A new performance commission that explores self-defence as choreography.
“If the Black body at rest is suspicious and when in movement a threat, Pontes and Ferreira find within this choreographic act possible strategies to re-elaborate imaginaries, proposing changes in the symbolic meanings of the Black presence in a world that is not yet able to grant these lives existence and dignity.”
– Maria Luiza Meneses, translated from Portuguese by Philip Somervell
Repertório N.1 is the final piece of a trilogy by Brazilian artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira. Drawing on postcolonial, gender and race studies, the long-term performance project interrogates the mechanisms of brutality and attempts to dismantle them.
Through a vocabulary of poses, gestures and collective actions, Repertório N.1 creates an experimental space where the body becomes a site of protection, carrying histories, pleasures and vulnerabilities into the performance.
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Repertório N.1 is co-commissioned by Serpentine and Dance Umbrella (UK), Something Great (Germany), Wiener Festwochen (Austria), Arsenic (Switzerland), Viernulvier (Belgium) and Festival DDD/ Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal). The world premiere took place in London, October 2025, with international touring in 2026.
