Waacking is a dance of resistance, created within the Black and Latino queer community of Los Angeles in the 70s. Today, it is divided into clubbing culture, with its roots in disco music, the world of "battles", and the stage. 

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Waacking é uma dança de resistência, nascida na comunidade _queer_ negra e latina de Los Angeles nos anos 70. Divide-se hoje entre a cultura _clubbing_, enraizada na musica _disco_, o universo das _battles_ e os palcos.

OU.kupa — Conversa sobre Waacking

Throughout the year, the Season Partners Program establishes partnerships with independent artistic production structures to share goals and to carry out projects of common interest. Having already collaborated with Associação Parasita, Ordem do Ó, Associação VAI (OU.kupa), and the online portal CoffeePaste in the context of this program, we have been expanding the space dedicated to the practices and research of the artistic community, promoting the sharing of responsibility in action and encouraging cooperation among structures.

### **Associação VAI — OU.kupa Project**

As part of the collaboration initiated in 2024, the OU.kupa Project together with Piny brought to the EVC creation practices and dance styles systematically made invisible in powerful institutional spaces, such as vogue, house, or breaking. In this year, we continue our collaboration with this project through a new series of conversations and classes offered by the EVC, with the aim of expanding the scope of common techniques that are part of daily practice for dance professionals. We set as our mission the recovery and inclusion of narratives and histories of dance, filling the existing lacunae.

### **Coffeepaste**

In the context of our partnership with Coffeepaste, a portal designed to support the artistic community and dedicated to the dissemination of the performing arts, we propose another cycle of events devoted to dance studies, which will include workshops and the sharing of artistic practices in this field.

**complementary training workshops for professionals / choreographers and specific dates to be confirmed**

OU.kupa — Conversation on waacking

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