Ricardo Viviani

Ricardo Viviani

choreographer, Researcher

I am a choreographer, Oral Historian and mentor working across Dance, Music Theater, Education and cultural heritage.

I have spent many years dancing, making dances, and working with artists, theaters and cultural institutions. I am interested in how dance is created, performed and received. For the past ten years, I have worked as an Oral Historian at the Pina Bausch Foundation, where I developed a collection of Oral History interviews with dancers and other professionals involved in the work.

My work aims to create an arc between knowledge from the past, art in the present, and desirable futures. I am interested in how listening to the people who make and perform dance can open another way into dance. These stories do not explain away the dance; they offer another way into it.

I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and began my dance training there. I later studied at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, Theater Direction at the University of São Paulo, and Cultural Sciences at the FernUniversität in Hagen.

As a dancer and choreographer, I have worked mainly in Brazil, the United States and Germany. I have taught dance, choreography and composition, and presented my work internationally.

My current work focuses on Activating Archives, embodied knowledge and new ways of bringing dance heritage into artistic and educational practice. I am interested in emerging Knowledge Technologies and in exploring what remains particular to human embodied experience, while creating new connections between artists, archives, researchers and cultural institutions.

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I invite you to my Journal
— an archive of my work and memories from dancing to the present.

Speaking Through Practice & Sharing Knowledge

My workshops and presentations bring together experiences from dancing, choreography, teaching, Oral History and archival methodologies. They grow out of practice — from works, people and moments in dance history — and explore what dance reveals when it re‑enters dance making, archives, education and new cultural contexts.

Some take the form of lectures, others of demonstrations, conversations or conference contributions. All of them invite a shift in perspective: to look at dance as knowledge in motion and to leave with fresh insights, inspiration and a curiosity to explore further.

These sessions are spaces of exchange. If you are interested in collaboration or feel aligned with this kind of shared inquiry.

I invite you to explore my Speaking Through Practice & Sharing Knowledge archives.

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