FLOW DA CAATINGA, the new creation, emerges from the desire to dance the encounter between breaking and the thorns of the Sertão.

It´s a project that continues the research into the movement-strategies of youth life, amid land occupations and peripheral neighborhoods where we were born and where we live: Piauí. Making street arts has been our way of moving realities. The Hip-hop movement, in particular Break, Graffiti/Pixo, Skate, and Lambe-Lambe, are part of our history as interest, foundation, confluence, and discovery for finding clues to how not only to survive, but to exist within an over-peripheralized urban context (globally, nationally, and locally).

FLOW DA CAATINGA marks a new beginning for this group, in a movement inward: our bodies turning towards regions of the interior of Piauí, with questions that converge around the strength and science of resistance, and that bring historical aspects that reconfigure notions of Humanity as a whole (archaeology in Serra da Capivara) while at the same time activating a spiral of openness by bringing in women and other performers.

Therefore, after a trilogy of works that brings the periphery and its ways of resisting as a point of research for my dance creations, my desire now is to dance in the caatinga, to create with the lives that exist there. I, together with this collective body of ours, Original Bomber Crew, have managed to bring many beautiful things into being in our lives and in the lives of other people through dance, and I know that the doors we are opening are not only for us. We have contributed to making Piauí one of the unexpected references in Contemporary Art, and to challenge the statistics about what our “destiny,” socially speaking, was supposed to be.

The creation period of FLOW DA CAATINGA has been taking place between the open skies of locations in the southern region of Piauí (especially around São João do Piauí and Serra da Capivara) and the open studio of Campo Arte–Teresina. During the period of work in the interior, we have counted on local hosts, women and men, who have been guiding the weaving of our relationship with each place. From these encounters, we are learning choreographies of life (not only human ones) moved by those territories.

To conclude, I express that I continue to place my work, and our work, as a poetic action in favor of life and thus against colonialism and all its variants that violate minoritized, peripheralized populations and traditional peoples.

Premiere: second half of 2026 in Piauí and surrounding areas, and internationally in May 2027, at the Spring Performing Arts Festival / Netherlands.

In partnership with: Original Bomber Crew + Revoada|CAMPO. In coproduction with Spring Performing Arts Festival Utrecht. With the support of Programa Rumos Itaú Cultural 2024-2025. Created between immersions in the Caatinga area, Piauí/Northeast Brazil, at São João do Piauí, Coronel José Dias e São Raimundo Nonato, specially at Quilombos Saco-Curtume, Malhada, Juazeirinho and at Lagoas territory; and in Teresina with own practice of aquilombamento at the autonomous cultural space CAMPO Arte Contemporânea.

VAPOR, infiltrable occupation is the latest creation by Original Bomber Crew and marks a turning point of a trilogy that began in 2018 with tReta, a performative invasion and continued online with Suspeit∞, a monitorized work  in 2020. VAPOR was first presented as a series of five videos in 2021.

VAPOR manifests itself not only as a work, but as a fugacious process that unfolds through multiple creative languages: dance, poetry, graffiti, streetstyle, video, breaking, music, capoeira, and references from Brazilian popular culture. It comes like a litany, a song, a prayer, whose repetitions ritualize the arrival of new cycles.

VAPOR reflects Bomber Crew’s own practices, based on the relationship between each other as well as the one towards the streets they inhabit and cross. Dança Quebrada (broken dance), as these artists call their transformation of reality through hip-hop and contemporary art, emerges as a poetic survival strategy despite the systemic disposability imposed on their bodies.

The performance links breaking and capoeira, rooted in the African diaspora, and reaffirms the place where the group comes from: Teresina-Piauí, Northeast Brazil—an eminently riverside territory pulsating with life stories of water, animals, forests, and the sun – beyond the asphalt.

On stage, seven performers recreate their world of rivers, forests, and narrow streets, using everyday gathered materials – cardboard, plastic, tape, paint, container, wood, skateboard and shopping trolley.  Cardboard is secured to create a dance floor, a shopping trolley serves as a ship’s figurehead, skateboards are used as a surface for video projections.

In Teresina, “vapor” means “disappear” – but here, it becomes a call to reclaim space. Fluid yet fierce, VAPOR transforms absence into a dynamic, immersive dance that celebrates resilience and visibility.

Duration: 60 min.

Premiere: September 2024, Brazil.

A production of Original Bomber Crew and Revoada|CAMPO. Immersions & creative residencies: land occupations at Lindalma Soares, Pedro Balzi, Jacinta Andrade and Vila Esperança (Teresina, BR, 2021); Residencies at Quintal da Revoada (Teresina, BR, 2021), CAMPO Arte Contemporânea (Teresina, BR, 2024), FAROFA/Casa Oswald de Andrade/Casa Líquida (São Paulo, BR, 2024) and Festival DDD/Teatro Campo Alegre (Porto, PT, 2024).

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.