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Repertoire #3
ORIGINAL TITLE: Repertório N.3
ARTIST: Davi Pontes e Wallace Ferreira
45 min | Age Rating: 18+
19 and 20/3, Wednesday and Thursday, 9pm
PLACE: Centro Cultural São Paulo
SYNOPSIS
The performance is the final part of a trilogy of choreographic practices initiated in 2018 by Rio-based artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira. Drawing from postcolonial studies on gender and race, the duo explores how to create a dance of self-defense, understood as a tactical elaboration to confront physical, imaginary, and epistemological violence. The aim is to choreograph unique forms of resistance for dissident bodies and provide them with ways to persist in the world. To achieve this, the work employs strategies such as mimesis and posing, creating a play of meanings that layers time and imagery.
BACKGROUND
Davi Pontes is an artist, choreographer, and researcher. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in arts from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and was awarded the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award (2022) and the Artlink – 100 Artists Worldwide recognition in 2022. He participated as one of the artists in the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – Choreographies of the Impossible and choreographed Variação for the São Paulo City Ballet. Currently, he is part of the roster of artists featured in the 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM/SP).
Wallace Ferreira, also known as Patfudyda, is a choreographer, performer, and visual artist. Trained at the Escola Livre de Artes da Maré and EAV Parque Lage, she won the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award (2022) and the FOCO ArtRio Award (2024). Alongside Davi Pontes, she develops the Repertoire trilogy, which approaches dance as a form of self-defense training. She is the director of the performances ATRAQUE and Vogue Funk, where she engages the body as a historical agent, repositioning naturalized codes within social spheres and devising ways to subvert languages. In ballroom culture, she is the Legendary Imperatriz of the House of Mamba Negra.
CRITICAL RECEPTION
“If the Black body at rest is suspicious and, in motion, a threat, Pontes and Ferreira find in this choreographic practice possible strategies to reimagine imaginaries, proposing shifts in the symbolic meanings of Black presence in a world that has yet to ensure the existence and dignity of these lives.” Maria Luiza Meneses, em texto publicado no catálogo da 35ª Bienal de São Paulo – Coreografias do Impossível
“[The trilogy] is about creating a bodily repertoire, a kind of movement database that looks at the history of choreography—developed alongside modernity—and attempts to deconstruct it, creating a sort of anti-choreography (…) Davi and Wallace suggest thinking of race as a dimension rather than an identity, a dimension that is difficult to translate into words. Perhaps that is why it must be danced.” Beta Germano, Vogue
CREDITS
Choreography & Performance: Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira
Executive Production: Netto
Production Coordination: Rafael Fernandes – Quafá Produções
International Distribution: Something Great
Co-Production: 35th Bienal de São Paulo – Choreographies of the Impossible, Arsenic – Center for Contemporary Performing Arts
Artistic Residencies: ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, Arsenic – Center for Contemporary Performing Arts (Lausanne), tanzhaus nrw, Kondenz Festival, and La Becque
