Next year I will be in residence at La Becque with my new film called: Black Ecology. Then I will go on to a residency for the Young Choreographers Award at ImPulsTanz
Quick Facts:
Artist, choreographer, filmmaker, and researcher. Graduated in Arts from Universidade Federal Fluminense and Master in Arts (Contemporary Studies of Arts) from the same institution. He studied at Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo ESMAE (Porto, Portugal). Since 2016 she has presented her 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 Festival Internacional da Imagem (São Paulo), Programa Rumos Itaú Cultural 2021, Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro), 5° Mostra de Dança Itaú Cultural ( São Paulo), and Resident at ImPulsTanz 2022 [8: tension] Young Choreographers' Series (Austria), La Becque (Switzerland), Pivô Arte Research Program, in the MAM Rio Arts Research Residency Program and in the Escola Livre de Artes - ELÃ among others. Awarded artist at ImPulsTanz - Young Choreographers' Award, 2022 (Austria). Directed the film Delirar o racial in partnership with artist Wallace Ferreira, work commissioned by the Pivô Satélite Program, 2021.
Three relevant works from the last 5 years of artistic practice:
Repertório N.2 - ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award, 2022
Black Ecology - Residence in La Becque, 2023
Delirar o Racial, 2021
Highest educational degree:
Master in Arts, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
N.2; is the second part of a choreographic experiment to think dance as a practice of self-defense. Using deviant and informal techniques, we bet on an alternative, underground genealogy of self-defensive practices. With these choreographies, we assume the commitment to think critically about the world we live in, performing the operation of choreographing between imagination and intuition, trying to free thought from the tools of understanding.
Rave the racial is an image to think of spatiality without formal fiction (space and time). From the equation: racial ↔ ️non-local, artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira choreograph an artistic experiment that thinks of the difference without separability and that offers an equation to annul space-time as descriptors of everything that exists in this world.
The choreography, as imagined by Raoul Feuillet in his treatise, presents the body as a two-dimensional figure, represented by the image of a straight line and a semicircle. A notion that understands the body from abstract concepts that would be present in thought, such as solidity, extension, weight, gravity, and movement in space and time. Inspired by the "tireless and imprecise" geometry of artist Tomie Ohtake's circles, the artist questions: what if our body image resembled rumor instead of measure?
The work invests in the idea of dance as self-defense training, applying aspects such as mimesis, representation, and studies of images choreographed by dissident bodies, in an attempt to archive actions to elaborate resistances, conjure up ways of remaining in the world, and invent what is to succeed it.
The Choreographic Conference designates a mobilization attempt to excavate the conditions of race and the formation of choreography, both as a peculiar invention of modernity. The film lasts approximately 40 minutes and seeks to answer two questions. The first question is posed by philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva in her lecture entitled "The Racial Event", the philosopher asks: Why don't the deaths of young black men at the hands of the police provoke an ethical critique? And the second question comes from Professor André Lepecki's book "Exhausting Dance", which also addresses another problem of modernity, which is its propensity for movement.
