Luísa Saraiva

BURNING ON AND ON AND ON

The dance world can be incredibly stressful: constantly changing work, unpredictable conditions and the pressure to keep up financially, creatively and physically. This workshop addresses the mental health challenges associated with chronic stress and burnout in the dance field. The focus is on improving self-awareness and developing practical tools for emotional resilience. The first part will focus on physical exercises to activate and stimulate the vagus nerve, which plays a crucial role in stress reduction and emotional regulation.

The second part involves group work on real-life issues and challenges brought forward by the participants.

Luísa Saraiva

has an M.A. in psychology from the University of Porto and a B. A. dance from Folkwang University of Arts. Her work Hochwasser was selected for Danse Élargie Seoul Edition in 2016. In 2017 she was a scholar of the 1-year program for Artistic Individual Development from the MKW of NRW. As a part of her research she collaborated with Lea Letzel in the creation A Concert, with which they won the NRW Kultursekretariat prize Ground Support in 2018.

Her research for the residency focuses primarily on the relationship between movement and language as simultaneous meaning-making processes. There is an interest in reading and interpreting movement through the use of sung, spoken and written language and on the development of a speaking, thinking body. She will take as a departure point Henry Purcell’s work Hail! Bright Cecilia and use it as a physical score to explore a sonic approach to bodily presence.

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