Repertório N.1 is the final piece of a trilogy by the Brazilian artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira. The powerful series of performances challenges the idea of generalised violence while seeking new ways to understand and represent global majority lived experiences.

Drawing on postcolonial, gender and race studies, the Repertório trilogy interrogates the mechanisms of brutality and attempts to dismantle them. The performance explores how the body – and all it carries – can develop its own form of self-defence. By setting this choreographic repertoire of self-defence in motion, Pontes and Ferreira propose strategies of resistance – using the body to provoke thought and imagination, performing violence without perpetuating it.

Based on research into poses and gestures, Repertório N.1 creates an experimental space where images don’t follow conventional representation. Instead, they disrupt with choreography that generates friction, tension, and a sense of displacement. Here, the body does not represent – it provokes.

Repertório N.1 is co-commissioned by Serpentine, Something Great and Dance Umbrella. The world premiere will take place in London, October 2025 as part of Dance Umbrella Festival before touring internationally in 2026.