The Dance Studies Group conducts research focusing on body and digital technologies, dance education, improvisation and social inclusion with special emphasis on the Lusophone World. The group fosters the study of dance and sound as interconnected modes of expressive behavior, in collaboration with other INET-md research groups. In addition, the group is engaged in archiving multimedia documents in partnership with contemporary dance companies and choreographers.
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To promote an interdisciplinary approach to theory and method in the fields of Ethnochoreology and Cultural Studies in Dance;
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To develop epistemologies that take into account and articulate the ways in which the body makes its mark on critical theory and performance practice;
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To study the dynamics between the local and the global, the "glocal" expressive modes, the emergence of new identities and their plural expressions, new ways of cultural exchange, encounter, and social conflicts;
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To explore new research strategies, taking into account post-colonial studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and gender studies.
Priorities
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Transcultural processes in dance in colonial and post-colonial contexts in the Lusophone world and its diasporas;
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Dance and digital technologies;
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Dance heritage and its transmition processes;
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Archiving documents on dance and the performing arts, both in digital and physical carriers;
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Exploring new ways of archiving the intangible cultural heritage.
Concluded Competitive Projects
Images from Land and Sea: Frederico de Freitas and music in twentieth-century Portuguese culture
Rescur in Action
Troca a Dar – Programa BIP/ZIP Lisboa 2017 - Parcerias Locais - BIP/ZIP 43 – Alfama
(as participant)Projects Supported by INET-md
Knowledge Transfer Projects
Espaço Alkantara - Release/Public presentation of Terpsicore database
Aveiro Municipality - Application to the Portuguese List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the São Gonçalinho feast (Matrix platform)
CERCIMA - Choreography of the dance piece “Quero Ser” / “I Want to Be”
Companhia Paulo Ribeiro - commemorative video and book of the 20th anniversary of the Paulo Ribeiro Company
Institut Français / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Public presentation of TEDance project in ‘La Nuit des Idées’
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Performative participation in the exhibition “Pose & Variações”
Innovate Connect Transform ICT 2015 - Organisation and supervision of the showroom TEDance
Mapa D2 / Personare, Embodied in varios Darmstadt'58 (telematic network)
Praia – Portuguese Association Dance Movement Therapy - Organisation of a short-intensive course
VO’ARTE - Regular participation in the InShadow Festival. Highlight at the opening of the 2018 edition
Dançando com a Diferença Dance Company - Field work (2013-2017) and choreographic creation
