Can a transvestite produce theory? This short film, recorded in the villages of Santo André and Guaiú, in the south of Bahia, features the text and performance of performer and teacher Dodi Leal, who presents a vision of embodied knowledge production based on a brief narrative of her artistic work. ‘I’m afraid of theories that don’t dance’ indicates the deep relationship of the trans body with environmental art, investigating the movement of gender in the mangrove, the vivification of river thought and dance flows of the sea. The concepts dance and vibrate as the binarism of body versus nature is broken.