Invenção da Maldade / The Invention of Evilness - Marcelo Evelin (BR)
I am no longer there. But the space is still vivid in my body. The vast concrete floor. A square in the middle of the room guarded by four columns. The roaring sound of cars passing by outside. The occasional assault of rain showers on sheet metal. This dance performance can be seen in theatre Frascati.
Invenção da Maldade / The Invention of Evilness - Marcelo Evelin (BR)
Six dancers give expression to a primal fury
This place, which used to be an old storage building, is CAMPO in Teresina, Brazil. An artistic space created by choreographer Marcelo Evelin and producer Regina Veloso, where dance, performance, and photographic creations take place. The space is raw and unpolished and reflects the surrounding city, the surrounding country: a place where the lives lived are traversed by strong political tensions and immediate precarity. With the recent elections in Brazil, the atmosphere has intensified to political hopelessness in the face of a new leadership that promises nothing but more instability, more violence, and more intolerance towards minorities and artists.
I am not there. But I can imagine the six bodies in that large, horizontal space. Moving frantically, irregularly, enigmatically. How they approach and touch each other with a certain animality - a kind of affective aggression. A state of almost naive curiosity.
If you want to read more about this performance and buy tickets, go to the website.
| Thursday 30 March | 20:30 |
| Friday 31 March | 20:30 |