SUMMER 2018: APPLICATION GUIDELINES
The Laboratório de Crítica of the Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a member institution of the Hemispheric Institute, is offering a 3-week course entitled Performance as Counter-Choreography and Situated Inscription, which will be held from August 6 – 25, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
We invite students from all member institutions of the Hemispheric Institute to apply. Students from member institutions will be given priority and may take the course for credit as an independent study at their home universities. Students from non-member institutions will be considered for admission, though preference will be given to graduate students from member institutions.
NOTE: This course requires fluency in English. Intermediate to advanced knowledge of either Portuguese or Spanish is highly recommended.
Course fee and housing costs
The fee for the course is $400 USD and applies to all non-UFRJ students. Students should also expect to pay $150 – 200 USD for modest shared accommodations, which will be arranged with assistance from the organizers. Participants are responsible for making their own travel arrangements and securing necessary travel visas.
Application deadline is June 15, 2018.
Applications are not considered complete until the following items have been submitted:
1) Completed and signed application form (download below)
2) A personal statement of 250 – 500 words addressing your interest in the themes of the course and how the course will contribute to your research and professional goals.
3) Current C.V.
Please send your completed application materials to: course2018@labcritica.com.br
Applicants will be notified no later than Monday, June 25th.
PERFORMANCE AS COUNTER-CHOREOGRAPHY AND SITUATED INSCRIPTION
August 6 – 25, 2018
Laboratório de Crítica – Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Offered in conjunction with the 2nd Trans-In-Corporados: Building Networks for International Dance Research Seminar.
Course Instructors:
Lidia Larangeira (UFRJ)
Sérgio Andrade (UFRJ)
Performance Workshop Instructors:
Julian Blaue (GER/NOR)
Mariana Lemos (PT/ BRA)
Course Description
This course proposes performance as a counter-choreographic practice in relation to the commodification of life that occurs at the level of the body, in social relations and exchange, and in the spaces of the city. It is organized into four modules: Module I: Choreographies of Neoliberalism and Rebellion (15 hours), in collaboration with Norway-based German artist Julian Blaue; Module II: Body, Writing, and Gentrification (15 hours), in collaboration with Portugal-based Brazilian artist Mariana Lemos; Module III: Performance Laboratories (9 hours), during which students will work on their own performative experiments in dialogue with the questions raised during the course; and Module IV: Weaving Networks in Trans-In-Corporados (21 hours), during which students will attend the 2nd Trans-In-Corporados: Building Networks for International Dance Research, an international conference led by LabCrítica and PPGDan – UFRJ. This year, Trans-In-Corporados proposes to take the intersection of the fields of Dance Studies and Performance Studies as a starting point to interrogate responses to these times of crisis and desgoverno (“misgovernment”), as well as to the ultra-conservative turns taking place in Brazil, the Global South, and the world at large.
All modules will be held at the Rio Art Museum––Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR)––and in the Port Area of Rio de Janeiro, an epicenter of gentrification designed to host major corporate events, including the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Since the demonstrations of June 2013, and in response to this intense commodification of the city, Rio de Janeiro has become a glocal laboratory for rearticulating the limits of public space, politics, and resistance. Through readings, cartographies, performance analyses, dance, and body-writing exercises, students will establish critical dialogues with the conflicting memories of this region, which are embodied in the social relations of urban space. Students are encouraged to bring their personal creation tools for use in their projects: laptops, digital cameras, voice recorders, drawing materials, etc.
Participants are required to complete all assigned readings before class. We strongly suggest that participants do ALL of the reading before traveling to Rio de Janeiro.
Academic Credit and Requirements
Students from member institutions may receive credit for this course by arranging an independent study with Hemi-affiliated faculty at their home institution. The course consists of a total of 60 contact hours over the 3-week period, along with readings and daily class preparation. Students seeking to receive credit will also be required to produce either a critical essay on a specific topic or work that engages course readings and discussions or a performance text (dramaturgies for lecture-performance or video performance, experimental texts or scripts, choreographic cartographies, etc). Work from the course will be published on the LabCrítica website. Students wishing to receive credit from their home institutions must submit their work no later than September 30, 2018.
Language and translation
This is a bilingual course in Portuguese and English. Most of the readings will be made available in both languages and discussions will take place in and across both languages. We strongly recommend that alongside English, applicants have intermediate to advanced fluency in either Portuguese or Spanish. We are keenly aware that mutual understanding across our linguistic differences will require a collective effort on the part of all participants. This will mean speaking slowly and clearly, as well as translating for classmates and colleagues. We will invite everyone to participate as active interpreters in this collective exercise, one that we hope can help us model the change we want to see and the world we want to inhabit.
DOWNLOADS
Application form: Summer Course 2018
Syllabus: Summer Course 2018>> Performance as counter-choreography and situated inscription