In Conversation with Davi Pontes: Using Dance and Movement as a tool for Self-Defence for the Black Dissident Body

What if dance could dismantle oppression? Artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira have spent years collaborating and developing choreographic methods to challenge the very structures that constrain bodies through race, sexuality, and gender. Their latest work, “Repertório No. 1”, interrogates the widespread societal violence enacted on black bodies and imagines how to create a future where the body can become a space of protection against the mechanisms of brutality.