Abstract
CRIA.TUA is an interdisciplinary project by Pirii Pimentel Rodrigues that combines performance, sound, body, and costumes. The name is a wordplay on the Portuguese word “criatura”: without the “r,” it means “create your own”—your own scene, form, or existence.
The project emphasizes experimentation, craftsmanship, and sustainability by recycling materials such as plastic, aluminum, and glass and incorporating them into costumes that also function as sound instruments. In collaboration with Maria Martinez, these costumes were created as extensions of the body, while Gian Kaegi developed an instrument for the first performance that is also used in educational projects.
CRIA.TUA consists of five performances—Terra, Água, Fogo, Ar, and Essência—which represent a cycle of metamorphosis. Each performance is an independent creature and at the same time part of a larger performative organism.
