An Artist Talk(s) with Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira (tanzhaus nrw)

An Artist Talk(s) with Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira

Following up on the performance of “Repertório N.2”: https://tanzhaus-nrw.de/de/veranstaltung/2025/05/repertorio-n2

”The experience of trance is precisely this: to inhabit different temporalities and to produce, in a body, multiple corporealities. From the many historical time zones that co-form that state, gestures, voices, speeches, syntaxes emerge. They no longer foretell the present’s many futures but indicate pasts we are yet to live.“ (José Fernando Peixoto de Azevedo: Letter to Lepecki, 2021, p. 163)

The repertoires of Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira confront us with the question of the temporality of violence – with its repetitions, suspensions and recurrences, with its transmutations, refinements and persistence. In conversation with the theater artist and scholar Felipe dos Santos Boquimpani, we consider to what extent the scenic arts in the current transnational and postcolonial constellation are involved in a complex and delicate discussion of the historical entanglement between violence, culture, and ideological societies: What temporalities are recovered, imagined and deferred in the transit between formally former colonies and metropoles? What kind of bodies are produced there? And what knowledge do they presuppose? For if States, institutions and choreographies reinforce colonial, racial and hetero-cis-patriarchal orders, Pontes & Ferreira develop a power play that reverses and returns this negative. But how can another time be embodied in the public?