Turbid Bodies is the first gesture of the Dance-Tragedy Trilogy, a project developed by Coletivo CIDA under the direction of René Loui, with dramaturgical interlocution by Jussara Belchior. Its research began in 2019, during an artistic residency at the Odisha Biennale in India, where the work took shape as a solo in process, still in a raw state.

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With the outbreak of the pandemic, the creation underwent a radical displacement: what was to be a single body became a plural — and murky — body. The piece migrated to audiovisual, crossing confinements and networks, until it once again encountered the physical stage space as a collective, shapeless, and insurgent organism.

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Murky Bodies is not a narrative of overcoming, but a manifesto on the instability of flesh, the violence of normativity, and the insistence on existing despite everything. The work calls on non-hegemonic bodies to dance from what still vibrates — even fractured, even suspended.

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Accessibility does not appear as a supplement, but as an incorporated dramaturgical layer. Interrupted gestures, hesitant presences, faltering speech, and dissolving images compose a scenic writing that questions: “Who has the right to appear?” “To move?” “To remain?”

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Murky Bodies does not seek an answer.

It is a state. A noise.

A dance on the edge of erasure that, nonetheless, insists on making itself present.