Luciane Ramos-Silva (@luciane.corpoemdiaspora) joined the Cluster for its annual conference last year for the panel “The Body as Medium”. She is a dancer, choreographer, anthropologist and cultural organizer. She holds a BA in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (USP, 2002), an MA in Social Anthropology and African Studies from University of Campinas (UNICAMP, 2008) and a Phd in Performing Arts/Dance at 19 UNICAMP, 2018) researching the notions of coloniality in dance, pedagogical perspectives and south-south relations approaching the work of the Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny.

She is the 2003 recipient of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora Award (2003). With this award, she initiated and developed movement and training focusing on blackness and the body in African and African Diasporic communities.

As a performing artist, she has performed as a soloist in venues throughout Brazil. Her solo “Eyes at my back and a smile at the corner of my lips” (2016/2023) was presented in North Carolina and Sao Francisco and several venues in Brazil. She leads regular dance training based on Black diaspora multi-corporealities at Sala Crisantempo in São Paulo and works with a group of dancers performing under the lens of counter hegemonics ideas and choreographing socially.

She is a co-director of O Menelick2ato - a Magazine focused on the arts of the black diaspora and a member of Anikaya Dance Theater - a multicultural dance company based in Boston.

She was a contributor to important publications such as WSQ Feminist Press (USA) and Valiz books projects ( Nederlands) .

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