I'm an artist from Brazil and I work with poetry, theater and performance art. I'm in Europe to study for one year at the University of Copenhagen, as a part of my PhD. I love traveling and meeting people and have a great interest in different cultures and artistic expressions as well as in history and politics. I like going out with friends, good talks and some beer. I love my friends and my family and miss them. But I'm sure I'm going to meet some great friends here too.

I'm also an activist and I've fought hard against the coup in Brazil this year. Unfortunately, things over there are worse and worse... The subject of my PhD thesis are the 2013 demonstrations in Brazil from an aesthetic perspective, and I'm interested in demonstrations and occupations that has been happening around the world over the past six years.

I have an article published in an academic journal available in Portuguese (at http://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/61977/38193) and in English (at http://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/66068/38194).

As a poet, I've published the books:
- "Inventos raios e trovões" (Inventions, lightnings and thunders);
- "Esfinge" (Sphinx);
- "Todos esses cães latindo no peito" (All these dogs barking in the chest);
- "As guerras nos porta-retratos" (The wars in the picture frames).
Some of my works are available at http://beatrizprovasi.blogspot.com.

And as a songwriter, I have only one song in a partnership with the band Fábrica de Animais: "De quando lamentávamos o disco arranhado", sung by the amazing Fernanda D'Umbra, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjsLOYG30I.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

During this year that I'm in Copenhagen I want to travel a lot around Europe and I'm going to travel alone to some places where I've never been. That's a great opportunity to meet people, share some experiences and know the day by day of each place being in contact with who lives there.

I'd love to know some interesting places that are off the tourist guides, like poetry slam and live music spaces - something of the contemporary live art that isn't inside museums. I'd like to know also some cheap restaurant with good food, some nice bar with cold beer and funny people, some underground nightclub, somethings that only who lives in each city really knows. I prefer this kind of trip than those that focus only on traditional tourist attractions.

Right now I'm planning a 36-day trip around Portugal, Spain and Italy. Much time on the road is amazing, but very tiring! You start to miss home... Being guest at a "home sweet home" of someone who lives in the city can make you feel as fine as somebody who finds an oasis after a long time on the desert. That's why I want to spend some days on Couchsurfing.

Interests

• literature
• poetry
• theater
• street art
• contemporary art
• photography
• politics
• movies
• live music
• cultural studies
• history
• visual arts
• performance art
• activism
• feminism
• poetry slam
• contemporary dance

Music, Movies, and Books

The list is huge, so I’ll try to focus mostly on European works.

BOOKS

All of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.
The Portuguese poet Florbela Espanca.
The Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.
"The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis", by the Czech writer Franz Kafka.
French philosophers like Foucault and Deleuze & Guattari (especially "Discipline and Punish" and "A Thousand Plateaus").
The German Bertolt Brecht, for his whole works, and another great German, Karl Marx.
"No Exit", by the French Jean-Paul Sartre.
The French author Simone de Beauvoir.
"Invisible Cities", by the Italian Italo Calvino.
"State of exception", by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.
"Fando and Lis" and "Orison", by the Spanish Fernando Arrabal.
“Life on the Praça Roosevelt”, by the German playwright Dea Loher.
“Phaedra's Love”, by the English playwrigth Sarah Kane.
Among the Greek tragedies, “Medea” by Euripides is my favorite one, followed by Antigona.

The Americans Allen Ginsberg, with "Howl and Other Poems,"
and Jack Kerouac, with "On the Road" and "Cody Visions".

The anarchist Hakim Bey, with his "Poetic Terrorism" and his " Temporary Autonomous Zones".

The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, with "The Book of Questions".
The Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, with "Cronopios and Famas".

The Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, with her whole work, especially " An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures".

MOVIES

All of the Italian director Federico Fellini, especially "Prova d'orchestra".
“Medea”, by the Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini.
"Fahrenheit 451", by the French director François Truffaut.
"La chinoise", by the French Jean-Luc Godard.
"Smoking" and "No Smoking", by the French Alain Resnais.
Almost all of the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.
"Mamá cumple cien años", by another Spanish, Carlos Saura.
Luis Buñuel increases the list of Spanish directors with "Un Chien Andalou", "El Ángel Exterminador" and "Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie".
"The Pillow Book", by the British Peter Greenaway.
The Russian directors Sergei Eisenstein, for "Battleship Potemkin", and Dziga Vertov, for "Man with a movie camera", among others.
"Metropolis", by the Austrian-German filmmaker Fritz Lang.
The latest German movies as "Die Welle", "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex", "Good Bye, Lenin!", "Edukators," "Die Fälscher" and "Das Leben der Anderen".
The Spanish movie "Mar Adentro", by Alejandro Amenábar.
"Le Couperet", by the Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras.
"The boy in the striped pajamas", by the English Mark Herman, and "The Reader", by the English Stephen Daldry.
The English filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, with "Rope" and "Rear Window".
The Danish Lars von Trier, with "Dogville" and "Dancer in the Dark".
The German Wim Wenders, with the movie "Pina", about the choreographer Pina Bausch.
The biopics "Rosa Luxemburg" and "Hannah Arendt", by the German director Margarethe von Trotta, and "Camille Claudel", by the French Bruno Dumont, which gather (like me) activism, philosophy and art, with strong women.

I include the European trilogy "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", "Midnight in Paris" and "To Rome with Love", by the American filmmaker Woody Allen, but without forgetting classics like "Hollywood Ending", "Zelig" and "Sleeper".

The Brazilian movements "Cinema Novo" and "Cinema Marginal", with almost the entire filmography, and also "Ilha das Flores", by Jorge Furtado, "Cronicamente Inviável" and "Quando vale ou é por quilo?", by Sérgio Bianchi.

MUSIC

Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Gal Costa, Maria Bethânia, Chico Buarque, Mutantes, Rita Lee, Cazuza, Zeca Baleiro, Cássia Eller, Ney Matogrosso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Pixinguinha, Cartola, Paulinho da Viola, Alceu Valença, Elba Ramalho, Elis Regina, Milton Nascimento, Tom Jobim and so on. I love Brazilian music! The song of my life is "Beatriz", by Chico Buarque.

Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Die Ärtze and most of the international rock and blues. I love the blues nights at the Mojo Bar in Copenhagen that I can enjoy nowadays.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Coming to Denmark without a place to live was the craziest thing I've done! (My first month here was insane... but now, I'm fine)
I don't know what was the most amazing... I've had many great experiences with artistic works, political occupations, trips around Brazil... Maybe one amazing thing I've done was to be free. That is not an easy task in this world...

Teach, Learn, Share

I don't know what I could teach, even though I'm studying to become a professor.
Sharing sounds better... Knowledge is always an exchange.
What do you want to talk about? Let's go...

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm a very friendly Brazilian girl living in Denmark and I can share something about Brazilian art, culture, history, cuisine and so on, as well as my experience in Scandinavia.
As I'm a poet writing about my experiences abroad, my host can also become a character of my next book.
I hope a great character!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Denmark