Janaína is an academic, published researcher, dancer, and movement practitioner passionate about facilitating learning environments that are collaborative, inclusive, and critically engaging. Her research engages with the idea that we all are bodies and, therefore, could benefit from listening to our embodied knowledge. She is passionate about building relationships between artists, art communities and academia. Janaina teaches different aspects of the programmes and will bring her knowledge of integrating movement, critical inquiry, and reflective methodologies.
Alongside her mahi as an artist, researcher, and educator, Janaína tends a wider ecology of movement and encounter. Through TinyFest, a site-responsive performance festival in Ōtautahi, she cultivates encounters between bodies, places, and momentary worlds. She also facilitates community dance practices framed by the provocation of “Untraining,” sharing her passion for improvisation while bringing the energy and rhythms of Brazilian cultures she calls home.
Janaína is an academic, published researcher, dancer, and movement practitioner passionate about facilitating learning environments that are collaborative, inclusive, and critically engaging. Her research engages with the idea that we all are bodies and, therefore, could benefit from listening to our embodied knowledge. She is passionate about building relationships between artists, art communities and academia. Janaina teaches different aspects of the programmes and will bring her knowledge of integrating movement, critical inquiry, and reflective methodologies.
Alongside her mahi as an artist, researcher, and educator, Janaína tends a wider ecology of movement and encounter. Through TinyFest, a site-responsive performance festival in Ōtautahi, she cultivates encounters between bodies, places, and momentary worlds. She also facilitates community dance practices framed by the provocation of “Untraining,” sharing her passion for improvisation while bringing the energy and rhythms of Brazilian cultures she calls home.
Publications:
Cook, J., Longley, A., & Moraes, J. (2023). Re:pairing a culture of learning: Creative assessments that privilege care and relational teaching in a hybrid-learning era. In C. Connolly & T. J. Ó Ceallaigh (Eds.), Innovating assessment and feedback design in teacher education. Routledge.
Longley, A., Moraes, J., & Cook, J. (2022). Reaching across from here to there, in precarious times: Remote-teaching embodied creative practice through scores, instructions, and poetic invitations. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning (CriSTaL), 10(Special Issue). https://doi.org/10.14426/cristal.v10iSI.523
Moraes, J. (2018). Residência artística “Abrindo a Sala”: Entre a busca de uma poética de convite e uma proposta de abertura no ensino e aprendizagem em artes da cena. Lamparina: Revista de Ensino do Teatro, 3, 34–44. https://doi.org/ISSN2177-6121
Moraes, J. (2019). A poética do convite e as performatividades trans/formativas. Conceição/Conception. https://doi.org/10.20396/conce.v8i2.8656067
Moraes, J. (2019). Poética do convite. Ouvirouver, 15(2), 294–306. https://doi.org/10.14393/OUV-v15n2a2019-48764
Moraes, J. (2020). CHOREOGRAPHIES (OF THE MEMORIES I INVENT NOT TO MISS WHAT I DIDN’T LIVE). In E. Cocker, A. Damianisch, C. Daus, & L. Séraphin (Eds.), Language-based artistic research (Special Interest Group). Research Catalogue. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/835089/835129
Moraes, J. (2021). Residual collaborations: Inviting repaired coexistence through ecological imagination within resilient choreographic relationships. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices. https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00038_1
Moraes, J. (2022). Notes on residing-desiring: Art residencies as an artistic practice, a re-turn. The Map (Spring issue). ISSN 2815-8733 (Print); ISSN 2815-8741 (Online)
Moraes, J. (2022). How to get the most out of a residency? The Map (Winter issue). ISSN 2815-8733 (Print); ISSN 2815-8741 (Online)
Moraes, J. (2023). Hosting co(n)fusion: Art residencies as invitation-practices. In K. Schupp (Ed.), Future(s) of performance. Routledge.
Moraes, J. (2023). Co(n)fusing language: Bodies in co(n)tact. Choreographic Practices, 14, 105–119. https://doi.org/10.1386/chor_00062_1
Moraes, J., & Bagheri Nesami, M. (2024). From teaching to curating: Reparative strategies. In T. P. Østern, A. Mabingo, & A. Skånberg Dahlstedt (Eds.), Dansdidaktik i samtida kontexter / Dance education in contemporary contexts. Stockholm University Press.
Moraes, J., & Passos, I. (2020). Peixe-pescado: Escrever a prática, processos de composição da escrita performativa. DAPesquisa. https://doi.org/10.5965/1808312915252020e0020
Moraes, J., & Tenenblat, N. (2018). Aspectos de colaboração nos processos abertos em composição coreográfica: Judson Dance Theater, 1962–1964. CENA, 25. ISSN 2236-3254
Steele, C. (Host). (2025, June). Cross-pollinating embodied arts, collective well-being, and activism: Caz Steele talks to MANIFESTA director Janaína Moraes [Audio podcast]. JoCAT Podcasts. JoCAT. https://www.jocat-online.org/p-25-moraes-steele
