Cross-Cultural Dialogues
Hammer and Sickle
With: Rita von Hunty
Mediation: Conrado Dess
Critical reflections carried out in dialogue with the public. Guests from different fields of knowledge take a cross-cultural view in order to cross borders and expand the readings of the works in focus.
About
Rita von Hunty is the drag persona of actor and teacher Guilherme Terreri. With a degree in performing arts from UNIRIO and English Language and Literature from USP, Rita develops art-education work focused on the debate of social issues through Culture Studies. She performs in film, theatre, presents a TV show aired throughout Latin America (Drag Me As A Queen – NBCU) and has a YouTube channel, Tempero Drag, with one million subscribers.
Conrado Dess is a researcher, theatre director, playwright and PhD student in Performing Arts at the School of Communications and Arts at USP. He holds a Bachelor’s and MA degree in Performing Arts from the same institution, with the dissertation Representations and representativeness in the contemporary scene: notes on an aesthetic, political and social crossing, supervised by Sílvia Fernandes. During his master’s degree, he did a research internship at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid – Spain), supervised by researcher Óscar Cornago. He researches the relations between theatre and race, focusing on themes such as: black theatres, black representation in contemporary scene and aesthetic, political and social implications caused by the presence of non-hegemonic bodies in the scene.