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.
Soufiane Ababri: Revelling in the Intimacy of The Queer Arabic After Party
Bringing together installation, performance and drawing ‘Their mouths were full of bumblebees but it was me who was pollinated’ is a multidisciplinary exhibition that investigates the significance of rave culture and how it fosters an environment for gay men of Arabic heritage and beyond.