Grupo VÃO

The piece FIM [End] is an experience of shared loneliness created in 2018. With their eyes shut, five performers inhabit the darkness with an audience. In 2021, the question resonates even more strongly: which distance still yields encounter? While faced with the feeling of a suspended future, to imagine makes us move. Being at the FIM means to see without discerning. Means to trigger alliances beyond what sight is able to capture. Without turning the other into prey or herd. That which terrorises is the blinding light. We plot as a discordant chorus: may the deviant worlds not be exterminated. May death inspire us to act. May imagining ways of composing realities beyond the devastated landscapes be allowed, and in this way gently employ the necessary distance for dreams to be able to coexist. — Grupo VÃO


Grupo VÃO comprises Isis Andreatta, Julia Viana, Juliana Melhado and Patrícia Árabe. With over ten years of existence, it carries out its artistic work researching ways of self-management and collective direction as creative practice and political action in the field of dance. It is currently working on the project Escândalo [Scandal] and its most recent pieces include FIM (2018), No hay Banda é Tudo Playback [There’s no Band It’s All Playback] (2017) and Move Cover (2016).