MIMOSA

Name: MIMOSA - Flavia Pinheiro
Start: 2025-11-14T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Frascati, Amsterdam

Flavia Pinheiro

Thu 13 Nov ’25 and Fri 14 Nov ’25

Survival is a dance between touch and withdrawal.

Thu 13 Nov ’25

and

Fri 14 Nov ’25

Thu 13 Nov ’25

21:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 2

Tickets

Fri 14 Nov ’25

21:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 2

Tickets

MIMOSA is a choreographic fabulation in companionship with the Mimosa pudica plant, reflecting
on the violently charged histories that frame nature as a feminine and domesticated space. Across
a series of experimental forms, the performance unravels how ideas of ‘nature’ are entangled with
ideologies of race and gender, opening a complex reflection on femininity, vulnerability, and
survival.

The Mimosa pudica plant ('Kruidje-roer-me-niet') is known for its rapid movement in response to touch: a sensitive and shy plant. After being displaced and captured in European greenhouses, the plant folded in on itself, playing dead.

Mimosa explores nature as an undomesticated, disobedient ground ; a ground that refuses to be silent, passive, a resource, or abject matter.

How should we respond to touch? Touch me not!
Must we play dead to survive? Touch me!
How can we keep ourselves alive?

Lanuage: English
Duration: 45 mins.

Credits

concept, text, directing, performance Flavia Pinheiro video and sound Henrique Vazz text subtitles Leandro Olivan light technician Saskia de Vries costume Marc Andrade dramaturgical advice Tom Oliver Jacobson movement coach Alejandra Zabala external eye Paula Chaves and Sallisa Rosa photos Thomas Lenden supported by AFK, VEEM House , Inkonst, Antizesona- Life Long Burning residency

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About Flavia Pinheiro

Flavia Pinheiro is an Amsterdam-based choreographer, educator, and researcher from Brazil. Her work explores networks of resilience and resistance to dominant systems of knowledge through fabulative speculations in interspecies choreography. In her artistic practice, she continuously seeks to create breathing, vital conditions; an unstoppable dance that fosters improbableexchanges with nonhumans, including bacteria, plants, birds, antelopes, and ghosts. Navigating across multiple media: photography, video, performance, urban interventions, installation and writing; she highlights how diversity and transversality can contribute to (un)learning colonial pedagogies.

She holds a Master’s degree from DAS Choreography (2022) and participated in the DAS Third research program (2022–2024) at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK). Her graduation piece, 7 Abiku Solos for 11 Bacteria Falling Through, was supported by the Aart Janszen Fund and awarded the André Veltkamp Beurs Grant. In 2022, she also received the 3Package Deal fund for International Talents by AFK as part of the 'Engaged Art' coalition. Her piece The Unborn was supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) and integrated into the program of the Holland Festival.

Since 2021, she has co-run the Somatic Laboratory alongside Paula Montecinos and Papaya Kuir; an ongoing research space focused on touch-based practices with the queer asylum-seeker community. She is currently a PhD candidate at Leiden University in the PhDArts program. Her current research project, MIMOSA, is supported by Veem House for Performance, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), and the Mondriaan Fund.