Márcio K. Canabarro

Márcio K. Canabarro was born in 1985 in Brazil. He is a dancer and choreographer with a BA in Social Communication, a Performing Major from SEAD, and a certified Embodied Myoreflex Therapy Practitioner. Márcio is interested in exploring the intersections of narratology, performance and mindfulness practices. His work focuses on the socio-emotional implications of accessibility, specifically how cultural biases around vision shape the intimacy, self-esteem, and social roles of the blind and visually impaired community. He has a degenerative disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes progressive loss of peripheral vision and eventually blindness. Rather than treating it as an obstacle, he views it as a creative collaborator that requires adaptability, inventiveness, and connection. Reframing the experience of visual impairment not as an isolating one, but as an opportunity to mediate an alternative point of awareness, together with DEEPER F. Collective (HU) and A Bela Associação (PT), he launched the digital publication CARE WHERE? Zine and CARE - Activism, Art and Electronic Music gatherings, focusing on how we build and transform our larger community through the chain of our immediate affections. Márcio also works as a freelance dancer for Hodworks (HU), CRANKY BODIES/a company (DE) and Meg Stuart/ Damaged Goods (BE/DE). In the past he has collaborated with Benoit Lachambre, Sara Shelton Mann, Mark Thompkins, Keith Henessy and others.