Estrellx Supernova

Animate, Intimate (AI): Cycle 1 – Points of Encounter/Puente de Encuentros
or [[Before Wonderland Fell, We Fell in Touch]]

Duration 7h48 min (aprox.) | M/16

Culturgest | Culturgest / Garden of the Galveias Palace Library

9 July, from 12h12 to 20h00 (durational performance)

Attention: Capacity limited to 40 people simultaneously.

it is also an inheritance.
the sweetest of desserts.
racism/pleasure.
it hurts.
I. AM. SO. PROUD. OF.
an attempt to open your heart.
all you have to do is remember.
take up all of the space.
i repeat: WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU WAS NOT YOUR FAULT! (x3)
they watch over me too because I am also you. i love you.
reincarnated: at this time, for this time.
a light filled spring with roses sprinkled all around,
held by angels whispering holy water frequencies into your ear.
curved up or curved down?
curved up: it will massage the prostate better that way.
handle w/ aftercare.
before before before.
after after after.
a letter of acknowledgment.
my landma$$.
running into bedazzled Glory Holes.
i consume them all w/ no regrets.
what do you call something that changes you forever?
there/here.
are you from here?
no, i am from over there.
do you cum here often?
no, i mostly enjoy cumming on my own body.
spit or swallow?
it depends.
more time.
more context.
ready.
finally: at the after party of the aftermath.
no come down.

Lead Choreographer/Creative Director Estrellx Supernova

Performance Activators/Cosmic Angels Ana Victoria Andres, Maria Ibarretxe, Mariana Catalina Iris, Silvana Ivaldi, Vanessa Lonau, Connor Scott, Estrellx Supernova, Camilla Morello, Bobby Brim, Tarlie Lumby, Lorea Burge, Marta Ramos, producers – Forum Dança team members and front of house from Culturgest

Sonic designer Lorea Burge

Dramaturgs/Thought Partners Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz, Santiago Rodriguez Tricot, Sheena McGrandles, Alex Cassal, David Marques and Christine de Smedt

Estrellx (they/them/elle) is a queer, Afro-Central-American-American choreographer, performer, curator, writer and somatic entrepreneurial brujx. Choreographically, Estrellx integrates club spaces as sites of generative dissonance and asks, “Are we celebrating or mourning or both?” They implement Qi Energetic principles, divination, improvisation, and club dancing into their ritualistic performative language and conceive of choreography as an intimate practice of embodied excavation.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would love to say a tremendous thank you to the entire team at Forum Dança and Culturgest for supporting me with bringing this vision to life and to all of the phenomenal guest artists who were curated into PACAP 6. Sofia & Vitor you two are a match made in heaven and so grateful to finally engage with you and your presences. It took a few years, but I finally made it.

I would love to say a second tremendous thank you to all of my collaborators for showing up to co-creating and activating this work and for trusting me.

I would love to say a final tremendous thank you to my energetic-spiritual constellation of care, ancestors, and loved ones supporting me from near and far.