I create to risk the stage—where each act becames a force of nature. Not representation but presence.
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I create performances where the body, voice, and memory become a living language. My work moves between theater, poetry, and bioenergetic practice. I am drawn to the fragile edge where truth appears—where gesture reveals what words cannot. Each piece is not a representation, but a presence—an event unfolding in real time.
Where do you find inspiration?I am inspired by stories of beings who healed through creation. By Clarice Lispector, by Emma Reyes, and by contemporary fictions—like loving a false Bob Dylan. I am drawn to what is real and what is illusion, to the tension between presence and absence. In that fracture, something alive begins to speak.
What would you do with $25,000?I would invest in opening access to the arts for those who don’t usually attend. Creating spaces of encounter, education, and experience—where new audiences can approach theater without fear. At the same time, I would develop a performance work that invites them in: not as spectators, but as participants in a living act.
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