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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.
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