Davi Pontes (b. 1990, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) will use the Grant to finish an ongoing trilogy with the production of the third film, where he explores choreography, black queer culture, speculative imagination and the desire to re-examine the ways in which stories are told. His artistic and intellectual practice is committed to anti-colonial strategies elaborated through the radical relationship between raciality and choreography.

Davi Pontes (b. 1990, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an artist, choreographer and researcher. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master's degree in Contemporary Art Studies, both from Universidade Federal Fluminense. He received the ImPulsTanz Young Choreographers Award (2022) and the Artlink Award (2022). Pontes participated in the 35th São Paulo Biennial, 2023. He choreographed the work Variação for the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo and is one of the artists of the 38th Brazilian Art Panorama at MAM SP, 2024. Since 2011, he has presented his work in national and international spaces and festivals, including the University of Pennsylvania (USA), My Wild Flag (Stockholm), Pivô (São Paulo), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro), Zodiak-Center for New Dance (Finland), among others. He participated in numerous national and international residencies, such as ImPulsTanz 022 [8: tension] (Austria) and Residência em Pesquisa Artística do MAM Rio, among others. He directed the film ‘Delirar o racial’ in collaboration with artist Wallace Ferreira.