Last Tango hosted a series of performances in the frame of zürich moves! Since 2012, the zürich moves! festival has been presenting contemporary dance, dance films and performance art developed in the context of boundary-crossing and gender-transcending artistic engagement. It is curated by Marc Streit.
zürich moves!
Various Performances by Wellington Gadelha, Victor Oliveira and Valerie Reding
On Eating And Being Eaten
zürich moves! is back with a focus on South America. The core theme of this year's festival edition is cultural cannibalism. Hence the title "On Eating And Being Eaten". Eating and being eaten in the sense of appropriating cultural forms of expression. The question always arises as to whether the appropriation is abusive, hurtful or disrespectful and what purpose it serves. Especially in a culturally modern, open and mixed society, we must not rest on our laurels. With its events, the festival would like to remind us that it is necessary to constantly adjust and question our own thoughts and actions. Political correctness alone is no longer enough. Resistance and action are needed!
Gente de lá - Wellington Gadelha: Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 9 PM – 9:30 PM
Gente de lá (People from out there) is a black, transversal work which comes from the outskirts of Northeast Brazil to, at once, poetically denounce racial inequalities and propose social confrontations. While Gente de Lá renders its own urgencies and mingles politics and subjectivities, it also regards disturbing issues such as the policies of the prisional system, the mass murders of black population, and the favela culture.
About Gadelha is a Brazilian artist, developer of the Afrontamento (Confronting) Platform. His interests range from Performance Art to video, installation works, and imersive processes in art and technology, specially soundscapes. Gadelha collaborates also with collectives of artists and grassroots organizations concerned with human rights issues, peripherical cultures, and black youth. His current project, Gente de Lá has been awarded the Rumos Itau Cultural prize and Premio Funarte de Artes Visuais.
Credits Conception, dramaturgy, and sound design Wellington Gadelha Music Production Dj Pedro Ribeiro Set design Wellington Gadelha, Emanuel Oliveira Dramaturgical collaborators Luiz de Abreu, Leonardo França, Thereza Rocha, Andréa Bardawil Graphic Design Diogo Braga Production Plataforma Afrontamento Partnerships Trincheira, Escola Porto Iracema das Artes, Galpão da Vila Funded by Rumos Itaú Cultural Videos and Photo ©Priscilla Sousa, Luiz Alves
Pôr Nu - Victor Oliveira: Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 9:30 PM – 10 PM
Pôr Nu is a bodily encounter between the performer and the audience. It proposed to find a common state and experience toghetherness. The actions proposed in sheer proximity expose the body, its holes, and genitals. Post-porn-body, Body-object, Desiring-body. Credits Conception, creation and interpretation Victor Oliveira Production Jorge Soledar Creation space Lab_Performance, EBA - UFRJ Acknowledgments Vinicius Oliveira, Andrea Martins, Idris Bahia, Mario Netto, Uira Clemente, Rafael Amorim, Jorge Soledar, Felipe Ribeiro, Eleonora Artsenky, Tais Almeida, Lucas Fonseca, Rogeria Feminino, Filipe Nantel, Yuri Dias, Juliana Ribeiro Whaner (Collective Quadro Vivo), Nadam Guerra, Cande Costa, Cecilia Cotrim, Rayan Pires Sarmento, Thaina Farias, Improvável Produções Artísticas, Phabrika das Artes, Z42 Arte Contemporanea and Espaco Montagem Photo ©Silvana Marcelina
Why don’t you do right - Valerie Reding: Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 8 PM – 11 PM
long-durational interactive performance “We’re born naked, everything else is drag”, RuPaul said and then argued, why no cis- nor trans-women should be allowed on Drag Race, because “drag loses its sense of danger and its sense of irony once it’s not men doing it”. When fem bodies perform femininity, who is to say who is paying tribute to whom, who has the right to subverting what and ultimately: who is really (re-)appropriating femininity from whom?
About
Valerie Reding works at the intersection of performance, dance, photography and video. Exploring the potential of vulnerability, transformation and elements of drag, she inquires gender roles and norms of bodies, identities and sexualities. Her work has been shown in galleries such as Commonwealth & Council and FORMA Arts Contemporains, at festivals like zürich moves!, The Queer Biennial II, La Fête du Slip and Porny Days as well as at theaters like Tanzhaus Zürich, Arsenic and CounterPulse.
Credits concept, performance, costume and set design Valerie Reding technical support David Baumgartner dramaturgical advisor Marc Streit Assistance Nico Dubosson Photo ©Valerie Reding www.valeriereding.com
