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GORFO
Performance Lecture
2019
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Footage Still: Deborah Smith-Wicke
"GORFO" is a performance lecture that tackles the question: "How can I, a middle-class white woman, create a dance that deals with the remnants of the Brazilian Colonisation?" In between the Brazilian Colonisation history within a study on the typical beverages and foods - Brazilian alimentation history based on the ethnographic books of Luis da Camara Cascudo and on the articles of the anthropologist José Reginaldo dos Santos Gonçalves, the performer elucidates through actions, gestures, habits, and Brazilian folk dances, the malaise and abjection phenomenon that emerge from realising the atrocities, genocides and rapes that led to birth Brazilian society.
Concept, choreography and lecture: Gab Branco
Mentor: Mariella Griel (AT) e Deborah Smith-Wicke (UK/GE)
Technical assistance: Júlia Iwanaga (BR) & Iria Arenas (ES)