“Ôss” means “bone” in creole. It is phonetically similar to “oss”, a polysemic expression that is common among karate practitioners and that originally encompasses ideas such as pressuring, pushing, withstanding, tolerating. But such a phonetic relation is only, and partially,
coincidence, given that what interests us is the bone as a keeper and teller of millenary secrets, guardian of anatomical guidelines, structuring box for soft and fragile parts. Paradoxically, building a strong skeleton, where a foot serves as a brain and the heart as an elbow, and the
knees are a liver and an ear, will be naturally possible for us, given that between hard and soft, in the end, it won’t matter much. The parts of this composite and its subsequent destiny shall be handled in auction. — DANÇANDO COM A DIFERENÇA & MARLENE MONTEIRO FREITAS