Pedagogical Actions
A LITTLE CHAT
A LITTLE CHAT
WITH Monilson Mony Tolonã
- 12 de março, quinta, às 11h
- iBT – Brazilian Theater Institute | 4th floor
- Grátis | Retirada de ingresso pela Sympla
SYNOPSIS
Alexandra G. Dumas, curator of Ações Pedagógicas, speaks with Monilson Mony Tolonã, an artist performing in Aparition, Nego Fugido, a work that is part of PERFORMA12h. The staging, born from a popular manifestation, is a historical reparation carried out by Nego Fugido —one of the most traditional expressions of popular culture in the Recôncavo Baiano— which places Black people as protagonists in the achievement of the abolition of slavery.
BACKGROUND
Monilson Mony Tolonã is a quilombola and holds a teaching degree in theatre, as well as an MA and a PhD in performing arts. His research focuses on cosmovisions, aesthetics, Afro-Indigenous insurgent poetics, and processes of knowledge transmission in terreiro and quilombo cultures. He is also an actor and dancer, and his practical knowledge of dance, theatricalities, and musicalities comes from lived experience with cultural expressions of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, through research/fieldwork in search of “orikis subterrâneos.”
Alexandra G. Dumas is a professor at the UFBA School of Theater and at PPGAC/UFBA. She researches Afro-Brazilian popular cultures and Black-referenced pedagogies and stage poetics. She is a member of the Marujada de São Benedito in Prado, Bahia.