In this session, Puma Camillê, an interdisciplinary artist, model, and member of ballroom and capoeira communities, will use body movement to explore concepts of masculinity and femininity. Puma will discuss how their work draws on the connection between capoeira and vogue as overlapping practices of bodily expression arising from the African diaspora. The class...
Puma Camillê
Puma Camillê is a guardian, a master in the transmission of capoeira art, a model, a member of the Ballroom aphrodiasporic community and one of responsible to mix Voguing with the Afro-Brazilian Diasporic Technology: Capoeira. His fearlessness, kindness and genius are virtues that make this person the first capoeirista to openly question the cultural colonization of the forms of expression and movements of bodies and in the practice of capoeira, simultaneously making him, a person who expands the ranks of people who defend the African and Pindoramica cultures as classical cultures, as well as someone who joins efforts to remove the colonial ties imposed on this African culture of the diaspora in Brazil, which is capoeira. From the knowledge of Capoeira, Ballroom Community and his immense experience, Puma Camille explores their own bodies within their limits, multiplying combinations, possibilities ofaccording to one’s own personality, seeking naturalness, without the need to perform or create another reality for the body itself. transmitted art With a look that pays homage to ancestry and, at the same time, provokes you to investigate your own creativity with great daring accessing the state of fluidity.


