Yuck Miranda is a performing actor and a dedicated professional who works in many fields such as music and vocal work, movement, and dance. Yuck Miranda does not regard himself as merely a theatre actor, but an arts person and performer in a broader sense. He uses his body to create works that focus on advocacy for children & youth and human rights.

Yuck Miranda has worked with the biggest theatre companies and cultural institutions in Mozambique. Thanks to his determination and humility, he has been invited to collaborate with and participate in international experiences, such as the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris where he developed research for his life-long project “The Non-Identified Identities” centered around narratives of marginalized members of community in different countries around the world. Further, because of Yuck’s strong commitment to empowering young people through performance, he has become a regular and relevant participant in the ASSITEJ international congresses over the past years (among others in 2019 / Norway and 2022 / Sweden).

Although Yuck Miranda has gathered many technical and practical experiences throughout his participation in internationally renowned events, he never forgets his origins and invests in the performance art community in Mozambique. Lately, he has focused on otherness and marginalization in sub-Saharan Africa from a historical, pre-colonial/decolonial, and contemporary perspective. Uniting his versatility and experiences in documentary direction, performances centered on the body and its expression through movement, sound, and pacing, and facilitation of complex dialogues, Yuck Miranda poses questions that shed new light on the matter at hand.

Workshop description: As an artist, I cross my artistic work – performance, contemporary dance, and physical theatre – with other artistic disciplines such as literature and visual arts (photography, installations) and like to experiment with/in alternative spaces. Using this multi- and trans-disciplinary approach, I take my activism on social injustices and human rights as starting points for my work. For me, the body and my art are instruments that I use to provoke reflections about social issues. Against this background, in this workshop, I intend to focus on the intersection of different artistic professions. The goal is to reflect on our practices and how they contribute to advocacy for human rights and marginalized groups. We will exchange our respective work methodologies and think about how we can collaborate across artistic disciplines that typically don’t cross paths. In this workshop, there will be space for reflection, dialogue, and practical experimentation.