Tita Maravilha
#PRECÁRIAS II: Performance Festival
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Booking: €
PRECÁRIAS II: PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL is the brainchild of and conceived by the artist Tita Maravilha. Hybrid activist artist, inventor of universes. Brazilian travesti woman. Or the legend of the Pau Brasil. Actress, singer, performer, clown and DJ. Winner of the last edition of the Amélia Rey Colaço Scholarship, with the project “Es Três Irms”, a work
which addresses issues such as gender identity and intersectionality, through the idea of the political body, the pains and delights of being a dissident body.
PII:FP is an intercultural and community creation project, focused on certain bodies-identities – namely trans, queer, non-binary, feminine and racialized people – and is dedicated to creating alternative narratives that enhance contemporary performance, within a modus operandi in line with the precariousness of these changing stories.
PRECÁRIAS arises from the strength of resistance, even in such adverse contexts, and also happens as a collective celebration that aims to promote greater reflection on the world around us. It had its first edition in 2022, as a proposal to the Artista no Bairro project (a co-production Rua das Gaivotas 6, Teatro Cão Solteiro and Plataforma 285). The second edition aims to grow.
15 March
The Elite Kiki House of Bodega
Vogue Femme Workshop
Two sessions:
15h — 16h30 (beginners)
16h30 — 18h00 (all levels)
(Centro de Documentação da Rua das Gaivotas 6)
Presenting itself as one of the pillars of the ballroom community in Portugal, The Elite Kiki House of Bodega is a collective that arose from the need to establish safe spaces for racialized queer people. With queer ballroom culture as its matrix, Kiki House of Bodega is strongly driven by the legacy forged by racialized queer people, especially black trans women, thus aiming to provide spaces for free artistic expression, welcoming and celebrating everyone, with no place for prejudice and discrimination, thus intending to praise and give stage to members of the community, especially racialized queer people.
20h30
performance FQ 2 FQ + DJset
(starts at Largo Conde Barão —> continues on Rua das Gaivotas 6 )
Femme Queen is a constellation. Each FQ who is no longer here is a part of this myriad of stars that illuminate the path of those who are here, at the crossroads of the present. Between this cosmic design and the body of the now, the Ballroom gesture is defined. Chants can be heard, a hand cuts through the air, the MC guides the ritual – and at the sound of a crash, a comet. Someone said we were too much. That it was all too much, pouring out of existence. But to pour out of excess is to be able to form unpredictable rivers. Unforeseen connections, fluid genealogies. There are mothers and fathers, princes and sisters, brothers and endless links beyond blood. Because being and writing too much is also being able to look at time and laugh – an ironic gesture. Irony and shade; a poetic conjunction. And while we laugh, we write with these bodies what those who came before left open. FQ is a question our elders gave us as a gift. We shall honour that.
Tickets: 7€*
*please swap your ticket for a wristband at Rua das Gaivotas 6 30 min before the performance at Largo Conde Barão.
16 March
Coxinha Workshop
with Tita Maravilha
15h — 18h
(Sala Rosa da Rua das Gaivotas 6)
The coxinha is an iconic Brazilian savoury snack, known for its soft, crunchy dough and tasty filling. Accompanied by a good chilli pepper and, perhaps, a beer. As part of Precárias II: Performance Festival, the Coxinha Workshop offers a hands-on experience that combines Brazilian culinary tradition with artistic expression and autobiographical stories by Tita Maravilha.
My mum makes the perfect coxinha. The crispiest in Goiás. And she works every day selling these wonders. I invite you to replicate my mum’s recipe with me: Telma Moreira Farinha. Participants learn to make coxinhas as a form of creative expression and celebrate by eating the “art” they have made together. The coxinhas give shape to the creativity of each participant. Each with their own coxinha.
Enrolment fee: 15€.
She is an actress, singer, performer and clown, through the idea of political body, brings in her artistic processes the pains and delights of being a dissident body. Graduated from the Universidade De Brasília in 2018. Resident in Portugal since 2018, where she develops together with the artist CIGARRA the electronic music and performance project “TRYPAS-CORASSÃO” supported by the residencies ALKANTARA AND SELF MISTAKE, and have already been in spaces like Atelier Real, Latoaria, Alkantara, Lux Frágil, Music Box, Galeria ZDB and Iminente Festival.
In 2020 was in residence curated by Henrique Furtado, in the village of Feital, with a proposal made in partnership with “O rumo do fumo” and developed from the proposal by the group Silly Season and Teatro Praga the show EXERCÍCIO PARA PERFORMERS MEDÍOCRES, which premiered in November 2021 at Rua das Gaivotas 6, with public success. Also in 2021 opened the doors of the work in process entitled TITA IN THE COUNTRY OF WANDS, at the EUFÉMIAS festival.
She performs in the show THE ANGER, THE FURY (Teatro são Luís and Alkantara) by Sónia Baptista, in the show MINA (Teatro São Luís) by Carlota Lagido, ON REVELATIONS AND MUDDY BECOMINGS (MAAT) by Odette, COMO MATAR MULHERES NUAS (Teatro municipal do porto) by Xana Novais and OUTRA LÍNGUA (to premiere at Teatro nacional D. Maria II) by Raquel André and Kelly Freitas.
In November 2021 she launched an article entitled “Art Travesti is Urgent”, invited by CONTEMPORÂNEA magazine, for the project “Community while immunity”, available for reading.
She won the 5th edition of the Amélia Rey Colaço Scholarship, promoted by Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, O Espaço do Tempo and Teatro Viriato, with the project “The three sisters” with premiere scheduled for May 2023.
She is an urgent artist for the contemporary art scene in Lisbon.
Ficha técnica:
DIRECTION AND DESIGN_ Tita Maravilha
PRODUCTION_ Amandi Silva and Margot Silva
CANDIDATE SUPPORT_ Maria Tsukamoto and Joana Costa Santos
LIGHT DESIGN AND OPERATION_ Lui L’Abbate
LIGHT AND SOUND TECHNIQUE_ Bee Barros
GRAPHIC MATERIAL, SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTION, WEBSITE AND MAGAZINE DESIGN_ Gadutra
REVIEW TEXTS_ Lola Rodrigues and Melissa Rodrigues
POSTER AND LETTERING_ Bertrand
VIDEO_ Arla Coleto
SUPPORT_ DGARTES, Institutional Partner: República Portuguesa – Cultural
CO-PRODUCTION_ Teatro Municipal do Porto, Rivoli Campo Alegre (Porto); Teatro Viriato (Viseu); O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo)
PARTNERSHIPS_ Rua das Gaivotas 6 (Lisbon); Cão Solteiro . Residências 120 (Lisbon); Criolense (Lisbon); Damas (Lisbon); Pedreira (Porto); Carmo 81
MEDIA PARTNERS_ Coffeepaste; Generator
ORGANISATION_ Trypas Corassão Association