TRYPAS CORASSAO consists of Tita Maravilha and Cigarra, a Brazilian duo made up ofthe urgent bodies of marginalised womanhood and enraged trans in a hybrid, sensual proposal that brings a live act full of creamy sounds and allure. It’s an aesthetic and political project: a hybrid creation somewhere between electronic music and performance in which bodies, filled with different memories and dis-memories of violence, have now in their hands the power to bring about change.
performance, creation and scenic and sound direction
Tita Maravilha & Cigarra
guest musician
Big John
duration
60 min.
M/12
Tita Maravilha (Pirenópolis, 1993) is an actress, singer, performer and clown. Through the idea of body politics, she brings to her artistic processes the pain and delights of being a dissident body. She graduated from the University of Brasilia in 2018 and has lived in Portugal since then. She has created a variety of artistic works and won the 5th Amélia Rey Colaço Scholarship award promoted by the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, the Vila Flor Cultural Centre, O Espaço do Tempo and Teatro Viriato.
Ágatha Barbosa aka Cigarra (São Paulo) has been a DJ, performer, musical producer and cultural agent for over 15 years. She has devoted half this time to the musical scene in Lisbon. In partnership with the city and other dissenting artists, she has thrown her parties in Lisbon’s main venues. Her music conveys engaged and enthralling research, merging diasporic marginalities with the stirring emotion of pop and experimental subversion.
Big John (Aracaju, 1988) has been a musician since 2008. He started off playing the accordion in forró bands and then specialised as a keyboardist, composer and researcher of musical technology. He devoted five years of his career to Couttoorchestra, a sergipana band renowned in Brazil and internationally. He has added onto his curriculum musical compositions for publicity and electoral campaigns as well as cinema.