I'm an Afro-Portuguese queer human living in Denmark for quite a while discovering jewels every day, be it staring up and finding colors I have not seen, or a rare form of art in the streets or in a hidden institutional refuge, or the most soulful and crazy people I ever met. Since I have arrived here in Aalborg I have discovered a hidden passion for performance art and have been exploring that with friends and mentors. I'm also into writing A LOT. When i was a kid, I used to write in napkins everywhere I would go blending formats such as poetry, prose, whatever the dadaists used to do, and post-traumatic narrative.
Yoda (Iodá (black in Lithuanian; this was the original thought for Yoda's name)a black Norwegian forest cat and Benjamin Hugo (Danish poly-doer) co-habit an apartment with me in Aalborg giving me a lot of love.

Recently I have also been exploring music playing synth and theremins (love to play those two at one, my neighbors hate me though) and singing.

I am also a dancer. I have recently fallen in love with Butoh and been exploring that every time I can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love meeting people and travelling (how can I not love those together?) so what is better than hosting travelers from around the world and being hosted in intimate spaces everywhere I could possibly go?

Interests

I have launched a platform called Experiri Embodied Art Performance here in Aalborg and we organize workshops where we explore different art forms from sound art to butoh, improv dance, physical theater, 'croquis writing', performance design etc. So when I travel I am always looking for similar workshops I can attend and explore different things. I am also a cinephile, I am really into art house cinema and experimental cinema.
I have been exploring photography for some performance art installations I have been working on but still learning!

• arts
• poetry
• theater
• performing arts
• street art
• music festivals
• meditation
• classical music
• languages
• art
• theatre
• ice skating
• contact improvisation
• shamanism
• queer
• new experiences
• forest
• experimental music
• butoh
• nature walks
• road biking
• noise music
• creative writing
• queer theory
• cinephylia

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Broadcast
Portishead
Tricky
Death Grips
Billie Holiday
FKA Twigs
Savages
Mirel Wagner
James Blake
United States of America (album)
Andy Stott
The Residents
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Captain Beefart
Rodriguez
Radiohead
Pj Harvey
Delia Derbshyre
Animal Collective
King Midas
Bauhaus
Tropic Cancer
Jimmy Hendrix
Bikini Kill
Björk
Viet Cong
Benjamin Clementine
Sonic Youth
Erika Baduh
Gonjasufi
Fatima Al Quadriri
Gray
Deru
Petite Noir
Panda Bear
Chromatics
K.U.K.L
Sugarcubes
Timber Timbre
(etc)

Films
Anything by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Anything by Michael Haneke
Anything by Claire Denis, Agnes Varda, Wes Anderson, Pedro Costa,
Dekalog (series-films)
La Piel que Habito
Hiroshima Mon Amour
A Casa
Dancer in the Dark
Persona
The 7th Seal
Coffee and Cigarettes
Upstream Color
Anything by David Lynch
Anything by Jean Luc Godard
Helena
Ma mére
Anything by Xavier Dolan
Anything by Lucia Puenzo
Julia
Anything by Andrei Tarkovsky
Synedoche New York
etc

Books
'L'invitée' -Simone de Beauvoir
L deuxième sexe - S. de Beauvoir
L’être et le néant - J. Paul Sartre
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
Notes from the Underground - Dostoevsky
Devils - Dostoevsky
le Mythe de Sisyphe Albert Camus
Shantaram Gregory David Robert
As Mulheres de Meu Pai José Eduardo Agualusa
L' âge de Raison
La Bâtarde Violette Leduc
Les veilleurs Vincent Message
La Philosophie dans le Boudoir Marquis de Sade
Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer
The Idiot Dostoevsky

etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have lived in four different countries starting from 0
I have been able to stay in a foreign country for 5 years straight (really hard for a runner)

Teach, Learn, Share

Would Teach: Cooking
Taking your time to drink a glass of wine for 40 min
How to start writing
How to start a jam when you have to sing
Contact Improv

Would share:
(Some of) My books (they are precious to me but I also believe in sharing good stuff)
Art pieces

Would love to learn:
Japanese
More Butoh
Any dance style
How to make Kimonos
(About) Verdas, Orishás, Yoruba
Theater schools (Post-traumatic for example)
Yoga
Kung Fu
Tantra
Jokes (good ones)
Alternative Medicine (how to make it)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my company and time, and histories of joy and sorrow. I can my humble knowledge of creative experimentation in diverse areas: dance, poetry, jam painting, cuisine etc

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, France, Portugal, United Kingdom