Rhythms of Resistance: Embodiment and Liberation

Intercultural Roots and Puma Camillê Producoes (Brazil) are delighted to receive £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. Intercultural Roots includes our Performance Research Group member Andrea Maciel Rodrigues.

Dialoguing between embodiment, ritual and resistance, Rhythms of Resistance undertakes an artistic survey of the multiplicity of ways in which the performance aesthetics of resistance offered by Capoeira and Vogue functions as rhythmic strategies of liberation for Black, LGBTQIAPN+ and other historically oppressed bodies. We believe that the opposite of dispossessed is embodied, positioning the body as key to unlocking the transformative potential of these practices of transgressive self-authorship. Offline and online provocations, augmented by digital innovation, will culminate in the production of an art film and an original sonograph, accompanied by an educational series and codex of text anthologising the process.