Erva Daninha

Dual SIM is a contemporary circus project performed by two jugglers that embrace the challenge of a continuous and mandatory sharing of all resources.
An investigation about networks, and the forms and schemes of digital sharing. A study on the distribution of objects between two bodies—passing-receiving-sharing. A cycle that one does not complete, and that forces the sharing of identity and the inhabiting of the same space like a Dual SIM.
In the relation with space-time, we analyse Internet maps in the planet, as well as electronic mail and information sharing schemes. Crossed and multiplied lines that amidst the confusion sort of create constellations of natural beauty. A winding road crossing itself with a single composition in the shape of electricity that feeds the entire circuit.
The two performers are always playing under the sharing rule, leading the audience to lose the sense of body-body and identity-identity. From standard circus objects to everyday objects, everything is manipulated and passed on from body to body.
Investigating the universe of digital sharing, the increase of that distribution, its advantages and addiction. The need for that flow of information and matters.
Comparing these routes with those of goods and the distribution of materials in the physical world as compared to the digital world. — Erva Daninha


Erva Daninha was born in 2006 and focuses on contemporary circus. Its performances are based on social and political issues it wishes to develop from its own dramaturgical point of view. It carries out a choreographic work that crosses circus techniques with everyday situations, actions and objects. It seeks inspiration in life, attempting to reproduce it in an extraordinary way, while always looking to maintain a narrative even if an abstract one.