Flora Mariah is a performer, educator and researcher of Dance and Movement. Licensed in Dance at the University of the City of Rio de Janeiro and graduated in the Technical Course of Contemporary Dancer Training at Escola Angel Vianna. In 2014 she conceived, developed and organized workshops of Dance and Movement Awareness at Favelas da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, which led afterwards to the composition of a local group of young Passinho dancers - RuaC do Passinho, with whom she worked for two years. This experience also provided a deeper approach to the Funk universe, which led to the development and realization of the AMARÉFUNK Project in 2015 - a funk festival that took place inside Favelas da Maré, in partnership with Geisa Lino. AMARÉFUNK proposed several free activities such as: DJ workshops and urban dances; debates about funk and sexuality, the criminalization of funk and public security; concerts and open stage for community DJs and MCs. In 2016 she moved to Lisbon, where she began her studies in the master's degree in Anthropology at ISCTE-IUL. In 2018 she created “Raba Power”, a Research Project made of different techniques and approaches on pelvic mobility, sexuality and self-acceptance. In 2020 the Raba Power Project unfolded into a new project, ANCORAR, in which the Pelvis research reaches further and deeper development in terms of accessing deep contents and setting the ground for reconnecting with what supports us both at mechanical and emotional level. Since 2015 she collaborates with AND Lab, bringing together connections between Modus Operandi AND and the pelvis research, participating in workshops and courses. Currently, she is a member of AND Collective and collaborates in the School of Reparar.

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ABOUT THE 'ANCORAR' CLASSES

Ancorar is a body research practice focused on investigating more specifically the pelvis, which has been developed by Flora Mariah as an unfolding of the RABA POWER project, in an attempt to organize and deepen all the material raised since 2018. Our  hips carry layers and more layers of history, ours and our ancestors  that are passed down from generation to generation. It is a historically  marginalized zone of the body, which makes us share incarnations of  violence and silence. The bet of  this research is that through work focused on the pelvis, we can access  memories, release tensions and traumas and reconnect with what gives us  both mechanical and emotional support. Working on our foundation and  understanding its structural connection with the body as a whole gives  us the necessary support to support our choices, our directions and our  desires in life. This is a movement of self-rescue, but  not only is it also part of a collective process of healing and  decolonization of our bodies. It is an invitation to open new spaces, ANCHOR powers and release tensions, rescuing the pleasure in inhabiting our own bodies.