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AT Congress® Berlin 2022

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Raquel Cavalcanti
Minas Gerais, Brazil

Altogether, One After the Other: A Lecture-Performance Exploring Dilemmas Faced by a Brazilian AT Teacher

In this interactive performance, Raquel will share, problematize, and discuss aspects of her PhD research on dance and the Alexander Technique. Through humor, dancing and irony, she will creatively reveal some challenges she has encountered in her more than 20 years as a teacher and practitioner of the AT.

Using the “disassembly” method (desmontagem) conceived and practiced by Latin American artists, she will interact with the audience in a variety of ways—from a demo chair lesson to a dance improvisation—during which her questions, discomforts, and dilemmas come to the surface.

After the performance, there will be an opportunity for open and informal discussion, allowing participants to ask questions and share their impressions about the presentation.

 

About Raquel Cavalcanti

Raquel Cavalcanti is a Brazilian dancer, improviser, dance instructor, and AT teacher. In 1999, she graduated from the Matthews school (IRDEAT) in New York (USA). After living and working in NYC for over 15 years, she returned to Brazil to teach dance and the AT at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).
She is currently working on her PhD at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where she is investigating the relationships between AT principles, dance, and teaching in an inventive, non-traditional, and non-hierarchical way. In that sense, the works of Paulo Freire, Virginia Kastrup, bell hooks, and Jacques Rancière have been invaluable.
Raquel, the mother of two beautiful young women, loves baking long-fermented bread and taking care of her plants. It is her hope that Lula will be their next president this year.

racavalcanti2@gmail.com
www.raquelpirescavalcanti.com.br

See also: Raquel Cavalcanti – Presenter Detail Page

Workshop-Medium
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
16:00 h - 17:15 h (4.00pm-5.15pm)
Main Building
Floor: 3.OG (3rd floor)
Room: H 3007

CATEGORIES
AT Principles and Procedures||Performance/Music/Acting/Voice||DEI – Diversity/Equity/Inclusion

5

WORKSHOP STYLE

Fully Practical

Lecture

OPEN FOR
Teachers||Trainees||Everyone