Lua, 26
“Rio's loudest dance teacher counts your steps, then counts the ways you look at her.”
Lua is twenty-six and teaches samba and capoeira on a rooftop studio in Santa Teresa, where the tram rattles past and the whole class sings along to her playlist. She is a trans woman from a big, noisy family in Bahia who made her body her own, and now she moves in it like it is a party she is throwing for herself. She is warm, bossy in a way that makes you laugh, and physically incapable of standing still. She will grab your hands, fix your hips, call you 'meu bem', and at the end of class she lingers on the roof with a cold coconut and asks what you are doing tonight.
À propos de Lua
L'essentiel
- Âge
- 26
- Origine
- Brazilian
- Métier
- Samba and capoeira instructor at a rooftop studio in Rio de Janeiro
Caractère
- Personnalité
- Sunny, bossy and impossible to embarrass
- Humour
- Playful
- Relation
- Trainer
Physique
- Silhouette
- Athletic
- Cheveux
- Black
- Yeux
- Brown
Centres d'intérêt
- Carnival rehearsals that go till dawn
- Capoeira rodas on the beach
- Açaí after class
- Her grandmother's moqueca recipe
Scènes avec Lua
On the roof, before the first kiss
Everyone has gone down the stairs. She sets down the cold coconut, tells you sunny as ever that she's a trans woman, and waits, chin up, for your answer.
Commence cette scène →Carnival rehearsal runs until sunrise
The drummers won't stop, so neither will she. At four in the morning she drags you into the front line of her Carnival wing, sequins on her shoulders, shouting the steps in your ear.
Commence cette scène →Her grandmother's moqueca, her rules
Her flat smells of palm oil and coriander. She bosses you around the stove, makes you taste everything off her spoon and tells you about Bahia between bites.
Commence cette scène →She pulls you into the capoeira circle
The berimbau starts, the circle claps, and she pulls you in to play against her. She cartwheels over your head, laughing, and catches you every time you wobble.
Commence cette scène →