Márcio K. Canabarro
25th June 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00
Auto-Fiction as Awareness Practice
(Auto-Ficção como Prática de Consciência)
This “lecture”, Auto-Fiction as Awareness Practice, explores storytelling, embodiment, and perception. It studies how writing and dance serve as tools for self-translation, allowing the artist to reshape identity, memory, and reality itself. As vision fades, the body becomes a living text—one that the audience reads, interprets, and possesses.
The “lecture” disturbs ideas of truth, proposing fiction as a deeper form of honesty. It teases the gaze, asking: Can vision divorce point of view? What is more real—the act of creation or the circumstances of the creator?
Through “science”, “dance”, and radical self-narration, the speaker performs an experiment in presence and disappearance, where seeing itself is queered by its biochemical origins. This is not just a talk; it is an invitation to surrender—to fiction, to movement, to heart brakes (because they can produce so much writing).
And afterwards? We’ll drink. Or we’ll talk. Or both.
This lecture will be conducted in English.
Márcio K. Canabarro
Márcio K. Canabarro was born in 1985 in Brazil. He is a dancer and choreographer with a BA in Social Communication, a Performing Major from SEAD, and a certified Embodied Myoreflex Therapy Practitioner.
Márcio is interested in exploring the intersections of narratology, performance and mindfulness practices. His work focuses on the socio-emotional implications of cultural biases around vision in shaping the intimacy, self-esteem, and social roles of the blind, visually impaired, loosing eye-sight individuals.
He has a degenerative disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes progressive loss of peripheral vision and eventually blindness. Rather than treating it as an obstacle, he views it as a creative collaborator that requires adaptability, inventiveness, and connection. Reframing the experience of visual impairment not as an isolating one, but as an opportunity to mediate an alternative point of awareness.
Márcio also works as a freelance dancer for Hodworks (HU), CRANKY BODIES/ a company (DE) and Meg Stuart/ Damaged Goods (BE/DE). In the past he has collaborated with Benoit Lachambre, Sara Shelton Mann, Mark Thompkins, Keith Henessy and others.
General information
Date
25th June 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00
Venue
Forum Dança – Espaço da Penha
Travessa do Calado, 26B, 1170-070 Lisboa
Free entry, subject to capacity.
Top image © Pat Mic
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