Rose Akras

Rose Akras

Researcher

Department
DAS Research
Research Group
Research Group Embodied Knowledge in Theatre and Dance
Roles
Researcher

Researcher, Embodied Knowledge in Theatre and Dance
Teacher, Dance in Education

Rose Akras was born in S. Paulo, Brazil, lives and works in Amsterdam since the 90’s. She studied and danced in S. Paulo, London, N.Y. and Amsterdam, holds a MA in Education in the Arts (University of the Arts Amsterdam) and is a certified Somatic Movement Educator. She has chosen since her early professional years for a hybrid and cross-disciplinary career working as performer, initiator, maker, teacher and more recently researcher. She is founder director of FLAM Live Art, and Movement Research teacher at the ATD. Offers embodiment practices classes and mentorship in the performing and visual arts, architecture, corporate businesses, in the Netherlands and abroad (ATD, ArtEZ, Minerva Academie, Nike, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Oslo, Moscow, among others). She has recently started a practice with people diagnosed with autism spectrum and is performing since 2019 with choreographers Vincent Riebeek and Fernando Belfiore.

Research 
I’m fascinated about the materials of the human body: the skeleton and its almost perfect design, fluids that run like rivers, the delicacy of cells, the different layers of tissues, bones that tell a personal history of movement even when found in a cave many centuries later. In a moment when acknowledgement of cultural differences is fundamental, I propose a teaching process that initiates at the bodily base we have in common, in the belief this gives ground for a better dialogue and a deeper embodiment of every difference. Within the unfolding of coordination patterns of movement, the body as an organic sensing instrument has infinite embodiment possibilities integrating information from outer fields and performing responses and new questions from the inner fields, through the dialogue body-brain-body. Aiming for a better definition of my teaching practice, I just started a mapping process of my classes at ATD. Joining the Embodied Knowledge group allows sharing and new perspectives to arise while taking this development further.
 

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