MIX.DRAMATICA

Unpublished projects, works in progress, premieres. The DRAMÁTICA section of the MixBrasil Festival presents itself as an incubator for the LGBT+ scene. Post-show discussions aim to foster exchanges with the audience.

This year, DRAMÁTICA also takes part in MixLab with PORTRAITS OF THE CONTEMPORARY CUIR/QUEER AND LGBT+ SCENE, featuring Morgana Manfrin and Oliver Olivia, mediated by Eduardo de Paula — a way to bring in academic research in direct contact with the performing arts community.

In addition to MixLab, eight works — including five solos and one duo — compose a mosaic of existences in motion, oscillating between trauma and reinvention. In this edition, the DRAMÁTICA stage chooses to be a space for listening to cis gay bodies, where themes such as mental health, love, abandonment, grief, sex, family, and violence intertwine in choreographies of survival.

TRÍPTICO G, supervised by Luiz Fernando Marques Lubi, brings together three solo works that engage in dialogue with one another — Bigorna, Irremediáveis, and Segredos Privados para uma Vida Sexual Pública — by Walmick de Holanda, Danilo Martim, and Luiz Felipe Bianchini, respectively, expose heteronormative violence and mimesis. In HERE, NOW, EVERYONE, Felipe Barros revisits the journey of a gay child growing into adulthood, moving between reality and imagination. FUMAÇA, featuring Filipe Augusto and directed by Fernando Vilela, turns grief and love into poetic mist. Meanwhile, (UN)KNOWN, by Leandro Rebello and Francisco Leal, directed by Fabrício Licursi, explores the fluidity of homoaffective bonds and the loneliness mediated by screens.

Joining the live performances that incorporate immersive technologies, PUPPET HOSPITAL — a hybrid opera by Thomas Brennan, Miguel Noya, and Gustavo Sol, supported by Stockholm University of Arts — combines performance, electronic music, prosthetic integration, AI-generated voices, and aesthetics led by artists with disabilities. LONG PLAY — GREAT SHAPE, by Alexandre Roccoli and Marcos Serafim, part of the France–Brazil season, in partnership with CAPS Bom Retiro and the MixBrasil Festival, connects body, ecology, and technology.

At the intersection of mental health and creation, DRAMÁTICA at the MixBrasil Festival celebrates art as a space of care, resistance, and political gesture.

Vanessa Bruno