Choreotherapy

Choreotherapy is a transdisciplinary artistic research project emerging from my choreographic approaches and therapeutic work as a choreographer, artist-researcher, and Feldenkrais practitioner.

By combining the terms Chore (etymology: Greek khoreia meaning ‘dancing in unison’) and therapy (from Greek therapeia that is to cure to treat, to heal, to take care of), this project aims to research the notions of soma poetics, sensorial transference, and trans-interiorities in choreography and body-orientated therapeutic practices.

Researching the therapeutic artwork of the Brazilian visual artist Lygia Clark, my project will focus on the creation of one-on-one, collective and participatory Choreotherapy treatments. The project will have three main research components, which are simultaneous and intertwined:1. Choreotherapy Session as a participatory and collective treatment.2.

The phenomenon of soma poetics, sensorial transference, and trans-interiorities in Choreotherapy Approaches.3.

Fieldwork and exchanges with two Public Health Institutions proposing therapeutic practice within an artistic field in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon.The research aims to emphasise the trans-relationalities between bodies by applying choreographic strategies and therapeutic approaches.

I want to reimagine and develop a choreotherapy session as a non-individualistic artistic practice, challenging the fixation of the self as an enclosed system to embrace caring as a participatory and collective action.