Originally from France, Laurence aka A Macaca moved to Brasil 10 years ago and since then has been involved in the Voodoohop music collective. A Macaca (literally the female Monkey) emerged during the parties the collective organised weekly as a performing entity that toys with contradiction and expectation. She works mingling live music, dance, physical theatre, performance, video, and installations.
To her musical and Dj background, Laurence adds her experiences as performer and dancer. She followed a wide variety of dance classes around the world from Butoh in Tokyo to Hip hop in Paris. During her time in Brasil she joined Fernando Ferraz Afro-Brasilian dances classes in Sao Paulo, and was part of choreographer’s Marcelo Evelin’s performance “Batucada”. All this dancing is also supported by a strong anchor in Yoga after practicing for years and attending intensive workshops in India.
Her identity is in constant mutation, playfully transforming between animal and human, masculine and feminine. Blurring the boundaries between public and performer, she connects with her surroundings by dancing, feeding the floor as if it were a big fire, the music; the wood found on her path and her mixing; a way to adjust the intensity of the flames. Her music selections oscillates between tension and release, surfing on the waves of harmonies and hormones.
https://soundcloud.com/amacaca
Releases:
released digitally on Voodoohop : Entropia Colectiva II (July 2018)
EP "J'écris" Released digitally on Frente Boliviarista (April 2018)
Track released on vinyl in Japan (November 2017);
Track released digitally on Voodoohop : Entropia Colectiva I (June 2016);
