Acauã Shereya

Acauã Shereya is a choreographer, performer, teacher, visual artist, gardener, craftswoman and "post-pornographer". Born in Fortaleza, Brazil, she was raised by female teachers and her grandfather, a craftsman. Graduating with a degree in Theatre from Brazil's Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, where she then worked as a teacher from from 2013 to 2015, she will continue her training with the Performing Arts Advanced Programme (PACAP3) at Fórum Dança in Lisbon in 2019. From 2020 to 2022, she has been part of the CCN de Montpellier Master's program.
Acauã explores the unpredictable and uses "gambiarra" (or "practical intelligence", inventiveness through bricolage) to nourish her practice on possible images of Democracy in racialized bodies and Leather (queer) performativity. She triggers the repositioning of pedagogical and artistic language between vulnerability and confusion, from dream to nightmare, from subtle to obscene, and thus explores in her work the means of implementing a "fluid, decolonial, anti-racist and non-binary" pedagogy.