Invited curator: Luh Maza

The Encounter is a space to rekindle theatrical creation methodologies starting with the disruptive experiences of non-dominant knowledge. Thoughtful and practical exchanges will be carried out in which the corporeities take risks in new possibilities of meeting: other ways of crisscrossing space and scene making. The mix of panels and workshops, soirées and gatherings intend to push the affections,  vectorized by the transfeminist perspective of gender transition in the theatrical area: from theatre to teatra¹. The outline is to urge new pedagogies based on trans knowledge.

In this Encounter edition, theatrical art itself is the theme. Taking to the core a metacritical discussion and bringing creations and creators from the margins to the focal point, we merge São Paulo once again with conceptions and experiments on trans crafts in the arts.

The production of non-binary, trans men and women and travesti² artists, rethink the mechanisms of scenic expression while introducing new languages of making and new themes in the repertoire of renowned stories. We focus on discussions relevant to the post-identity era – a strategy that empties the meaning and feeling of artists.

The Encounter returns to the Brazilian theatre historiography in a decolonial eye at our texts and writers. In 2024, we reflect, rethink and resume the identity of theatre history itself or, better, of the teatra, as a way of reading memory and drawing the future.

All events were created by the curator and proposed to the invited artists for this edition. 

¹ The word “teatra” makes a pun with the masculine noun “theatre”, changing the gender of the word to feminine. 

² No Brasil, o termo travesti é utilizado ao lado de termos como “trans” e “transexual”. Parte da comunidade prefere se identificar como “travesti” como uma forma de empoderamento e resistência, já que no passado o termo foi usado como xingamento transfóbico.