Kalunga across performance practices

Luanda Carneiro Jacoel is a performance artist working with the principles of ancestry, memory and temporality in the Afro - Diasporic body. The work crosses boundaries between dance; ritual; installation and video-performance. The artistic research has a deep focus on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people and the Afro-Diaspora that resulted from it. The work unfolds aesthetic expressions of Afro-Brazilian rituals and living traditional dances; through embodiment practices to search the possibilities that lie in the abstraction of codified dance forms. She understands the body as a living archive, which carries on her personal history and cultural background; becoming a medium; a vehicle of her work as a performance artist. An Afro-Present body; an Afro - Diasporic body entangled in the transatlantic trade of enslaved people history. A being; belonging to traces. Dialoguing with collective memories and archives creating co-narratives; co-creations; call-responses in a spiral temporality.

She has a Master in Fine Arts Performance at the Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA); a Bachelor in Dance from Communication of Performing Arts - PUC - SP (Brazil); certified as a Somatic Movement Practitioner at Somatic Movement Institute - SMI - (Netherlands) and is Co-founder of the former platform ACTS – laboratory for performance practices (Oslo). Currently, she is artist in residence for the MANIFEST project: “New artistic perspectives on memories of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people aims to contribute to and enhance the re-imagination of Europe’s collective memory of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people”. Guest artist in the project SEA MATTERS a performance research pedagogy laboratory based on shared transatlantic narratives, artistic actions and listening practices between the Norwegian Theater Academy (NTA) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is board of directors at Casa Sueli Carneiro, in Brazil a black institution based on the activist and intellectual legacy of Sueli Carneiro, which is dedicated to welcoming black production, activism, reflections, critique and artistic expressions in a mission of expanding the visibility and scope of black activist – intellectual – political thinking in Brazil and beyond its borders in dialogue with other Afro-Diasporas.

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