Marília Bassetto Coelho (she/her)

Observing and absorbing the forest. Based on an analogy between human diversity and the Atlantic Forest, the most diverse biome on the planet, I immersed myself in sensitive listening to its flora, in order to learn its dances and interconnections.

I danced daily with dense forests and reforestation, in a profound process of reflection and enchantment.

These learnings were shared and developed with a collective of diverse people, involving the entire scope of an artistic production to make up a dance show and its performance.

This research is underpinned by theoretical confluences based on indigenous Brazilians, quilombolas and authors from the global south which, together with this whole process, will be shared at this symposium.

  • The Mata Atlantica forest, with her magnificent trees. There are also large rocks in the bottom right-hand corner. Distant and small related to the forest, a dancer is leaning against a tree on her stomach. She is wearing a red outfit.
  • A group of people lying on the ground, close together, wearing colourful costumes that resemble vegetation.
  • In a dance studio, many different people are standing up, moving around, enjoying themselves as they perform a dance task.
  • A diverse group people standing in a circle, smiling, about to go on stage. They are wearing colourful costumes that resemble vegetation. Behind them is smoke and the colours of stage lighting.