*Apocalypso*, Luara Raio © Rachel Pimentel

Échelle Humaine
Luara Raio Apocalypso

[Échelle Humaine]

Apocalypso is a duet conceived and directed by Luara Raio, performed and co-created with Brazilian dancer and choreographer Acauã El Bandide Sereia.

Apocalypso attempts to tear away the veils covering the invisible mechanisms of world colonisation, in order to destroy them. This destructive wave is rooted in a sensitive intersection activated by the body, as a cartography of a hybrid place where performance, spirituality and fiction blur their boundaries. Apocalypso invokes the opacity of certain "undergroud" images, masked by a racist, colonial and cis-heteronormed vision of the world. Through the performance of their two racialised and queer bodies, guided by ancestral and animist invocations, the duo remind us that "we are crossroads" and that we need to be together and share our stories.

Please note the use of stroboscopic effects during the show.

Credits

Design and direction, Luara Raio
Choreography and interpretation, Luara Raio and Acauã El Bandide Sereia
Lighting, Lui L'Abbate
Set and Costume Design, Luara Raio and Anat Bosak

Coproduced by Centro Cultural de Belém; O Espaço do Tempo & Rua das Gaivotas 6 (Lisbon); Teatro Praga (Lisbon); CND Centre national de la danse (Pantin)
In residency at Honolulu (Nantes); Criatório - Circolando (Porto); ICI-CCN Montpellier-Occitanie - directed by Christian Rizzo; Forum Dança (Lisbon)
With the support of Fonds de soutien à l'insertion post exerce initiated by ICI-CCN Montpellier-Occitanie - direction Christian Rizzo ; Drac Occitanie / ministère de la Culture; Circolando; Centro Cultural de Belém; O Espaço do Tempo & Rua das Gaivotas 6 (Lisbon); CND Centre national de la danse (Pantin)
Financing DGarts; Government of Portugal

+ info

50min

Minimum age : 16 years old

Please telephone directly the theatre booking office or register to the waiting list for shows which are listed as “sold out” on the Festival website.

Lafayette Anticipations
Fondation Galeries Lafayette

September 15 and 16

9, rue du Plâtre 75004 PARIS

Fri. 15 and Sat. 16 September
Fri. 8:30, sam. 5:30
8 € to 12 € | Subscription 8 €

Partners

TEASER I Festival d'Automne 2023 x Festival Échelle Humaine

Further information about the show

Luara Raio et Acauã El Bandide Sereia
Atelier de pratique

Sun. September 17 at 11:30am
Duration: 1h30
Free with reservation lafayetteanticipations.com

A practical workshop with artists Luara Raio and Acauã El Bandide Sereia, to welcome new entities into your body.

"We see moments of transmission as a bold exchange of our survival tactics, in dance, in war, in love. Practices of radical desire, of abysmal listening, of hearing the heart, of looking at the world through someone else's eyes, of tearing our skin, of inviting other bodies to inhabit our bodies. Or simply making room for other animals, spirits and entities that already inhabit us. To traverse these universes, we rely on the imagination, which enables us to cast a spell on the world. Pleasure is the spell that protects our joy from the world that wants us dead. Spirituality is the force field that cuts through the spiral of time; organised anger is the sharp knife that cuts through it. Our practice always starts from our bodies - South American, racialised, sexually deviant bodies - as a political and bio-mythographic space of revolution and celebration."
Luara Raio and Acauã El Bandide Sereia

Public meetings

Sat. 16th and Sun. 17th September
Sat. Sun. 4pm / duration: 1h15
Free with reservation lafayetteanticipations.com

Party (outside the wall)

Saturday, September 16, 11pm
At the Klub in partnership with the Jerk Off Festival
7 to 10 € I Reservation lafayetteanticipations.com

Biographie(s)

Luara Raio

A performer, dancer, dyke funk singer and choreographer, Luara Raio trained in the performing arts between Brazil, Portugal and France: at the University of Brasília, Forum Dança in Lisbon and ex.e.r.ce at the CCN de Montpellier-Occitanie. She was singer and composer with the funk group Sapabonde from 2010 to 2015, travelling around many Brazilian cities singing about the lesbian experience, from lesbian to lesbian. In Portugal, she works with João Fiadeiro, Mariana Tengner de Barros, Miguel Pereira, Ana Borralho and João Galante. In 2016, she created her first piece, the duo Chubby Bunny, as well as her solo Flecha. In 2019, she will create Quadrilogia Da Encruzilhada, a series of dances at the intersection of spirituality, imagination and performance. Her work is rooted in a lesbian, racialised, anti-colonial perspective of the body that aims to activate threats and fractures in hegemonic representations of gender, race and the body.

Acauã El Bandide Sereia

Raised by women teachers and her grandfather a craftsman, Acauã El Bandide Sereia graduated in Theatre from IFCE (2009), in Dance from Curso Técnico em Dança (2012), and PACAP3 in Performing Arts from Fórum Dança (2019).She explores the in-between of interactions and uses the "Gambiarra" (game) to search for possible images of Democracy in the bodies of queer performance. She seeks to reposition pedagogical and artistic language between confusion, dreams, nightmares, the subtle and the obscene. In 2022 she completed her Master's degree at ICI - Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier with the projects Além de vocês, o que tem pra comer hoje? and Nuages clouds nuvens intergalactiqueer. She danced in the shows Apocalypso by Luara Radio, En Feijoada by Calixto Neto and Ana Laura Nascimento, and in Nadia Beugré's piece Prophétique (on est déjà né-es). Acauã El Bandide Sereia is an artist supported by La Briqueterie - CDCN du Val-de-Marne in 2022/ 2023. She currently lives in Saint Denis.

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