Choreographers Marcela Levi (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Lucía Russo (Patagonia, Argentina) explore different dance forms and traditions in their oeuvre. In one work, they delve into the rave culture of certain neighborhoods in Brazil, in the next, they tackle the historical and current stereotypes of the black body in dance in response to the domestication of people of African descent in Brazil who are told not to be too visible in public space.
Here, Levi and Russo film the animated screams and shouting during the daily “Casserolle protests” (the “pots and pans protests”) that rise every evening at 8.30 pm from the balconies in Brazil. The population hereby protests against the rule of Bolsonaro and his government as they largely ignore the recommendations of the World Health Organization WHO to prevent the spread of Covid-19. In this video, they combine images of the protests with fragments of one of their performances HARM — ONY. They also wrote an essay about it.
(essay and video are no longer available)