Corpos D’água
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Coletivo Transatlânticas
A cor dos olhos de minha mãe era cor de olhos d’água – the colour of my mother’s eyes was the colour of water – Conceição Evaristo
The movement of the rivers, the rhythm of the tides and the cycles of abundance and water scarcity are the starting point of this performance. The choreography is based on listening to the historic and aesthetic experiences of Black womyn on the move in a participatory format made of perception, dialogue, silence and a call to end violence against womyn. It invites us to reflect on the healing process of the body from a Black feminist perspective that emerged from the political movements in the Northeast of Brazil.
Performance and Concept: Bárbara Luci Carvalho
Collaboration with: Ana Graça Correia Wittkowski, Betânia Ramos Schröder, Silvana Carvalho da Fonseca, Rejane Stuntebeck
Texts: Bárbara Luci Carvalho, Nora Amin, Betânia Ramos Schröder
Design/Costumes: Nós Macramê – Cássio Caiazzo and Erick Simões
Stage: Bernhard Bub
Funder and (co)producers: HessischeTheaterakademie, antagon theater AKTion, protagon e.V.,
Language: English, Portuguese
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BIOS:
Ana Graça Correia Wittkowski was born in Salvador da Bahia, the fifth of eight children, and has lived in Germany since 1993. Studied Portuguese language and literature at the Federal University UFBa in Brazil. Later postgraduate studies in Modern Brazilian Literature at the UEFS Bahia. Studied Ethnology and Lusitanian Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. Educator, cultural scientist, parent counselor, author, speaker on the Afro-Brazilian diaspora, daycare center specialist for diversity, founder of the German-Brazilian cultural association BrasilNilê e.V.
Bárbara Luci Carvalho (she/her) is an interdisciplinary performance maker and educator working in line with decolonial and migrant perspectives, especially in theatre and dance. Since 2010 she has been working in Frankfurt am Main in collaboration with the international ensemble antagon TheaterAKTion. Previously, she completed her education in theater pedagogy at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and is currently a student in the M.A. program in choreography and performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen. Her artistic and pedagogical work is grounded in afro-diasporic contemporary dance, physical theatre and feminist theatre of the oppressed, theatre anthropology, butoh dance, body awareness and somatic education.
Betânia Ramos Schröder is a single mother, sociologist at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco in Recife (Brazil) and at the University of Hamburg, author, transnational activist and daughter of Oxum as well as a lecturer on anti-racism, political participation and social movements in Brazil. She works as a consultant for project monitoring and implementation in the field of international cooperation. In addition, she is active in various initiatives such as the AfroBras Initiative and the association BrasilNilê e.V. and is involved in various writing projects with feminist, Afro-diasporic women.