a s s o m b r a ç ã o –
Joy as
embodied practice
Workshop with Ametonyo Silva
Brazilian choreographer and dancer Ametonyo Silva is spending a week-long residency at the Schwankhalle as part of the OUTNOW! Festival. In this workshop, he shares choreographic practices from his ongoing dance project “a s s o m b r a ç ã o.” In Brazilian Portuguese, assombração refers to a ghostly or haunting apparition, an invisible yet physically palpable presence. For Ametonyo, it is precisely these apparitions that touch us—sometimes without us being able to see them—and resonate in our feet, bellies, mouths, ears, and eyes. This workshop is about setting one’s own body into vibration to rekindle memories and to evoke and spread warmth and joy (“alegria”). In the process, the body becomes a medium for movements, gestures, images, sensations, and words that are constantly connecting and transforming.
Even after the workshop, Ametonyo invites you to visit him during his residency week and to accompany him in his choreographic practice—indoors and outdoors, in public spaces and in the theater, dancing, walking, mapping, writing, cooking, and storytelling.
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Ametonyo Silva is a choreographer and dancer born in Paraíba, Northeast of Brazil. In São Paulo, where he followed his studies in mise en scène at the University of São Paulo, he was constantly moving through collective practices at the crossroads of dance, theater and transmission. Based in France since 2022, Ametonyo pursued the choreography master’s program - exerce - at CCN Occitanie à Montpellier (2022-2024). His work engages with experiences of displacement and migration through a choreographic research — a s s o m b r a m e n t o s — which unfolds territories of shared abundance. It involves interdisciplinary practices to haunt memory towards a quotidian re-enchantment of life through the body.
Instagram @ametonyo ↗
ametonyo.46graus.com ↗
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With the kind support of the European Union’s “Culture Moves Europe” program.