of sharing, friction, intervention, and displacement, while also fostering intergenerational and transdisciplinary contributions from diverse political, geographical, and ideological contexts, inviting new perspectives and an expanded understanding of oneself and
one’s surroundings.
LABAN 2026 reaffirms its commitment to the professional community that, over decades, has built this international gathering as a space for exchange, deepening, and resonance of Labanian thought. At the same time, it proposes itself as a gateway for those who wish to approach the field of movement studies. We hope to create, for all participants, a welcoming environment in which different layers of experience may coexist, fostering exchange between well-established knowledge and emerging perspectives.
Coordination
Regina Miranda and Lígia Tourinho
By interweaving Labanian thought with contemporary research in theatre, dance,
cinema, architecture, performance, philosophy, and pedagogy, LABAN 2026 proposes Labanian movement studies as a form of sensitive, embodied, and situated
knowledge, and cartography as a living process that unfolds through bodies, practices, and the relationships between body, space, memory, and creation.