Dance, Scream and Overcoming in Covid-19: reflections on "Abbreviated Stories"

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v9i2.28923

Keywords:

dance, caring, festivals, creative media, choreography

Abstract

The article aims to reflect on the creative processes involved in the conception and implementation of “Abbreviated Stories Action” developed in the scope of the Graduate Program in Creative Media of the School of Communication at the Federal University of Rio Janeiro (UFRJ). The “Abbreviated Stories Action” intends to create a network of affections that aims to honor the victims of Covid-19. The idea is centered on promoting artistic expression as a movement of care. Our goal is to focus on art as a place of listening and affection so that we can reframe the period of mourning we are going through. Abbreviated Stories is an engagement action within the ImaginAções Festival carried out through short video posts (Reels) on the Instagram app interconnected with texts that polyphonically support this imagery of art as a place of empathy and overcoming.

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Author Biographies

André Meyer, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Holds a PhD in Science in the Concentration Area of Scientific Divulgation in Biosciences from the Graduate Program in Biological Chemistry at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, and Master’s in Art Science from Fluminense Federal University, UFF. He is currently Associate Professor II at UFRJ, where he is part of the Dance Graduate Program (PPGDan-UFRJ) together with the coordination of the Dance and Image Laboratory and the direction of UFRJ Contemporary Dance Company. He has experience in dance, acting mainly in the following topics: Contemporary Dance, Helenita Sá Earp Dance Fundamentals, Science and Art and Eco Performativeness.

Cristina Lyra de Carvalho Vianna, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Holds a Degree in Industrial Design from the City University Center, a Specialization in Arts & Design from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and a Specialization in Film, Television, and Digital Entertainment Media from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently a visual effects designer III at Rede Globo – Matriz. She has experience in the Area of Visual Arts, with emphasis on Video Arts. She is currently a master’s student of the Graduate Program in Creative Media at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGMC-UFRJ).

Francielle Fanaya Réquia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Bachelor of Social Communication – Editorial Production from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. Admitted for academic mobility through the AUGC notice (Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo) at the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. Master’s student in Creative Media at the Graduate Program in Social Communication from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGMC-UFRJ). Volunteer in extension projects, illustrating, developing transmedia projects, performing the stages of cross-platform content management. As a mediator in external student activities, she sought to bring the academic production closer to the community, by bringing theoretical basis to practice. In the market, it strives to develop integrated and convergent communication methodologies in education and policy projects.

Miriam Struz, Pesquisadora independente

Holds a degree in Social Communication – Cinema from the Rio de Janeiro Pontifical Catholic University. Creator of the Festival Meu BB, an event of maternal prominence, a connection of mother’s artists with their children, art, and culture; the event was intended to document maternal artistic resistance in times of pandemic. She is currently a master’s student of the Graduate Program in Creative Media at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGMC- UFRJ).

Ana Célia de Sá Earp, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, since 1980. Head of the Body Art Department from 1989 to 1999. Created and implemented the Dance Bachelor’s Degree at UFRJ in 1993 and was undergraduate coordinator of this course from 1994 to 2000. She was an interpreter of UFRJ Dance Contemporary Dance Company from 1974 to 1984, becoming director and choreographer from 1986. In 2018, she was invited to the Journée d’Études "Les Fondamentaux de la Danse de Helenita Sá Earp” at Université Lille 3 and the screening of the dancing documentary about Helenita Sá Earp’s life and work at the Maison de L’Amérique Latine at Paris, France. In 2020, she organized the Photography Exhibition Hybrid Bodies in the Parque das Ruínas Cultural Center at Rio de Janeiro City; in the same year, she was awarded by Funarte, National Arts Foundation, with the video artwork “Grafias Moventes”. In 2021, she participated in the 1st International Meeting of Popular Education and in 2022 of the People’s Conference for the Right to the City.

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Published

09-12-2022

How to Cite

MEYER, A. .; VIANNA, C. L. de C. .; RÉQUIA, F. F. .; STRUZ, M. .; EARP, A. C. de S. . Dance, Scream and Overcoming in Covid-19: reflections on "Abbreviated Stories". Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, [S. l.], v. 9, n. 2, 2022. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v9i2.28923. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/28923. Acesso em: 23 jul. 2024.

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Dossier: Insurgent Dramaturgies and Epistemologies in Dance