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PERFORMANCE . ):)

Pirarucu - filho de peixe, peixe é
2024


Light design and operation

  • The pirarucu is a mysterious Amazonian fish, guardian of the river’s secrets and memories. Considered one of the largest freshwater fish in the world, it has tough scales and can breathe air, allowing it to survive even in dense, low-oxygen waters. It was once human and today reigns over the riverbed.


    In Pirarucu – Filho de peixe, peixe é, Mandí Kaibô weaves ancestral memories and knowledge into the living body of clay, drawing from his life in community and, above all, from his grandmother Joveniana Gomes da Silva, a seamstress and inventor of imaginary worlds, who taught him the first and most precious lessons of life. As he transforms into a fish, he intones a telluric exultation among cords and clay beads, whose repeated gestures dismantle the imposition of colonial forgetting, making the unspeakable emerge.


    Following Com-Fiar, a durational and community-based performative act followed by the exhibition Roda que não tem fim at TBA in December 2025, Mandí Kaibô is now in an artistic residency at Alkantara, gathering with artists drawn to this mystery to create the performance and exhibition Pirarucu – Filho de peixe, peixe é, a work dedicated to the memory of his enchanted grandmother, Joveniana.

  • Performance, Sculpture, Creation and Direction Mandí Kaibô

    Light Lui L’Abbate

    Movement direction Jorge Ciprianno

    Sound Gadutra

    Spiritual guidance Pedro Barbosa

    Vocal coaching Madu

Bixa Bixo
2026


Light design and operation

  • Bixa Bixo is an artistic immersion that articulates queerness, ecology, and gender through an intersectional performative approach. The work investigates dissident alliances between body, forest, and night, proposing a fluid and hybrid expression of identities and relationships between human and non-human. The dramaturgy dissolves binary categories, constructing a performative syntax that highlights the interdependence of ecosystems and the multiplicity of ways of existing. Between the animal, the queer person, and the forest, through the enchantment of the night, transhuman corporealities emerge, in which the queer body recognizes itself as living and untamed ecology. Bixa Bixo presents itself as an aesthetic and political practice, repositioning nature as an active agent of resistance. — Coletivo Afrontosas

  • Creation, artistic direction, performance and set design
    DIDI, tony omolu, ROD 


    Sound creation
    Xu Lopes
    Lighting
    Lui L’Abbate

    Costumes
    Neusa Trovoada

    Production
    Lysandra Domingues, Amina Bawa

    Dramaturgy support
    Gisela Casimiro

    Artistic supervision
    Melissa Rodrigues

    Stage assistant
    Isabel Zuaa 


    Creation support/Acknowledgments
    Polo Cultural Gaivotas | Boavista, Casa da Dança - Almada, EVC (artistic residencies), Associação Parasita (residency), CEA - Moita (technical residencies), Espaço Alkantara, O Espaço do Tempo, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva

URRO
2023


Performative light operation

  • I have invented the unicorn-bear in order to exist on the inner edges of the queer community. I call for a hybrid and plural being as an alternative to the (self-styled) gay tribe of bears that exalts normative masculinity. I claim new imaginaries by producing a clash between the unicorn-pop and the sweetness and ferocity of the animal-bear. Desire and eroticism reveal other bodies in my body, a fat territory, and the big wide world.

    “In this investigation, I valorise my feminine traits and fabricate my own representation to escape from cis-normative masculinity.” A social survival strategy. A search for my own mythology. It’s an autobiographical work with the narrative given by the “vibration of the body”, as he puts it. The piece aims to provoke collective responsibility in the formulation of this new body.

  • creation, direction, light design and performance: Andrei Bessa

    soudscape: Ágatha Cigarra

    performative light operation: Lui L’Abbate

GIGANTESCA
2023


Light design and performative operation

  • The weight of this failure accelerates my mass towards success. Izabel Nejur, in her new work, presents desires and pleasures as a possible score for narratives that involve the imaginary of strength.


    The defense of this artistic object is achieved through the resolution of an equation invented by the performer: GxF=P (GIGANTESCA x Force = Pleasure). Faced with this calculation resolved on stage, concepts of physics, the body, and movement are invoked to achieve enjoyment through acceleration.


    This GIGANTESCA work is the blatant translation of launching a challenge on the physicality found in musical scores from the perspectives of interest and delight. In this exercise, Izabel Nejur places herself at the center of the stage, in her first solo. Wet, with her enormous ponytail, she rises, elevates, resists, sweats, agitates, and purges her relationships with the force and resignation of the mass.

  • Direction and creation: Izabel Nejur

    Dramaturgy: Era Rolim

    Production: Mandí Silva

    Costumes: Marine Sigaut

    Scenography: Alex Simões

    Soudscape: Rezmorah

    Photography: Ska Batista

    Light design and performative operation: Lui L’Abbate

    Artistic collaboration: Maruan Sipert

    Support: wwwperformanceart; Palácio do Grilo, Fórum Dança, Piscina, O Rumo do Fumo

Kebra3000
2022


Light design

  • ☀Kebra 3000☀ A spectacle ☀Kebra 3000☀ a choreocinematographic installation that invents an Irregular red post-myth by playing with incorporations of choreography and cinema as founders of an apparently common attraction, which is movement. An imaginary choreographic project. This event invokes a possible idea of the cinema body. The possibility of a fictionalized real from imagery documents, which contain ideas about fissure.

    Lorrayne was a young red girl who was born from the sun and thirsty for cold beer in the styrofoam. She also loved wearing her mother’s clothes. At the age of 3oo0 she decides to sign up for a project which was called ☀Kebra 3000☀. Giving her the opportunity to choose which moment in time in history she would like to be reborn. What really changed the course of her life was realizing that she was in 2022 as an independent worker for green receipts.

  • cirection-conception in performance / performer: Era Rolim

    cinematography: Gabriela Giffoni

    camera girl: Ferferfer

    dance colaboration: Bibi Dória

    scenography: Frederico Pauleta

    production and scenic objects: Mandí Kaibô

    light design: Lui L’Abbate

    performatic light operation: Bee Barros 

    music by: Rezgate

    supported by: Damas, Electronic Warfare, Coffeepaste, Palácio do Grilo, Rua das Gaivotas6, Silenevents

Tita no País das Maravilhas
2021


Light design and operation

  • In Wonderland, Tita transforms, experiences adventures and is confronted with the absurd, the impossible, questioning everything she has learned so far. The body as an eternal novelty.

    An artistic creation based on subjective physicality, political body and dance as a primal need. A combination of performance, installation, dance and music, that raises questions in order to blur the idea of ​​BODY and LANGUAGE. The dramaturgy is based on the journey of a trans woman and artist-performer, supported by the psychophysical changes of gender transition, to create a bodily repertoire that communicates through the subjectivities and powers of this body.

    Wonderland claims to dance the novelty, the unknown and the encounter. Mixing “Alice in Wonderland”, the famous novel of Lewis Carrol, with the history and intimacies of Tita Maravilha.

  • Direction and performance: Tita Maravilha

    Assistance: Era Rolim

    Sound direction: Cigarra

    Art direction: Marine Sigaut

    Lighting: Lui L'Abbate

    Audiovisual direction: Gadutra

Mar aberto - Espaço breve
2019


Light design, technician and operation

  • direction: Duda Affonso

    performance: Era Rolim

    light: Lui L’Abbate

    curator: Ana Rocha