The idea of savage man-eaters has terrified Europeans in Brazil for centuries and was used as a pretext for the oppression and displacement of the indigenous Tupi culture. The act of devouring the colonisers is also a metaphor for dealing with dominant cultural influences, a self-conscious incorporation of differences. As a cultural practice, it became the principle of the cultural movement of Antropofagia in Brazil in the 1920s. The anthropophagic movement understands that Brazilian culture emerged under the sign of the critical and irreverent devouring of an otherness that was always already diverse and mutable. This performance explores how the principle of anthropophagy offers a recipe for self-assertion in the face of oppressions of a majority society. With four performers from four countries, oppression is exposed and deconstructed in a carnivalesque, orgiastic, non-elitist, ethnically mixed performance. Demarcations are dissolved and devoured, identities and foreign determination are consumed, ground up and regurgitated together with our discomfort. In a pendulum movement between destruction and construction, our commonalities and our identities are thus questioned and the hybrid is presented as the solution, the difference as that which connects us.

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𝙱𝚈 & 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷: 𝙰𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚢 𝙽á𝚐𝚒𝚕𝚊 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚜 𝚁𝚎𝚒𝚜 [𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚊, 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝, 𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎, 𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚐𝚢, 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚢], 𝚂𝚞𝚓𝚒𝚗 𝙻𝚎𝚎, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚘 𝙼𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚊, 𝙶ö𝚔𝚝𝚞ğ 𝙴𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚕 [𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎, 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚢], 𝙼𝚊𝚡 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙱𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚊 𝙰𝚕𝚊í𝚜 [𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚜], 𝙶𝚊𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚕 𝚉𝚘𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚘, 𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝙷ü𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛, 𝙹𝚊𝚌𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚂𝚊𝚔𝚒 𝙰𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚗 [𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚍𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚎], 𝙳𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎𝚕 𝙳𝚞𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚁𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚝 𝙻ü𝚝𝚓𝚎𝚗𝚜 [𝚜𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗], 𝙻𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝙺𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚝 [𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗], 𝙱𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚊 𝙰𝚕𝚊í𝚜 [𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚞𝚙], 𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙼𝚊𝚡 𝙷ü𝚋𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛 [𝚜𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗], 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚘 𝙼𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚊 [𝚌𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚜], 𝚁𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚒𝚛𝚎 [𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚒𝚌 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗].

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