IDYLLA SILMAROVI is a scene artist and researcher. Master in Performing Arts from the Federal University of Ouro Preto, with research entitled “Strategies of art in a guerrilla state”.

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Born in the city of Contagem MG/Brazil, she is a racialized LGBTQIA+ body that investigates the intersections between art and activism within the performing arts, mainly regarding the debate around memory as a right denied by the colonial system in Abya Yala ( Americas). In addition, her practice and research is directly related to racialized feminist and LGBTQIA+ struggles.

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She is the creator and general director of the Ka'adela Platform and the Meeting Zone. She is an actress in the solo performances GUERRILHA – an experiment for dark times and CAÇADA. She is also a playwright for several shows that tour Brazil.

 

She collaborates with various collectives and movements such as: Toda Deseo, Plataforma Divinas, Academia TransLiterária, among others. She is a partner of the German institutions PACT Zollverein, Mousonturm, and KFW Stifftung. She is also a collaborating playwright for the Postgraduate Program in Theatre at the University of Bochum entitled: Dramaturgies in the after-life of violence - Transnational theater between Global South and North.

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He is present at several national and international festivals with his artistic and intellectual production. 

 

Creates autonomous creative spaces. Seeks to sink caravels. He is interested in crowning transvestites and tearing down colonial monuments. Believes in guerrillas.