Ana Mira

The next session of IFILNOVA’s Experimental Seminar on Philosophy and Literature will take place on May 28, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM, in room SC of Colégio Almada Negreiros and online, via Zoom. The session will be hosted by Ana Mira (IFILNOVA, ESTC) who will talk about “A linguagem da dança: o movimento e a palavra em Isadora Duncan (no retrato de Gertrude Stein), Kazuo Ohno e Rosemary Butcher”. More information available in Portuguese.

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Bio

Ana Mira is an adjunct invited professor at Lisbon Theatre and Film School, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon and Ar.Co – Center of Arts and Visual Communication. She studied somatic practices and contemporary dance in Europe and the United States. Completed her doctorate in Philosophy/Aesthetics at School of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon (2014) under the guidance of José Gil, as a visiting researcher at Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University and research fellow of Foundation for Science and Technology. She was a visiting researcher in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University as a research fellow of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2007). She collaborates with IFILNOVA’s research group Art, Critique and Aesthetic Experience of CultureLab and artistic centres such as Porta33 and c.e.m. – centro em movimento. She collaborated with the following dance artists: Pauline de Groot, Russell Dumas, Rosemary Butcher and Deborah Hay. Also, she has published dance and philosophy essays internationally.

If you are interested in hosting a future session or in receiving more information about this event, please contact Ana Falcato at anafalcato@fcsh.unl.pt. All are welcome.

Event supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science under the projects UIDB/00183/2020 and UIDP/00183/2020.