Ocupação Turbulência – 2025
Ocupação Turbulência is an artistic and cultural initiative that reaffirms the transformative role of art in collective life, especially within peripheral contexts. Carried out in the first semester of 2025, the project unfolded from the Turbulência Encontros de Danças event (2023), promoted by the Plataforma Danças Que Temos Feito, and delivered a significant cultural intervention in the northern zone of Teresina, focusing on the Grande Santa Maria territory and the Teatro Barítono Raimundo Pereira. Beyond being a space for performances, Ocupação Turbulência proposed an experience of listening and sharing with the local community based on the foundational pillars of the Plataforma Danças Que Temos Feito: Creation, Production, and Training in Dance and its intersections. Thus, Ocupação Turbulência was structured around three main fronts, with an entirely free program: CONVERSEIRO TURBULENTO STUDY GROUP: A dance study group and its crossings, promoting debates and knowledge exchange. TURBULENT RESIDENCIES: Creative immersions for formative dance processes, building new possibilities for creation and expression. TURBULÊNCIA – Encontros de Danças, 2nd edition: Showcases of dance performances and processes, occupying the theater with movement, affection, and dancing desires. All these activities were conceived to strengthen ties between different artists and residents of the region, in dialogue with creators from other areas of Teresina and other states in Brazil, fostering access to culture, valuing local expressions, and empowering bodies and voices. Idealized by Ireno Júnior and Samuel Alvís, the project reaffirms its commitment to democratizing art and creating spaces of belonging and transformation, recognizing the urgency of decentralizing art and dance. The project establishes itself as a strategic action to strengthen the local cultural scene, celebrating diversity and promoting dance as a vital language for the construction of identities, affections, and possible futures. Ocupação Turbulência is a realization of the Plataforma Danças Que Temos Feito, Ministry of Culture and Federal Government of Brazil, with support from the State Government of Piauí, State Secretariat of Culture of Piauí, financed by the National Aldir Blanc Policy – PNAB/Piauí 2024, through the Continuous Actions and Occupation Public Notice.
Turbulência Encontros de Danças #1
With actions that converge with the complexity of artistic and cultural practices—especially regarding the interweaving of creation, production, and training—Danças Que Temos Feito presented the event Turbulência Encontros de Danças from January 9 to 20, 2023, in Teresina – PI, with the desire to foster the continuity of artistic production in dance (and its connections). The event promoted a series of potentiating actions/turbulences in the city, featuring presentations of works in progress, a premiere of a show, a dance creation workshop, artistic creation residencies, and many encounters. All activities were FREE and took place in two public, cultural, and educational venues in Teresina: the Escola Estadual de Dança Lenir Argento and the Biblioteca Estadual Cromwell de Carvalho. The event gathered hundreds of people, including audiences for the performances and participants registered for the residencies and dance creation workshops and their related activities. What guided the construction process of Turbulência Encontros de Danças was the idea of dances that launch themselves into the world causing turbulences—in the sense of making ideas, concepts, and paradigms vibrate. Bodies that, when dancing, problematize issues that touch on the past, future, and present time. Linked to turbulence, the event dialogues with Erin Manning’s (2016) concept of “Minor Gestures” with the intention of reflecting on the act of dancing, understanding that turbulence in dance can happen through the potentiality of gestures that are often almost imperceptible. The conceptual design, direction, and curation were by Ireno Júnior, PhD candidate in Dance at UFBA. The project’s conceptual framework was built from the problematizations that Ireno Júnior has been developing in his doctoral research.
