Screen research · 2024

Concepções Marginais

Breaking and dramaturgy bring stories and images from the peripheries into a research process shaped for the camera.

Performer in a paper mask dances with one leg extended on the pavement

Film still · Concepções Marginais (2024)

Synopsis

The margin as a place of invention.

Led by Gerson Afrobreak with Flying Low and resident artists, the research moves through breaking, dramaturgy, and the historical foundations of Afrobreak.

Masks, identity, popular cultures, and the peripheral architecture of Greater São Paulo feed gestures, texts, scenes, and choreographies that find their final form in a dance film.

Teaser

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Film still · Direction and editing: Gerson Afrobreak

Technical credits

Resident artists and performer-creators: Bruno Novais, Dandara Pilar Ferreira, David Silveira, Dillyane França Freitas, Emerson Silva Oliveira, Jeff dos Santos Rodrigues, Laís Machado, Lee Anderson Rodrigues dos Santos, Luna Well, Manuel Victor dos Santos Pereira, and Ricardo Aparecido Silva
Residence provocateurs: Gerson Afrobreak and Willi Verse
Direction and video editing: Gerson Afrobreak

Film stills

Concepções Marginais (2024) · Direction and editing: Gerson Afrobreak

Masked performer in a black-and-white scene

Performer in a red hood moving beside a metal grid

Performer in a paper mask posing on the pavement

Performer in a paper mask dancing in a black-and-white scene

Masked performer dancing on the street in front of a yellow truck

Details

FormatDance film

Year2024

ResearchBreaking, dramaturgy, and Afrobreak

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