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.