STATES OF ATTENTION AND CARE THROUGH THE PERFORMATIVE PRACTICE
CICLO TERESA SILVA Dance pouring from our heads
With Teresa Silva
Booking by the email: d.cruz@serralves.pt (limited capacity) CV should be sent.
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Acesso: 20 euros (Amigos de Serralves, Jovens (12-18 anos) e maiores 65 anos: 50% desconto).
In this workshop I would like to highlight how the performative practice generates states of attention, self-knowledge and transformation, which intensify the potentialities of the human being. I have increasingly felt the need to create a practice that cares for and dialogues with the various dimensions of the human body, and that combines what dance teaches me, in my experience as a performer and choreographer, with practices of attention and care of the self and of what surrounds us.
In the form of sensorial exercises, we will work and relate the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions of the body. I will encourage symbolic and metaphorical relationships from the experience with the body parts and promote the use of the imaginary and fiction as operational motors. We will also stimulate our capacity to invent practices that are meaningful and transformative. I would like this to be a space to listen to and to work with what inhabits us and crosses us in the present moment - desires, questions, intuitions, impressions - and that the experience of doing it together may be revealing and catalysing.
To develop this workshop I find affinity and inspiration in the work of artists Anna Halprin, Lygia Clark (Relational Objects), Alejandro Jodorowsky (Psychomagic) and Jennifer Lacey and Valentina Desideri (Fake Art Therapy), that made and make of their artistic practice, places of affection, ritual and healing.
Target audience: people curious about the possibilities of the body, interested in creative processes and artistic and performance practices, with or without professional experience in the area; minimum age 16 years.
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Teresa Silva was born in Lisbon in 1988. She is dedicated to research, creation and interpretation in the areas of contemporary dance and performance. She sees dance as something that goes beyond the physical body, which translates into a work of attention and sensitivity, as well as a multidisciplinary approach to movement. Graduated from Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional, Escola Superior de Dança and PEPCC at Forum Dança, she has been developing choreographic work marked by collaborative processes since 2008. From her path as a choreographer and performer she highlights the collaborations with Filipe Pereira, Elizabete Francisca, Sara Anjo, Loïc Touzé, Vera Mantero, David Marques, La Tierce, João dos Santos Martins, Marco d'Agostin, Rita Natálio and Alain Michard. Since 2019, she has been developing the research laboratories ‘Can the body be an oracle?’ with Sara Anjo and ‘States of attention and care through performative practice’. In these, she draws on her experience of the body and movement to elaborate and make available a terrain of (self-)knowledge and transformation. In 2022, she made her first film, Enjoy the weather: the film, presented at the FID Festival - Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille. That same year, she collaborated with visual artist Kristina Norman on Orchidelirium - An appetite for Abundance, a trilogy of films created for the Venice Art Biennale. After producing a dozen pieces, including ‘Um Espanto não se Espera’, ‘What remains of what has passed’ and ‘New Creation’, she recently created ‘Synecdoche’, ‘Due to Force Majeure’ in complicity with Margarida Bettencourt and Sabine Macher and ‘A small composition exercise’ in collaboration with Vera Mantero. She is an associate artist of the Lisbon-based production company Agência 25. www.silvateresa.weebly.com
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