Leandro Souza - Musa Insistente

A solitary figure wanders around quoting excerpts from songs lyrics, philosophical texts and speeches by important figures in Western culture. An escape movement is activated by cycles of repetition, entanglement and erosion of the words, in a long twilight, atmosphere of a battle between body and culture. How can choreographic practice open up escape routes from the flattening forces of experience?

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Musa Insistente is the result of research into escape and choreography, in which Leandro Souza investigated language as a way of representing the world in order to observe the exhaustion of the narratives that sustain it. Escape is that muse that insists on inspiring us and showing us that the way out is to face what is in front of us.

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In his productions, Leandro flirts with the word, the voice, the body, movement, objects and various materialities, at a crossroads between practice and theory.