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Podcast | Pod-ip #6 | Exploring the Dancing Body in Vodum, Benin: A Conversation with Eva Azevedo
The Post-ip group, composed of doctoral students from INET-md, has just launched the sixth episode of its "Pod-ip" Podcast. This week's episode features Eva Azevedo, a PhD student at INET-md. The episode is available on Pod-ip's YouTube channel and Spotify page.
This week's episode explores the depths of African dance and its connection to ancestral rituals and traditions through the testimony of Eva Azevedo. In conversation format, Eva shares her experience at the intersection of dance and culture, highlighting her studies in dances from the west coast of Africa and her innovative teaching method, "Farisogo Sira - The Way of the Body in African Dance", taking us to a world where dance is not just art, but a profound expression of spirituality and cultural identity.
In her doctoral project at the Faculty of Human Motricity of the University of Lisbon, Eva explores how dancing bodies experience, incorporate, and recreate the dances of the Sakpata and Kocou Voduns in ceremonies and artistic training and creation laboratories in Benin.
With an anthropological approach that praises the diversity of knowledge and encourages the decolonization of thought, Eva takes a theoretical reflection on the elements that define these dances and their application in artistic creations, including the state of trance that permeates them.
This week's episode explores the depths of African dance and its connection to ancestral rituals and traditions through the testimony of Eva Azevedo. In conversation format, Eva shares her experience at the intersection of dance and culture, highlighting her studies in dances from the west coast of Africa and her innovative teaching method, "Farisogo Sira - The Way of the Body in African Dance", taking us to a world where dance is not just art, but a profound expression of spirituality and cultural identity.
In her doctoral project at the Faculty of Human Motricity of the University of Lisbon, Eva explores how dancing bodies experience, incorporate, and recreate the dances of the Sakpata and Kocou Voduns in ceremonies and artistic training and creation laboratories in Benin.
With an anthropological approach that praises the diversity of knowledge and encourages the decolonization of thought, Eva takes a theoretical reflection on the elements that define these dances and their application in artistic creations, including the state of trance that permeates them.
Eva Azevedo | Eva Azevedo, born in 1977, began her professional career in Classical Ballet. Still, it is in Contemporary Dance, Somatic Movement, African Dance, and Afro-contemporary that she feels best identified. She has trained and specialized in "Traditional African" Dance and "Afro-Contemporary" Dance in Senegal, Guinea Conakry, Burkina Faso, Benin, France, and Spain. She is a PhD student in Dance at the Faculty of Human Motricity at the University of Lisbon and is supervising a Master's Degree in Performing Arts at the School of Music and Performing Arts. Trained in Pilates at the ALM Pilates Institute, she teaches the Acting Degree program at ESMAE and various other dance schools. She has been a dance teacher on the West Coast of Africa since 2003, having created her teaching method "Farisogo Sira - The Way of the Body in African Dance". Supported by the GDA and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, her career has included research, training, and artistic creation as a dancer and choreographer since 2005, in Burkina Faso, Benin, Brazil, Spain, Italy, and Portugal. Since 2002, she has worked as a dance instructor in various educational, artistic, and social projects for children, most notably the Mus-e Project, supported by the Ministry of Education and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2005, together with musician Paulo das Cavernas, she founded the Semente group and the Sementinha project/school.
Check out all the episodes on the Post-ip Group's YouTube channel and Spotify page.
