Há Violência no Silêncio? 

HÁ VIOLÊNCIA NO SILÊNCIO [Is there Violence in the Silence?] Is an intimate examination of the ways in which we silently witness, swallow, digest and survive daily violence on an individual and collective level.

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Four to seven women sew together ten scenes in buildings or sites in a state of decay. The intimate spacing, the dramaturgy between light and shadow, the diversity of soundscapes layering the volumes of silence, the muted memories of what once happened all choreograph an aesthetic experience in which all those watching become participants, witnesses and not mere spectators. They become in fact companions of all that transpires in the rooms, corridors and kitchen.

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The creative process for this work produced the Incendiary Body Methodology, a series of movement and voice exercises shared and developed between Nirlyn Seijas, Ana Brandão, Nefertiti Charlene Altan, Carol Tomé, Thiago Cohen, Flora Rocha, Thais Gouveia, Daniela Lisboa and Brisa Morena. Aimed at developing a dramaturgy among performers rooted in a vastness of individual and collective courage and care, the exercises build kinetic trust over time with self, space, gravity, coordination, and people in the room. The focus for each practice within the methodology is to tap into and release the reserves of power within to produce individual, shared and supported expressions of power throughout.

 

Through consensual touching, laughing, crying, embracing, jiggling, sounding, imagery and play, the exercises in this methodology explore power as a dynamic and versatile embodied experience, moving between the aesthetics and performance of individual, paired and group formations of power. 

Some of the exercises include:
Guided touch therapy exchange

Moving your Inner Waters

Laugh-cry cycling

The monstrous face

The fight for space

What is your superpower?​

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*Original text written in Portuguese by the producers of this project, Deslimites Mediações Artísticas. Summary and translation done by Nefertiti C. Altán.