Corpo de Dança do Amazonas MATA (2018) Clébio Oliveira

The struggles that arose around the land a long time ago ceased to be hidden, while national corporations and politicians profit with the disadvantageous situation of the indigenous. How does this geopolitical issue may burst in the psyche and in the future of the indigenous tribes This entanglement is expressed in the MATA performance making use of contemporary dance as the artistic fabric. A poetic, reflexive and timeless perception of the exclusion phenomenon of a specific ethnicity. In MATA, the choreographer and the dancers imply conflict and strain areas, investigating how a culture is disbanded by a completely different one throughout the years. How a population is reduced from dominant to dominated MATA is a performance that also invites us to reflect on our future. How do we change the boundaries of our thoughts How do we interrupt the restriction game and the sense of domination, which has been and still is built over the course of our history How do we resist F