In Mentes Sujas, three performers embrace contamination as a constitutive condition of existence. Engaged in continuous processes of accumulation and disposal, they question what other forms of life and relationships can flourish from the decomposition and sedimentation of what already exists. Excavating, decomposing, and recombining are material operations they perform on stage, but also ways of thinking and organizing perception. The choreographic practice here becomes a practice of composting, in which words, images, and memories lose their outlines and recombine. If contamination can have both transformative and destructive effects, how can we think, create, and act in a damaged world, recognizing our implication in the processes that constitute and decompose it?

Dirty Minds is the third part of the trilogy begun in 2024 with Apesar das Evidências and continued in 2025 with A Tela Rasgada. The trilogy engages with the book Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, by Hélène Cixous, in which the author describes the writing process as a descending movement towards the unconscious and the unknown. Each step provides access to a place of learning. In this third piece, or third step, the investigation approaches the idea of roots or, more precisely, of rooting, understood as a downward movement that intertwines with its surroundings.