Des-Medéia
In Des-Medéia (l994), a piece that uses the myth of Medea as a metaphor for the Brazilian soul, the chorus, as Denise Stoklos interprets it, ends its prefatory speech by calling on Medea to "dis-medeafy" herself, to transform the myth, to remedy it (remendéia, a play on the word Medea), to take the reins of the sun-chariot in a flight glorified by the "effusive victory of love." The chorus signifies a communal utopian process: "Even if this is called utopia, for us utopia in truth rhymes well with transformation now, already and every day." Leslie Damasceno, from "The Gestural Art of Reclaiming Utopia" in Holy Terrors, Duke UP, 2003.