Formas de Brincar

Formas de brincar (Ways to Play) considers the aesthetic and disciplinary objectification of the human body by exploring the streets as a field for a performative game. The main inspiration for this performance comes from an old popular game in Brazil, the Cinco Marias, which is played using five small stones by tossing some of the stones in the air and picking up others from the ground at the same time. While Cinco Marias is played discreetly by two performers on a table out of the public's view, three female artists perform a sequence of provocative movements and ways of relating to the audience. In Formas de Brincar, ERRO Grupo questions stereotypes of femininity, normativity, massification, and the seduction of consumption. Hemispheric Institute

ERRO Grupo is a multidisciplinary performance group founded in 2001 in Florianópolis, Brazil. Focusing on experimentation with urban space, the group develops performances, street theater, and urban interventions exploring concepts such as invisibility, displacement, participation, and occupation, inserting art into daily life as a political praxis. ERRO Grupo has received numerous awards such as the Santa Catarina Theater Prize (2017) - awarded by the Cultural Foundation of the state of Santa Catarina, and the Myriam Muniz Theater Prize (2014) by FUNARTE (Brazilian National Art Foundation). They have published the books POÉTICA do ERRO: Dramaturgias (2014), POÉTICA do ERRO: Registros (2014), and Persistência (2016). Their artworks and workshops have circulated in more than 60 cities in Brazil, the Americas, and Europe. Hemispheric Institute