Rhythms of Resistance is a three-day event exploring diasporic movements, embodied resistance, and intersectional expressions of gender, ability, and identity through performance, ritual, and rhythm.
Dialoguing between embodiment, ritual, and resistance, the gathering offers an artistic survey of the multiplicity of ways in which performance aesthetics rooted in Capoeira and Vogue operate as rhythmic strategies of liberation for Black, LGBTQIAPN+, and other historically oppressed bodies.
Day 1 – 18 July: Embodied Queer Liminality
A thread of workshops will focus on queer bodies in transit.
o 15:00–16:00 – Fernanda Mandagará (Brazilian actress and cabaret performer) leads a burlesque-cabaret workshop, investigating queer expressions through embodied affects.
o 16:10–17:10 – Manuela Benini (mass movement choreographer and activist) offers a fluid Tango session, bridging studio practice and public space, expanding fluidity in gender expression through dance.
o 17:20–18:30 – Almiro Andrade (Black Queer Latinx actor/director/dramaturg) closes the day with A Carnival of Emotions, exploring melodramatic structures as tools for personal development and gender fluid storytelling.
o 18:30–19:00 – Closure and group reflections.
Inclusion, free expression, network, liberation , healing, empowerment.
Languages: English and Portuguese
Rhythms of Resistance: Embodiment and Liberation is co-produced by Dr Andrea Maciel, Dr Alex Boyd, Puma Camillê, mulika Ojikutu-Harnett and various UK and Brazil artists.
Intercultural Roots and Puma Camillê Producoes (Brazil) are delighted to have received £75,000 funding from the International Collaboration Grants, run by the British Council to support the creation of new cultural collaborations between UK artists, arts professionals and organisations and their peers around the world.
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