O Samba do Crioulo Doido

Luiz de Abreu turns dance into the means to deconstruct racial  identities. By having Calixto Neto replay stereotypes linked to the  representation of the black body, in particular during the carnival  where it is set between exoticism and eroticism, the choreographer turns  this cliché back onto itself, the better to mock racist unawareness. In  this radical solo, which derides the forms of classic ballet, he  deploys a singular choreographic language, through which he refocuses  the question of identity when it comes to the body. The violence of his  writing then comes over as an urgent approach to the decolonial  question, the heritage of slavery and the contemporary relations with  domination. Buoyed up by a transgressive humour, the piece stands as an  relentless criticism of the inferior condition of Blacks. From penile  games to a misappropriation of the national flag, the point here is to  see dance as an instrument for a physical liberation having emancipatory  effects, a cry which organises the shift between body-object to  body-subject.

Source : program du CND