EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Based on the Affectionsynthesis theme, the activities gathered in this edition undertake theatrical pedagogies that shake human species supremacy towards other forms of life. The proposal is to undergo mineral and vegetative properties of affective corporeality as a vector of nurturing lightforce for the scenic-educational experience of gender-class-race-generational relations. CURATORSHIP Dodi Leal

performance educational laboratory

Part of the Educational Activities Axis of MITsp, the Performance Educational Laboratory is a space dedicated to the study and experimentation of performance art using Brazilian and foreign sources. The programme articulates theoretical studies with concrete aesthetic actions from collectives, movements, festivals and original artistic works.

ELA

June 9th, Thursday, 3pm Centro Cultural Vila Itororó

HER, the thing born in the wrong place. The cell that shoots, grows and kills. HER is the pathos, pathology, death. Vina Amorim’s performance starts from the idea of death as mourning, in a necropolitically structured society. Death is also presented as a bridge to the crossing, as rebirth and transition. Guided poetically by butoh, the artist examines memories, creates images and searches for gaps through which unnameable experiences arise, which can only be expressed through dance. Thus, the performer becomes the curve swerving from the norm. HER is the crossing, the uncertain. HER is what remains after departure, what does not lie and is present in each movement, experiencing the impregnated transit between presence and absence. HER disobeys what was given to her at birth to be undying to us all.

PANEL

After the show

The panel aims to question the creative processes in dance in the current Brazilian context, triggered by some poetic sources from the butoh dance and its repercussions. Mourning, death and disease are offered as vanishing points and poles circumscribing a field of poetic forces, allowing the emergence of a dance made of memory traces, made not by conceptual abstractions, but by the weight of flesh. Unnameable ____ made of flesh, desires and poetry. A dance released by a body full of cracks. A dance, a disease, a death, a crossing... Her.

Vina Amorim is a multi-artist, performer, dancer, social provocateur, body researcher, MA student in performing arts. Researches the relations between the butoh dance and disease, death and mourning metaphors. Drifts between the cities of Ouro Preto and Belo Horizonte. Has performed in Portugal, France, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Santa Catarina. Is an active collaborator of Queerlombos Platform and Antibodies - Dance Investigations collective.

June 10th, Friday, at 4pm Centro Cultural Vila Itororó

The work is a performative experiment addressing affection in childhood and talking about the trust of a child’s soul who believes in the essence of just existing. A ritual to understand that we can be “affected”.

Efe Godoy is a short-sighted, transvestigender visual artist who researches hybridity in its various languages (video, object, drawing, painting, performance) with an emphasis on childhood memories pieces and impulsive fabulations. Efe Godoy is from Sete Lagoas, lives and works in Belo Horizonte. Strolled the Guignard/UEMG School and kept training in experiences and residencies in Brazil and abroad. Was nominated for the 2022 PIPA contemporary art award.

LOVE LETTERS: DEATH SPIRAL

June 11th, Saturday, at 3pm Teatro Oficina

What are love letters? What are the possible loves in these worlds? What bodies have the right to feel and to express this feeling? Who still writes and who still gets love letters? Far from answers, performance is a debate, which may turn into active and collective writing, which may recall the importance of love and its expressions. Emerson (Uýra), 30 years old, indigenous from Central Amazon. Biologist, master in Ecology, works as a visual artist, art educator and researcher. She lives in Manaus, an industrial district in the heart of the Forest, where she turns into Uýra, a walking tree. Using the body as a support, tells stories of many Natures via photo-performance and performance. Based on the City-Forest scenery, she is interested in living systems and their violations, as well as decoloniality, memory and indigenous diaspora.

ONE

June 11th, Saturday, at 3:30pm Teatro Oficina

ONE is a choreographic experiment merging body, text and music to establish a new understanding of oneself, mending intrinsic ideas and dancing to one’s text creations. Body investigation, invented dances for manifestations of being, dialoguing with non-place sensations, with self-knowledge process and with permissiveness of affection.

Ymoirá Micall is a multidisciplinary artist, transvestite, founder of Cia. Sacana and lives in São Paulo. Originally from Guarulhos, where she started her career developing the first works in theatre and dance with local groups. Not finishing academic training, the artist reorganised professional experiences to merge

corporeality and experimental sonorities. As an actress, she has worked with the companies Fuerza Bruta (Buenos Aires) and Barca Cênica (Guarulhos).

ISIS BROKEN INVITES AQUALIEN

June 10th, Friday, at 5pm Centro Cultural Vila Itororó

Isis Broken’s new album, Bruxa Cangaceira pocket show, which brings reflections on black and north-eastern transvestite bodies. The presentation lasts around 50 minutes, with the intercession of Aqualien, Isis’ trans man husband.

Isis Broken is a transvestite cangaceira witch, great-granddaughter of a host of Lampião, granddaughter of a repente singer and cordel poet, and singer. Daughter of a teacher and a local newspaper printer, she grew up surrounded by books, with an interest in reading and storytelling. The playful appeal made her seek references in cordel literature and popular culture to express herself through her compositions. Her songs are caustic, politicised and move through rap, trap, repente, prose and pop.

AYÔ TUPINAMBÁ

June 9th, Thursday, at 5pm Centro Cultural Vila Itororó

Dores Doces e Amargores is a music and literature work of art portraying the experience of fat black transvestite artist Ayô Tupinambá. With this pocket show, the artist shares the scrutiny of her own history, her body, her emotions, affectivity and sexuality after her transition. Attain the future, be in the present, look at the past and to always sense oneself there, as a transvestite.

Ayô Tupinambá is a transvestite, black, fat, bisexual and from the outskirts, her plurality is also present in singing, theatre and literature arts, she’s also the director and screenwriter of the show Travestis na MPB and released her first single Canto para Sobreviver, on all digital platforms.

ASSUCENA

June 11th, Saturday, at 4pm Teatro Oficina

Pocket show by Assucena, featuring songs from the album Minha Voz e Eu. A talk between voice, distortion, melody and technology. Assucena presents her musical intimacy from the study of timbres and sensitive manifestations of her voice. “My voice is my freedom’s concrete and ethereal metaphor,” she says. Through beats, acoustic and electric guitar, the authorial repertoire blends with the tradition of MPB, including names such as Gonzaguinha, Caymmi and Gal. Tradition meets the contemporary.

Assucena is a singer-songwriter. She became well-known for her work with band As Baías, with which she was nominated twice for the Latin Grammy (2019 | 2020) and won two categories in the 29th Brazilian Music Award. Born and raised in Bahia’s inland, she works her artistic identity based on influences of music from Bahia - especially Tropicalism - as well as the most varied aspects of MPB, in compositions and interpretations that dialogue with different rhythms.

workshops

MASSAGEAÇO

June 4th and 5th, Saturday and Sunday, from 10am to 1pm Casa do Povo

Massageaço is a gathering to learn and exchange massage. The goal is to share techniques and knowledge necessary to apply a structured touch in informal situations. Crossing art and health, it examines the somatic-political causes that transformed the experience of touch into taboo or trauma for our Westernised bodies. Then, different massage therapy moves and their possible therapeutic effects are experienced in the physiological, affective, ethical and aesthetic dimension.

Danilo Patzdorf is an artist, educator and body researcher. Author of the book About What They Once Called the Body: Corporeality in Digital Environments (Letramento, 2019), is a PhD in Art-education (ECA/USP). Due to the belief that the coolest part of artistic doing is not “showing”, but rather “feeling with”, he’s devoted myself to creating and conducting somatic group experiences to collectively access the extraordinary states of perception of oneself, the other and reality. Isabela Laynes is a physiotherapist, pain specialist (HCFM/USP), neuroeduACHEtor and MA in Health Sciences from Unifesp. She teaches Anatomy and Western Manual Techniques in the Massage Therapy courses at Senac Aclimação. She’s been working with therapeutic massage for more than 10 years, trying to promote somatosensory integration from the structured touch, besides believing in the subtle touch as a body tool of social transformation.

OF WHAT AFFECTS YOU

June 10th, Friday, from 10am to 12am Casa do Povo

This is an experience to get to know people through drawing, the plan here is freedom, rescuing a childhood drawing, not fearing of making mistakes, with no intention of creating the finest drawing in the universe. The idea is to play with authenticity, with real doing, and then express that will with the body. Everyone has something that resonates, has something to say through the movements that make them exist. A moment to dance and draw.

Efe Godoy is a short-sighted, transvestigender visual artist who researches hybridity in its various languages (video, object, drawing, painting, performance) with an emphasis on childhood memories pieces and impulsive fabulations. Efe Godoy is from Sete Lagoas, lives and works in Belo Horizonte. Strolled the Guignard/UEMG School and kept training in experiences and residencies in Brazil and abroad. Was nominated for the 2022 PIPA contemporary art award.

CONFERENCE SCENIC AFFECTIVITY

June 12th, Sunday, from 5pm to 18:30pm Itaú Cultural

WITH Geni Núñez MEDIATION Dodi Leal

This activity discusses the affection monoculture and its effects on the relationship building with oneself and with other beings. Reveals the importance of naming, recognizing and seeking ways to repair colonialities. Through the notion of imaginary reforestation and affection craftsmanship, it will reflect on other clues and ways to build more palatable involvement in diverse relationships. Dodi Leal is a professor at the Training Centre in Arts and Communication (CFAC) of the Federal University of Southern Bahia (UFSB), in Porto Seguro. Leader of Research Group Pedagogy of Performance: Scene Visualities and Critical Body Technologies (CNPq/UFSB). Permanent lecturer at PPGER/UFSB and collaborator of PPGT/UDESC. Co-coordinator of GT Mulheres da Cena, from ABRACE. She conducts studies and artistic works of performance and scenic lighting, going through works of theatrical criticism, curatorship and art pedagogy. PhD in Social Psychology (IP-USP) and Graduated in Performing Arts (ECA-USP). Author of poetry book De Trans pra Frente (SP: Patuá, 2017) and the theoretical books LUZVESTI: Scenic Lighting, Corpusmedia and Gender Disobedience (Salvador: Devires, 2018) and Pedagogy and Aesthetics of Theatre of the Oppressed: Traces of Theatrical Art in Public Management (Hucitec, 2015).

Geni Núñez is a Guarani indigenous activist, psychologist, MA in Social Psychology and doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Human Sciences. Member of the Brazilian Articulation of Indigenous Psychologists (ABIPSI) and coassistant of the Guarani Yvyrupa Commission. Co-organizer of Non-LGBT Monogamy + Free Thought and Art Collection.

pedagogies of teatra encounter: affectivity of knowing to cross out and take risk

INVITED CURATOR LUH MAZA

The Encounter is a space to revive theatrical creation methodologies from the disruptive experiences of non-dominant knowledge. Thoughtful and practical exchanges, in which the corporeality take risks in new possibilities of finding other ways of crisscrossing space and scene making, will be carried out. The mix of panels and workshops, soirée and gatherings intend to push the vectored affections by the transfeminist perspective of gender transition in the theatrical area: from theatre to teatra. We intend to urge new pedagogies based on trans knowledge. In this (Re-)Encounter, affection outside of cisheteronormativity arises as posthecatomb resistance, a deviation to a new possibility. The day begins with the reunion of generations, revering history with a tribute to Divina Valéria, 78, star of the film Divinas Divas, of Carrousel de Paris and international gigs, which will be the theme of an interview by 33-year-old multi-artist Aretha Sadick, in a talk about representation and representativeness over time. In the afternoon, a panel gathers the actors Daniel Veiga - also as mediator -, Bernardo de Assis, Gabriel Lodi and Leo Moreira Sá to discuss new transmasculine constructions and protagonism in theatre, cinema and TV. And to end our afternoon, a pocket soiree joins the trans-centric couple Bixarte and Julian Santos, both from Paraíba, to recite ode rhymes to our affection and its effects.

Luh Maza is a Carioca playwright, screenwriter, director and actress, living in São Paulo. She wrote and directed more than ten shows, notably Carne Viva (2015), staged in Portugal, Kiwi (2016), winner of the Applause Brazil Award, and Transtopia (2019) at São Paulo Municipal Theatre. Her plays were published in the collection Primeiras Obras (Imprensa Oficial SP, 2009, finalist of Jabuti Literature Award), in the book Teatro (Chiado Editora, Lisbon, 2015) and in the anthology Dramaturgia Negra (Funarte, 2019). She wrote for the series Sessão de Terapia (Globoplay, 2019) having been nominated for the ABRA Screenwriter of the Year Award. She has also developed two new series for Globoplay and Netflix. She is currently the screenwriter and director of Da Ponte Pra Lá series (HBOMax / general direction of Vicente Amorim) and head screenwriter of the adaptation of Torto Arado series (HBOMax / general direction of Heitor Dhalia).

June 6th, Monday, from 2pm to 4pm Biblioteca Mário de Andrade

A reunion of generations, revering history of Divina Valéria, 78, star of the film Divinas Divas, of Carrousel de Paris and international gigs, which will be interviewed by 33-year-old multi-artist Aretha Sadick, in a talk about representation and representativeness over time.

Gretta Salgado Silveira, known as Gretta Starr, was born on September 10, 1955, in Santos/SP. Acting in the LGBT nightlife scene since 1979, Gretta Star performed as a transforming artist and worked in nightclubs such as Pink Panther, Nostro Mondo, Corintho and Homo Sapiens. In the mid-1980s, she moved to Japan and started performing in several Asian countries. Back in Brazil, she took an active part in the organisation of the LGBT Pride Parade and became directly involved in campaigns to welcome transgender women and raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. Gretta continues to work as a make-up artist, a profession she has practised for over 30 years, and as an artist, acting in films such as São Paulo em Hi-Fi, Quem Tem Medo de Cris Negão and Os Sapatos de Aristeu.

Aretha Sadick is an artist producing new imaginary about the Black and Trans community in Brazil. She starred in the Brazilian short films BR_Rip by Eduardo Nogueira (2018), Preciso Dizer que te Amo, by Ariel Nobre (2018), and NEGRUM3 documentary by Diego Paulino (2018). Participated in the theatrical shows Macunaíma Ópera Tupi, by Iara Rennó; Transtopia, by Luh Maza, in the series Me Chame de Bruna (Fox) and Os Ausentes (HBO Max) and starred in the feature film Lili & as Libélulas, by René Guerra.

PANEL

June 6th, Monday, from 4pm to 6pm Biblioteca Mário de Andrade

Panel about the new constructions and transmasculine protagonism in theatre, cinema and tv.

Bernardo de Assis is an actor graduated at CAL, a theatre director graduated at Unirio and specialist in Communication, Diversity and Inclusion in Organisations by PUCMinas. He’s a trans man, suburban, bisexual, storyteller and has participated in more than ten shows. In audiovisual he took part in the series Nós, Transviar, Todxs Nós and Noturnos, besides soup-opera Salve-se Quem Puder.

Daniel Veiga is a screenwriter, playwright and actor. Black and trans man, he directed theatre between 2009 and 2016; he was the first trans teacher in the dramaturgy course at SP Escola de Teatro. He won the Kikito for Best Actor in 2020. As a screenwriter, he is in Sala Narrativas Negras, from Paramount Channel, was part of CoLAB Netflix, is a Queer Literacy advisor at Globo TV and educational advisor of Dramaturgia Pluriversal LGBTQ+ course, by Escola Itaú Cultural. Co-founder of CATS-Collective of Transmasculine Artists.

Gabriel Lodi is an actor, voice actor and transactivist. In theatre, he was an actor in Trilogia Anti Patriarcal, by Cia Satyros, and in the play Agridoce, by Zen Salles. For TV, he acted in Todxs Nós, available at HBO Max, and in the independent production Seu Olhos, part of Amazon Prime catalogue. In cinema, he’s in the main cast of Para Onde Voam as Feiticeiras and Revolução 2020. As a voice actor, he voiced Tyler from game Tell Me Why, as well as Netflix and other studios productions.

Leo Moreira Sá is an actor, author, light designer, playwright, screenwriter and cofounder of CATS - Collective of Artists Transmasculines. He began his career in 2009 as an actor and lighting technician and, in 2011, in addition to acting he has also done the lighting design of Cabaret Stravaganza, by Cia. Satyros, for which he won the Shell Theatre Award in 2011. In 2013, he wrote, produced and starred in the autobiographical theatre show Lou & Leo, directed by Nelson Barkerville. From 2014, he started working in the audiovisual industry.

BIXARTE AND JULIAN SANTOS

June 6th, Monday, from 6pm to 7pm Biblioteca Mário de Andrade

Pocket soiree with Bixarte and Julian, artists from Paraíba who, together, bring a mixture of MPB with marginal poetry, restraining the hatred and love going through their trans bodies.

Bixarte is an actress, singer and poet. In her shows she brings a mixture of marginal poetry and rhythms echoing Brazilianity. Winner of Paraíba Music Festival, and also nominated for the WME award, in the best new artist category.

Julian Santos is an artivist, singer, poet, who musicalizes transmasculine experiences in her EP Transrevolução (2019) and Show-Manifesto (2020). She has been occupying spaces such as TEDx Macedo and Festival Lia de Itamaracá (PE), among others.

internationalization in practice – module 2

June 6th to June 9th, Monday to Thursday, from 9am to 1pm Goethe-Institut

Sequence of the MIT+ programme online workshop, the second module aims to reflect on how important is solidarity and the culture of sharing. Based on the elaboration of pitch sessions, for a real presenter, participants should identify the goals and outline strategies for their own work and set the position they want to occupy in the global stage. All participants should leave this workshop with a clear set of achievable goals for the coming year and a strategy to do so. 96

This workshop is an action of MITbr: MITbr Platform Brazil, axis of internationalisation of Brazilian performing arts of MITsp - São Paulo International Theatre Festival, presented by Olhares Cultural Institute and supported by Goethe-Institut São Paulo.

Wolfgang Hoffmann grew up in East Germany, studied to be a toolmaker and only from the age of 21 could devote himself to dance. He was co-founder of Fabril Potsdam, a crucial space for music and dance in Germany, and produced the Potsdamer Tanztage, an annual dance festival. With his dance company, Fabrik Potsdam, he produced and toured with shows to 20 other countries. In 2001, he founded Aurora Nova, a space devoted to physical theatre and dance in Edinburgh. Between 2004 and 2008, he was the director of Dublin Fringe Festival. Currently coordinates Aurora Nova, a production company focused on the agency and management of international tours, representing the latest trends in contemporary circus, physical theatre and new theatrical formats for scenic spaces and festivals around the world.