Cinthia Kunifas 

Unknown Body emerges from a body crisis, which was unsatisfied with the traditionally established ways of doing dance. The body proposes a pause, a still act (LEPECKI, 2001) as a strategy to be able to keep dancing. The pause becomes the perfect channel to move what was stagnated.

 

The habitual dance step gives place to micro movements and to body state changes, which reveals the body fluids.

 

Unknown Body is a dance research which is a solo performance created in collaboration by Cinthia Kunifas and Mônica Infante.

 

Initiated in 2002, it was awarded by “Rumos Dança” from Itaú Cultural in 2003 and goes through ten years of mutation/transformation up to its current configuration. Covered by a “flesh dress”, the body experiments, after ten years, a dress printed in a tree trunk, which brings the concept of sap to work.

 

What is already happening before the conscious intention of moving myself?

 

Unknown Body has raised discussions about what could or could not be dance and it has been served as reference for artistic and academic works.

 

 

Conception: Cinthia Kunifas and Mônica Infante

Performance: Cinthia Kunifas

Artistic direction: Mônica Infante

Dress conception: Laura Miranda