COKO Space hosts a series of events. Partially curated by the team itself and partially external by others. We focus on art, performance and equality.
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60 minutes
In Portuguese, vira-lata means “street dog”, the mixed-breed survivors who roam freely through cities, full of spirit and resilience.
Vira-latas carry the beauty of mixture, strength, and adaptability, a celebration of what’s wild, diverse, and uncontained.
After the Social Sculpture Trilogy THE CAVE, THE FOUNTAIN, and THE MARKET, the wild and esteemed Brazilian queer choreographer based in Amsterdam, Fernando Belfiore, returns with a new sensuous mess.
Humorous and provocative, Belfiore starts from the notion of performance as an unfolding of our understanding of the material world and the social relations shaped by class struggle. Offering a visceral critique of consumerism and spectacle, the work alchemically stirs imagination and hope, regurgitating the concept of capitalism as religion.
The Vira-Lata Complex
The piece takes as its points of departure the Vira-Lata Complex, a term first coined by writer Nelson Rodrigues and later expanded by philosopher Marcia Tiburi to describe the inferiority complex of the colonized, their submission in the face of injustice and inequality — and the participatory practices of visual artist Lygia Clark, a seminal figure of the Tropicália movement.
VIRA-LATA investigates obedience, fetishism, and trained domestication, while also devouring revolt itself.
Our guts, nine meters of nerves and memory, become a stage where matter, emotion, and wildness break through.
About Fernando Belfiore
Fernando Belfiore (1983 – São Paulo, Brazil) is a choreographer, teacher, researcher, and performance artist currently based in Amsterdam. Fernando graduated from the School for New Dance Development at Amsterdam School of the Arts – SNDO/AHK. Before moving to Europe, Fernando studied theater at Escola de Arte Dramática at Universidade de São Paulo – EAD/USP. Fernando is a guest teacher of Movement-Research at SNDO since 2013 and has been teaching workshops, such as SISTER’s performance practice abroad, in places such as Impulstanz, Viena, and Garage Contemporary Museum, Moscow.
