The word ‘treta’ is Brazilian slang from the streets meaning ‘something that went wrong’, or a kind of unexpected trouble or conflict.

tReta is a conflict, an explosion, a premeditated act to involve the other, where the audience is invited to immerse themselves in the reality of everyday life in a Brazilian city, to grab the chance and take the selfie of the day. It’s witnessing the violence against minoritized bodies in Brazil (only there?), the inequality of social positions and the frictions generated from it. The “treta”, the fight, in geopolitics, in neighborhoods, in breaking battles. The crew’s own fight, in which dance is a way of positioning themselves in the world. The movements of this dance are the expression of molecules of what actually happens, the everyday, physical reality.

In a performance as radical as it is blunt, a group of performers makes contact with the audience that has been plunged into darkness. Their heads hidden inside their t-shirts, bare-chested, and moving around on skateboards, they create an atmosphere that evokes the urgency, violence, and hostility of urban life in Brazil, to which they are exposed to on a daily basis. Ranging between collisions, racing and aggression, their gestures reflect the complexity of the metropolis and the chaos of the human relationships that are formed there. Often taken as disposable products, as places of expression for social inequalities, ethnic discriminations and conflicts of value, their bodies become here a critique of dysfunctional societies and invoke ways of co-existence that allow original communities to remain.

Rooted in sounds and movement taken from urban culture, tReta is an artistic gesture to stand against oppression and daily struggle and to cherish the moment of being together.

Duration: 50 minutes

In partnership with: Original Bomber Crew + Revoada|CAMPO. Research and creation residencies between 2017 and 2018 in Teresina/ Piaui, at Casa de Hip Hop, Espaço Balde and CAMPO Arte/Revoada Casa de Produçao.