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Eleonora Fabião, Ph.D., is a performance artist and theorist. She has been performing in streets, lecturing, conducting workshops and publishing internationally. Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – Theater Directing Undergraduate Program and Arts of the Scene Graduate Program where she chairs the artistic experimentation wing –, she holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University. In 2011 Fabião received the Arts in the Streets’ Award from the Brazilian National Foundation of the Arts and in 2014 the Rumos Itaú Cultural Grant that resulted in the publication of the book Ações/Actions (Tamanduá Arte, 2015). Her performance work has been enacted in several venues including, most recently, Things That Must Be Done Series at Performa #15 (New York, 2015), MOVIMENTO HO/HO MOVEMENT at Municipal Art Center Hélio Oiticica (Rio de Janeiro, 2016), and azul azul azul e azul/blue blue blue and blue at Bispo do Rosário Museum (Rio de Janeiro, 2016). She recently taught as visiting professor in institutions and projects such as: MA in Scenic Practice and Visual Culture-Castilla-La Mancha University (2017), Buenos Aires Performance Biennual (2017), La Voz Humana-Havana (2017), Movimiento Sur-Chile (2016), Norwegian Theater Academy (2016), Stockholm University of the Arts (2016), Department of Performance Studies-New York University (2010 to 2015), Museum of Modern Art-New York (2014).
CONTACT Eleonora Fabião, Ph.D. Escola de Comunicação UFRJ – Avenida Pasteur 250, Praia Vermelha, Rio de Janeiro/22290-240/Brasil.