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I seek ways to present and share a process that has been and continues to be street, clubbing, intimate, crooked. It is a practical investigation and speculation, born of lived experience. Of being present in places and spaces, in the body, of being part of them. I tell stories, share family archives and others collected over many years. I question performance, academia, and weave together plants, the city, and social processes of destruction and creation of cultures and bodies. Literally to be traversed by many things. To be crossed. To cross, to bother. To be served on a tray. To be a cross-street between two major streets. To be a passage. To be passage itself.
Spaces for clubbing for a single body.
Oracles for endless parties.
To (un)solve the world.
— Piny
After the presentation, there will be a talk with the artistic team.
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Credits
Concept, artistic direction, texts and on-stage experience
Piny
Sound design and live act
Leo Soulflow
Video editing
Pedro Jafuno, Piny
Video archives
Piny’s personal archive and OU.kupa festival archive (photographic archive provided by Maiur Narendra, Rafael de Oliveira, Susana Luzir, Wilson Sanches, and documentaries Ballroom Seen, by El Bango, and Krump, by Pedro Jafuno and Dougie Knight)
Graphic design
Bruna Borges
Lighting design
Cárin Geada
Set design
Piny, Cárin Geada
Research and rehearsal support
Rebecca Mateus
Dramaturgical support
Cristina Planas Leitão
Production and distribution
Artist accompanied by Materiais Diversos, 2026 – 2028
Co-produced by
DDD - Festival Dias da Dança, Charleroi Danse - Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, Teatro do Bairro Alto
Residency co-production
Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (FR) - in partnership with CAMPUS PCS, O Espaço do Tempo, as part of the Associate Artist program
Residency support
Alkantara, A QUINTA, Sandim
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