Feijoada

Calixto Neto

Concerts
Live performance

LE GRAND SUD, Lille
2h30 and meal
Vegetarian menu possible

The name refers to a Brazilian specialty, a tasty black bean/ pork stew — and we are invited to attend a musical and political banquet by the Brazilian choreographer Calixto Neto. With a driving samba background, we find Brazilian cuisine, lively dances, and impassioned discussions: all the ingredients for a final delicious evening which hits all the right notes.

Surrounded by ten other artists, Calixto Neto invites us to assist him in preparing a feijoada, the iconic, symbolic dish of Brazilian gastronomy. The origins for the dish are unclear: popular myth says that the dish was created by enslaved persons who would mix together the various scraps of meat thrown out by their masters – adding copius amounts of black beans, which are a staple in South America. Which meats are the cheapest available? Whose bodies are most affected by societal inequities? While working through the recipe, the choreographer evokes the culture of his country, the history of samba music and the multiple political changes happening in Brazil. Songs, dances, the stages of cooking, intimate or frankly political speeches punctuate the evening, provoking a range of emotions. And the best: at the end of the evening everyone is invited to share in the feijoadawith the artists and staff!

Accessibility information :
Presence of spoken texts in French and Portuguese
Slightly high sound intensity levels

With the support of Onda – Office national de diffusion artistique

Biography(s)

Calixto Neto is originally from Recife in Brazil and has been based in France since 2013. He trained in theatre at the Federal University of Pernambuco, then in dance at the Experimental Dance Group in his hometown before taking a master’s degree in choreographic studies ex.e.r.ce from the CCN in Montpellier. During his studies, he created the solo Petites explosions and the duo Pipoca, with Bruno Freire. oh! rage, his second solo, visibilises minority bodies and identities and is interested in “peripheral” dances, on the margins of institutional circuits. A member of the Lia Rodrigues company from 2007 to 2013, Calixto Neto is also an interpreter in the creations of Volmir Cordeiro, Anne Collod, Mette Ingvartsen, Éve Magot (formerly Kevin Jean) and Luiz de Abreu, whose famous play O Samba do Crioulo Doien 2020, as part of the Panorama festival at CN D in Pantin. Again in 2020, he directed two films: one, O Samba do Crioulo Doido: rule and compass, on the passing of the play O Samba do Crioulo Doido, which took place in Brazil (this film is now part of the catalogue of dance films of the Villa Albertine), the other Pro futuro Quilombo realized within the framework of the Sequestrated Brazil project. Designed by the programmers Eduardo Bonito and Isabel Ferreira, this program invited dance artists to reflect on the health and political crisis in Brazil from the point of view of these artists, most of whom come from minority social groups.

In May 2021 he created Outrar at the invitation of Lia Rodrigues at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. In September 2021 he created Feijoada, as part of the portrait of Lia Rodrigues at the Festival d’Automne in Paris. In 2022, Calixto Neto is invited to participate in the Free School of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts and initiates a research on the work of the American musician Julius Eastman with 6 other dancers and musicians. A new creation, IL FAUX, is scheduled for May 2023 as part of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels.
And research into the work of Julius Eastman will also continue in the coming seasons.

Credits

Choreography by Calixto Neto
Collaboration to the direction Ana Laura Nascimento
Musical direction Yure Romão
Interpretation Calixto Neto, Ana Laura Nascimento, Yure Romão, Emilia Chamone, James Müller, Julia Donley, Marina Uehara, Kaiodê Encarnação, Silex Silence, Acauã El_Bandide Shereya
Technical direction and lights Beatriz Kaysel
Sound Arnaud Pichon
Costumes Annie Melza Tiburce
Head chef to be defined according to the venue
Production and distribution Julie Le Gall

Executive production during the creation Festival d’Automne in Paris
Delegate Production AOV Broadcast – Calixto Neto
Co-production Festival d’Automne in Paris, Centquatre Paris and Passages Transfestival Metz.