Bodies of the Border
November 22 and 23, 2025
Saturday and Sunday, 7 PM – Free

Bodies of the Border investigates the limits—physical, symbolic, and social—that run through bodies in contemporary Brazil. The work seeks to reflect on the plurality of bodies that call these borders into question: Black people, women, homosexuals, and people from the periphery come together in the belief that, together, individualities are enhanced—creating possible microfractures for understanding the world today. In times marked by social and symbolic distancing, the work proposes crossing these borders beyond the physicality that separates territories, affirming a longing for meeting, for recognition of one’s own body as a boundary, and for (s)kinesthetic experience as a ritual of sharing. By recognizing a portrait of the human condition as essentially collective, Bodies of the Border affirms the need to be together, to seek interactions, affiliations, and ways of coexisting. Onstage, hierarchies between social roles are tested and, in the best of scenarios, questioned and reconfigured, making room for new forms of relationship, listening, and presence.

These performances are part of the Rastro project, supported by the 37th edition of Dance Promotion (Fomento à Dança) for the city of São Paulo.