Lessons for Cadavers

Three figures move on stage in a grotesque dance of emotions ranging from panic and astonishment to violence and fragility. Lessons for Cadavers draws inspiration from the physical language of horror - its exaggeration and hyperbole - to reflect the attitude of the living. Death is a magical, grotesque realm inhabited by strange forms of life. The political struggles of recent years in Brazil, where the far right uses fear as a weapon to dominate bodies, hearts and minds, provide the backdrop for Michelle Moura, herself from Brazil. She dissects how a necropolitical system can turn people into the living dead.