Sensorygraphy | Sensoriografia
Arts Practice, Projects & Research
By Diviane Helena
Sensorygraphy | Sensoriografia
Arts Practice, Projects & Research
By Diviane Helena
Arts Practice
Dance & Choreography
As a dancer and choreographer, I have been exploring the theme of love in my current solo creations. My creative work is based on the relationships between writing, body movements, and verbal interactions. I have been investigating improvisation and choreographic structures inspired by the structure of verbal language, using words as materiality in the space.
In my work with other dancers, I have been exploring dialogues between multiple languages and investigating the diversity that each subjectivity brings to the movement.
Writing
As a writer, I have been developing writing performances in public spaces to generate engagement with the space and promote dialogue with the community.
I also write screenwriting, lyrics, scripts, experimental writing and poetry.
Video Art
I have been working as a director, screenwriter, performer and editor of video art in collaborative work and solo creations.
My interest is in creating video art that combines poetry, sensitivity and perceptual experiences.
Community Art
In my current community art work, I have been working with creative arts with children and adolescents in Brazil and Ireland.
My work with communities is focused on creating a space where people are exposed to artistic experiences and are invited to share their ideas, opinions, stories, questions, feelings, productions.
The objective is to activate dialogue, artistic engagement, poetic sensitivity, the sense of belonging, and their own creative process.
Research
I am developing my arts practice research as a doctoral researcher at the Structured PhD in Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick.
Sensorygraphy is an artistic investigation emerged from the concept of the subject as living poetry. A subject capable of being poetry not only in the texts they write but also in the way they move, in the way they speak, in the way they live their own lives.
It is a study about the relationship between perception, language and body movements.
Workshop | Sessions
Perception + Words + Movement
Sensorygraphy integrates dance, writing practices and verbal interactions with a focus on sensory awakening (from the senses, feelings and imagination). The participants are encouraged to open the channels of a sensitive communication and to exchange, while creating, allowing their peculiarity to manifest. Language experiments are developed during the session, with questions, phrases and invitations to move their own ideas on the path of seeking words that are not usual, bureaucratic or utilitarian. We are exercising a language that is more imaginary, more playful, more poetic.
Artist & Researcher
Diviane Helena
Creative director, choreographer, performer, dancer, writer, art therapist, and artivist. I develop artistic projects to promote community engagement and activate dialogue, especially in Ireland and Brazil. I have experience in solo creations, collaborative projects, community arts projects, and creative work with children.
I am developing an Arts Practice Research entitled Sensorygraphy [Sensóriografia] experimenting with relationships between words, movements, and bodily senses. The focus of my artistic work is on the poetic language of sensations, challenging modes of interaction between bodies, cultures, and subjectivities.
Nowadays enthusiasm, surprise, transcultural questions, and creative interactions are the lifeblood of my work.
I am a doctoral researcher at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, awarded The Government of Ireland International Education Scholarship (2022-2023 and 2018-2019). I am a dancer researcher and artist collaborator at the Universidade Estadual do Paraná at UM Núcleo de Pesquisa Artística em Dança. I completed my Master of Arts in Art Therapy in 2020 at Crawford College of Art and Design. I hold a Postgraduate in Psychoanalysis: theory and practice, Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Psychologist Training at the Universidade Federal Paraná.
Complete Portfolio: www.divianehelena.wordpress.com
Schedule
10.2022-11.2022. Artist in Residence. littletinySPACE: an intensive interdisciplinary artist incubator around work for audiences of babies. An initiative led by Anna Newell, Jo Mangan, Hanna Slattne, Dr Suzanne Zeedyk and co-produced by The Civic, Tallaght. Arts Council of Ireland [Ireland]
03.2022-11.2022. Laboratório Aberto Sensóriografia, by Diviane Helena. Coletivo Arquipélago. UM Núcleo de Pesquisa Artística em Dança da UNESPAR [Brazil]
09.2018-08.2023. Tea & Poetry [Arts in the Community], by Diviane Helena at Myo Cafe [Ireland]
11.08.2022. Abstração_uma improvisação em ato [Dance Performance], with Angelo Esmanhotto. Wonka Jazz [Brazil]
07.2022. Sensóriografia Residência Artística Móvel, Edição #1 Minas Gerais. [Brazil]
02.2022-06.2022. Second Studies on the Movements of Love, by Diviane Helena. Arts Council Agility Award [Ireland]
24.05.2022. Second Studies on the Movements of Love Open Laboratory, by Diviane Helena. Firkin Crane [Ireland]
03.2022-05.2022. Dancer in Residence. Ceist Research Residency. Second Studies on the Movements of Love, by Diviane Helena. Firkin Crane [Ireland]
06.2022. Sensorygraphy Workshop: words in movement as a sensitive manifestation of the heart and lungs, by Diviane Helena. XIX International Interdisciplinary Scientific and Practical Conference. SPACE OF ART THERAPY: the place of the individual in times of social transformations. All-Ukranian NGO. Art Therapeutic Association. Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine [Ukraine]
10.2021-06.2022. Artist in residence. BLAST – Bringing Live Arts to Students and Teachers Residency Programme. Arts in Education Residency Initiative [Ireland]
10.2021-06.2022. Artist in residence. TAP - Teacher Artist Partnership Residency Programme. Arts in Education Residency Initiative [Ireland]
04.2020 - 12.2021. Tea, Post & Poetry [Arts in the Community], by Diviane Helena [Ireland]
26.11.2021. saborear devagar [tasting slowly], by Diviane Helena. XV Mostra UMs & Outros. UM Núcleo de Pesquisa Artística em Dança da UNESPAR [Brazil]
23.11.2021. [Conference] Sensorygraphy | Sensóriografia: Primeiras Reflexões em Dança, Escrita e Percepção, by Diviane Helena. XV Mostra UMs & Outros. UM Núcleo de Pesquisa Artística em Dança da UNESPAR [Brazil]
05, 06, 07.10.2021. Premiere of the Video Art and Minidocumentários de coreto em coreto, by Diviane Helena. PROFICE Arts Grants Funding [Brazil]
01.10.2021. First Studies on the Movements of Love, by Diviane Helena. Mosaic in Motion, Helga Deasy’s Programme as Cork City Dance Artist in residence at the Firkin Crane & Cork City Council. Firkin Crane [Ireland]
28.09.2021. Interview at Atlântica Radio Station about de coreto em coreto dance project directed by Diviane Helena. PROFICE Arts Grants Funding [Brazil]
27.09.2021. Interview at Band News Radio Station about de coreto em coreto dance project directed by Diviane Helena. PROFICE Arts Grants Funding [Brazil]
24.09.2021. Interview at Paraná Educativa Radio Station about de coreto em coreto dance project directed by Diviane Helena [Brazil]
28, 29, 30.09.2021. Premiere of the Video Art and Mini-documentaries de coreto em coreto, by Diviane Helena. de coreto em coreto dance project. PROFICE Arts Grants Funding [Brazil]
17.09.2021. words between us, by Diviane Helena. Culture Night, New Voices of Ireland Series, CFCP, Arts Council [Ireland]
08.2021. Sensibilizando a Palavra Corpo [Dance Workshop], by Diviane Helena. de coreto em coreto Project. PROFICE Arts Grants Funding [Brazil]
07.2021. de coreto em coreto Artistic Residency, dance project directed and coordinated by Diviane Helena. Campo das Artes, PROFICE Arts Grants Funding [Brazil]
07.2021. DoAvesso. Prêmio Festival Funarte Acessibilidança Virtual 2020, by Andrea Serio. Creator-Interpreter: Diviane Helena and Nó Movimento em Rede [Brazil]
30.06.2021. VideocaoXX – Mulheres na Poesia. Poems & Performance by Diviane Helena. Lei de Incentivo à Cultura de Curitiba, Lei Aldir Blanc Arts Grants Funding [Brazil]
16.06.2021. The Nature of Ancestry, by Diviane Helena. Mostra Insistências do Seminário Avançado Diálogos Corpo nas Artes [Brazil]
06.2021. de coreto em coreto Performance e Gravação dos Minidocumentários, dance project coordinated and directed by Diviane Helena. PROFICE Arts Grants Funding [Brazil]
16.03.2021. [Lecture] Expanding Language: The Presence of Performance Art in Art Therapy in Ireland, by Diviane Helena. Master of Arts in Art Therapy, Crawford College of Art and Design [Ireland]
03.2021. Sacred Rituals Project, by Diviane Helena [The Nature of Femininity, The Nature of Circles, The Nature of Ancestry] and Barbara O’Meara. New Voices of Ireland Series, CFCP, Arts Council [Ireland]
13.03.2021. Interview at Radio Latina/Dublin about the Sacred Rituals Project, by Diviane Helena [The Nature of Femininity, The Nature of Circles, The Nature of Ancestry] and Barbara O’Meara [Ireland]
08.2020. [Thesis] Expanding Language: The Presence of Performance Art in Art Therapy in Ireland, by Diviane Helena. Crawford College of Art and Design [Ireland]
2018-mar 2020. Tea & Poetry [Arts in the Community], by Diviane Helena at Myo Cafe [Ireland]
01.07.2019-15.03.2020. Teacher Artist Partnership Artistic Residency. Arts in Education Initiative, CESC, Cork City Council [Ireland]
07.02.2020. Published article ‘Sensorygraphy: Performance Poetry as Artistic Intervention' in POLYPHONY Journal of the Irish Association of Creative Art Therapists:http://polyphony.iacat.me/words/sensorygraphy by Diviane Helena [Ireland]
02.2020. [Conference] Sensorygraphy Performative Presentation, by Diviane Helena. Writers Lounge & Launch of Polyphony – Irish Association of Creative Art Therapists Journal [Ireland]
2015-2020. “corpo é poesia viva” [body is living poetry], by Diviane Helena. Presented at Curitiba[Brazil](2015-2020), Florianópolis[Brazil](2016), São Paulo[Brazil](2017 and 2016), Ireland (2018-2021 and 2015) and touring Europe in 2015 in the cities of Edinburgh[Scotland], London[England], Amsterdam[Netherlands], [Berlin]Germany, Prague[Czech Republic], Vienna[Austria], Annecy[France], Paris[France], Toulouse[France], Barcelona[Spain], Seville[Spain] and Lisbon[Portugal] (2015). And in second tour in 2019 through the cities of New York[USA], Cannes[France], Monaco and Nice[France]
02.2020. looking slowly [olhar devagar] mini-instalation, by Diviane Helena. Writers Lounge & Launch of Polyphony – Irish Association of Creative Art Therapists Journal [Ireland]
01.2020. de coreto em coreto Artistic Immersion, directed and coordinated by Diviane Helena. Nó Movimento em Rede. PROFICE Arts Grants Funding [Brazil]
07.2019. Artist in exchange at the School of Visual Arts in New York/USA, with support from Crawford College of Art & Design [USA]
2019-2020. Sensorygraphy in Public Spaces, by Diviane Helena Curitiba[Brazil], Cork and Dublin [Ireland], New York [USA], Nice [France], Cannes [France]
2018. Adaptat, by Lívea Castro. Performer: Diviane Helena, Machison Abreu and Moisés Batista [Brazil]
2018. olhar devagar [looking slowly] at public spaces, by Diviane Helena [Ireland]
15.10.2018. [Dance and Writing Workshop] Sensorygraphy, by Diviane Helena. Recreate Centre. Contact and Improvisation Cork. Eason’s Hill Community Centre [Ireland]
06.2018. O Jardim Começa do Lado de Dentro [The Garden Starts from the Inside], by Diviane Helena. Teatro da FAP, Universidade Estadual do Paraná during the I Seminário Internacional de Educação em Direitos Humanos da UNESPAR [Brazil]
03-05.10.2018. caminhar ao lado, by Diviane Helena. XI Mostra UM’s e Outros [Brazil]
25.08.2018. Sensibilizando a Comunicação com a Criança Workshop, by Diviane Helena. Espaço Arco-Íris [Brazil]
08.2018. Awarded The Government of Ireland - International Education Scholarship [Ireland]
06.2018. [Dance Sessions] Sensóriografia: sessões de dança e escrita, by Diviane Helena. Coripheus Escola de Artes e Movimento [Brazil]
27.06.2018. Imaginário, by Rose Rocha. Dancer: Diviane Helena & UM – Núcleo de Pesquisa Artística em Dança. X Mostra UM’s e Outros: atravessamentos revezados em dança [Brazil]
27.06.2018. BANA-NADA, by Mabile Borsatto. Dancer: Diviane Helena & UM – Núcleo de Pesquisa Artística em Dança. X Mostra UM’s e Outros: atravessamentos revezados em dança [Brazil]
26.05.2018. Sensóriografia: experiências em dança e escrita [Dance Workshop]. I Mostra e Seminário de Dança Dancep – Grupo de Dança Contemporânea do Colégio Estadual do Paraná [Brazil]
24.05.2018. Imaginário, by Rose Rocha. Dancer: Diviane Helena & UM – Núcleo de Pesquisa Artística em Dança. I Mostra e Seminário de Dança Dancep – Grupo de Dança Contemporânea do Colégio Estadual do Paraná [Brazil]
28-29.04.2018. Dance with me, by Cristian Duarte. Dancer: Diviane Helena & invitees. Casa Hoffmann [Brazil]
10.12.2017. tocar devagar, by Diviane Helena with Lucas Saes. Lab_13 | IMP – investigação do movimento particular. Casa Hoffmann, [Brazil]
03.12.2017. entrelaçamentos em curso, by Mariah Spagnolo. Dancer: Diviane Helena & UM – Núcleo de Pesquisa Artística em Dança. Casa Hoffmann [Brazil]
29.11.2017. olhar devagar [looking slowly], by Diviane Helena. Teatro Fernanda Montenegro, Instituto Legado, Nó Movimento em Rede [Brazil]
25.11.2017. escutar e vagar, by Diviane Helena with cellist Machison Abreu. Mostra do Núcleo de Dramaturgia SESI. Casa Heitor Stockler de França [Brazil]
11.11.2017. Sensóriografia, by Diviane Helena with Lucas Saes. Lab_13 | IMP – investigação do movimento particular. Companhia Brasileira de Teatro [Brazil]
27.10.2017. Sensóriografia: experiências em dança e escrita [Dance Workshop], by Diviane Helena. Mostra UM’s 30 anos: memórias atualizadas em dança. Faculdade de Artes do Paraná – TELAB [Brazil]
14.10.2017. olhar devagar [looking slowly], by Diviane Helena. Curto-Circuito de Performance [Brazil]
06.2017. Arte com Crianças em Comunidades do Brasil [Arts in the Community: dance performances and dance workshops], directed and coordinated by Diviane Helena [Brazil]