Performances

In Tightrope/Cuerda Floja, 2boys.tv summon the shadows, apparitions and voices of the disappeared; an invitation for us all to participate in a communal act of remembering.

Slow Falls is a work for three dancers who mark increasingly slow descents down a building exterior over the course of 100 minutes — the shortest “fall” lasting 5 minutes, the longest 50.

Created from experiences with the Irmandade de Nossa Senhora de Rosário de Justinópolis/MG, this interactive performance seeks to provoke reflection on the weights and lightnesses that we carry with us, through the lens of popular religion and African ancestry, revealing aspects of the arduous trajectory of Afro-Brazilians.

Although it depends on the individual, one of this species can “carry up to 4 kg and travel 7000 km without resting.” In ideal conditions this type of equine can carry up to 30% of its body weight. The superiority of this species becomes apparent in their additional endurance and fearless performance.

Cabaret collage by Alina Troyano, writer and creator of the Carmelita Tropicana persona. In the eighties Carmelita was described as a “Carmen Miranda cloaked in dangerous fruits.”

This performance contemplates materiality while confronting a symbol of power, the business suit.

A bureaucrat from the Department of Hopes, Dreams, and Fears processes and evaluates people’s submissions in a series of absurd ways; censoring, annotating, footnoting, cutting, folding, crushing, twisting, burning, inhaling the smoke of the burned document to evaluate its smell...

Live art durational performance which dialogue around the possibilities for and models of contemporary North/ South artistic and theoretical collaborations.

DystoRpia Project is a new media installation created with everyday technology that serves as a small communication platform for performances.

The history of humanity has remained inscribed on the bodies of Latin American women. On their bodies— conquered, marked, enslaved, objectified, exploited, and tortured—one can read the terrible stories of power and struggle that shape our past.

This is a collaborative performance that is part of the DystoRpia Project by No Media Collective. We understand this production as striving to create a positive, respectful and safe space where activists and artists support each other in their inquiry, and can adapt the sandbox model to their own needs and circumstances in the future.

A sewing machine that “writes” affective embroidery with its invisible and visible thread. A chair that carries imagepresences. A blackboard. A shirt. Preparation as we wait for an (im)possible visit to the workshop. A measurementtaking and the study of a shirt.

Directed by Antonio Araújo, this play seeks to use urban space as a field of artistic experimentation. It takes the audience on a performative walk through the São Paulo neighborhood of Bom Retiro, participating in an urban route that includes a shopping mall, streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and an abandoned theatre forgotten by the city’s inhabitants.

A theater piece that explores the theme of urban violence in a country without a declared war, but whose citizens are submerged in the paranoia generated by the security industry.

What creative process does an actor undergo to arrive at a performance? How does she construct a stage language to bring the performance to life? How do the director and the actor enter into dialogue to stage “Antigone”?

Inspired by the concept of the b-side, paradoxically defined as the “less important side of a record” as well as a “way to add value” to a pop single, these dances encourage collaborative listening through active participation.

The performance Where? Action nº2 provokes, in poetic form, reflections on our recent past and the still-open wounds suffered during the military dictatorship.

In this performance, voices— generators of spaces, identities and interactions— are also perceived as part of a contemporary sonic landscape characterized by fragmentation and the increasing interpenetration of public and private spheres.

Bountiful is the third part of the Black Dirt Cycle, a series of locally-rooted plays about soil, immigration, and time, created in partnership with farm workers, farmers, and artists of New York’s Black Dirt Region.