Mientras Bailamos: Situated Performance and Hemispheric Tele(counter)choreographies at Lugar a Dudas

Sérgio Pereira Andrade

doi:10.14393/OUV-v20n2a2024-74402

Autores/as

Sérgio Pereira Andrade Universiteit van Amsterdam https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1334-9394

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/OUV-v20n2a2024-74402

Palabras clave:

situated performance, tele(counter)choreographies, performative research, hemispheric artistic practice, neofascism in the Americas

Resumen

This article reflects on the composition of Mientras Bailamos (While We Dance), a situated performance and mixed media series created by the author during an artistic residency at Lugar a Dudas contemporary art center (Cali, Colombia). The series articulates tele(counter)choreographies (Andrade, 2023, 2022, 2016) as a way of confronting the operating alliances between neofascism, neocolonialism and neoliberalism across the Americas. In writing a dance quasi-chronicle that seeks to revoltar arquivos, this text explores the notion of radical imagination proposed by Haiven & Kashnabish (2015, 2014, 2012) to map out lines of situated performative research that bridge academic research, artistic practice and social movements.

Biografía del autor/a

Sérgio Pereira Andrade, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Sérgio Pereira Andrade is a Brazilian artist and scholar specializing in dance, performance, and philosophy. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from PUC-Rio, Brazil, with a research internship at New York University, USA. He also earned a Master's degree in Philosophy from PUC-Rio, a Master's in Performing Arts from UFBA, Brazil, and a Bachelor's degree in Dance (Licenciatura em Dança) from UFBA, Brazil. Since June 2024, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts and Culture, division of Theater Studies, at the University of Amsterdam. From 2012 to 2024, Dr. Andrade was a Professor in the Department of Bodily Art at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where he coordinated the LabCrítica—Laboratory for Critical Practices. At LabCrítica, he developed collaborative research activities, training programs, publications, curatorial projects, and exchanges of artistic-academic research in dance and performance (labcritica.com.br). Notable outcomes of this work include the book Performar Debates (2017), co-organized with Silvia Chalub, and the two editions of the Trans-In-Corporados conference held at the Rio Art Museum (MAR, Rio de Janeiro), in 2017 and 2018. Dr. Andrade conducted post-doctoral research at New York University (USA) as a Visiting Scholar at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics from 2020 to 2022. Currently, he is a Co-Investigator of the Partnership Grant Hemispheric Encounters (SSHRC/ Canada) and co-director of the research cluster Ecologies (https://hemisphericencounters.ca/): "Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices" brings together scholars, artists, activists, and community organizations from across the Americas to explore hemispheric performance as an artistic practice for addressing social and environmental justice.