Docente
Silvia Tengner Barros Pinto Coelho

Resume

Researcher at the NOVA Institute of Communication - Performance and Cognition group (individual CEEC contract 2019-2025); Choreographer, Dancer, Performer. Specialities: Contemporary Dance, Choreographic Thinking (Improvisation/Real-Time Composition), Communication Sciences, Communication and Arts, Anthropology, Performance Studies, Attention Practices, and Artistic Research. She began her academic career with a master's degree in Contemporary Culture and New Technologies, FCSH, under the guidance of Professor José Bragança de Miranda, with whom she also did her doctoral thesis in Communication and Arts. During the writing of her doctoral thesis, she began to problematise Choreographic Thinking, which is still in dialogue with the research of four choreographers she has followed for several years: Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Olga Mesa and João Fiadeiro, as well as anthropologist Fernanda Eugénio. After a three-month stay in Montréal with philosophers Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, she deepened her interest in Process philosophy and speculative thinking about artistic research. In this context, she follows the work of Sense Lab (Manning/Massumi, Montréal) and AND_Lab (Eugénio PT/BR), which she has attended since 2012. She was also involved with informal groups around the arts, thought and activism, such as: APPD (1994), Salganhada (2011), AND_Lab (since 2011), baldio-estudos de performance (since 2012), RIA-rede de investigação artística (2015), Transpensar-c.e.m (since 2020) and Es.Col.az (2021-). Between 1996 and 2015, she composed, produced and/or performed a dozen pieces, including Chapter on Indifference, or Something Like That, Einzimmerwohnung, Süss and Capricho#2-Outra Coisa. After finishing her doctoral thesis, all her pieces and performances were named "Capricho" and numbered according to the situation. Some caprices (in memoriam) had only one public performance. She was the editor of Interact, an online magazine about art, culture and technology (2019-2024), one of the first digital native magazines started by CECL and hosted by ICNOVA. She participates in the activities of ICNOVA and the Performance and Cognition group, taking part in collective projects and organising the permanent Performance and Cognition seminars. She also participates in organising the Cratera-performance and cognition website. Between 2014 and 2020, she was a visiting professor at FCSH, UNL, where she taught the seminar Dance in Context in the master's program in Performing Arts, covering topics related to Dance and Performance Studies, Philosophy, Anthropology, and Media. Since 2019, she has been a researcher at ICNOVA with an individual CEEC contract (FCT/FCSH). In 2019/20, she reformulated the seminar programme, sharing the seminar with eight guest lecturers: Ana Godinho Gil, Ana F. Mira, Ana Pais, Carlos M. Oliveira, João Fiadeiro, José Gil, Maria José Fazenda and Paula Caspão, and matching each session to key subjects in Dance Studies. She is currently working on the project "Attention and Choreographic Thinking, an Approach to Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigms in Performance, Dance and Cinema", which awarded her the contract CEEC/FCT. The project uses the experimental dimension of the performing arts for critical and speculative reflections in academic and artistic research contexts. Its axes - brought together by many years of artistic practices and situated practices - are: "attention", "improvisation", "real-time composition", the ethics and aesthetics of artistic practices, and "choreopolitics" inspired by André Lepecki's work. Her "Procrastination School" project was developed in several stages that coincided with different moments of COVID-19 and involved many spectators and artists from diverse backgrounds. Besides ethics in improvisation and real-time composition, "Procrastination School" expanded into the political sphere and "ecologies of attention" (cf. Citton) ", the right to be lazy" (cf. Stengers) and "24/7" (cf. Crary).

Graus

• Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares)
  Doctoral programme in Communication Sciences.
• Mestrado
  Master's in Communication Sciences.
• Curso de mestrado (conclusão do curso de especialização)
  Master's programme in Communication Sciences.
• Licenciatura
  Anthropology.
• Bacharelato
  Dance course
• Doutoramento
  Ciências da Comunicação

Publicações

Magazine article

• 2022-12-09, Cerzir transpensamento com o "centro em movimento" durante o confinamento [Weaving trans-thinking with c.e.m. - the "centre in motion" - during lockdown], Interact, revista online de arte, cultura e tecnologia

Journal issue

• “On Techno-Aesthetics” and Performance: Movement, Dance, Cinema, and Everyday Life, 16

Journal article

• 2024-06-30, Dançar com uma entidade virtual em ambiente imersivo (VR) [Dancing with a virtual entity in an immersive environment (VR): The imaginaries of GhostDance Movement #1], Revista Estud(i)os de Dança
• 2024-05-31, GhostDance: on the materiality feeling of dancing bodies in Virtual Reality, Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts
• 2024-03-15, Cathy Weis talks with Sílvia Pinto Coelho. Sept-Dec 2022, Weis Acres, Broadway SoHo, US, Revista Estud(i)os de Dança
• 2023-01, Práticas Artísticas Colaborativas - Jogos de Confronto ou Jogos de Encontro? [Collaborative Artistic Practices - Games of Confrontation or Games of Encounter?], Revista de HIstória da Arte - SW
• 2022-12-09, Cerzir transpensamento com o "centro em movimento" durante o confinamento, Interact: Revista Online de Art, Cultura e Tecnologia
• 2022-09-12, Mark Tompkins at the Procrastination Marathon (in other terms), Contact Quarterly - Dance and Improvisation Journal
• 2021-06-30, Sobre Caminhar em Confinamento [On Walking While Confined], Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais
• 2021, Sobre Caminhar em Confinamento
• 2020-11, Dance and the (Digital) Archive: A Survey of the Field, Dance Research
• 2020-01, Antídoto e Método: Práticas de Investigação Artística em Contexto Coreográfico [Antidote and Method: Artistic Research Practices in a Choreographic Context], Sinais de Cena: Revista de teatro e artes performativas
• 2019-03-03, Notas de Campo, Cadernos em Torno de Processos e Práticas Performativas, Interact: Revista Online de Art, Cultura e Tecnologia
• 2018-11-21, Práticas de Atenção: Ensaios de Desterritorialização e Performance Coreográfica, Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia
• 2018-10-01, Práticas de Atenção, Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia
• 2018, Práticas de Atenção
• 2016, Na Casa-Espelho: Propostas de Pensamento Coreográfico, Cadernos GIPE-CIT, Processos Criativos: Educação Somática e Afetos.
• 2015, Dançar-Pensar Enquanto Investigação e Poética., Revista Sinais de Cena
• 2014, “Dançar-Pensar” enquanto investigação e poética: Corpo #1

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2016, PhD, Corpo, Imagem e Pensamento Coreográfico. Da Pesquisa Coreográfica Contemporânea Enquanto Discurso: Os Exemplos de Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Olga Mesa e João Fiadeiro
• 2010, Master, O Espinho de Kleist e a Possibilidade de Dançar-Pensar

Book chapter

• 2024, PAZ, PICK MANIFESTO 25 DE ABRIL HOJE, ICNOVA, FCSH-UNL and IHA
• 2024, Escola de Pro-cras-ti-na-ção, uma proposta de abrandamento [Pro-cras-ti-na-tion School, a proposition for slowing down], Arte en Ritmo: Enfoques Contemporáneos y Diálogos Transdisciplinarios , ICNOVA, FCSH-UNL
• 2023, «Dançar-Pensar, para um pensamento incorporado, imanente, ou...». [Dancing-Thinking, for an embodied immanent thought, or...], Sebentas d'O corpo por vir, edit. Braga, Joana e Páscoa, Andreia (2023), Lisboa.
• 2021, "Do Encontro, duas conversas" interview with Leonor Barata, Encontro de Novas Dramaturgias 5, Mickael Oliveira, colectivo 84
• 2021, "Do Encontro, duas conversas" interview with Fernanda Eugénio, Encontro de Novas Dramaturgias 5 - festival-book 2021-2022, Mickäel de Oliveira, colectivo 84.
• 2019, O Olhar da Onça, Delírio Socioetologico "On the Edge", Práticas Performativas em Torno do Animal, Daniel Tércio, INET-MD, FMH
• 2018, Exile - Deterritorialization in Contemporary Dance/Performance: Two Recent Episodes from the Portuguese Context, Performance in the Public Sphere, CET / FLUL, Ana Pais
• 2017, Desterro - Desterritorializações na Dança/Performance Contemporânea: Dois Episódios Recentes do Contexto Português., Performance na Esfera Pública, org. Ana Pais, Orfeu Negro

Book review

• Dança Teatral, Ideias, Experiências, Acções de Maria José Fazenda
• "Always More than One: Individuation's Dance" from Erin Manning

Translation

• 2024, "A Coreografia Social e as Suas Perspectivas em Face da Ordem e da Desordem" Bojana Cvejic, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian / Imprensa Nacional
• 2021, Diante dos teus olhos: sementes de uma prática de dança (de Lisa Nelson, 2003), CRATERA - Performance e Cognição
• 2013, "Dançando o Virtual", Erin Manning in Movimento e Mobilização Técnica Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens 45, 46, José Bragança de Miranda and Catarina Patrício

Newspaper article

• 2019, Retornos de Sísifo, a Exaustão da RE.AL e Outras Danças, jornal COREIA

Dictionary entry

• 2021, Para a Mónica, verbete
• 2021, Maratona para a Dança, verbete

Online resource

• 2021-12, "Escola de Procrastinação, um estudo" [Procrastination School, a study], https://artecapital.net/estado-da-arte-126-silvia-pinto-coelho-escola-de-procrastinacao-um-estudo
• 2021-02-01, Cratera - Performance and Cognition, performanceecognicao.fcsh.unl.pt
• 2020-10-04, Fragmentos de Performance Improvisada, entrevista a Vera Mantero, https://interact.com.pt/32-33/fragmentos-de-performance-improvisada-entrevista-a-vera-mantero/
• 2020-07-06, Maratona de Procrastinação (noutros termos), [Procrastination Marathon (in other terms)], https://procrastinationschool.fcsh.unl.pt/maratona-2020.html
• 2020, "Maratona para a Dança" e "Para a Mónica" (verbetes in Para Uma TImeline a Haver), http://jdsm.hotglue.me/?timeline

Conference paper

• 2023-07, Coreografia e Cinema #1: a partir do trabalho coreográfico de Cathy Weis [Choreography and Cinema #1: After the choreographic work of Cathy Weis], Avanca Cinema International Conference 2023

Conference abstract

• 2024-04-30, Dancing with Ghosts: Dancers’ Embodied Experiences and Affects in Virtual Reality with Avatar Representations., 16th The Dancer and the Dance: practices, education, communities, traditions, and histories

Exhibition catalog

• 2012, Lisa Nelson' Tuning Scores , Auditório de Serralves, Improvisations / Colaborations

Choreography

• 2023-03-03, Capricho#4 - Mourning Dance: (in memoriam Gil Mendo) , Sílvia Pinto Coelho
• 2019-07-25, Capricho#12, Sílvia Pinto Coelho
• 2019-07, Caprice#12, Game of Mirrors, Director and Dancer, https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/c523f0c7-9ce6-4e41-9251-af106a35487d
• 2017-12, Caprice#2, Something Else, Sílvia Pinto Coelho

Artistic performance

• 2021, Maratona de procrastinação [Procrastination Marathon], TBA Theatre at Lisbon Botanical Garden
• 2017-07-23, Caprice#2, Something Else, Do Liminar, Performance cycle at Zaratan Gallery

Other output

• 2022-11-19, 60 segundos de c.e.m. [60 seconds of c.e.m.], Depoimento gravado em vídeo que integra o manifesto: «O c.e.m. tem que existir».
• 2022-10-22, Esgotar a Dança Extenuante, ou Exaurir a Dança, Esgotada [To Exhaust the Exhausting Dance, or To Exhaust the Dance, Exhausted], Comunicação gravada para o evento: «Olhar para a dança não apenas dentro dos parâmetros da dança: André Lepecki, coreopolíticas e imaginação de mundo» que decorreu no Teatro do Bairro Alto em Lisboa.
• 2022-06-03, Procrastination Marathon - film by João Meirinhos and Sílvia Pinto Coelho
• 2022-01-01, Escola de Procrastinação - sítio online [Procrastination School website], Procrastination School (2020-2022) is a project that began by approaching a particular moment we recognize in improvised performances where you have no clue what is possible next. We can learn much from enduring this moment and trust that vibrant questions may arise. Suddenly, Covid came to fit the project rather than the contrary. Everything was on hold and postponed somehow…
• 2021, Dançar-Pensar, para um pensamento incorporado, ou sobre a marioneta