LIA RODRIGUES COMPANHIA DE DANÇAS

This piece closes a trilogy on water, the community and Brazil. The nakedness of 11 dances dragging along the ground in a sea of plastic makes an impression on the audience. What are the paths to explore, once again, possible ways of being together?  The fusion of individuals until they merge? Asserting our own boundaries and singularity?  What are the rituals, the sacrifices and the agreements that would be needed to give shape to a collective body, even if it must last only one moment? And what landscapes must be created for this new piece, called Pindorama, after the original name that the lands that are now Brazil had before the arrival of Europeans. This is the territory explored in this piece, the third part of a triptych started with Pororoca and pursued with Piracema. Lia Rodrigues

Born in 1956 in Sao Paolo, where she studies classical Ballet and History à the Sao Paolo (USP) University, Lia Rodrigues is involved in the 70’s in the contemporary dance movement and was in the Maguy Marin dance Company from 1980 to 1982. When she returns, she creates the Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças, in 1990, in Rio de Janeiro with activities all the year round, dance laboratories, creations, classes and rehearsals. In 1992 she creates and runs for forteen years the Panorama Festival, the most important Festival in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2004, her Company is involved in developing educational and artistic activities in the Maré Favela in Rio de Janeiro, in partnership  with the non governmental Organisation Redes de Desenvolvimento da Maré. From this collaboration was born the Centro de Artes da Maré (Arts Center of Maré) opened since 2009 and the Escola livre de Danças da Maré (Free School of Maré) that has opened in October 2011. During 40 years of professional and artistitic life, the choreographer Lia Rodrigues has dedicated herself not only to training and artistic creation with touring and commissioning from the majors capitals in the world  but also to Education with workshops and seminars all over the world.

Created by Lia Rodrigues / Performed by Amalia Lima , Leonardo Nunes,  Gabriele Nascimento, Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti, Clara Castro, Clara Cavalcante , Felipe Vian, Dora Selva, Glaciel Farias, Luana Bezerra, Thiago de Souza with the participation of the creation with Gabriela Cordovez / Dramaturgy Silvia Soter / Artistic collaboration Guillaume Bernardi / Lighting creation Nicolas Boudier / Stage Manager Magali Foubert  / Photography Sammi Landweer / Choreography assistant Amalia Lima
Production Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças (Rio de Janeiro) / Long Term residency Théâtre Jean) vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine supported by Conseil Régional d’-ile-de-France / Coproduction
Festival d’Automne à Paris, Théâtre national de Chaillot,  Théâtre Jean Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine, La Briqueterie/CDC du Val-de-Marne, KING’S FOUNTAIN, Kunstenfestivaldesarts en coréalisation avec le Kaaïtheater (Bruxelles) HELLERAU-European Center for the Arts Dresden/Germany. Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças has been supported by Petrobrás et the Ministry of Culture of  Brésil, in the framework of  Petrobrás Cultural for the creation 201-2013 / In partnership with Redes da Maré / Created at Théâtre Jean Vilar in Vitry (France) on November 14 2013

This performance is part of the LIA RODRIGUES CONSTELLATION

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