Ivani Lucia Oliveira de Santana

Ivani Santana is an artist and researcher dedicated to the field of dance with technological mediation through theoretical and practical investigations. Her conceptual framework is structured on three main pillars: Dance Improvisation, Enactivist Theory, and Digital Culture. As a PQ 1C researcher and Full Professor, she is affiliated with the Department of Corporeal Art (EEFD), serving as coordinator of the Dance Postgraduate Program at UFRJ and collaborating with the Performing Arts Postgraduate Program at UFBA. She holds a Master's (2000) and a Doctorate (2003) in Communication and Semiotics from PUC/SP. She completed a Post-Doctorate at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (United Kingdom, 2012/13), researching the "Dramaturgy of the (Tele)Sonic Body". She received a CAPES Visiting Professor fellowship (2018/2019) at Simon Fraser University to develop interdisciplinary research in collaboration with Dr. Evan Thompson, Dr. Rebecca Todd (University British Columbia), and Alva Noë (UC Berkeley/USA).A pioneer in Brazil in the research of telematic dance via advanced academic telecommunication networks (ICTs), Santana is the founder and member of the Women of Improvisation network, which published the book Dancing Book: Letters for Improvising and Composing (2022). She is also the founder of LATINA(S)CÊNICAS, a Latin American network for technologies and intermedialities in the Performing Arts. As the leader of the Technological Poetics Research Group: bodyaudiovisual, she develops various projects, many of which have been awarded grants and funding from FAPESB, CAPES, and CNPq, as well as cultural edicts such as Iberescena, VivoLab, Cultura Digital, and Fundo de Cultura. She is the author of the books Open Body: Cunningham, dance and new technologies (SP: FAPESP/EDUC, 2002) and Dance in the Digital Culture (BA: FAPESB/EDUFBA, 2006) and the organizer of the notebook States of Dance: interviews, reports, and essays by contemporary creators (Salvador: GIPE-Cit/PPGAC/UFBA, 2006). She has published numerous articles in national and international journals such as International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Liminalities, Culture and Globalization, and participated in a special edition of the Belgian magazine Nouvelles de Dance with her research on body arts and cognition. As an active dance artist, she creates performances, installations, video dance, and more. She has been awarded the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of Arts - New Technologies at the Monaco Dance Forum and an Artistic Residency at the renowned Centre Chorégraphique National Pavillon Noir in Aix-en-Provence, France. She regularly participates in important congresses and meetings such as Body Knowledge, Sonorities, Transmidialab, DHDR, among others. Notable creations include interactive scenic environments (e.g., Open Body/2001, RUMOS Dança Itaú Cultural), installations (e.g., Casa de Nina/2004, Memories of Time/2014), urban interventions (e.g., Res: vc, Duchamp seu texto e eu/2010, Memories of Space/2014), video dance (e.g., Skin/2002, Memories of a Memory/2014), and Telematic Dance/Network Art (e.g., VERSUS - 2005, Proyecto Paso - 2006, Nikonen, Paso ao Chile - 2007, e-Pormundos Afeto - 2009 to 2011, Frágil - 2011, Embodied Varios Damstadt 58 - 2013, Personare - 2014). At the invitation of the Balé Teatro Castro Alves, she developed the Gretas do Tempo project (2014). Since 2019, she has been dedicated to developing projects in augmented reality. In 2024, she was awarded the Funarte/Alliance Française Fellowship for the CRUZAMENTOS artistic residency, during which she spent a month developing a new artistic project at the Chaillot, Thêátre national de la Danse in Paris, France. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)