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Archive of all the performance creations by PedroAfoxso. A collection of theater, site-specific and videographic pieces.
MUST SWEAT
Must Sweat is a dance-theater performance exploring the artist’s ongoing struggle with labor rules imposed on them. The character confronts the painful reality of stepping into the studio for 40 hours a week, constantly moving and producing. Desperate for motivation, they become obsessed with sweat as proof of labor, a grotesque currency exchange of salty drops for money. [...]
Is it wrong not to be special (reinvented)
Born from the pressure of success that builds upon us as we grow in society, the performance looks to expose the pain behind the mask of “failing until you make it”. Driven by the idea that one can achieve anything they want as long as they keep working hard. [...]
4,9/10
4,9/10 was born out of a need to claim space for mediocre artists, within capitalist societal systems. The work engages with the conflicts between oneiric hope, ambition and expectations of the self and the inevitable obsession, masochism and unfulfillment; it seeks to expose the inner discourse of artists-in-the-making and its impact on their bodies. [...]
On a stone staircase my eyes were healed
On a stone staircase my eyes were healed is a visual poem based on the artists poem On a stone staircase my eyes were healed, 2022 .It is a performance of hope that is born out of human connection. Two beings whose souls are at the edge of existence regain energy for life from a sudden encounter with eachother. [...]
Is it wrong not to be special?
Is it wrong not to be special is a solo dance-theater performance born from the artist´s first research on The Mediocre. Focused on the weight of expectations as an immigrant artist, the performer constructs and deconstructs its body beyond the mind´s consent out of fear that ceasing to move would also mean ceasing to become exceptional. [...]