Sinopsys

In the field of improvisation, the transience and ephemerality of the actions gain importance. At all times, the connections between different artistic practices can take different forms. The Núcleo de Improvisação / Zélia Monteiro proposes an open script on stage. The dance is composed through a theatrical game between music, light, space, costumes and audience, and the dancers´ body coordination is explored to develop potential dialogues with lighting and music.

History

Zélia Monteiro studied classical dance. She was an assistant to Maria Meló and a student of Enrico Cecchetti at Scala Theater, in Milan. She worked for eight years with Klauss Vianna, of whom she was also assistant and part of his research and creation group. After Vianna’s death, Monteiro moved to Paris, where she worked with Mme. Marie Madelaine Béziers (motor coordination), Mathilde Monnier, Peter Goss and Daria Faïn (contemporary dance) and Yvonne Berge (improvisation games for children). She won APCA in 1987, 1992, 1998 and 2010. She gives regular ballet classes at Sala Crisantempo and is a lecturer in the course of Body Arts Communication, at PUC-SP. Since 2003, she is the director of Núcleo de Improvisação.

Credits

Conception, Artistic Direction and Body Training: Zélia Monteiro
Creation / Dance: Ernesto Filho, Marcela Páez, Mel Bamonte, Paulo Carpino and Zélia Monteiro
Creation / Light: Hernandes de Oliveira:
Creation / Music: Felipe Merker Castellani
Creation / Costumes: Joana Porto
Production: Ação Cênica Produções Artísticas
Production Assistant: Rafael Petri

Sinopsys

Laughter today is experience. Laughter today is a precipice. Laughter destroys today what it will destroy, the last bound that is left. Laughter today is common, blow, guts, heart. Laughter today. Laughter. Laugther, play and dance, creates a path to laughter’s materialization, as a happening in the body. What happens to both body and space when laughter laughs? Body, space, laughter, dance and playfulness gain diverse nuances and so assert themselves also as a movement of resistance — existence.

“Grace emerges from an inexhaustible source, which overflows the streams of human relations. Laughter is the last of blessings.” Laughter was part of the Horizonte project, contemplated by the Program for Promotion of Dance, of the São Paulo Municipal Culture department, and it was nominated to the APCA 2017 for best show.

History

key zetta e cia. is directed by Key Sawao — director, choreographer and dancer, with a background in contemporary dance —, and Ricardo Iazzetta — who graduated from The Juilliard School of New York and has a background in Oriental movement practices. The group emerged from the wish of adding other dancers and artists around the creations, also enabling dialogues and language research with a focus on dance and its possible interrelations.

key zetta e cia. has already produced 12 shows and won some of the most significant Brazilian research and dance awards, such as APCA (Paulista Association of Art Critics) Award in 2009 and 2013; Denilto Gomes Award and Bolsa Vitae de Artes 98 for choreographic research, Funarte Award Klauss Vianna, Cultura Inglesa Festival and Proac. The group was also nominated for the Governador do Estado Award in 2015 and 2018.

Credit

Directed by: Key Sawao and Ricardo Iazzetta
Dance and Conception: Beatriz Sano, Carolina Minozzi, Key Sawao, Mauricio Florez and Ricardo Iazzetta
Scenic Space and Art Coordination: Hideki Matsuka
Intensive Exchanges: Nadja Naira, Gustavo Miranda, Luiz Fuganti
Lighting Design: Domingos Quintiliano
Graphic Design: Erico Peretta and Hideki Matsuka (photos)
Costumes: Alex Cassimiro
Video Recording: Doctela
Video Edition: Henrique Cartaxo
Production: Núcleo Corpo Rastreado