This edition presents the research of Brazilian choreographer, performer and "post-pornographer" artist Acauã Shereya during her Master's degree in choreography and performance at ICI/CCN Montpellier.
"Exerce, écrits chorégraphiques" is a series that offers a chance to read, see and practice a key stage in the work of students/artists/researchers as part of the "Exerce" training program, initiated in 2011 by the National Choreographic Center of Montpellier / Occitanie, directed by Christian Rizzo, and the Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University.
Each edition presents the writings of former Exerce students at the time of their thesis defense at the end of the Master's program. The publication is neither reprinted nor reworked. It is restored in one color to its original format. At the end of the book, each artist is given carte blanche to contextualize and extend this research in the form of texts, images and documents.
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.
