Thought-In-Process
The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu
With Saloma Salomão and Albert Ibokwe Khoza
Mediation Aline Vila Real
Guests from different fields of knowledge take a cross-cultural view about the festival’s shows, in dialogue with the artists and the audience. Reflections on the creation process and other themes are developed from the reading of the works in focus.
WHEN AND WHERE
March 10, Sunday, after the show
Municipal Theatre – Dome
Praça Ramos de Azevedo, s/n – República, São Paulo – SP
About
Saloma Salomão is a performer, historian and researcher. PhD in History from PUC São Paulo, he is a consultant and content writer for fiction and documentary films. He has released ten musical albums and received the Mestres da Cultura MINC Award in 2023.
Albert Ibokwe Khoza is a natural performance artist from South Africa. Continuously reveals and projects the solitary state of mind of a non-binary transmasculine female person and a sangoma (physical and spiritual healer). Through gender fluidity and ancestral practice, he expresses his thoughts moving between different artistic mediums to outline social ills and what his divergent nature see and interprets about the world in which he lives in, critically questioning his surroundings, his leaders and life itself.
Aline Vila Real is a cultural manager, curator and artistic director. For ten years, she was part of theatre group Espanca!, as production coordinator of the collective and the cultural space Teatro Espanca!, in Belo Horizonte. She had creative partnerships with performing arts and music artists and collectives and has curated and directed a number of festivals. She was the direction assistant of the play film Ficções Sônicas 02: Feitiço [Sonic Fictions 02: Spell] (2021), by Grace Passô, and the play Herança [Heritage] (2023), in which she was also part of the dramaturgy team. In public management, she was the Arts Promotion Director at Fundação Municipal de Cultura of Belo Horizonte and is currently Promotion Director at the National Arts Foundation – FUNARTE.