Playing capoeira with the projection of the self in the background or circumscribing a duo with the atabaque instrument, the tall and tapered drum, seminal in Afro-Brazilian cultural traditions, are emblems of how much the solo of the choreographer and performer from Bahia intends to disrupt certainties about the desiring and politicized body regarding anti-racist demarcations.

Under a percussive base pulsating from end to end, Jaqueline Elesbão sets an analogy with the game and brings to the audience, especially to black citizens, the experience of imagining themselves in the play that underlies the dominant system that is there, exposing structural racism and denouncing sexism. The artist in the white leotards talks about broadening our viewpoint by disobeying this logic, contradicting the rhyme and taming the fears that, after all, are collective.

Present on the stage of Salvador since the late 1990s and going around in recent years with Entrelinhas, the artist radiates the black imagination and narratives, the construction with “the other” and with herself, “besides the understanding of our ancestry as an imperative bond to the place we choose to affect.”

FULL TECHINICAL DATA SHEET
Director, choreography and performance: Jaqueline Elesbão
Executive Production: Nai Meneses
Production and body preparation: Anderson Gavião
Video mapping: Ani Haze
VJ’s Assistant: Priscila Rodrigues
Musical Direction: EdBrass Brasil
Soundtrack: EdBrass Brasil e Rafael Kalunga
Illuminator: Moisés Victório
Costume: Jaqueline Elesbão
Costume making: Maria Belízia (Dona Bela)
Recording: Ives Padilha e Priscila Rodrigues
Production: Coletivo Pico Preto

PARTNERSHIP AND SUPPORT
The project has the financial support of the Aldir Blanc Emergency Law, through the Anselmo Serrat Prize for Artistic Languages, from the Gregório de Mattos Foundation, Salvador City Hall, with funds from the Special Secretariat of Culture, Ministry of Tourism, Federal Government

SITE/REDE SOCIAL
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facebook.com/jack.elesbao
https://www.picopreto.com.br/despacho-deferido