Dori Nigro & Paulo Pinto
SALVALAVALMA
Performance
20 Mar. 02:30
Mala Voadora
1H30'
Evoking the knowledge and practices of ancestral cultures, the performers use their bodily memories to recall the symbolism of bathing as purification of the body and soul. Bathing also emerges as a form of mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional care, a necessary pause in the face of intense daily confrontation in places of thought and action (still colonial) disguised as decoloniality. A bath of herbs, scents, and stories. A bath of cleansing and liberation from practices that drown us in life and art, protected by the privileges of naivety, innocence, and ignorance (Raquel Lima, 2019), as well as unconsciousness. A caring bath. A bath of love more than healing, for if Pain Heals, It Goes.
SALVALAVALMA is a performance open to everyone. Those who wish to have a more immersive experience during the event should bring a change of clothes, including underwear, and a towel. This immersion involves contact with water.
Creation and performance
Dori Nigro and Paulo Pinto
Creative sound collaboration
Okan Kayma
Dori Nigro and Paulo Pinto (Brazil/Portugal) are creators, performers, art educators, and researchers, with experience at the Catholic University of Pernambuco, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, and the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra. Life and art partners, they work with affective memories, ancestry, popular culture, dissident bodies, education, mental health, and finitude. They are caregivers at LÁRòyé and mediators at the Laboratory of the Senses.
Dori Nigro & Paulo Pinto
SALVALAVALMA
Performance
20 Mar. 02:30
Mala Voadora
1H30'
Evoking the knowledge and practices of ancestral cultures, the performers use their bodily memories to recall the symbolism of bathing as purification of the body and soul. Bathing also emerges as a form of mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional care, a necessary pause in the face of intense daily confrontation in places of thought and action (still colonial) disguised as decoloniality. A bath of herbs, scents, and stories. A bath of cleansing and liberation from practices that drown us in life and art, protected by the privileges of naivety, innocence, and ignorance (Raquel Lima, 2019), as well as unconsciousness. A caring bath. A bath of love more than healing, for if Pain Heals, It Goes.
SALVALAVALMA is a performance open to everyone. Those who wish to have a more immersive experience during the event should bring a change of clothes, including underwear, and a towel. This immersion involves contact with water.
Creation and performance
Dori Nigro and Paulo Pinto
Creative sound collaboration
Okan Kayma
Dori Nigro and Paulo Pinto (Brazil/Portugal) are creators, performers, art educators, and researchers, with experience at the Catholic University of Pernambuco, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, and the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra. Life and art partners, they work with affective memories, ancestry, popular culture, dissident bodies, education, mental health, and finitude. They are caregivers at LÁRòyé and mediators at the Laboratory of the Senses.