Raquel Lima

Úlulu means placenta in forro or lúngwa santomé. According to an ancient ritual in São Toméan culture, the úlulu is planted, along with the umbilical cord, in the family's large backyard. Thus, according to the older generations, children grow up and travel the world but also know how to return to their birthplace.
This is a performance, where three creatures/creators evoke music, movement, poetry and landscape in a search for cords of transmission and nurturing, as they speculate and repeat rituals that harmonize collapse and regenerating, and raise questions: what if belonging to non-human geographies is a solution for the oncoming extinction? How can you do that without wasting the memory of rituals that can be useful for that transmutation? Where can you leave clues for a possible escape towards return? — Raquel Lima