The Transatlantic Poetics workshops aim to propose a contemporary dance artistic practice based on the poetry of author and historian Beatriz Nascimento. This is an ongoing dance research project, guided by the doctoral research of Rafaela Francisco de Jesus (PhD student at the Federal University of Goiás, on a doctoral internship at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra), entitled “Transatlantic Poetics: Becomings between black performance and inclusive dance”.

As part of the methodological choices, Capoeira Angola, Improvisation and the Brazilian Sign Language - LIBRAS - will be explored. The term transatlantic is here thought of as an adjective or quality of what is on the other side of the Atlantic or of what can cross the Atlantic; in this sense, thinking about transatlantic poetics aims to affirm the Atlantic as a geography and at the same time as a symbol of the construction of black identities that crossed it forcibly, in other times.

The workshops will be practical, so it is advisable to wear light, free-flowing clothing. Dialogue and collective construction will be central to the development of the practises that aim to awaken the transatlantic poetics that we carry in our bodies throughout our lives. Let's dance!

Registration is mandatory [HERE]

Bio note 

Rafaela Francisco de Jesus is a visiting doctoral student at CES and attends the Postgraduate Programme in Cultural Performances at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). She has a Master's degree from the same institution (2020) with the project “The Black Performance of Victoria Santa Cruz and its Reverberations in the Construction of Black Feminisms and Writings”. She specialised in the History and Culture of Brazilian Africanities (2019) at the State University of Goiás (UEG). Dance graduate from the Federal University of Goiás (2016). She is a member of NuPICC 22 - Núcleo de Pesquisa e Investigação Cênica Coletivo 22 and the Rosa Parks Collective: Studies and Research on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionalities. She is a member of the Diversus Dance Group. She has experience in the field of Arts, with an emphasis on Dance, working mainly on the following themes: dance, black performance, Afro-Brazilian culture and storytelling dance-action. She won the 02/2018 arts training grant from the Goiás State Art and Culture Fund, with the project Artistic Improvement in Inclusive Dance with the Dançando com a Diferença Group, based in Portugal, and the Funarte Respirarte Award (2020).

This activity, in partnership with Casa da Esquina, precedes the ROUNDTABLE «Intersectional Perspectives in Dance», which will take place on 1 July 2024, from 15h00 to 17h00, in Room 2, CES | Alta.