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Ludmila Pimentel
(Brazil)
Ludmila Pimentel is a choreographer and Profesor in the school of dance, Department of theory and choreographic creation at the University federal of bahia (UFBA), brazil. she has been studying the interfaces between dance and new technologies since 1993, and creating with some softwares were made specially to computing graphic, dance or interactivity performances, for example: “Storyboard plus”, “3dstudio”, ”LifeForms” and “Isadora”.
Doctoral Degree in Visual Arts and Intermedia (Fine Arts, Politechnic University
of VaLencia, Spain), with the sponsor of Alban Programm, artist in residence
in the planetary collegium, i-Dat Laboratory, of the Plymouth University ,
England, with the supervision of the Prof. Dr. Roy Ascott, by the UNESCO-Aschberg/Media
Arts.
Master Degree in Communication and Contemporary Culture, School of communication
(UFBA), Graduated in Dance and postgraduate in choreographie at the School
of Dance, UFBA.
In Brazil she received the sponsor of the Capes and CNPq program to develop
her researchers, and some grants of FUNART and Cultural Foundation of Bahia
to create her artistic Works : “No Spaces” (1996), “Hybrid”
(1997) and Electric Body” (2000-2004). Since 2007 is working togheter
with videoartist marianza Carranza in the “Interactive Architecture
Bodies Project” (i-Arch), performing in Germany and also in Brazil with
the sponsor of the Goethe Institut and Tanzimpulse.
As a dancer, choreographer and a videoartist she already showed her Works in Portugal, Spain, Netherland, England, Germany and USA.
Link to new project with Mariana using Wii remote and Isadora
(in 2010):
http://iarchbodies.wordpress.com/proyecto-wii-interactive-clothes/
Doctora por la Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Espanha,
en Artes Visuales e Intermedias, con beca del Programa Alban para la América
Latina, investigando sobre la Danza e Interactividad. Es Profesora adjunta
en Departamento de Teoria y Creación Coreográfica de la Escuela
de Danza de la Universidad Federal de Bahia (Brasil). Tiene Máster
en Comunicación y Cultura Contemporanea por la Universidad Federal
de Bahia (2000), Licenciatura en Danza por la Universidad Federal da Bahia
(1994), Grado en Bailarino Profesional por la Universidad Federal de Bahia
(1995), y en Bacharel en Enfermería y Obstetricia por la Universidad
de São Paulo (1987). Tiene experiencia en la area de Artes, com enfase
en Artes Visuales e Intermedias, actuando principalmente en los seguintes
temas: danza y tecnologias digitales, danza y performance, ciberdanza, danza
e interactividad, creación con softwares y creación coreográfica.
Participante de la "dance-tech", comunidade de artistas y investigadores
sobre el tema de la tecnologia en interface con otras lenguajes.
Visualizacion de la tesis "El cuerpo hibrido en la danza: transformaciones
en el lenguaje coreografico a partir de las tecnologias digitales. Analisis
teorico y propuestas experimentales."
Homepage:
http://www.dance-tech.net/profile/LudmilaPimentel
http://dspace.upv.es/manakin/handle/10251/3838