friday 25 october

Apocalypso attempts to tear away the veils that cover the invisible mechanisms of world colonisation, in order to destroy them. By unfolding at the crossroads (‘encruzilhada’), the performance activates the body as a cartographic site where performativity, sexuality, spirituality, fiction and sorcery meet and blur their boundaries. Apocalypso invokes the opacity of certain underground images, masked by a racist, colonial and cis-heteronormed vision of the world.
Through the performance of their two racialised and queer bodies - guided by ancestral and animist invocations - the duo remind us that ‘we are crossroads’ and that we need to be together and share our histories.

‘Here, in the space we're in, the walls are softening. They are damp and begin to sweat a liquid full of pheromones that signal calm and pleasure. We also begin to sweat slightly, and our orifices are lubricated. I put my index finger in my mouth and, with the saliva I've collected, draw a crossroads on the floor. The wet trace begins to glow, while the inside of my mouth darkens. We're in the middle of the crossroads and the four directions around us are spiralling, sliding and exploding. We follow all the paths at the same time.’

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A performer, dancer, dyke funk singer and choreographer, Luara Raio trained in the performing arts between Brazil, Portugal and France: at the University of Brasília, at Forum Dança in Lisbon and at Exerce at the CCN of Montpellier-Occitanie. Iel was singer and composer with the dyke funk group Sapabonde from 2010 to 2015, travelling around many Brazilian cities singing about the lesbian experience, from lesbian to lesbian.

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(PT-EN-FR-ES) Acauã Shereya, elle é Brasileira, culrégraphe, professora, artiste visuelle, jardineira, artisane, escritora et pós-pornographic. Diplomada en Théâtre (2005) et en Danse (2012), she was a university professora from 2013 to 2015. Ela explore le between des interactions et utilise a "Gambiarra" para buscar as possíveis imagens of Democracy about the bodies de performatividade "Cuir" (Queer). Elle active l'euphorie, le délire, la dispersion et le juego dans ses processus pédagogiques et artistiques.

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Conceived and directed by Luara Raio
Performance: Luara Raio and Acauã El Bandide Sereia
Lighting: Lui L'Abbate
Set design and costumes: Luara Raio and Anat Bosak
Production, administration: OYA production
Coproduction Centro Cultural de Belém; O Espaço do Tempo & Rua das Gaivotas 6 (Lisbon); Teatro Praga (Lisbon); CND Centre national de
de la danse (Pantin)
Photos © Rachel Pimentel