Volmir Cordeiro

Born in 1987 in Brazil, Volmir Cordeiro first graduated in theater and worked with the Brazilian choreographers Alejandro Ahmed, Cristina Moura and Lia Rodrigues. He graduated in 2012 from Essais, Angers Choreographic Center’ s experimental dance training, directed by Emmanuelle Huynh. He has performed in the projects of Xavier Le Roy, Laurent Pichaud, Rémy Héritier, Emmanuelle Huynh, Jocelyn Cottencin and Vera Mantero. After a first series of solos (Ciel, Inês and Rue), he created the duet Époque with Marcela Santander Corvalán in 2015, and L’oeil la bouche et le reste in 2017, which was declined also as an exhibition. He is an associate artist at CN D and has just published a book based on his phd thesis, Ex-corpo, in Carnets collection.

Feast
Volmir Cordeiro suggests using one of the scenes from his show L’œil la bouche et le reste to produce an erotic bestiary made up of half-human, half-animal creatures where the borderline between bodies and “envelope-skins” becomes a space to be negotiated thanks to hands, eyes, mouths, teeth, odours… Being with others via anatomical and sensorial combinations makes us become extrovert subjects – turned towards the exterior – taken up by the challenge to lose our own individuality, in favour of an upcoming community.