Ricardo Viviani

Choreographer, Oral Historian, Researcher and Mentor
working across Dance, Music Theater, Tanztheater and Education.

I work with artists, companies, universities, archives and cultural institutions to explore how knowledge is created, embodied, articulated and activated — through movement, oral history, archives and artistic practice.

LECTURES & TALKS
❦ Oral History ❦ Dance & Tanztheater ❦ Embodied Knowledge

CLASSES & MENTORING
❦ Composition ❦ Choreography ❦ Master Classes

ORAL HISTORY & ARCHIVES
❦ Project Design ❦ Interviews ❦ Documentation ❦ Activating Archives

RESEARCH & WRITING
❦ Dance History ❦ Dance Cultures ❦ Memory & Embodied Knowledge

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My current work focuses on Activating Archives and on new ways of working with embodied knowledge in artistic and educational practice. I am interested in emerging Knowledge Technologies and in exploring what remains particular to human embodied experience.

About

Ricardo Viviani

choreographer, Researcher

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

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 and on new ways of working with embodied knowledge in artistic and educational practice. I am interested in emerging Knowledge Technologies and in exploring what remains particular to human embodied experience.

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Lectures

Presentations & Talks

My presentations talks bring together experience from dancing, choreography, teaching and Oral History.

Some begin with a work, a person or a moment in dance history. Others look at what dance reveals or what happens when dance enters archives, education and new cultural contexts.

Some are lectures, others demonstrations, conference contributions or discussions. What they share is an invitation to look at dance from different perspectives and leave with fresh insights, inspiration and a curiosity to explore further.

I invite you to explore my Research & Writing archive for examples.

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