The final part of a tri­logy of self-defense cho­reo­graph­ies in the face of viol­ence, Rep­er­tório N.3 is a sin­gu­lar and power­ful per­form­ance, in which two cho­reo­graph­ers renew the ima­gin­ary of the black body. 

With their Rep­er­tório tri­logy, Davi Pontes and Wal­lace Fer­reira try to estab­lish new ways of under­stand­ing and rep­res­ent­ing the exper­i­ences of minor­it­ies. To do so, the cho­reo­graph­ers draw on post­co­lo­ni­al, gender and race stud­ies, ques­tion­ing not only phys­ic­al viol­ence but also that which col­on­izes our ima­gin­a­tion and ways of think­ing. Their reflec­tions have giv­en rise to a “cho­reo­graph­ic rep­er­toire of self-defense” that is a way of chal­len­ging minds and regain­ing power over what their bod­ies express and how they can be read. Naked, wear­ing only heavy white sneak­ers, the artists deploy this ges­tur­al vocab­u­lary in a thirty-minute per­form­ance, danced without music but with a strong rhythm. Syn­chron­iz­ing their bod­ies in motion and their feet strik­ing the ground, sus­tain­ing an inter­play of glances, the duo play on repe­ti­tion and the rhythmic mark­ing of coun­ter­point to expand our per­cep­tion of space and time.