VIRA-LATA by Fernando Belfiore

We kindly invite you to VIRA-LATA, a powerful new performance by Brazilian choreographer Fernando Belfiore.
Vira-lata means "street dog", the mixed-breed survivors who roam freely through cities, full of spirit and resilience. Vira-latas carry the beauty of mixture, strength, and adaptability, a celebration of what’s wild, diverse, and uncontained.

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After the Social Sculpture Trilogy THE CAVE, THE FOUNTAIN, and THE MARKET, the wild and esteemed Brazilian queer choreographer based in Amsterdam, Fernando Belfiore, returns with a new sensuous mess.

Humorous and provocative, Belfiore starts from the notion of performance as an unfolding of our understanding of the material world and the social relations shaped by class struggle. Offering a visceral critique of consumerism and spectacle, the work alchemically stirs imagination and hope, regurgitating the concept of capitalism as religion.
The Vira-Lata Complex
The piece takes as its points of departure the Vira-Lata Complex — a term first coined by writer Nelson Rodrigues and later expanded by philosopher Marcia Tiburi to describe the inferiority complex of the colonized, their submission in the face of injustice and inequality — and the participatory practices of visual artist Lygia Clark, a seminal figure of the Tropicália movement.
The performance probes questions of obedience, fetishism, and trained domestication, while also devouring revolt itself. Our guts, nine meters of nerves and memory, become a stage where matter, emotion, and wildness break through.
Join us for this visceral experience — a sensuous, critical, and unruly new work by Fernando Belfiore.

photo Raghav Gajavelli, Nica Rosés

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