Embodied Writing: Integrating Movement & Text
Date: Saturday 19 September 2026
Time: 13.00 - 16.00
Venue: Crescent Arts Center, Belfast
Price: 35 £35 | £30
Tutor: Luciana De Mello
Book NowWords give shape to thought, but how do they inhabit a body in motion? Movement creates subtle, fleeting structures that exist only in their execution before fading and renewing themselves. Writing, by contrast, endures in time. It is a concrete material, yet it has the power to shift our physicality and alter the very way we move through life.
Designed for dancers, writers, and curious minds alike, this workshop bridges the gap between movement and text. No prior experience in dance or creative writing is required, and participants of all language backgrounds are welcome.
Through simple, guided principles, you will explore spatiality, temporality, and physical presence to cultivate a body that transforms through creative expression. Join us to investigate how words and movement continuously inspire and shape one another.
Meet the Tutor
Luciana De Mello is a writer, scriptwriter, and Afro-indigenous cultural journalist born in Argentina. She is the author of the novel Mandinga and Ninguna calle termina en la esquina, a nonfiction book about the creative writing workshop she founded in one of the largest prisons in Buenos Aires. She has been writing about literature, feminisms and queer culture for the Argentinian newspaper Página 12 for nearly 20 years. She is also part of Mandacarú, a publishing house that translates cis and trans Brazilian women writers of African descent into Spanish. Her novel Mandinga will be published in Spain in October 2025 by Penguin Random House.
She is currently finishing her second novel and working with contemporary dancer Lola Vera on a research project on dance and writing. Luciana has been based in Belfast since 2022.
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