The story of the Greek hero, Odysseus, and his long journey home was passed down to us in a poem by Homer – The Odyssey. Today, the word odyssey evokes an arduous journey for any person. But where do you go back to when you have no home? MEXA is a collective founded in 2015 following outbreaks of violence in so-called homeless shelters in São Paulo. For several years, they have been working out of Casa do Povo (House of the People), a revolutionary Jewish cultural centre founded in São Paulo in 1946 to promote values of radical solidarity. In recent months, this space saw the birth of MEXA’s new performance, Pumpitopera Transatlantica. Together on stage, the members of MEXA merge text and songs to build an opera that revisits 90s dance music (above all, the song Pump Up the Jam), linking their personal stories and experiences to Homer’s epic poem. What if a new Odyssey was named after each MEXA artist? What trajectories would be described? Pumpitopera Transatlantica presents powerful content in an unexpected format, a transformative experience that starts out as theatre in a nightclub. In the spaces of club C12, the ten performers of MEXA share a new way of staging Greek mythology, constructing a new mythology for the present.
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