FLÓBÉR
26/02/2024
CREDITS
- Performance:
Creation, Sound Design and Performance: Telmo Branco
Performance and co-dramaturgy: Ren Mauney
Financial management: ORG.I.A - ORGANIZAÇÃO, INVESTIGAÇÃO E ARTES - ASSOCIAÇÃO
Promotional video 1: Vitor Hugo Costa / Metafilmes
Promotional video 2: Telmo Branco
Photography: Sara Corvo
Workshop's promotional photography: Telmo Branco
Graphic design of posters and flyers: Telmo Branco
Workshop's video capture: Ren Mauney
Workshop's video editing: Telmo Branco
In collaboration with: Goethe-Institut Lisboa, Teatro Papa Léguas, Esmae - IPP, Armazém 8 and Panteras Rosa
Residency support: Polo Cultural Gaivotas I Boavista and Estúdios Victor Córdon
Financial Support: República Portuguesa - Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes and Comissão Comemorativa 50 anos 25 de Abril, Support Fundação GDA and DISTANZEN Solo - Dachverband Tanz Deutschland und NEUSTARTKULTUR
Acknowledgments: Filipa Matta, Julia Klein, Sergio Vitorino and Diana Santos - Feminist Collective As DEsaFIantes
- Documentary video (integrated into the performance):
Videography and performance: Telmo Branco
Sound design: Telmo Branco and Marcelo Schmittner
Interviewees: Sónia Latas, Odete Ortiz, Miguel Branco and Rui Brinquete.
Acknowledgments: Ren Mauney, Verónica Branco and Petr Hosek.
- Full recording and editing of the performance:
Filming, production and post-production: Vitor Hugo Costa / Metafilmes
Image and sound recording assistance: Sergio Brilha
Synopsis
Dictatorial body, religious body, colonial body, family body.
Oppression is a body. A vital process. Oppression is internal, anatomical, structural. Oppression integrates, lodges, incorporates itself, compresses organs, muscles, becomes a body, the body, vital, as if a new organ, or an organ that has always existed, without us realizing it, an integral part.
Oppression is an ancestral routine. The oppressed oppress. Before and after are confused, forgotten. Oppressors - aren't we all?
FLÓBÉR is an interdisciplinary and activist autobiographical performance that addresses the proliferation of dictatorial and colonial beliefs and practices in the family and contemporary society.
Concept
FLÓBÉR combines autobiographical theater, contemporary dance, sound design and documentary film to explore the concept of "internalized oppression".
"Internalized oppression occurs when an oppressed group accepts the methods and incorporates the oppressive ideology of an oppressor group, contrary to its own interests." Pheterson, Gail (1986)
This performance confronts the questions: When do we become our own oppressor? When do we become the oppressor of others?
FLÓBÉR explores the perspectives of two white, queer and non-binary people, one Portuguese and one American, both living in Portugal. This intercontinental dialog allows us to compare the oppressive traditions of both Portugal and the USA.
PROMOTIONAL Teaser 1
PROMOTIONAL Teaser 2
Trailer