Dance and Theatricality: Building a Personal Vocabulary

Doors at 11:45 AM
Workshop begins at 12:00PM

In an interdisciplinary approach to creating dance, this workshop guides participants into creating a personal vocabulary by taking theatrical tools as points of departure. We will respond—and not interpret—to visual and literary stimuli to generate new movements and understand how to edit them in the process of creating a repeatable psychophysical score. If there is time, we will experiment with connecting the participants’ scores to spoken text and/or sound

About the facilitators:

Daniel Maseda is a performer and educator from DC who makes ridiculous work. His performances have brought him to venues on both sides of the Atlantic, and his debut solo “BE GOOD!” WITH PAULETTE played at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Daniel is a graduate of École Philippe Gaulier.
Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento is an artist-scholar from Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil’s Post-Dictatorship Generation and Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work, and articles in dance and theater published in Brazil, Italy, Poland, Romania, and the USA. Most recently she directed Reasons for Moving, a dance- theater piece about geopolitical displacement. Tatinge Nascimento is a fellow alumna of Bogliasco Center, Caldera AiR, Freie Universität-Berlin, Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

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