July 31 to August 2, 2026
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
MAM Rio
WORKSHOPS
Global Water Dances :
A Laban Inspired worldwide dance project
Vannia Ibarguen
LMA/BF Movement Exploration:
Exploring Intension, Curiosity and Relationships Supporting Contemporary Movement Forms
Bala Sarasvati
Mapping memory:
Effort, voice, and body as a territory of the lived experience
Ana Patricia Farfán Briseño
Supporting Disco-based Jazz Dancing Through Bartenieff Methods
Jeffrey Peterson
Sonic Kinesthetic Forest:
Exploring our Relationships to Trees through Movement, Sound, and Drawing
Lisa Sandlos
Laban/Bartenieff and the art of moving backward, inward, and toward the floor
Marisa Martins Lambert and Laís Breyton
Dancing with an ancestor
Giselle Ruzany and Tatyana Paiva
Interlace
Andrea Jabor Hugueney
Bodily Preparation with a Focus on Prevention and Power in Movement
Bruna Fiuza
Dancing avatars in crossings:
motion capture challenged by the Laban/Bartenieff system
Mônica Fagundes Dantas, Adriana Bonfatti,
Suzane Weber da Silva and Lisandro Bellotto
Game, memory, and improvisation:
approximations between the Laban/Bartenieff System and the Methodology of the Event (Guimarães, 2017, 2024)
Helena Paim Bevilaqua Cavalcante and
Daniela Bemfica Guimarães
MANY WATERS:
irrigating channels of self-perception
Cibele Sastre,
Fabiano Nunes and
Juliana Vicari
PERFORMANCES
Water
Created by: Caio Picarelli, Caio Fernando Abreu, Cecília Meireles, Isabella Duvivier, Paula Otero.
Dramaturgy: Nara Keiserman
Performers: Caio Picarelli, Isabela Duvivier, Nara Keiserman, and Paula Otero
Synopsis: A scenic experience that celebrates the power of water through poetry, voice, and movement. Dancers improvise based on Labanian States and Drives, creating a vibrant flow of presence. The narrator summons the Yabás and opens up space for multiple sensory layers. The audience is invited to dive into this collective lecture-performance.
Dances Whispered in the Ear
Created by / Performer: Carolina Carret Höfs
Synopsis: Brief choreographic installations occupy the MAM during the Laban Conference 2026, inviting the audience to feel the encounters between body, movement, and space. Grounded in ethnographic-choreographic practices, the artist activates perceptions of flows, matter, and presences that pass through us. Each intervention awakens sensitivity to everyday choreographies. An invitation to experience, with the body, new ways of inhabiting the world.
Inséptic
Created by / Performer: Isabela Henriques Callado Barquette
Synopsis: This research explores the pelvis as the center of movement, articulating Belly Dance and the Laban/Bartenieff System to expand body perception and autonomy. Between anatomy, culture, and symbolism, it proposes a sensitive listening to the body and its relations with space. The study challenges exoticizing interpretations and activates presence and expressiveness from the center.
A BULL BODY IN METAMORPHOSIS
Created by / Performer: Milza Gama
Synopsis: "A Bull Body in Metamorphosis" presents a body in continuous flow, revealed by photographs, video-dances, and poetic writing spanning ten years of creation. Between seas, sands, and stages, the body emerges as a territory of risk, reinvention, and power. The presentation coordinates an audiovisual device and a round table discussion, inviting the audience to immerse themselves in the experience of existing in metamorphosis.
SMALL SUPPORT DANCES:
experimental dances for internal space
Created by / Performer: Isabella Duvivier Souza
Synopsis: Small installation-dances that investigate impulses and connections of the internal space through respiratory support. In tactile improvisations open to the public, the gesture gains vitality in the relationship between flow and form. The research activates presence and sensitivity, inviting each person to inhabit the body as a territory of listening.
CHRYSALIS
Created by / Performer: Luísa Fedrizzi
Synopsis: "Chrysalis" summons a dive into female ancestry and metamorphosis, articulating poetry, movement, and images inspired by the Laban/Bartenieff System. The performance reveals a body breaking cocoons, expanding the Kinesphere, and rediscovering its Internal Space to affirm strength and transformation. At the Laban Conference 2026, the poem-performance unfolds into a round table discussion that awakens shared memories, sensations, and narratives.
Clown-performance for John Lennon
Created by / Performer: Roberto Carlos Ribeiro da Silva
Synopsis: This clown-performance reacts to current wars, reactivating memories of past conflicts and questioning today's utopia. With a clown state of mind, the song Imagine, a portable turntable, and a movement vocabulary inspired by the Laban/Bartenieff System, the artist creates a brief and incisive improvisation.
The Prankquean
Created by: Ellen Goldman and Sook Kim
Performer: Bruna Fiuza
Synopsis: The Prankquean is the female spirit of James Joyce’s boog “Finnegan‘s Wake”. She is Anna Liva Pleurabelle, who enters the book in the first chapter and sets the tone of joyful spirit of a running away wife, taking her children, traveling through time and history. She is the evolving spirit, the mother, the wife, until the very end of the book when she is the river and the river returns to the beginning, as life is a cycle in time and history.
COMMUNICATIONS AND OTHER ACADEMIC WORKS
SHAPE - A PEDAGOGICAL APPLICATION IN THE CIRCUS
Gabrielle Lei Polizzelli
A collective experience of time:
pedagogical practices with Laban Kinetography in a school context
Carolina Vilela Abrão
Insurgent Corporealities:
dialogues between subjectivity, bodily preparation, and authorial creation in contemporary dance
Cibele Ribeiro
The body as an embodied experience in performing arts training:
pedagogical practices for the construction of presence and recognition of bodily diversity
Karla Denise León Aguilera
BODY ON STAGE:
ACTOR TRAINING BASED ON RUDOLF LABAN
Luize Helena da Silva Pessanha
Situated Choreography:
a study of the body-space relationship from a research internship at Université Paris 8 (France)
Laís Julie Brasil Breyton,
Marisa Lambert,
Ana Terra
Flows of Crossings:
LMA as a Practice in Creative Dance Laboratories
Fatima Wachowicz
The Rescue of the Sacred in Belly Dance based on the Laban/Bartenieff System
Vanessa Ramos da Cunha Mahamud
River that Flows in Me: Connections between the Flow Factor of the Laban/Bartenieff System and Waters as Image and Matter of Experimentations in Dance
Beatriz Vinzon Guimarães,
Lígia Losada Tourinho
Practices of approach and alterity:
Photography, performance, and the Laban/Bartenieff system as a practical approach to attuning, entering, displacing, and corrupting
Rafaela Tavares Tonela,
Marisa Martins Lambert,
Matteo Bonfitto Júnior
Dance Language:
Pedagogies and Notational Practices in Dialogues among School, University, and Non-Formal Educational Settings
Adriana Liza,
Adriano Pinheiro,
Lilian F. Vilela
The Labanian Field in the Global South
Lígia Tourinho
Body, memory, and creation:
an approach from Rudolf Laban's movement theory based on Tórtola Valencia
Luana Caldas Dias
LABANIAN ARTICULATIONS IN K-12 EDUCATION ("IN BASIC SCHOOL")
Flavia Pilla do Valle
The Green Table - Movement, Performer, Sound, and Place
Ronábio Lima
Studies in Laban/Bartenieff in the creative processes of Capstone Projects at Unicamp
Ana Luíza de Magalhães Rocha Silva, Laís Breyton, Rafaela Tavares Tonela, Rosa Morena Zito de Oliveira, Silvia Rama Santos Honorio, Marisa Martins Lambert
Women are like rivers, they grow when they meet:
artistic practices among waters
Cibele Sastre and Juliana Vicari
Bodies that meet in the Dancidade Project:
choral dance and in-exbodied experience with women 60+ in Viçosa/MG
Maristela Moura Silva Lima, Alba Pedreira Vieira
Layered strategies:
Laban in basic school
Rosane Laudano Campello Wanderley
Laban of the Dark:
Laban/Bartenieff System as an expansive field in Butoh Dance pedagogy
Caio Picarelli
The infinitude of the Basic Six in the Laban-Bartenieff System:
a somatic-affective investigation in the DEF context
Graziela Corrêa de Andrade
Choreographic creation in the expanded field with the research Mesomorfa
Cláudio Marcelo Carneiro
Leão Lacerda
Effort Theory:
weight, time, space, and flow analyzed in the teaching-learning process in Early Childhood Education
Marta Scarpato
The exchanges of the turnaround:
body-spatial cartographies in circus gestures
Julia Coelho Franca de Mamari
Regina Miranda Company and ActorsBailarinos of Rio de Janeiro – Artistic-formative processes in the Laban/Bartenieff System
Ana Bevilaqua Penna Franca
Rememoring: creation and ancestry in dialogue with the categories of the Laban/Bartenieff System
Helena Paim Bevilaqua Cavalcante and
Lilian Isidio de Oliveira Lima
Dancing as less of oneself among themselves
Fernanda Jorge Maciel and Renatha de Carvalho Maia
Learning how movement occurs in the body as a common basis for education:
a proposal based on teaching experiences of the Laban/Bartenieff System for a public recently graduated from High School
Lenine Guevara Oliveira e Salvador
FLOURISH IN CAPOEIRA:
A STUDY OF MOVEMENT FACTORS
Lívia de Paula Machado Pasqua
Laban Analysis and Creative Articulation Process (CAP) as a research methodology in artistic research contexts (practice as research)
Gabriela González
VOCAL CORPOGRAPHIES:
Laban in Voice within contemporary stage creation
Angélica Gardin Ertel
Initial uses of the name Laban in Rio de Janeiro:
between hygiene, technique, and movement pedagogy (1923–1950)
Guilherme Hinz
Investigating Labanian scales
Neila Cristina Baldi
From the danced event to pedagogy:
mobility as an operative concept in the constitution of a dance discipline
Elisa Abrão
To permeate:
the Laban/Bartenieff system as a link between body and space
Rosa Morena Zito de Oliveira and Marisa Martins Lambert
Dances for whom? Cartographies of reception and in-ex-corporation as a body-spatial crossing
Flávia Brassarola Borsani Marques and Alba Pedreira Vieira
INTERACTIVE BODY:
Integration of LBMS into the Psychoanalysis
Sandra Sok
On embodiable objects:
poetics of materialities in the study of Labanian categories
Luciana Carnout
Mapping memory:
Effort, voice, and body as a territory of the lived experience
Ana Patricia Farfán Briseño
Cradle Choreography:
Between Babies, Educators, and the Potential of Pikler and Laban Approaches
Adriana Liza
Aquatic crossings:
Immersion as Research in the Waters of Kalunga
Ciane Fernandes,
Cristina Rosa e
Lívia Pasqua