Rafael Lemos
Dancer and Researcher
São Paulo - Brazil
Rio (River) Work in process - 2021
Ar Eemi - 2021
Insone - 2020
Sai Andando - 2018
Presentations at international events
The creation in “Air, the other name of the mountain”: Candomblé and Brazilian Afro-indigenous ancestral knowledge as support for the creation in dance
Presentation at New Scholars Forum IFTR - International Federation for Theatre Research Conference 2021 - Galway, Ireland - July, 15 - 2021
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Between knowledge and cultures: an artistic-pedagogical path elaboration from the traditions dialogue
Presentation at the 6th Coimbra International Conference on Human Rights - Coimbra, Portugal - October, 12 - 2021
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Book Chapters
Quando o eu em nós: Reflexões sobre o corpo nos espaços-terreiro a partir da encruzilhada afrodiaspórica
(When the I in us: Reflections on the body in terreiro spaces from the afro diasporic crossroads)
Written with Adnã Ionara M. Alves and Homero Dantas Ragnane.
Chapter of the Book Giro Epistemológico para uma Educação Antirracista (Epistemological Turn for an Anti-Racist Education)
Org. Sidnei Barreto Nogueira, Gabriela Tebet and Ellen Gonzaga.
Expected to be published in March 2022
Transe e Performance: reflexões sobre a experiência extática, práticas rituais ameríndias, decolonialidade e suas relações com a artes da cena.
(Trance and Performance: reflections on ecstatic experience, South American Indigenous ritual practices, decoloniality and its relationship with the performing arts.)
Chapter in the book Estudos Interculturais em Artes Presenciais II: escutas sensíveis e cosmovisões das práticas da cena. (Intercultural studies in performing arts II: sensitive listening and cosmovisions of scene practices.)
Org. Mariana Baruco Machado Andraus, Flávia Pagliusi e Rafael de Lemos Melo
Expected to be published in June 2022
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Grants and Scholarships
Bolsa CAPES Mestrado - Comissão de Aperfeiçoamento do Ensino Superior (Higher Education Improvement Commission - Master Degree Scholarship) - 2021/2022
Lei Aldir Blanc (Aldir Blanc Law to support artists) - 2020/2021
Prêmio FUNARTE Respirarte (Funarte Respirarte Award) - 2020
Vídeos
Ar- Eemi
Video-Dance experiment made with the support of the Aldir Blanc Law 2020
Insone - Prêmio Funarte Respirate (Funarte Respirarte Awarded)
Created during Covid Quarantine within the Online Creation Lab guided by prof Daniela Gatti in UNICAMP - 2020
Other Texts
VIXI, PARECE QUE CAIU - PESQUISAR, CRIAR, ENSINAR ARTE EM UM MUNDO PANDÊMICO (Vixi, It seems the meet got stucked - Research, Create and Teach Art in a Pandemic World)
BARAÚNA, Fabiano. FERRACINI, Renato. LEAL, Diego Batista. LEMOS, Rafael.
MIZUTANI, Luciana. PÉCLAT, Chavannes. SILVA, Michele. YAMAMOTO, Karina.
ZOTTIS, Giovanna. Academic Advisors: Isa Etel Kopelman, Mariana Baruco Machado Andraus. e Renato Ferracini. 2020
Complete version in portuguese
Alterações de Rota: teoria e prática na criação de novas perspectivas Interculturais
(Route Changes: Theory and Practice in Creating New Intercultural Perspectives)
2019
Complete version in portuguese
Partnership between researchers Dr. K. R. Rajaravivarma, Department of Performing Arts, Pondicherry University, India, and Dr. Mariana B. M. Andraus, Department of Performing Arts, University of Campinas, Brazil.
Books, Flowers and the Pestilence - 2020
Original Poem Cartas à Presença: Jônatas Manzolli
Artistic Conception and Video Creation: Jônatas Manzolli and Mariana Baruco
Jardim das Cartas - 2021
Bharatanatyam - Duo Lótus
Dances for Shiva -2021