PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS:

Tieta Macau
Amandyra
Ruan Francisco
Tuan Fernandes

Audio Transcribed

Brinquedo is a creation process within a research platform I have called Represas do Tempo (Dams of Time), which aims to be a collection of works where I delve into studying and creating from the relationships of time, enchantment, and the composition of narratives about healing and care, all rooted in our Afro-Pindorama existences. Along this journey, there are other works like Lança, Rezos Para Rasgar o Mundo (Prayers to Tear the World Apart), among other practices. 

In Brinquedo, I focus my research on understanding the relationship of the body that plays, the playful body, and how this playful being appears in multiple Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous dances, either as an enchanted being, or a presentified being, or in action, moving into states of incorporation. It’s through this path that we continue to construct our dances, also diving into the work of Jaider Esbell, Where Dreams Come From, thinking about the multiplicity of colors that could evoke a fabulous or enchanted universe, but one that also comes from a relationship with deep darkness—the same darkness that lies in time, beneath the earth, where things decompose, the same darkness that exists beyond us in the universe. Anyway, that’s the scene, dance, research, and experience we’re creating. 

Bio

Transdisciplinary artist, son of the serpent, creator of scenic macumbarias and native crafts. Tieta Macau is interested in creative processes, Afro-referenced stage production, popular poetics, Afropindoramic art history, dance writing and other crossroads. Creator, performer, curator, teacher, a restless person. He was approved for the 2020/2021 edition of the Creation Laboratories at Porto Iracema das Artes (CE) with the project Lança Cabocla. With the project Assombros e Trincheiras he was approved in the creation category of Panorama Raft, in co-production with the Panorama Festival (RJ). Invited to tutor two projects in the 2021 and 2022 editions of the Dance and Theater Creation Laboratories at Porto Iracema das Artes. One of the artists invited to collaborate on the EhCHo Platform 2021 edition, an international promotion and dissemination platform created by Denise Ferreira da Silva and other artists and researchers. He was awarded Best Actress in a Short Film at the 49th Gramado Film Festival and Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film at the 43rd Guarnicê Film Festival. He was selected in 2022 for the PACT ZOLVERREIN (ALE).One of the artists to take part in SESC-SP's Modern Art Week centenary programs, such as Manifesta 22 na Encruzilhada and Festival Refestália. Also in 2022, he took part in the DDD Festival (Dias de Dança - Porto/POR). With Ancés he was selected to take part in MIT Br 2022 (International Theatre Festival) and invited to take part in FITBH 2022 (Belo Horizonte International Theatre Festival), and in the 30th edition of the Santiago a Mil Festival in Chile. With Lança Cabocla in 2024 he appeared at MIT Br (SP), SESC Corpo Negro (RJ), SESC Pompeia (SP) and FIT BH (MG). With Amandyra, she collectively directed the show Utrópicos with the closing class of the Initiation Course in Contemporary Dance - CIDIC, and recently they also created and directed the residency and show A'massa: Pindorama sampleada. He is a member of the show Vulcão Anastácia: o concerto, with which he has given numerous performances and was in Maré Cearense at SESC Ipiranga. In 2024 he curated the FNT and recently the SESC Corpo Negro Indigena (SESC RJ/2025). He was recently a substitute lecturer in dance at UFC, has a degree in Theater from UFMA (MA), a master's degree in Social History from UFC (CE), and is studying for a PhD in Performing Arts at ECA/USP.

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