The stone has swung explores the exchanges between the popular tradition of Nego Fugido and the performing provocations of agitprop – agitation and propaganda – by theater companies in the metropolis. Transported from its traditional setting in Acupe, Bahia, the Nego Fugido hits the streets of São Paulo revealing a powerful aesthetic force that converges with the militancy of theatrical groups in social movements of our time. Actors dressed in swirling banana-leaf skirts cut through the urban traffic to break out utopias, struggles and tensions.
Research: Carolina Abreu e Marianna Monteiro
Script: Aline Sasahana, Carolina Abreu e Mariana Palumbo
Edition: Aline Sasahana, Carolina Abreu, Mariana Palumbo e Ricardo Dionisio
Sound editing: Simon Simantob
Art: Sofia Costa Pinto e Filipe Vianna
Audio post-production: Simon Simantob
Post-production: Filipe Vianna
Production: LISA
Grant: Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP
Universidade de São Paulo - USP
Projects: Antropologia da Performance: drama, estética e ritual (Projeto Temático FAPESP n. 06/53006-2); A experiência do filme na antropologia (Projeto Temático FAPESP n. 09/52880-9)
Research project: (post doctorate by Carolina Abreu in DA FFLCH/USP, 2012-2015). Espaço, corpo e memória: arte e política nas realizações do teatro de grupo paulistano