Nathalie S. Fari

Nathalie S. Fari (b. 1975 in São Paulo) works across the fields of performative arts, artistic research and somatic education. She holds a degree in Art Education from the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado University (98) in São Paulo and a Master of Arts in Space Strategies – Exploratory Art in Public Contexts (09) from Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Additionally, she has completed trainings in acting and physical theatre at the TUCA theatre school (94) of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and at the renowned Centro de Pesquisa Teatral Institute (95) under the direction of Antunes Filho. She is the founder of the Body Mapping Lab (since 2013) where she designs and coordinates educational programs in site-specific performance and embodied research. Since 2018 she is a PhD Candidate in Performance Practices at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg with the project entitled Situated Agencies: an embodied and documentary approach to site-oriented performance practices.

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