Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira
Repertório N.3
2023
January 31 at 19:00
February 1 at 20:30
Friche la Belle de Mai, Salle Seita
Dance
Duration: 30 min
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In partnership with la Friche la Belle de Mai
With the support of Onda in the framework of the tour with Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie and Teatro do Bairro Alto Lisboa
In 2018, Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira began a choreographic trilogy centered on self-defense in the face of generalized violence. Titled Repertório, the series seeks to establish new ways of understanding and representing minority experiences. Repertório N.3 is the final piece of this trilogy, premiering in December 2023 at the 35th São Paulo Biennial.
Drawing on postcolonial, gender, and race studies, Pontes and Ferreira explore how a body, and what it carries, develops its own capacity to defend itself. How can we perform violence without condoning it? By setting this choreographic repertoire of self-defense in motion, Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira aim to challenge minds and ideas through the body, proposing various strategies of resistance: a powerful and enduring way of remaining in the world by populating imaginations with visionary fantasies.
Biographies
Davi Pontes is an artist, choreographer, and researcher. Graduated in arts from the Universidade Federal Fluminense and holds a Master's degree in arts from the same institution. He studied at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo ESMAE (Porto, Portugal). Since 2016, he has presented 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), Artfizz – HOA Gallery (USA), and 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. Awarded artist at ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers' Award, 2022 (Austria).
Wallace Ferreira is a choreographer, performer, visual artist. Graduated from the Escola Livre de Artes da Maré (ELÃ) and the Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage. Winner of the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award 2022, with a residency in the ImPulsTanz [8:tension] series, in 2022 he joined the artistic residency of Instituto Inclusartiz. They build strategies and choreograph actions to escape representations. Through undisciplined practices, their 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, she has presented her works since 2018 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 her most recent works, the Repertório trilogy, realized in partnership with artist Davi Pontes, was presented at the VERBO exhibition at Vermelho gallery, the international image festival of Valongo, Anita Schwartz art gallery, Frestas – Triennial of the Arts 2020/21, and at My Wild Flags (SE). They directed the film Delirar o racial in partnership with artist Davi Pontes, commissioned by the Satellite Pivot program, 2021. Within the Ballroom/Vogue culture, they received the title of Empress of Maison Mamba Negra, acting in São Paulo, Brasília, and Rio de Janeiro.
Credits
Distribution
Concept and performance: Davi Pontes, Wallace Ferreira
Management and diffusion: Something Great
Coproduction
35th São Paulo Biennal – choreographies of the impossible, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne.
Residencies
Festival ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne, tanzhaus nrw, Kondenz festival, La Becque.
Photos
© Fe Avilla
