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Acauã Shereya

Acauã Shereya is a Brazilian choreographer, teacher, visual artist, gardener, craftswoman, writer, and post-pornographic performer. Born in Fortaleza (Brazil), she was raised by women teachers and her craftsman grandfather. She holds a degree in Theater from IFCE and in Dance from CTD3 (2012). She was a university professor from 2013 to 2015 at IFCE, and in 2019 she completed PACAP3 in Performing Arts at Fórum Dança.

In 2022, she completed her master’s in choreography in the Master EXERCE at ICI CCN Institut Chorégraphique International Montpellier with the works “ALÉM DE VOCÊS, O QUE TEM PRA COMER HOJE? ¿ADEMÁS DE TI? ¿QUÉ COMER HOY?” and “NUAGES CLOUDS NUVENS Intergalactiqueer”. Currently, she is involved in projects like “Apocalypso,” a duo conceived with Luara Raio; “Feijoada,” created by Calixto Neto; “Prophétique (on est déjà né.es)” by Nadia Beugré, and is part of the new creation by Catol Teixeira and mother and choreographer Lasseindra Ninja.

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Last project in residence

Eclipse em Gambiarra (2023) is the piece where Acauã explores the unpredictable and uses “GAMBIARRA” (or “practical intelligence,” the inventiveness of bricolage) to nourish his practice around the possible images of democracy in racialized bodies and queer performativity. It triggers a repositioning of pedagogical and artistic language—between vulnerability and confusion, from dream to nightmare, from the subtle to the obscene—thus exploring in his work ways to enact a pedagogy that is fluid, decolonial, anti-racist, and non-binary.

Residency archive Graner

  • 2023 · Cross-residency with La Briqueterie CDCN (Paris) · Eclipse em Gambiarra (with the support of the Institut Ramon Llull as part of its international residency support program).

 

Other links with Graner

Open Studio by Acauã Shereya