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Theatre and Indigenous Peoples: Learning to Imagine New Worlds in End Times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2021

CIBELE FORJAZ SIMÕES
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Abstract

This article examines the relationship between the performing arts and Amerindian peoples, specifically the Araweté, Juruna/Yudjá and Kamayurá peoples, which belong to the Tupi branch, whom I met as part of postdoctoral research carried out from February 2018 to January 2019, at the University of São Paulo (USP). It analyses the conjuncture of the fight of Amerindian and riparian peoples before the destruction of the forest and rivers of the Amazon, based on case studies of two theatre performances: Altamira 2042, a scenic ritual instauration triggered by listening to the testimony of the Xingu river about the Belo Monte dam, and Os Um e Os Outros (The One and the Others), loosely based on The Horatians and the Curiatians by Bertolt Brecht.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , October 2021 , pp. 374 - 381
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2021

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Notes

1 The Xingu river is a tributary of the Amazon that crosses Brazil for 1,640 kilometres, from the Cerrado to the Amazon forest.

2 A boiúnas is a large black serpent, also named mboiuaçu.

3 One of the main characteristics of the riparian people is the intrinsic (and also contradictory) relationship between the ‘river’ (where they live, fish, hunt and have their crops, producing almost everything they need for their own subsistence) and the ‘street’, as they call the city.

4 Erundina is the name of a spiritual entity, from the Umbanda houses of the north of Brazil. Her ethnic identity is of a caboclo, a mestizo in white with indigenous.

5 Recorded testimony of Tinini Juruna, chief of the Tubatuba village of the Yudjá/Juruna people, given to Cibele Forjaz and Clarissa Morgenroth (2 January 2019, unpublished material), n.p.

6 Cibele F. Simões, Lúcia R. V. Romano, Marcos Damigo and others, Os Um e os Outros (2019, unpublished material), n.p.

7 Recorded testimony of Tinini Juruna.

8 Excerpt from Os Um e os Outros.

9 Eliane Brum, ‘A notícia é esta: o Xingu vai morrer’, Jornal El País (Coluna Opinião), 13 September 2019, at https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2019/09/12/opinion/1568300730_780955.html (accessed 14 April 2020).