In 2019 Corpuslab received a visit from the researcher Olabanke Oyinkansola Goriola or Oyin, as we call it. Oyin is a Nigerian researcher and dancer, master by Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (Choreomundus) at NTNU Trondheim (Master in Dance Anthropology) and developed his field research with professor Luiz Naveda and Corpuslab group.
Oyin got to know the work of the professor and Corpuslab during a workshop on movement, music and dance that Professor Luiz Naveda taught in his Master's Degree in Anthropology in Trondheim (Norway). From there, the work was developed in the direction of using methods of capturing and describing dance and music developed at Corpuslab to observe the dances that the African diaspora brought to Brazil.
Candomblé, music and technology
Image in 360 graus do Terreiro de Candomblé Manzo Ngunzo Kaiango. Browse the image
During joint field research, we perform recordings Kilombo Manzo , our partner in various projects and other activities., including dozens of motion captures in Belo Horizonte's Candomblé terreiros. Her stay represented a rare opportunity to promote the look of an African dancer about the Ketu and Bantu diaspora in Afro-Brazilian traditions in Brazil.
The work aimed to “understand how the movements of the Orishas explain the human personalities that are linked to them” and took into account interviews and a fascinating approach to analysis of movements in the formulation of dance patterns found in the dances of the Orishas.
Your dissertation “Dancing Orishas: An analysis of the personalities of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble Ogun, Oshun and Oya” (2020) was supervised by Georgiana Wierre-Gore and counted on the work carried out with professor Luiz Naveda
Watching the movement
Bellow, some of the analyzes that we developed together. We will soon publish Oyin's work and other developments.
Hand velocity analysis in an Ogum dance sequence . Redder and thicker lines indicate a faster trajectory.
Motion capture recording at Kilombo Manzo. Cassia Kidoialê – Dance
Comparison between an excerpt of dances by Ogun. Left: Bantu tradition. Right: Ketu tradition
Comparison between the two dance traditions (Ogun) from the estimated patterns of estimated energy in the body. The figures represent the movement of the dancers captured with a motion capture system. The graphs indicate the sound events in each dance (inferior) and the energy patterns at each end of the body. Red = Cassia / Bantu (figure corner / top) Azul = Weider / Ketu (figure corner / bottom)