PonYTails presents itself as a performative project with a showcase installation device that seeks to explore and challenge conventional perceptions of adult sex toys, their association with children's toys, and broader issues related to personal pleasure and entertainment. This project aims to create a multidisciplinary artistic experience that provokes reflection on taboo subjects and social prejudices, thus inviting spectators to question the conventional boundaries between the erotic and the innocent, the adult and the childlike. By intertwining these spheres, the performance engages with wider questions surrounding personal pleasure and entertainment. PonYTails transforms the performance space into an invitation to introspection, revealing the ambivalences of desire in contemporary times.
Credits
Artistic Direction, Creation, and Performance
Ana de Oliveira e Silva, Diana de Sousa, and Mélanie Ferreira
Lighting Installation and Scenic Device
Rodrigo Aroso
Sound Design
Miguel Abras
Costumes and Props
Sara Soares
Photography
Bruno Simão
Video
Vasco Mendes
Project Management
Cláudia Teixeira – Associação Sufoco
Residency Support
Boia a.c., Vast-Vistas,
Ana de Oliveira e Silva, Diana de Sousa, and Mélanie Ferreira are a collective of three artists who come together to create PonYTails. With backgrounds that intertwine dance, performance, and theatre, they have decided to embark on a new performative project, drawing on the knowledge they have gained through their professional activities as performers and creators.