Eleanora Fabião

Associate Professor - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Eleonora Fabião is a performer and performance theorist. Associate Professor of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Theater Directing Program, School of Communication, Fabião teaches courses on acting, directing, dramaturgies of the body, experimental contemporary dramaturgy, and performance art: history, theory and composition.  She holds a PhD in Performance Studies (New York University) and an MA in Social History of Culture (PUC-RJ).  Since the 1990s she has performed with experimental theater groups in Brazil; in 2000 she also became involved with performance art and particularly interested in the hybridization of genres.  Fabião has been publishing, lecturing and performing in the Americas and Europe.  Institutions where she taught lately include: New York University (Performance Studies Department, 2010), Norwegian Theater Academy (Acting Program, 2010), Freie Universität Berlin (Theater Studies Department, 2009), and Itaú Cultural São Paulo (Próximo Ato Symposium, 2009).  Her most recent publications include: “Performing Rio de Janeiro: Artistic Strategies in Times of Banditocracy” (e-misférica: Journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, forthcoming 2011), “Ações Cariocas” (Conjunto: Journal of Latin American Theatre, Casa de las Américas Cuba, 2010), and “On Precariousness and Performance” (Women and Performance: Journal of Feminist Theory, 2010).  Her current street performances investigate personal relationships in the public sphere: “Line Piece” (NY, 2010-11), “Ações Fortalezenses” (Fortaleza, 2010), “Acciones Bogotanas” (Bogotá, 2009), “Berliner Actions” (Berlin, 2009), “Ações Cariocas” (Rio de Janeiro, 2008).  During 2010 Fabião was a fellow of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, and is currently collaborating with the “Performing Archive” of the Berlin-based Project Re.Act.Feminism vol.2 as a researcher on Latin American Performance Art.