Cultural anthropologist, dancer, and conscious dance facilitator interested in diverse research & artistic adventures on the connections between dance and socio-political and spiritual transformations of the self and of modes of relating.

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

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

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.

Ser Vivo is a commune in portugal where dance and somatics are conceptualized as tools for well-being and personal development. I spend long-term residencies there, where I take classes in Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, African Dance, and other dances.

I danced together with an international community of Contact Improvisation dancers in a 10-day intensive directed by Anjelica Doniy, organized by Towards Contact in the island of Phangab, Thailand. 

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. 

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