Pat Bergantin is a dance artist. As an educator, she is currently dedicated to sharing her practice “Antenna Body”, which recognizes the body as a transmitter, receiver, modulator and translator of forces. Her research works on the perception of body-field, reclaiming relational autonomy and integrating physical, mental and emotional aspects as well as social, ancestral and spiritual ones. She is also a collaborator at AND_Lab’s School of Reparar and works with Modus Operandi AND, an ethical-aesthetical and political methodology for the experimental investigation of relation and reciprocity, created by the anthropologist and brazilian artist Fernanda Eugenio. She is a member of São Paulo AND Lab Cluster and of AND Collective. Some of her latest works as choreographer and dancer are "Mandíbula", "Égua", "Contágio", in collaboration with Josefa Pereira, and "Monstra", by Elisabete Finger and Manuela Eichner. She presented in places such as: Moderna Museet in Sweden (2020), Bienal de Dança SP (2019), Uruguayan International Dance Festival (FIDCU) (2018) and Museum of Modern Art (MAM-SP) (2018). In her trajectory she studied in Venice (Italy), Brussels (Belgium), Havana (Cuba) and NY (USA), and worked with Marta Soares, Jorge Garcia and also in productions of Jerôme Bel, Tino Sehgal, Angie Hiesl & Roland Kaiser and Yvonne Rainer. She graduated in Classical Ballet in Escuela Nacional de Cuba, and holds a degree in Languages and Literature course at University of São Paulo (USP).

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ABOUT THE 'ANTENNA BODY' CLASSES

Antenna Body is a corporal practice that approaches the body as a connection device, which has the power to capture, transmit, transduce, modulate and tune. Acting in the field of micro-perceptions, it sharpens the senses for what moves (in) our body here-now, reactivating circuits that previously seemed blocked or erased. In order to move with what trespasses through our bodies, either visible, invisible or unpredictable, it is necessary to tune our channel into the perception of body-field, recognizing that there is no crossing without being crossed and that this path demands a circuit handling. The continuity of the practice leads to an integration of physical, mental and emotional faculties, as well as social, ancestral and spiritual faculties, and is designed for anyone interested in the proposal, regardless of their experience with dance.