Dancing, Politics
and contemporary thinking

The Panorama Luto action is the way to exist in Brazil 2020 of the Panorama Festival.

In 2019, in a public letter-act, the artistic direction of the Festival decided not to hold the event for the first time since 1992.

Before us, at that moment, there was a hole. The landscape since 2018 was one of lying as politics, of everyday fascism, of attacks on freedom of expression and art as a fundamental value of a society. We decided to stop dancing and look at the hole.

We are a family owned and operated business.

But the pandemic came and that hole became a grave. Giant, endless and marked by inequality. In this hole that turned into a pit, in mid-December we will have 180 thousand Brazilian bodies. A hole that became a mountain of bodies.

The Panorama LUTO action is the online version of the project Do you have a minute to hear the word ?, which has been done by the Festival in several Brazilian cities since 2018. Using the classic hand-to-hand evangelization device, we occupy public spaces to spread not a word with a capital letter - unique, exclusive and from a single book - but all words, other worldviews, that speak of freedom, democracy, art and hope.

This time we will not be hand-to-hand, but we will keep an eye on the eye. We will be a vigil of bodies that read, between the 12th and the 14th of December, live and online, reminding everyone who left and celebrating those who stayed. We will read one second for each fatal victim of covid-19 in Brazil - we will read 50h with bodies and texts.

A liturgy of mourning, but also of hope. Noun mourning and verb mourning.

In more than 200 texts / people, we will read what we want to share with anyone who wants to listen.

In this same virtual window that kept us connected in these 9 months of isolation and pain, we will meet to remember that being able to read and choose what to read is the basis of democracy.