Audio Transcribed

Hey, everyone! My name is Cafi—like café, but with an I. I am the one irresponsible for the show Carlos Filipe in Trouble, and I was really happy when Farofa invited me to talk about the creative process and the development of the show. 

I keep thinking about how my show is a street performance—a street circus show filled with clowning. And I believe clown performances are always in process. The process is truly infinite because, with each performance, we discover and rediscover things that have already been done or, sometimes, completely new things that might happen only in that specific show. It’s a performance based on truth, on the relationship with the audience and the space where it is presented. And that changes everything, all the time—it’s always transforming. 

That’s why I love choosing this format, this platform—the street. I always say that when I pass the hat at the end of a performance, in the shows where I do that, for me, the circus is really just an excuse to create these encounters with people in public spaces—passing the hat is just part of it. 

Beyond that, I truly believe in what my fellow Brazilian Milton Nascimento says in his song (and I’m happy to have been saying this for a long time, not just now after the injustice he faced at the Grammys): "Every artist must go where the people are." And I wouldn’t trade the street, or these encounters with such diverse people in so many different places, for anything. 

That’s it! Long live Farofa—let’s go!