Flavia Meireles

Flavia Meireles is artist, researcher, and teacher in Dance at CEFET Federal Institution of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Ph.D. Candidate in Communication and Culture at UFRJ (BR), she is graduated in Dance Studies at Angel Vianna Faculty (FAV/RJ) and has a Master in Visual Arts at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her master research was on urban indigenous "Aldeia Maracanã" that turned into an artistic work entitled "Occupy Tree" made in collaboration and with Urutau Guajajara, from Aldeia Maracanã. She coordinates the research group "Themes on Dance" (www.temasdedanca.com.br) and has realised two documentaries, one of them is also about Aldeia Maracanã. She has made choreography of the film "Pendular" from Brazilian director Julia Murat, critics winner at Berlinale Festival in Berlin (2017). She also taught "Dramaturgy on Dance" in 17 cities in Brazil and Uruguay (2015/16/17). She has shown her academic and artistic work in Latin America and Europe.

Flavia Meireles

OCCUPY TREE

“On December 17th, 2013, indigenous activist, Urutau Guajajara, stayed for 26 hours resisting the final eviction of Maracanã Village on the top of a tree inside the territory. This act was a result of the invasion by police in Maracanã Village and is known as Occupy Tree.” Read more...