Seminários Permanentes do Grupo de Investigação Estudos em Dança
23-05-2026 | 14h – 15h30 (PT) / 10h – 11h30 (BR)
Online
Teams meeting:
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3752752805622?p=SbJFNaxoJ5Klchdehs
Meeting ID: 375 275 280 562 2
Pass: KN2g29E9
Weaving improvisation across bodies and words: interaction, imagination, and collaborative creation.
Rita Rato | INET-md, FMH
Mônnica Emilio | INET-md, FMH
Co-organized by Rita Rato (GIED/INET-md) and Mônnica Emilio (GIED/INET-md), this seminar will feature artist-researchers Dudude Herrmann (BR), Lígia Tourinho (BR), and Rita Vilhena (PT).
Improvisation runs through contemporary dance practices as a territory of listening, attention, and choice in the present moment, configuring itself as a relational field in which bodies, environments, and affects are mutually implicated, opening space for singular modes of presence and creation.
We propose a space for encounter and reflection on improvisation in dance, inviting artist-researchers to share perspectives on dynamics of interaction and on possible connections between verbal and bodily language in contemporary creative processes.
Between word and movement, we are interested in discussing how the images generated in this intertwining can move through the body in action. Improvisation thus emerges as a practice of the “in-between”: a space where gesture is built through the sensible, the tacit, and imagination, producing forms of communication that escape representation and affirm themselves as shared experience.
Guests
Dudude Herrmann | Dancer and related roles. Ballerina, improviser, performer, choreographer, stage director, curator, producer, writer, teacher, environmental artivist. She has been studying and working since the 1970s on the pedagogy of contemporary dance education and its developments within contemporary art. She lives and works between Casa Branca and Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. www.coisasdedudude.blogspot.com.br
Lígia Tourinho | Dance artist, actaress, and researcher in Dance and the Performing Arts. Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst (Certified Movement Analyst – CMA/LIMS). Professor in the Department of Body Art at UFRJ, working in the undergraduate programs in Dance (Bachelor’s), Dance Theory (Bachelor’s), Dance Education (Licensure), and Theatre Directing.She is a full professor in the Graduate Programs in Performing Arts (PPGAC/UFRJ) and Dance (PPGDan/UFRJ), as well as in the lato sensu postgraduate programs in Laban/Bartenieff at Faculdade Angel Vianna (FAV-RJ).
Rita Vilhena | Choreographer, performer, and dance researcher. Her most recent works reflect her artistic trajectory, with a focus on feminism and ritual. She created the platforms Baila Louca – improvisation and performance (NL), Partícula Extravagante (PT), and the experimental stage Partícula no Açúcar. She is a doctoral researcher in the Performance and Cognition Group (ICNOVA | NOVA FCSH), supported by the FCT [ref. 2021.06561.BD]. More info: www.ritavilhena.com