João dos Santos Martins’ work explores the relationships between dance, language and transmission. For this performance, the dancer and choreographer takes the body as a field of negotiation between nature and construction. The work dialogues with his personal experience of migration from the countryside to the urban scape, and the idea of adaptation — of the body and the subject — in a continuous process, often violente, of adjustment of gestures and relationships.

Dance is approached as a practice of unlearning and reinvention: an exercise of acknowledging of the social and bodily layers accumulated in the attempt to adequate habits seen as strange, rough or wild. More than representative of an identity, the work presents a field of friction between nature, rurality and culture. The body becomes matter in process, in which inside and outside dialogue proposing ways of listening.