Renata Pereira Lima —
B. (1994)
Through choreography, I design movement in both real-time and digital, performing twofold: the body does its thing and the body does its thing on video. Video-making highlights choreography’s function as a multi-tool that can annotate and archive the performance, blurring the lines between what was the dance, the behavior, the labor, etc. Where performance would otherwise be ephemeral, it becomes a record to be revisited, expanded out from its initial site. In real-time the body is dancing in Teotihuacan, is braiding hair in Grand Central, is interpreting music, architecture… the body is then echoed in the editing, re-choreographed by the software and how I click it.
Multi-lingual, Cuban-Brazilian, born in Miami, based in NYC. My work is inseparable from the context.
