Multimodal anthropologist, artist, dancer and conscious dance facilitator, and curator.
I am interested in diverse intellectual and expressive adventures, with a recurrent theme on the connections between music, dance, and embodied "spirituality"  broadly defined.

Contemporary secular spiritual practices of conscious dance integrate music in the pursuit of connection. How does dancing in improvised ways help to bring forth different articulations of selfhood?

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I explored one possible answer in a dance called Ecstatic Dance. I made an audiovisual experience that will be next adapted as an immersive experience, that can be found here

Co-curated along Yuka Takahashi an online exhibit on speculative methods for anthropological thinking, imagining an alternative reality to Euro-American colonization, hosted at Osaka University, Japan. Co-authored with Anthropologist of Technology Chakad Ojani an experimental multimodal ethnographic recording.

Members of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi order often "stamp the earth with the name of God" (Werbner, 1996), meaning they sacralize, through the performance of salat (prayer), otherwise secular spaces. Exhibited at the Shared Sacred Project at the University of Cambridge. 

A 14-min  ethnographic documentary about the zikr, the continuous chanting of the 99 names of God in Sufism. 

A collaboration with dancer Eva Trapeznicova. An exploration in the anthropology of the body and corporal mediation in spirituality. 

Co-authored with Kat Puchowska. A portraiture series and sound recordings of interviews done with Punjabi farmers living in the small rural town of Odemira, in the south of Portugal, .

I danced in an 8-day intensive exploration of movement, dance, and performance.

Photo by Inês Marques, Arrábida Dance Labs | 24th Edition, Summer 2023. + infos: https://forms.gle/xcQZDFEsy96tPYEm6

Subtitled "'myths, firesouls and song" this was an art residency where I explored with others somatic and kinesthetic approaches t connecting with other non-human neighbors.  You can see me featured on the video for the art residency here. 

Co-curated along Christian Alonso an anthropological exhibit called Multispecies Imaginaries, as part of my participation in the ON MEDIATION course 2020-2021.Co-authored with Adrianna Szojda and Francisco Rocha an illustrated manual for entangled and concerned living with human and non-human others.

Rhythms of sounds and bodily movement align in ecstatic moments of Faan'a, the Sufi concept of the elimination of ego in the love of god. 

Master-disciple relationship, a link in a chain that connects contemporary Sufis to the Prophet. 

Samples of the photos I take on my trips.