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.