April 20, 2024
h. 21:30
Teatro Galli – Sala Ressi
National première

Repertório N2 is the second instalment of a choreographic trilogy by Brazilian artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira, which delves into dance as a form of self-defence. Embracing unconventional and informal techniques, they draw from an alternative, underground lineage of self-defence practices. Through their choreography, they embark on a critical examination of their world, engaging in a creative process that blends imagination and intuition. Their goal is to break free from both implicit and explicit constraints, challenging the colonial, racial, and cis-hetero-patriarchal frames ingrained in Western ideology.
Starting from the question: “How can dance be used as a form of self-defence?” Pontes and Ferreira experiment with symbolic departures from the violence perpetuated by the State and institutions that maintain order through repression.
Their work incorporates mimesis and rhythmic patterns to expand perceptions of time and space. Influenced by martial arts, capoeira, and a critical interpretation of dance history, their choreography explores movement vocabularies rooted in the Black Aesthetic.

Bio

Davi Pontes is an artist, choreographer and researcher who holds a master’s degree in arts from the Universidade Federal Fluminense. He studied at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo ESMAE (Porto, Portugal). Since 2016, he has been presenting his work in art galleries and national and international festivals, mainly at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), My Wild Flag (Stockholm), Pivô (São Paulo), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), Rua das Gaivotas 6 (Porto), Bienal Sesc de Dança, MITsp – Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo, Les Urbaines festival (Switzerland), Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo), Valongo International Image Festival (São Paulo), Itaú Cultural Rumos Program 2021, Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro), 5th Itaú Cultural Dance Exhibition (São Paulo) and Artfizz – HOA Gallery (USA). He carried out art residencies at ImPulsTanz 2022 [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series (Austria), La Becque (Switzerland), Pivô Art Research Program, MAM Rio Arts Research Residency Program, and Escola Livre de Artes – ELÃ among others. Pontes also won the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award in 2022 (Austria).

Wallace Ferreira is a choreographer, performer and visual artist who graduated from the Escola Livre de Artes da Maré (ELÃ) and the Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage. He won the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award 2022 with a residency in the ImPulsTanz [8:tension] series. In 2022, Ferreira joined the artistic residency of Instituto Inclusartiz, building strategies and choreographic actions that escape representations. Through undisciplined practices, his creations provoke accidents between dance, performance and contemporary visual arts languages, applying aspects such as mimesis, representation, and studies of images choreographed by dissident bodies. Driven by the challenges of tensioning the present, since 2018, Ferreira has been presenting his works in art galleries, national and international festivals such as Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (NY), Panorama Festival, ArtRio, Lateral Roma, HOA ART, Artfizz, Jaqueline Martins Gallery, Les Urbaines(CH), SP- ARTE, Display (CZ), Itaú Cultural, SESC, A GentilCarioca gallery, Despina. Among his most recent works, the Repertório trilogy – realized in partnership with artist Davi Pontes – was presented at the VERBO exhibition at Galeria Vermelho, the International Image Festival of Valongo, Anita Schwartz Art Gallery, Frestas – Triennial of the Arts 2020/21, and at My Wild Flags (SE). He also directed the film Delirar o racial in partnership with artist Davi Pontes, commissioned by the Satellite Pivot program in 2021. Within the Ballroom/Vogue culture, Ferreira received the title of Empress of Maison Mamba Negra, acting in São Paulo, Brasília, and Rio de Janeiro.

Credits

concept and performance – Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira
work commissioned by Frestas – Trienal de Artes 2020/21 – O rio é uma serpente, curated by Beatriz Lemos, Diane Lima and Thiago de Paula Souza
distribution – Something Great

Premiere
Les Urbaines, Switzerland, 2021

Duration

35′

Notes

Full nudity

Tickets

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€. 10,00
€. 8,00 reduced – Under 26 / Trenitalia Tper* / E’BAL card

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