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Ana Musidora

Ana Musidora has a degree in Dance from the Communication of the Arts of the Body/PUC SP and in Contemporary Cultural Management from Itaú Cultural & Instituto Singularidades. She is the creator of the performances Leite Derramado (2013), Ana Paula Padrão (2014), and Agome (2020). In 2021, she curated the project DA PELE PRA DENTRO, a cycle of original performances for the Mulheres na Travessa Festival. In November of 2020, on the invitation of Dona Ruth, she was responsible for mediating and providing pedagogical assistance for the actions for the Quilombo Artístico Pedagógico at the Black Theater Festival in São Paulo. On the invitation of the Audiovisual Production Course in the Escola Pública de Audiovisual at Vila das Artes, in Fortaleza, Ceará, she also taught the course “Spatialization and Image.” In 2018, she was part of the resident artists' group for the project "Obinrin – Ancestralidade, Residência Artística e Performance Negra Feminista” (Salvador, Bahia/the Caribbean). She guided the actions #PratoÀModaDaCasa in 2015, held at Restaurante Senzala, and #EuTrabalhadoraPeriférica in 2017-18 with the 8M na Quebrada Collective.

Rodrigo Severo

An artist, researcher, and teacher, Rodrigo Severo operates at the intersections of performance, theater, and the Latin American movement (es)cena expandida. He holds a doctoral and master's degree in Performing Arts from the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo and a degree in Theater Education from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He is part of the Laboratory of Performative Practices at the University of São Paulo and is a founding member of Coletiva Preta Performance, which investigates ethnic-racial relations in Brazil and creates decolonized and anti-racist aesthetic actions. His research interests encompass Black performance studies, the African diaspora, the Black body, decolonized aesthetics, Black authorship, and the contemporary stage.