Luísa Saraiva

COPING WITH THE PANDEMIC. FREELANCE ARTISTS AND MENTAL HEALTH

In the frame of #sowollenwirmiteinanderarbeiten, a workshop on the consequences oft he pandemic on the mental health of freelance performing artists will be held. The pandemic has touched everyone, however, the work of performing artists has been among the most disturbed. Changes to daily routines and working practices, coupled together with the precarity and uncertainty of most artists’ working conditions, can be both physically and emotionally draining. In this workshop we will address different dimensions of the impact of the extended lockdown on mental health (i.e. stress, anxiety, depression, lack of motivation etc) and share some basic coping strategies.

Please register until 18 March via tanzplan2@kampnagel.de

Luísa Saraiva

has an M.A. in psychology from the University of Porto and a B. A. dance from Folkwang University of Arts. Her work Hochwasser was selected for Danse Élargie Seoul Edition in 2016. In 2017 she was a scholar of the 1-year program for Artistic Individual Development from the MKW of NRW. As a part of her research she collaborated with Lea Letzel in the creation A Concert, with which they won the NRW Kultursekretariat prize Ground Support in 2018.

Her research for the residency focuses primarily on the relationship between movement and language as simultaneous meaning-making processes. There is an interest in reading and interpreting movement through the use of sung, spoken and written language and on the development of a speaking, thinking body. She will take as a departure point Henry Purcell’s work Hail! Bright Cecilia and use it as a physical score to explore a sonic approach to bodily presence.

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