BEST BEAST

Inspired by the Brazilian expression “to kill a lion a day,” which refers to the daily struggle of facing constant challenges, BEST BEAST, the upcoming creation by Ramon Lima, seeks to inhabit the gap between an extreme gesture — literally killing a lion — and the banality of everyday life.

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On stage, two performers engage in a game where the roles of prey and predator fluctuate, without hierarchy or fixed identity. Prey and predator appear as transitory states, mobile positions within the same survival system, rooted in an apparently ordinary dimension. Like a symbolic dismemberment, they move through these roles in a performative and sensitive way, questioning how to act when the effort required always seems to exceed the available capacities.

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With a queer, performative, and tragicomic perspective, BEST BEAST explores a latent force of survival, claiming the right to fear, collapse, exaggeration, useless gestures, and unproductive reactions. A body that does not perform the expected resilience, but instead invents precarious, creative, and unstable ways of continuing to exist. Perhaps not to defeat the lion, but finally to look it in the face.