Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira

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Davi Pontes is an artist, choreographer, and researcher. Graduated in arts from the Universidade Federal Fluminense and holds a Master's degree in arts from the same institution. He studied at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo ESMAE (Porto, Portugal). Since 2016, he has presented his work in art galleries and national and international festivals, mainly at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), My Wild Flag (Stockholm), Pivô (São Paulo), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), Rua das Gaivotas 6 (Porto), Bienal Sesc de Dança, MITsp – Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo, Les Urbaines festival (Switzerland), Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo), Valongo International Image Festival (São Paulo), Itaú Cultural Rumos Program 2021, Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro), 5th Itaú Cultural Dance Exhibition (São Paulo), Artfizz – HOA Gallery (USA), and residencies at ImPulsTanz 2022 [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series (Austria), La Becque (Switzerland), Pivô Art Research Program, MAM Rio Arts Research Residency Program, and Escola Livre de Artes – ELÃ among others. Awarded artist at ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers' Award, 2022 (Austria).
Wallace Ferreira is a choreographer, performer, visual artist. Graduated from the Escola Livre de Artes da Maré (ELÃ) and the Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage. Winner of the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award 2022, with a residency in the ImPulsTanz [8:tension] series, in 2022 he joined the artistic residency of Instituto Inclusartiz. They build strategies and choreograph actions to escape representations. Through undisciplined practices, their creations provoke accidents between dance, performance, and contemporary visual arts languages, applying aspects such as mimesis, representation, and studies of images choreographed by dissident bodies. Driven by the challenges of tensioning the present, she has presented her works since 2018 in art galleries, national and international festivals such as Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (NY), Panorama Festival, ArtRio, Lateral Roma, HOA ART, Artfizz, Jaqueline Martins Gallery, Les Urbaines(CH), SP- ARTE, Display (CZ), Itaú Cultural, SESC, A GentilCarioca gallery, Despina. Among her most recent works, the Repertório trilogy, realized in partnership with artist Davi Pontes, was presented at the VERBO exhibition at Vermelho gallery, the international image festival of Valongo, Anita Schwartz art gallery, Frestas – Triennial of the Arts 2020/21, and at My Wild Flags (SE). They directed the film Delirar o racial in partnership with artist Davi Pontes, commissioned by the Satellite Pivot program, 2021. Within the Ballroom/Vogue culture, they received the title of Empress of Maison Mamba Negra, acting in São Paulo, Brasília, and Rio de Janeiro.