Lara Barzon
PhD RESEARCHER
Email: lara.barzon@warwick.ac.uk
Supervisor: Milija Gluhovic
Co-supervisor: Aliosa Puzar (University of Ljubljana)
ABOUT ME
Lara is PhD student at the University of Warwick (Performance studies) and University of Ljubljana (cultural studies) awarded by the EUTOPIA PhD co-tutelle programme. Her main research interest is contemporary dance and decolonial practices, with a focus on performances in Italy and Uruguay and a performative project between Italy, Spain, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. She is graduate in Visual and Performing Arts from the IUAV University in Venice and hold an MA in Theatre and New Media from the University of Turin. Moreover, Lara has an extensive practical training in performative practices which include live art curations, classical and contemporary dance, physical theatre. Before the PhD, she was professor of classical dance and choreographic composition at the Atelier Teatro Fisico Philip Radice, and founding director of the cultural association “La Tasca Teatro”, and the cultural space “Spazio Liquido: Space for contemporary creation”, for which she worked as artistic director for 4 years. Moreover, Lara collaborated as performer or researcher for different organizations such as La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana, ITEM Madrid (UCM), Montevideo Italian Institute of Culture. Finally, she is co-founder and creator of the transnational performative collective Istmo Nomade; board member and outreach officer of the global dance conference Dancing with Decolonization; and research assistant for the Research Network “Thinking Through the Silk Roads: Cross-cultural Exchanges and Mobilities”.
Scholarships and grants
EUTOPIA PhD co-tutelle Scholarship Jan 2022/Jan 2027
4-year joint PhD between the University of Warwick
and the University of Ljubljana.
Biennale College ASAC Scholarship
La Biennale di Venezia, Dance Archive Research and Writing Feb/May 2021
Published Essay: “Vision and reception of the "non-Western"
through the eyes of the Venice Biennale between 1967 and 1975”
Tutor: Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino
Community Culture Heritage Young Curators Scholarship Nov 2020/Sept 2021
Advance formation for young curators in the cultural field
Granted by Opera Estate Festival (IT)
Movin’up - Award for Young Italian Artists Sept/Oct 2020
Award for the realization of the dance project “Latitud Casa”
Awarded by Italian Ministry of Culture
In collaboration with Montevideo Museum of Migration (UY)
and Montevideo Italian Institute of Culture (UY)
The Silent Action - Scholarship for Contemporary Dancers Aug/Dec 2019
Advanced training in contemporary dance focused on
technique, corporeal research and performance creation
Awarded by DEOS Dance Company (IT) and Italian Ministry of Culture
Publications
Cubas, Tamara, Julia Asperska, and Lara Barzon. “Choreographic Practices to Sustain Life”, in Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2024, pp. 56-65.
Barzon, L., Visione e Ricezione del 'Non Occidentale' alla Biennale di Venezia negli anni Sessanta. Venezia: La Biennale; 2023
Barzon, L., “The Space of the Body from Classical to Contemporary Dance: A Matter of Coloniality”, in Space Oddity: Exercises in Art and Philosophy, Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2022, pp 171-186.
Barzon, L., “‘Puto Gallo Conquistador’: La Rivoluzione dei Corpi e il Ritorno del Knowing-body”, Roots Routes: Research on Visual Culture, vol. 12, no. 39, 2022, online.
Barzon, L., “Trilogia Antropofágica and the Turn of the Cannibal Body’, Proceedings of Conference Jomba! 2024. Masihambisane Dialogues, 22-24 May 2024, pp. 58-65.
Presentations and invited lectures
Invited Lecture
“Cannibalizing Italiannes: Salvo Lombardo’s Choreography of Resistance”, Ecological Intelligence EUTOPIA Autumn School, University of Ljubljana, 22 Nov 2024.
Workshop
“Strategy to See”, All You Can Shoot Fest: Building Memories, Museo Diffuso.exe, Sant’Antioco, Italy, 10-12 May 2024.
Paper presentation
“Cannibal Thinking: Politics of Otherness in Contemporary Dance”, Marco Polo and the Silk Roads EUTOPIA Autumn School, Warwick in Venice, 30 Sept- 4 Oct 2024.
“Trilogia Antropofágica and the Turn of the Cannibal Body”, Jomba! 2024. Masihambisane Dialogues, 22-24 May 2024.
“Embodied images/Images in motion: Multitud by Tamara Cubas”. A Driving Force. On the Rhetoric of Images and Power, 5th Postgraduate International Conference, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 4-6 October 2023.
“Cannibalism as a Dramaturgical Tool. A Decolonial Perspective”, Theatre and Performance Studies Postgraduate Symposium, University of Warwick, 4 Oct 2023.
“Cannibalism as a Dramaturgical Tool. A Decolonial Perspective”, Dimensions of Dramaturgy, VI EASTAP Conference, 14/18 June 2023.
“The Space of the Body from Classical to Contemporary Dance: a Journey Toward the Knowing-body”, Body Knowledges: Praxis, Politics, Performance, 9th Annual Conference of the School of Performing Arts, University of Malta, 22-24 March 2023.
“The Space of the Body in Contemporary Dance: From Cartesian Dualism to the Paradoxical Body and the Knowing-body”, Space Oddity. Exercise in Art and Philosophy, 4th Postgraduate International Conference, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
“Cannibal Authorship: A Decolonial Point of View”, Anonymity, Un-originality, Collectivity: Contested Modes of Authorship, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick.
Further Research Presentation
“Latitud CASA. Istmo Nomade Collective”, Video Performance Installation, Research out-of-the-box, Festival of Doctoral Research, University of Warwick, 5 July 2023.
“Aestethic and Politics of Decolonial Practices in Contemporary Dance”, Digital Exhibition (Poster and Video), EUTOPIA Science Fair 2022, University of Ljubljana, 21-25 Nov 2022.
