Outrar

Calixto Neto

Live performance

Médiathèque Jean Lévy, Lille
25min
Free

Which bodies are considered “other”? Creating dialogue between the practice of the choreographer Lia Rodrigues, Calixto Neto offers us his perspective on marginalized bodies while also embodying his own otherness.

Outrar is a project initiated by the choreographer Lia Rodrigues: forced to stay home in Brazil during the lockdowns of the Covid-19 crisis, she conceived the project to be implemented and worked on by Brazilian performers who were located in Europe, using long-distance dialogue during the process. Using a pre-set soundtrack and an extensive list of choreographic instructions, the dancers have worked through a long-distance dialogue. This collective work added up to three different versions of Outrar; one of which was by Calixto Neto, and for which he chose a split path. How does one embody a body which is already socially “other”? A faceless body, without a clear identity; a body recognizable only because of its ability to disrupt the norm, a deviant body. In the friction between the impulse to become the other and the impossibility of being that other, he finds himself and his body as a source of power and transformation.

Accessibility infos :

Slight changes of sound level

Biography(s)

Originally from Recife, Brazil, and living in France since 2013, Calixto Neto is trained in theater at the Federal University of Pernambuco, then in dance at the Experimental Dance Group, in Recife, before taking the master’s degree in choreography ex.e.r.ce at the CCN of Montpellier. During his studies, he created the solo petites explosions as well as the duet Pipoca, with Bruno Freire. oh! rage, his second solo, gives visibility to minority bodies and identities and is interested in “peripheral” dances, on the fringe of institutional circuits. Member of Lia Rodrigues’ company from 2007 to 2013, Calixto Neto is also a performer in the creations of Anne Collod, Mette Ingvartsen, Bo-Kevin Jean or Luiz de Abreu, whose famous piece O Samba do Crioulo Doido he reenacted in 2020 as part of the Panorama festival at the CN D in Pantin and with which he is still in tournée. In May 2021 he created Outrar at the invitation of Lia Rodrigues during the Kunsten Festival des Arts, in Brussels. In September 2021, he created FEIJOADA, a piece created in the frame of Lia Rodrigues’ portrait for the Festival d’Automne in Paris 2021. In May 2022, he launched the project Crazy Evil Nigght, a project around the life and work of Julius Eastman, in the frame of KunstenFestivaldesArts Free School. this project is still ongoing and will lead to a premiere in 2025. In the meantime he premiered his last solo, IL FAUX in May 2023 at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels.

Credits

Choreography, performance : Calixto Neto
Project conception : Lia Rodrigues
Soundtrack : Zeca Assumpção, Henk Zwart, Mendel, Grupo Cadeira (Inês Assumpção, Jorge Potyguara, Miguel Bevilacqua, Henrique Rabello) et pièces du CD ‘Authentic South America 5, The Amazon’
Production, diffusion : Julie Le Gall

Delegate Production : VOA – Calixto Neto
Creative Production : Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Bruxelles