With one ear to the ground, I listen to the earth. What does she want to tell me? says the woman with the machete – she, the hunter, the grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, and mother who came before and will always remain. Brazilian artist Idylla Silmarovi watches attentively and follows in the footsteps of her indigenous ancestors. She creates a space in which memories, images, and spirits enter into dialogue with one another – beyond invented national borders and colonial violence. Here, the body becomes the scene of repressed, subversive knowledge. Caçada! is a manifestation and a monument: to life, to survival, to bodies, to their skin, to their pain – a summoning of spirits.
The breath sets the rhythm of the performance. To breathe together can also mean to attune, to conspire, to imagine, and to dream.
Emerging artist Idylla Silmarovi explores in her work the intersections between art and activism, especially with regard to suppressed and erased memories in Abya Yala (Brazil) and the persistence of colonial structure.

Director: Rafael Bacelar
Idea and text: Idylla Silmarovi
Performance: David Maurity and Idylla Silmarovi
Choreography and assistant director: Vina Amorim
Set design: Luiz Dias and Rafael Bacelar
Art direction: Luiz Dias, Caroline Manso, and Ruth Dias
Video and photography: Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá
Original soundtrack: Davi Fonseca and Lucas Ferrari
Lighting design and technical director: Marina Arthuzzi
Executive production: Ju Abreu
Production: Plataforma Ka'adela
Co-production: PACT Zollverein
Support: Galpão Cine Horto

"Caçada!" is a co-production of Künstlerinnenhaus Mousonturm, supported by KfW Stiftung. Idylla Silmarovi is a former fellow of KfW Stiftung within the framework of the funding program Frankfurt Moves!, an initiative of KfW Stiftung to promote artistic exchange and intercultural dialogue. The residency program in cooperation with Frankfurt LAB supports emerging international artists in the performing arts.*

Tanzfestival Rhein-Main, a project of Künstlerinnenhaus Mousonturm and Hessisches Staatsballett, is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and is funded by the Department of Culture and Science of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture, Aventis Foundation and Dr. Marschner Foundation. Sponsered by Energieversorgung Offenbach AG (EVO).*