
piXta
When we are listening to a song we like on the street why are we embarrassed to dance?
Queer and alternative bodies wearing headphones spread dance around, creating dissent temporary zones and tensioning the limits between individual and collective.
It is a performative action for public space cracking the fact these sites are not conceived as places for dancing and these bodies still provoke contradictory reactions in our society.
The word pista is a Brazillian slang for dancefloor and it also means clue or trail which suggests that other forms of occupation of these places are really possible, as well as spontaneous attitudes can exist beyond the choreography that the urban exercises over our bodies.
piXta operates within the concept of microperformance in which an action is not announced as art, so that people experience a live event in the routine of their daily lives and make their interpretations about it, instead of thinking that it is a representation of a live event.
The work is inspired by the emerging underground scene of subversive parties that started in the city of São Paulo and nowadays spread throughout Brazil, a phenomenon where the queer community exercises its different means of life, resisting and creating new forms of expression.
As in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian manifestation, dance and fight are contained in each other as a way to deceive and enchant at the same time, in that sense the performers may be organized in space as a potentially dangerous gang, or simply be unknown people who happen to be having fun out there.
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Dance With Us !
There will be a two-day workshop where the people who participate are invited to be part in the performance! This meeting consists of practices of body awareness, capoeira training, dynamics of scenic composition, moving in shoal, urban contra-choreography, development of movement repertory. Together we can reach other perspectives to put into practice in our daily lives and support each other. Come dance with us!
[DE.BANDADAS] is a network of Brazilian artists and foreign artists previously based in Brazil, who are migrating to Portugal after the recent growth of fascism in the country. It has three objectives: to support the circulation of these artists in the international circuit of performing arts; serve as a space for the exchange of experiences and knowledge; promote research and creation collectively. Cigarra, Dani Barra, Emiliano Manso, Izabel Nejur, Jaja Rolim, Léo Teófilo, Marine Sigaut, Miss Immigration, Tita Maravilha, are the first ones involved. Diversity is their strength! They are a mixture of queer and alternative beings. They are artists who already have a trajectory on different fronts with works in performing arts, subversive parties, feminist, racial and lgbtqi+ political activism, music, visual arts and fashion. They are bodies that bring the power of different regions of Brazil, such as Goiás, São Paulo, Acre, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, artists that bring with them the effervescence of a country on fire and the anguish of its current reality. With the city of Lisbon and Porto as centers, they are people who became friends, who venture together, and who started to organize themselves to create a new world.
Credits
Creation and Performance: Cigarra, Dani Barra, Emiliano Manso, Jaja Rolim, Léo Teófilo, Maria Paula, Miss Immigration, Saskia, Taty Alves, Tita Maravilha
Concept and Choreography: Dani Barra
Visual Direction and Styling: Marine Sigaut
Touring group and Workshop: Dani Barra, Jaja Rolim, Miss Immigration, Tita Maravilha
Photo and Video: Daniel Pereira
Production Assistence: Junior Barros
Organization and Production: DE.BANDADAS
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