After the Social Sculpture Trilogy THE CAVE, THE FOUNTAIN, and THE MARKET, the wild and esteemed Brazilian queer choreographer based in Amsterdam, Fernando Belfiore, returns with a new sensuous mess.
Humorous and provocative, Belfiore departs from the notion of performance as an unfolding of our understanding of the material world and the social relations shaped by class struggle.
Offering a visceral critique of consumerism and spectacle, the work alchemically stirs imagination and hope, regurgitating the concept of capitalism as religion.
The Vira-Lata Complex
The piece takes as its points of departure the Vira-Lata Complex — a term first coined by writer Nelson Rodrigues and later expanded by philosopher Marcia Tiburi to describe the inferiority complex of the colonized, their submission in the face of injustice and inequality — and the participatory practices of visual artist Lygia Clark, a seminal figure of the Tropicália movement.
The performance probes questions of obedience, fetishism, and trained domestication, while also devouring revolt itself.
Our guts, nine meters of nerves and memory, become a stage where matter, emotion, and wildness break through.
KAOS Journey
Undercover Art Gallery space | Red-light Arts and Culture Amsterdam (a long durational performance experimentation of 2 hours in between the streets of Red-light District and the art gallery) 2023
Tanzhaus, 2 weeks’ residence 2023 with a showing and feedback session, in Zurich
Geldersekade (commissioned private event in a house with 4 floors) 2024, Amsterdam
Red Light Arts and Culture Amsterdam in April, 2025
Red Light Arts and Culture Amsterdam and Jakoozi (pop-in-day) in September, 2025
Mandala Performance Festival, in Wroclaw 2025
COKO gallery space 2025, Amsterdam
Fernando Belfiore 