Original Bomber Crew
Original Bomber Crew is an organization of practices, research and productions of hip hop culture that began in 2005 and is a reference in the Northeast of Brazil for its training and creation work in street dance, performances, battles and urban interventions. It has three work fronts, one focused on Training, another on Battles and other meetings, and Creation in contemporary art. For many years it was a resident group at Galpão do Dirceu and Casa de Hip Hop do Piauí, and since 2017 it has been a resident at CAMPO Arte Contemporânea/REVOADA production house, where it acts as a crossroads between artists, languages and contemporary research.
VAPOR
VAPOR, infiltrable occupation is the latest creation by the Original Bomber Crew. It's the turning point in a cycle that began with tReta, a performative invasion (2018), then was mediated by Suspeit∞, a monitored work (2020). VAPOR, however, manifests itself not just as a work, but as a fleeting process that dissipates different directions of creation. It comes as a litany, a chant, a prayer, which in its repetition ritualizes the arrival of new cycles: VAPOR in 2021 became a series of five videos, in 2024 it debuted as an in-person performance, and will become an installation in the near future. The titles of this trilogy are part of a vocabulary that emerges in the toilets of Brazil and summons us to think about the fire that rises in the alleys, not only the urban ones, but also those of the aquilombamentos, of the various "margins". While tReta puts us on our guard, skin to skin, confronting us with the internalized paradoxes of the here and now of the city, VAPOR vibrates towards other perceptions, presences, landscapes, magic, times, openings.
TRETA
TrETA is a conflict,
an explosion, an act
act to involve the
other, where the public
to take the selfie of the day.
It bears witness to shared violence and disposable bodies in Brazil. The inequality of social positions and the friction generated from this, the raw part of situations, colors and values.
The bullshit in the Planalto Palace, the neighbor's, the breaking battle.
Dirceu's bullshit with the other quebradas and our own bullshit that brings dance as a positioning in the world.
The movements of this dance are the expression of molecules of what actually happens, of the reality of the body and of everyday life.
Teresina - Piauí - Brazil.
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