Photo: Eduardo Scaramuzza Puma Camillê
Puma Camillê is a leading Brazilian multidisciplinary-artist with a hybrid performance style combining capoeira with voguing. Born in São Paulo, Puma discovered the Vogue scene while traveling to capoeira events and noticed similarities in their shared philosophy of resistance and rebellion. Through her experiences as a black trans woman born in São Paulo, Puma found in both forms a sense of defiance, each with their origins in a search for freedom – in capoeira a form of resistance from slavery and in voguing a celebration of queer identities amid the LGBTQIA-phobic landscape of 1980s Harlem.