Bâtard Sauvage | Festival Cumplicidades

Bâtard Sauvage | Festival Cumplicidades
Gaivotas Em Terra

Roberto Dagô

Bâtard Sauvage | Festival Cumplicidades


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Duration: 45min
Age-range: +16
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𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐒: 5€ / 7,5€
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“Bâtard Sauvage” or “Wild mongrel” is a choreographic piece that anchors the body in the “inverted world” of colonialism, through the image of the mongrel dog. The solo was particularly inspired by research into the term “mongrel complex”, which was marked in the 1950s, becoming popular since then as a kind of Brazilian psychosocial pejorative description. The imaginary of the Brazilian mongrel evokes not only notions of mestizaje, but also of precariousness, submission and humiliation. More deeply, however, the term finds its roots in the open wounds left by colonial processes, where the process of the other “savage” and underdeveloped occurs radically. The project approaches the body as a geopolitical territory where colonial violences must be recognised and fought, first of all, from inside the bodies. In this sense, the notion of border is closely linked to the notion of interiority.

CONCEPT AND PERFORMANCE: Roberto Dagô
ARTISTIC SUPPORT: Gretchen Schiller
LIGHT: Ramon Lima
TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Michel Morin
SUPPORT BY: LITT&ARTS, MaCI Maison de la Création et de L’innovation,
IdEX – Initiatives d’Excellence
Roberto Dagô

(Jaguaruna, Brazil, 1990) he is a performer, choreographer and director. He develops his work in territories of contamination of practices and materiality from the articulation between body, image and politics. Dagô is co-founder of the Franco-Brazilian creation platform BRUTA Corp. and is a collaborator of the dance company Anti Status Quo (since 2015), directed by Brazilian choreographer Luciana Lara, and of other transdisciplinary artistic collectives, such as Cia. Ví(Ç)eras (since 2010) and Coletivo Entrevazios (since 2014). He has performed in several major Brazilian festivals – such as MIT (São Paulo), Bienal de Dança (Ceará), Panorama (Rio de Janeiro), and Cena Contemporânea (Brasília), for example -, and international ones – at Camp_in (Mexico), FacàFac (France), FITEI+DDD (Portugal), Prague Quadrennial (Czech Republic), MLADI LEVI (Slovenia), BITEF (Serbia) and Zürich Moves (Switzerland) -. In 2015, he was selected for the category “Influencer of the Arts” for the project Portrait Brasília. Dagô holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Brasília and studied Scenography at the Technical University of Lisbon. He concluded the master Création artistique – Arts de la scène at UGA – Université Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France), where he was awarded with the scholarship IdEX – Initiatives d’Excellence to create the piece “Bâtard Sauvage”. He was one of the artists selected for PACAP 5 – Advanced Program for Creation in Performing Arts (2021-2022), at Fórum Dança (Lisbon, Portugal), curated and artistically mentored by João Fiadeiro, with the collaboration of Carolina Campos, Márcia Lança and Daniel Pizamiglio.