3 against 2: Psycho Tropics

The rhythms of 3 against 2 are a polyrhythm. This creation by Improvável Produções borrows from music the notion of polyrhythmia - the juxtaposition of rhythms - to think-practice the coexistence between different in a non-separatistic way, thus enabling different rhythms to sound together and produce other chords.

According to the indigenous thinker Ailton Krenak, the tropical rainforest is a web of intertwined lives. In the rainforest the paths are winding. There are shadows, there are plants that kill and those that heal, the brush and bushy ones. The rainforest sways, is full of meanders, unevenness, sounds, many sounds. The rainforest raves, under the earth the roots weave, pierce, and entangle their arms that grow down, up, and sideways.

The tropical rainforest whispers myths, it pulsates and expels rumors and mirages: Psycho Tropics. The rainforest is crossroads, it is polyrhythmia. 3 against 2: Psycho Tropics is an exercise of the imagination that seeks to interweave distances. The piece is woven between three performers as a network where lines in tension and time distortions contour empty spaces, intervals, suspensions, pauses, resonance spaces of a non-linear narrative that seeks to bring geometry and psychedelia together.

The Old way Vogue's style is characterized by line formation, symmetry and precision and is inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics. L'Après-midi d'un faune, Nijinsky's first choreography was inspired by the movements of Greek friezes, Egyptian and Assyrian frescoes. In both, Old Way and L'Après-midi d'un faune, the erotic is strongly present.

What if the Faun of forests, myths and Nijinsky's ballet met the the Queer geometry of the Old Way style from the Vogue movement and Oxumaré, the male and female orixá moving between sky and earth? What if the Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris turns into a Rap? What if the name of the echoed god Pan – Pan Pan Pan Pan – makes Beethoven’s fifth symphony ring out? Will the crowd rave, or will it Pan Pan Pan Panic, terror, and bomb, the crowd going wild?