Eunuchs
Irmãs Brasil
São Paulo/ SP and Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 2019 | 40 min | Parental Rating 18+
ORIGINAL TITLE
Eunucos
5/3, Tuesday, 5pm
6/3, Wednesday, 5pm and 7:30pm
Biblioteca Mário de Andrade | Sala Tula Ferreira
Rua da Consolação, 94, República
Online booking, up to 2 tickets per person, through the Sympla website from February 2, Monday, at 12am.
SYNOPSIS
Created during the artistic residency of the first class of Escola Livre de Artes da Maré, in Rio de Janeiro, the work brings a reflection on historical castration processes, transition technologies and gender performances. Using performative elements of dance and theatre, Irmãs Brazil negotiates life and desire onstage: the creation of the work also sets the beginning of the transition process of the artists. Conducting images and body signs in a harsh way, their existence takes the form of wild horses, mermaids and Liliths crossing time and space, activating a death and resurrection ritual.
HISTORY
Irmãs Brasil is a double existence of transvestite artists Viní Ventania and Vitória Jovem. Born into a family of rodeo cowboys, in Amparo, countryside of São Paulo, their first artistic references came from their mother, carnival drum queen, and their father, a rodeo clown. They live and work in Rio de Janeiro, where they build their poetics from the clash between the languages of dance, theatre and performance. The pair creates based on the body and urgent issues, conducting images and signs to elaborate deviations in heteronormative and colonial logic. In 2023, both were nominated for the Shell Theatre Award, in Rio de Janeiro, for their performances in the play Sem Palavras [No Words], by Companhia Brasileira de Teatro.
CRITIC
Their main work tool is the body, in order to question the values rooted in a patriarchal, heteronormative society, in addition to bringing to the centre of discussion the decolonization of the body, sexuality and political and social issues in Brazil.
The portal that Eunuchs opens discusses post-sexuality, the metaphysical possibility of fascination and how morality imprisons us in a notion of danger and/or sin, which prevents us from exploring densely, physiologically, honourably the gift of bodies as holders of wills, perception, pleasure, enlightenment. […] Eunuchs is an ascending spell which replaces us at the beginning, grants us with the invitation to restore the becoming of our animal bodies.
TECHNICAL SHEET
Concept, creation, performance and soundtrack: Irmãs Brasil
Artistic assistance: Andromeda
Photo: Marcos Madi
Hair stylist: Hair Deluxe
Production: Corpo Rastreado
