Provocations: A conversation on the Beginning, the Middle and the Beginning

With Original Bomber Crew (Teresina, Brazil) and Idio Chichava (Maputo, Mozambique) in dialogue with Nayse Lopez (Brazil) and Quito Tembe (Mozambique) Simultaneous Translation Portuguese-French-English

This conversation, whose title is inspired by Nego Bispo, a Brazilian activist, poet, scholar and quilombo leader best known for his concept of counter-colonisation, will bring together artists coming from territories historically marked by colonial violence—where Black and Indigenous bodies were the targets of genocide, evangelisation, and disciplinary dance training. These artists, who develop their practices in peripheral, unstable yet deeply fertile contexts come together not to talk about scarcity, but about abundance. For more than being dance creators, they are inventors of technologies of artistic coexistence: Bomber Crew’s “dança quebrada” evokes both the fragmentation of the body and the creative force of Brazilian “quebradas”; Idio Chichava’s Vagabundos repositions the African immigrant body at the heart of the contemporary scene. Stemming from the margins, they each represent alternative ways of being, of creating, and of circulating, building grounds for reinventing a counter-colonial, de-centered, non-white body choreography.

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