Christine Greiner Workshop

April 13 and 14, 2026 | 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Forum Dança

Registration open.

At Forum Dança, we are once again opening up the PACAP training programme to the artistic community with several workshops throughout the year.

Fabulations and Transcreations

“In recent decades, many artists have worked with the power of fabulations and the power of the false to approach plural realities. As Isabelle Stengers explained, fabulation is a way of narrating in another way; it is not a break with “reality.” The falsehood of fabulation is always a construction to deal with opacities.

In this conversation, I will draw parallels between these ideas and the proposal for transcreation by poet and translator Haroldo de Campos. In an expanded view, translating and fabulating are processes that teach us how to make worlds, dealing with narrative in the very materiality of bodies, images, and events.

The spectral turn of butoh and its promiscuous strategies

When Jacques Derrida wrote the book Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International (1993), he opened up ways for us to perceive how far beyond mystical entities, specters generated by devices of power continue to haunt us, such as capitalism and class struggles.

In this conversation, I propose that by triggering movements characterized by the ambiguity between catastrophe and creation, living bodies and dead bodies, subjects and objects, Tatsumi Hijikata (and other creators of the so-called butoh dance) also promoted a spectral turn in the late 1950s in Japan, establishing a choreographic logic as an intoxicating operation to erode power relations. More than a dance technique, a spectral power.”

[Christine Greiner]

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