Gente de lá

In this solo, Wellington Gadelha has mobilised his experience as a  dancer and militant, in his native favela near Fortaleza, to denounce  techno-racial inequalities and the sharing of territories resulting from  segregations. Marrying the poetic with the political, he sees his  black, male body as a site of subjectivation exposed to daily violence, a  “Russian-roulette-body” in his own words. Gente de Lá thus  introduces an urgent atmosphere, capable of making these struggles  visible, and more generally to establish an anticolonial  counter-narrative. In a total performance, bringing in sound, music,  props, space, time and lighting, Wellington Gadelha approaches each  element as a meaningful materiality, with which he engages a gestural  dialogue. The piece connects different actions together, with forms of  dissidence, oppositions and tensions, which provide him with an  opportunity to redefine frontiers that attempt to enclose him. In this  forbidden game, he is the one who ends up pressing the trigger.

Source: program of the CND