Biography

Actor, playwright and dancer, Jhonny Salaberg was born in Guaianases, east side of São Paulo. As an actor he was trained at the Free Theater School of Santo André (SP). He has already been a member of several theater companies in São Paulo, such as the collectives Estopô Balaio, Bonde and Cia. Clandestina. He is one of the founders and members of Carcaça de Poéticas Negras, an artistic collective with research in scenic-racial creation, where he practiced dramaturgical writing with the works Mato filled – degenerate fugue and Buraquinhos or O vento is an enemy of Picuma, which addresses genocide of the young, black and peripheral population. This last text was the winner of the IV Exhibition of Dramaturgy in Small Scenic Formats, at Centro Cultural São Paulo. First place in the award cemented Salaberg's name as the first black playwright to receive the title at the show. He is the founder and articulator of the Black Forum, a movement of black people that seeks to discuss the place of black people, inside and outside educational institutions. In his work published by Cobogó, it is possible to verify that the author constantly talks about being black and places himself as the protagonist of his stories. It is also visible that he brings the peripheral black as the center of his account, the violence suffered by this is the main theme, also bringing the vulnerability that the individual black has in our contemporary society.  

Project

"Griot, a black elderly body in perspective" is a project for writing a play that aims to investigate the construction of social narrative from the point of view of the invisibility and representation of elderly black bodies in positions of power and the valorization of afro-descendant ancestry and the post-abolition brazilian memory, from the book “Meetings with the Griot Sotigui Kouyaté” by the Brazilian writer Isaac Bernat. From the work and territorial distancing, it is intended to investigate Death and longevity confluencing in the elderly black body in Brazilian society, intersecting with the oral tradition of West African Griots.