Fernanda Ermelindo Rodrigues

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Fernanda Ermelindo Rodrigues

Fernanda Ermelindo Rodrigues, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a dancer and dance scholar. After completing her bachelor’s degree at the Faculdade Angel Vianna in Rio de Janeiro, she continued her dance training in New York City. After moving to Germany in 2021, she completed her studies at the HfMT Cologne with a master’s thesis entitled “Dance and the two Germanys: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch East Tour 1987”. She received the LIMBO research grant for her thesis. As a contemporary dancer, Fernanda Ermelindo Rodrigues has worked with ensembles in NYC and Rio de Janeiro, as well as creating her own choreographies. She also worked as an assistant to the artist Anabella Lenzu, as a research assistant to the musicologist Marcia Taborda and in the archive of the Pina Bausch Foundation in Wuppertal. During this phase, she was able to acquire and deepen her teaching and mediation qualifications in ballet, contemporary dance and improvisation. Fernanda Ermelindo Rodrigue’s research interests lie in historiography, archival work and decolonial thinking, with a strong curiosity for the role of dance in transforming societies and its intertwining with the political sphere. As part of the inter-university doctoral program “Cultures in Transition”, Fernanda is researching the changes in dance creation in Brazil during the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985.