Cristina Mendanha (491B-E32B-38FD)

Curriculum Vitae

Cristina Mendanha

Cristina Mendanha, 1966. Degree in Fine Arts - Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (1989). Master in Art, Craft and Design Education from the University of Surrey Roehampton, with the thesis, 'Fine arts as art education' (2001). PhD in Art Education, from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (2017). From 1981 to 1983 she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture in Professional Training School of Companhia Nacional de Bailado. In 1995, she received a Teaching Certificate from the Royal Academy of Dance, London. In 1992 she founded Arte Total, and holds the position of Art Director and Teacher. Since 1999 she has produced the program Salvo Conduto and the program Guelra with choreographers Romulus Neagu, Maria Ines Villasmil, Vicente Trindade, Paulo Henrique, Joana Providência, Aldara Bizarro, Peter Michael Dietz, Teresa Prima, Gabriela Barros, David Ramalho, Carlota Lagido, Armando Pinho, Madalena Victorino, Maria Reis Lima, Valentina Parravicini and Sílvia Real. Tutor in Dance and Theatre, Culture Programme / Institute of Employment and Vocational Training - Ministry of Culture / Portuguese Institute of Performing Arts in 2000. From 2009-2012 was a Invited Assistant at Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo-ESE. Advisory Board Member of Theatro Circo de Braga, since 2006 to 2014. Team Member of the Artistic Capital of Culture Guimarães - Community Area, 2010-2012. Advisory Board Member of UNESCO Braga Media Art City . She participated, as researcher, in the study on Public Policies in Arts Education in Portugal, which consisted of a study on the state of the curricular implementation of arts education at the primary school. She is currently coordinator of the Braga InternationalVideo Dance Festival. Her writings include articles and presentations in Diálogos com Arte – Revista de arte, cultura e educação, Arts Agön: Arts Research Forum -UW-Madison Division of the Arts, Encounter of Practices of Research in Arts Education- Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto and European Conference on Educational Research - ECER . She is research member of Research Laboratory in Arts Education (LabEA) and Artistic Practices: Subsidies for the recognition of their rhizomatic mechanisms in the transmission of knowledge.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Cristina Mendanha

Citation names

Mendanha, Cristina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 491B-E32B-38FD
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7756-7492

Websites

https://www.artetotal.org (Professional)
http://mendanhacristina.wixsite.com/guelra (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Arts

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2012/09/01 - 2017/12/16 Concluded	Educação Artística (Doutoramento) Major in Dança Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal "Sel-site specific: e variações de movimento na formação de interpretes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado
2017 Concluded	Educação Artística (associação) (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal "Self-site specific e variações de movimento na formação de interpretes" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2001 Concluded	MA Art, Craft and Design Education (Mestrado) Universidade do Porto, Portugal "Fine Arts as Art Education" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	18
1995 Concluded	Teacher Certificate (Menos de 4 anos de escolaridade) Royal Academy of Dance, United Kingdom "Teacher Certificate" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	"Distinction"
1989 Concluded	Artes Plásticas- Pintura (Licenciatura) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal "n/existe" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	13

Affiliation

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/12/10 - Current	Collaborative Researcher	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal

2016/04/23 - Current	Art Director at 1st Braga International video Dance Festival http://bragafestivalvideo.wixsite.com/festivalbraga/videos	Arte Total, Portugal

1992/01/01 - Current	Artistic and Pedagogical Director in Arte Total	Arte Total, Portugal

2017/04/20 - 2017/04/21	Presentation collaborative paper ‘Emergence of New Modes of Artistic Creation and Writing Techniques for Postdigital Performances through Practiceas- research Methodologies: Demonstration of a Portugu	London South Bank University, United Kingdom

2016/06/24 - 2016/06/25	Presentation Paper - Guelra- in Cross Media Arts 1st international conference on social arts and transdisciplinarity http://xmediarts.net	Universidade de Évora, Portugal

2015/03/22 - 2015/05/24	Presentation of Paper Self-site specific and movement variations in performers' education	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal

2015/05/01 - 2015/05/02	Choreography for Video “Caixa de Esmolas” HYPERLINK http://videodancebodyinfo.wix.com/-1st-vide. o-dance	Arte Total, Portugal

2014/09/01 - 2015/01/01	Member of the Group Responsible for the Study on the Impact of Public Policies in the Area of Artistic Education in Portugal. Analysis of discourses on artistic education and theater and dance.	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal

2014/09/26 - 2014/10/01	Video "Cristina talks about Peter Michael Dietz", Special session "Featured Peter Michael Dietz" HYPERLINK http://youtu.be/xmlmsbpXyVo	Cine-teatro Academia Almadense, Portugal

1999/01/01 - 2014/07/31	Production of Salvo Conduto program	Arte Total, Portugal

2014/01/22 - 2014/01/24	Presentation paper in 2nd Encounter on Practices of Research in Arts Education There is a bit of white between my heart and my stomach - the space issue.	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal

2014/01/01 - 2014/01/01	Publication of article DA - Magazine of art, culture and education ”There is a bit of white between may hear and my stomach in truth my work does not exist because it is not written anywhere”	Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança, Portugal

2006/01/01 - 2014/01/01	Member of the Advisory Board of Theatro Circo de Braga, in the area of Dance	Câmara Municipal de Braga, Portugal

2013/09/11 - 2013/09/12	Research Workshop MP4 - Site Specific Creation as a Critical Thinking Tool to Articulate Action and Writing in the Context of Art	Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal

2012/09/09 - 2013/07/20	Orientation of Master's thesis in Artistic Education of Gabriela Barros Teacher responsible for the course:Prof. Doutor Carlos Almeida	Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal

2010/01/01 - 2012/12/31	Member of the Artistic Team of Guimarães Capital of Culture - Community Area	Fundação Cidade de Guimarães- Guimarães Capital da Cultura 2012, Portugal

2010/09/01 - 2012/09/01	Mentor for the Certificate in Ballet Teaching Studies	Royal Academy of Dance, United Kingdom

2009/09/01 - 2012/07/31	Invited Assistant at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo - School of Education	Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal

2011/12/01 - 2011/12/01	Publication of an article in the magazine Revista de arte, cultura e educação, nº2 Sim: existo dentro do meu corpo Perspectiva Didáctica: Dança e Música	Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança, Portugal

2011/10/30 - 2011/10/31	Workshop Music the body SIDD International Seminar Discovering Dance	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Portugal

2010/01/01 - 2010/01/01	Publication in the Magazine Diálogos com Arte – Revista de arte, cultura e educação, nº1 Salvo Conduto – O site specific como veículo de intervenção, 2010 (pp. 63-70).	Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Estudos da Criança, Portugal

2009/11/01 - 2009/11/02	Salvo Conduto \| -Project of Contemporary Dance YArt: Challenges of (with) tradition Winter Lectures Cycle	Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal

2000/01/01 - 2000/08/31	Adviser of Professional Internships in the areas of Dance and Theater, Culture / Internship Program, Employment and Vocational Training Institute - Ministry of Culture / Portuguese Institute of Perfor	Royal Academy of Dance, United Kingdom

1997/01/01 - 1998/07/31	Invited teacher Of the University of Minho at the FOCO Project - Institute of Child Studies	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

1981/09/01 - 1983/08/31	Fellow of the Secretary of State for Culture in the Professional Training School of the National Ballet Company.	Ministério da Cultura, Brazil

1971/09/01 - 1980/07/31	Student of the Pilot School, Conservatory of Music of Braga Calouste Gulbenkian, in the regime of integrated artistic teaching. Music Education Course of the Regional Conservatory of Braga Calouste Gu	Conservatório Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Instituto de Investigação em Arte, Design e Sociedade UID/EAT/04395/2019 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2017/05/02 - 2022/12/01	LABEA – Research Laboratory in Arts Education Research in Arts Education Researcher Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal	Ongoing
2018/01/02 - 2021/12/31	GUELRA 00006296 Principal investigator Arte Total, Portugal Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal	Direção-Geral das Artes Ongoing
2018/02/01 - 2021/07/01	ARTISTIC PRACTICES: SUBSIDIES FOR THE RECOGNITION OF THEIR RHIZOMATIC MECHANISMS IN THE TRANSMISSION OF KNOWLEDGE. Manuela Bronze Catarina Almeida Bruno Pereira Cristina Mendanha Artistic Research Researcher Universidade do Porto Instituto de Investigação em Arte Design e Sociedade, Portugal	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Mendanha, Cristina. "E se a Educação Artística Pudesse ser Outra Coisa?". Paper presented in Congresso de Investigação em Educação Artística. A Educação Artística no Sistema de Ensino Português: Conquistas e Desafios., Viseu, 2018. Mendanha, Cristina. "Guelra". Paper presented in Cross Media Arts -1st international conference on social arts and transdisciplinarity, Evora, 2017.
Journal article	Mendanha, Cristina. "”There is a bit of wite between may hear and my stomach in truth my work does not exist because it is not written anywhere". Diálogos com a Arte - Revista de arte, cultura e educação 4 (2014): 220-231. http://www.ese.ipvc.pt/revistadialogoscomaarte. Open access • Published Mendanha, Cristina; Pontes, Adalgisa. "Sim: existo dentro do meu corpo/ Perspectiva Didáctica: Dança e Música". Revista de arte, cultura e educação 2 (2011): http://issuu.com/imperiodolivro/docs/dialogos2011/4?e. Published Mendanha, Cristina. "Salvo Conduto – O site specific como veículo de intervenção". Diálogos com Arte – Revista de arte, cultura e educação 1 (2010): 63-70. http://pt.scribd.com/doc/66222843/dialogos-rev1-indd-1. Published
Thesis / Dissertation	Faculdade de Belas Artes. "Sel-site specific: e variações de movimento na formação de interpretes". PhD, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/109125. Maria Cristina de Andrade Mendanha Gonçalves. "Sel-site specific: e variações de movimento na formação de interpretes". PhD, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/109125.
Website	Mendanha, Cristina. Guelra- in Cross Media Arts. 2017. http://xmediarts.net.
Working paper	Mendanha, Cristina. 2011. "SIDD Seminário Internacional Descobrir a Dança- Workshop Musicar o corpo". http://siddanca2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/programa.

Artistic / Performance

Video recording	Mendanha, Cristina; arte total. http://youtu.be/xmlmsbpXyVo (Producer); playbleu (Director). 2014. Cristina Mendanha fala de Peter Michael Dietz.
Visual artwork	Mendanha, Cristina. “Caixa de Esmolas” , 2015 , 1st International Screening of video dance ‘Body in Focus’ , http://videodancebodyinfo.wix.com/-1st-vide. o-dance.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019	Assembleia 19	Assembleia 19 Arte Total (Braga, Portugal)
2018	Guelra Arts Agön: Arts Research Forum- UW-Madison Division of the Arts	Arts Agön: Arts Research Forum UW-Madison Division of the Arts (Madison, United States)
2018	Arte Total - intervenção cultural na cidade	CULTURAL COOPERATION NETWORKS – CREATIVE LABORATORY –2CN-CLab 2018 Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade da Universidade do Minho (CECS-UM), (braga, Portugal)
2018	Para fabricar corpos dóceis	Congresso Português do Brinquedo (Vila Verde)

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2017 - Current	NANO ABSTRACTIONS (2017) Artistic residency at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) INL Scale Travels initiative that aims at fostering a multidisciplinary and hybrid approach between science and art. MNE 2017 – 43rd International Conference on Micro- and Nano-Engineering 19 September 2017, Theatro Circo INL Summit 19 October 2017, Theatro Circo Concert	MNE 2017 INL Summit17 International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
2018/10/15 - 2018/10/16	INL SUMMIT 2018 \| Nanochenology : An enabler for New Economy Congress	2018 IEEE International Solid - State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC) International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2019 - Current	Braga Cultura 2030- Pensar Braga para projetar a cidade que queremos ser. Construção do mapa identitário que se transforma num atlas. A Estratégia Cultural de Braga 2020-2030 identifica a cultura como um dos pilares de desenvolvimento sustentável de uma cidade. É ela que está no centro desta reflexão.	Câmara Municipal de Braga, Portugal
2016/05/02 - Current	Conselho Consultivo da Braga Media Arts	Braga Media Arts, Portugal
2006/01 - 2014/01	Advisory Board Member of Theatro Circo de Braga	Câmara Municipal de Braga, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2018/09 - 2019/09	Dança- Oficina Coreográfica	(Ensino secundário)
2018 - 2018	Call- escola CALL escola é um programa de actividades da Arte Total que visa promover a capacidade de gerar propostas inovadoras no campo da educação, conciliando a dança com os media artes.	(Menos de 4 anos de escolaridade)	Arte Total, Portugal
2012 - 2018	Dança \| Metodologia de criação	Dança Contemporânea (Ensino secundário)	Arte Total, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2018/07/11 - 2018/07/11	5 minutos de circo \| RUM	Espectáculo MNEMOSINE

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2012/01/01 - 2012/09/01	Adviser of Master's thesis in Artistic Education of Gabriela Barros, School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo.	Gabriela Barros
2010/09/01 - 2011/06/01	Mentor for the Certificate in Ballet Teaching Studies- Royal Academy of Dance- Faculty of Education	Natália Paredes
2009/09/01 - 2010/06/01	Mentor for the Certificate in Ballet Teaching Studies- Royal Academy of Dance- Faculty of Education	Susana Cerqueira
2000/09/01 - 2001/08/01	Adviser of Professional Internships in the areas of Dance and Theater- Culture / Internship Program, Employment and Vocational Training Institute / Ministry of Culture / Portuguese Institute of Performing Arts	Joana Seabra

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2018/03/01 - 2018/04/01	Braga International Video Dance Festival is a platform for diffusion, learning and development of artistic work with focus on the body and technology using VideoDance as means of expression.

Distinctions

Other distinction

2022	Medalha de mérito da cidade de Braga Câmara Municipal de Braga, Portugal
2014	Prémio de criatividade - SHAIR