Matadouro

After spending a number of years working in Europe, Brazilian Marcelo Evelin returned to his home town of Teresina in 2006 where he now runs the Núcleo de Criação do Dirceu. The final part of a trilogy inspired by Euclides da Cunha’s founding novel Rebellion in the Backlands (1902), Matadouro(“abattoir”) is a powerful, political work in which the body personifies the struggle between centre and margin, barbarity and civilisation, and community and the globalised world. Performed to the solemn tones of Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major, eight performers, naked and masked as if for an enigmatic ritual, set off in a never-ending race in which perpetual movement offers a poignant metaphor for resistance