SHOWCASE: DANCE IN RELATION WITH CHILDREN 

a purple poem film in six stanzas peeled from the body in dialogue with animals, leaves, flowers and daughters. between pink and crimson, contour and twist the pain. B O N I N A was created and filmed in December 2021 in the city of Bichinho, in Campo das Vertentes, MG.

Motherhood flowing between giving birth, caring for the light, going through the dark and brighten. And the work happening between intimacy and the temporal and spatial organization of a child playing with his mother.

Dancer Sofia Tsirakis and musician André Balboni prepare for a journey. They are pregnant and awaiting the arrival of the couple's first child: Theodoro. Around 8 months into the pregnancy, the couple decided to make a film to celebrate the arrival of baby boy Theo. The film was recorded on Barra do Sahy beach, on the north coast of São Paulo, and features choreography by mother Sofia and music by father André. The dance film Waiting for Theo seeks to explore the different layers and beauties of pregnancy, from the metamorphosis of the body to the encounter with motherhood itself.

a dance video with an improvised dramaturgical composition that dialogues with music, the landscape of Minas Gerais and the accidental participation of my daughter Mia Nascimento Chaves.

For the Yoruba “omi” means water. we worship a deity who is the river itself. we worship the sea. we insist on greeting omi, in front of these forests of devastated memories. omi tutu, water-prayer that eases pain, penetrates and germinates the seeds of tomorrow. omi, my body bursts when giving birth. golden water meeting its blue face, ocean. I dance as an affluent that does not desert itself in the face of genocidal, racist, ecocidal structures. I present the womb of iyá, the ever-liquid crack that regenerates everything. uncontrollable mother liquor that resists the inescapable pain of the colonial experience.

Poetic documentary that follows the relationship between Toshiko, a Japanese dancer based in Brazil, and her 11-year-old son Kae. The sea is the setting and body expression is the language that is built between the two, since Kae did not develop verbal language.