Translator’s note: For some afro-Brazilian religions the word Ägô means to ask for permission
Choreographer and performer Cristina Moura starts from her own concerns to question: what happens in the world, today, while I dance? Combining languages and symbols, the performance seeks a scenic and corporal writing that expresses the ambiguities and possibilities of a black female dancing body. It revisits movements from Ägô, the director’s latest work, and swings between ancestry and contemporaneity, beauty and ugliness, fragility and strength.
In addition to the director’s experiences, concerns and memories, the solo draws on texts by thinkers of black culture such as Achille Mbembe, Grada Kilomba, Angela Davis and Franz Fanon. Together, they build a drama of the scene that wants to work as a provocation, a call for reflection on current issues.
Cristina Moura
Director of theater and contemporary dance performances, choreographer and performer, she was part of Les Ballets C de La B, by Alain Platel, and Àngels Margarit Cia. Mudances. She is the author of the solo Like an Idiot, performed in many countries, and since 2015 she has worked as a casting coach for TV Globo productions.
Credits
Creation, direction and performance: Cristina Moura
Collaboration: Mariana Lima and Renato Linhares
Director of photography and camera: Clara Cavour
Art direction: Julia Deccache
Musical direction: Bruno Balthaza
Costumes: Luana de Sá
Production: Dadá Maia | Ciranda de 3 Trupe Produções
Texts: Achille Mbembe, Ana Miranda, Angela Davis, Bell Hooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Franz Fanon, Grada Kilomba, Maya Angelou, Marcelo Yuka, Pedro Rocha and Wislawa Szymborska
Parental Guidance 14 years
