Ceramics & Contemporary Dance in a Shared Act of Creation

A fire has burned. A body has moved.
Now, the kiln opens — and the performance begins.

This unique artistic event brings together the worlds of contemporary art and contemporary dance in a shared moment of transformation, revelation, and ritual. As the ceramic oven opens to unveil a newly fired piece, performers respond in real time, translating heat, tension, and emergence into movement, presence, and space.

Pedra no Rim, a community-driven collective, gathers and reconstructs the overlooked pieces of our urban leftovers, those traces that lie beneath our feet or fade from memory. Their work is a tangible reclamation of place and history, knitting together the city’s forgotten narratives.

Alongside them, Oficina Zero, a contemporary dance project committed to occupying the city through the physical body, brings movement as a living force — a dialogue between flesh and concrete, presence and place.

Together, they invite you to witness a unique encounter where the built environment, collective memory, and the body’s movement converge — transforming public space into a canvas for artistic and communal reflection.

The audience is invited to witness this unfolding as a single, live artwork: matter meeting body, process becoming performance.

A Meeting of Practices

• The opening of the ceramic oven marks the symbolic and literal start of the performance

• A site-specific experimental contemporary performance unfolds in response to the energy of that moment

• Improvisation, form, heat, and vulnerability come together in a shared ritual of creation