HERE:2025 - Suspiciously groovy + Também se matam cavalos

Suspiciously groovy - NoXsense (SE)SEPTEMBER 20 / 17:00VITLYCKE - CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS What is a groove? Perhaps a shared pulse, a rebellion, or simply a fleeting moment of joy. Suspiciously Groovy tries to answer this question by approaching groove not as a fixed concept, but as a question in motion. The performance challenges the body by experimenting with movements that are intentionally inorganic, awkward, and feel difficult to perform. From this sense of discomfort, something contagious begins to take shape. The dancers of NoXsense welcome you into a lively, playful choreography that invites you to feel the rhythm—and perhaps wiggle right out of your seat. Created and performed entirely by queer artists, Suspiciously Groovy embraces feelings of unease at the heart of its exploration. The work defies mainstream values by celebrating strangeness and imperfection within a shared rhythm. For the choreographer and the group, the work reflects themes of deviation, self-expression, and community — core experiences within queer lives. In doing so, the piece invites audiences to reconsider not just how we groove as a society, but who gets to define what groove can be. Também se matam cavalos/Horses are also killed - um cavalo disse mamãe (PT)SEPTEMBER 13 / 19:00VITLYCKE - CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS In Brazil, for nine decades, there was a mental hospital, the Hospital Colónia de Barbacena, where marginalized people, gays, women, political enemies of the elite, homeless alcoholics, unwanted children, wanderers, epileptics were locked up next to people diagnosed with mental health problems and all received the same brutal treatment instituted by a system that didn't want them. More than 60,000 people died in what has been called the Brazilian Holocaust. These social sanitizations continue to exist, subjectivities are killed, blacks, the poor, refugees, women, transvestites, dreamers and activists are killed. In this play, Cavalcanti constructs an escape. What if four fugitives from this hospital are on the road, sharing a common pact? What if they think they're a rock band on tour? What if they're hiding in an abandoned garage or building, rehearsing for a concert but without instruments? Who are these people, what do they feel, how do they relate to each other? What are the boundaries between madness and imagination? How to keep thoughts and bodies free like a child who is not (yet) conditioned as a social and productive being? Cavalcanti wanted to make a play that would move people. He likes to think of his mother when he makes plays, imagining a better world for her, for the people he loves and even for the people he doesn't know. How do you materialize that in a danceHorses are killed when they are no longer useful to human beings, as if something or someone had to be useful. This piece is about a herd of horses running free in the open countryside, exhausted but happy; they don't know they're going to die in the war. This play is an exercise in freedom. Find out more about artists & performances: www.here-festival.org