Calixto Neto

Originally from Recife in Brazil, Calixto Neto has been living in France since 2013. He trained in theater at the Federal University of Pernambuco, then in dance with the experimental dance group before taking the master’s degree in choreography at the CCN de Montpellier, where he created the solo petites explosions. A member of Lia Rodrigues’ company from 2007 to 2013, Calixto Neto also performed in pieces by Anne Collod, Mette Ingvartsen, Ève Magot and Luiz de Abreu, whose famous piece O Samba do Crioulo Doido he revived in 2020, as part of the Panorama festival at the CN D. Also in 2020, he directed the films O Samba do Crioulo Doido: règle et compas and Pro Futuro Quilombo. Since 2018, Calixto has created three solos; oh!rage (2018), Outrar, in collaboration with Lia Rodrigues (2021) and IL FAUX (2023), as well as a group piece, Feijoada (2021). He is currently preparing a group piece for autumn 2025 and is an associate artist of the Scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise 2024-2026.

The workshop will take as its starting point the transmission process of the piece O Samba do Crioulo Doido (created in 2004 by Luiz de Abreu), revived by Calixto Neto in 2020. Inspired by this process, we’ll cross different axes of practice and reflection to develop our performative tools and critical considerations around a choreographic project: touch, manipulation (and consent), movement description, writing beyond mere register, the archive, memory and invention, copying and appropriation, learning beyond the supremacy of vision, and the invention of an artistic community (real or fictional) with which to dialogue.