OPEN REHEARSAL

In my search for philosophical and choreographic notions around the marvelous, I came across Ailton Krenak, philosopher doctor honoris causa from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, “one of the most important political voices in contemporary Brazil. Along with other indigenous intellectuals and activists, such as David Kopenawa and Daniel Munduruku” (Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, 2020). Ailton Krenak has published recently his ideas under the titles Ideas for postponing the end of the world, Life is not useful, and Ancestral Future.

Based on his definition of “life as an experience of wonderment and astonishment”, I am dreaming this solo-dance-conference in my living room, treating his words as musical scores. Eliane Brum, a journalist of El País and one of the creators of the journal of the central of the world Sumaúma, affirms radically that “the answers and solutions to the climate urgency will rather come from those who has always protected the forest and not from those who has always destroyed it”. So what I’m proposing here is to listen, while dancing, this important voice, together. My work is to compose a movement’s writing with his sentences. Dancing as a way to embody one’s criticism, to inhabit a reflection, to let oneself be crossed by other words, worlds, which denounce the devouring and the eaters of our world.