After tReta [Crap] (2018) and Suspeit [Suspicious] (2020), Vapor [Vapour] is the last instalment of a trilogy by the Original Bomber Crew. In the alleyways in the outskirts of Teresina, “vapor” is slang for disappearing. It evokes the resident who dies, evaporates without society caring. He is also the one illicitly selling to consumers. He keeps an eye on the points of entry to the favela, warning the entire network with fireworks. They’re the ones who are most vulnerable to police intervention, executed in their youth, becoming sheer statistics. One of the greatest massacres in the history of Brazil took place when they went looking for “vapores” in the Jacarezinho favela, Rio de Janeiro. Vapor addresses a forced and continuous state of being on the run and the need for shelter. It addresses the universal right to housing. It addresses those who migrate, invade and/or occupy in a constant movement as a tactic of survival and construction of their existence.

Panorama RAFT

In this year in which we resume the focus on Brazilian creation, we deepen synergies of thought and ways of doing from the partnership with the Panorama RAFT Festival in Rio de Janeiro.

In 2021, the Panorama Festival repositioned itself in light of the pandemic and economic crisis. It proposed a new format of funding, building a raft of resources with the aim of financing the creation of unreleased works by artists from Brazil, to which several renowned institutions and festivals, including DDD, contributed. The resources raised by the partnership, through an Open Call, were channelled into ten projects for the creation of unreleased online works and five projects for research and development.

In this DDD, we selected three of these online works: Serenatas Dançadas, by Soraya Portela; Vapor, by Original Bomber Crew; and E MAR ANHA DO, by the Coletive Danças em Transições.

RAFT is an initiative of Panorama Festival with Teatro Municipal do Porto, Bates Dance Festival, CAC Contemporary Arts Center, Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie, Charleroi Danse, Dansehallerne, FTA – Festival Transameriques, Gessnerallee, Hau Hebbel Am Ufer, Hyperjetlag Arts in between Time, Pact Zollverein, Points Communs, Nouvelle Scene Nationale Cergy-Pontoise/Val d’Oise, Sesc São Paulo, Trajal Harrell, Tickle The Sleeping Giant Inc, Vooruit, Walker Art Center.