The indigenous practice in performing arts
28/11/2021, domingo, 18h
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Artists get together to exchange their knowledge and practices in performing arts, identifying connections and differences on the ways of doing. In this chat, participants are invited for an extended reflection on theater and the indigenous peoples in Brazil, relating the role of the institutions, the receptivity experiences and audience formation.
With Emerson Uýra (AM), Lilly Baniwa (AM) and José Ricardo (RN)
Mediation: Carla Ávila (MS)
Emerson Uyra (AM)
Emerson is an indigenous visual artist. Graduated in Biology and holding a Master’s Degree in Ecology, works with art-education in communities by the riverside. Lives in Manaus, an industrial area surrounded by the Central Amazon, where he becomes Uÿra, a manifestation made of animal meat and plant that moves around for the exposition and healing of colonial systemic diseases. Through organic elements, using the body as a holder, he embodies this tree which walks and crosses his lines in photo performance and performance. He’s interested in the living systems and their violations, and, from the diversity point of view, dissidence, from the functioning and adaptation, he (re)tells natural stories, of enchantment and living crossings in the forest-city landscape.
Lilly Baniwa (AM)
Lilly Baniwa is an actress and indigenous academic of Performing Arts at the University of Campinas (Unicamp). Among her last accomplished projects, the video performance manifesto Lithipokoroda and the workshop Identity Performativities should be highlighted, both of them provided by Aldir Blanc Law in the Amazon State and developed in the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira.
José Ricardo (RN)
José Ricardo is an actor, arts/theater teacher at public and private schools, indigenous education coordinator in the city of São Gonçalo do Amarante/RN and is undertaking a Master’s Degree in Performing Arts at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). He’s currently researching the relations of the indigenous identity and art.
Carla Ávila (MS)
Carla Ávila is a choreographer, director, performer and a professor-artist. Holds a Doctor’s Degree in Education from University of Campinas (Unicamp) and another one in Arts from University of São Paulo (USP), she performs actions in the field of memory, orality and ancestrality in performing arts, art/education, corpography, Brazilian dances, poetical immersions and “artivism”. Carla is a professor-artist in the Performing Arts graduation, a collaborator at the Indigenous Intercultural Graduation – Teko Arandu from the Federal University of Grandes Dourados (UFGD) and artistic director of MANDI’O Group Performing Arts and Afro-Amerindians Culture.
