Screaming Object is an expressive performance of dance and object theatre. Paiva, a popular theatre maker in the Netherlands, has designed the masks that cover the dancer's body. The shapes are continually changing during the movements, and the masks are a metaphor for the different images people have of themselves. Like a screaming magnification of the subconscious, they are brought to the surface by the dancers.

Oliveira's ingenious dancing really brings Paiva's sculptures to life, so that audience relate to them. The perfect symbiosis between acting and dance gives a confrontational, but also poetic view of the tangle of emotions in modern life.

Duda Paiva and Mauricio de Oliveira have known each other since their childhood in Brazil, where they took their first decisive steps together in dance. In the nineties, they both left Brazil for Europe. Some years later, their paths crossed again and they worked together on the project Screaming Object, in which the strength of their combined talents reached new heights. In 2011, Duda Paiva received the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Theater Stipendium for his unique voice in the theatre landscape.