Three per­formers delve into the heart of the mean­der­ing rain­forest, in a poly­rhythm of sounds, images and myths. Between geo­metry and psy­che­delia, 3 against 2: Psy­cho Trop­ics con­jures up new narratives. 

Indi­gen­ous Brazili­an writer and philo­soph­er Ailton Krenak describes the rain­forest as a net­work of inter­twined lives. Wind­ing paths, shad­ows, plants that kill and plants that heal, tangles of sound, roots, under­growth and branches: the forest seems to pulsate, whis­per­ing myths, breath­ing out rumors and mirages. This poly­rhythm inspired Mar­cela Levi and Lucía Russo to cre­ate a piece in which three per­formers weave a net­work of ten­sion lines and tem­por­al dis­tor­tions. Their move­ments seek to recon­cile geo­metry and psy­che­delia. The piece bor­rows from Old Way voguing – char­ac­ter­ized by line form­a­tion, sym­metry and pre­ci­sion inspired by Egyp­tian hiero­glyphs – as well as from the After­noon of a Faun (1912), in which Nij­in­sky drew inspir­a­tion from the move­ments of Greek friezes and Egyp­tian or Assyr­i­an frescoes.