SUSPICIOUS: PERFORMATIVE CHOREOGRAPHIES OF DAILY CONFRONTATION

WITH Original Bomber Crew (Piauí)

Peripheral body, indigenous body, quilombola body, marginal body. Suspected of challenging the status quo and established privileges. Inspired on the actual and past reality of the invaded, exploited, colonized and murdered peoples in Brazil, the workshop proposes a dance experience that is almost nothing: spasms that are choreographed from the look of the other and the cracked movements of breaking dance. SUSPECT is the research’s unfolding initiated with tReta, when examining the body, gesture and movements of daily confrontations of young people in resistance conditions.

WHEN

March 10th and 11th, Tuesday and Wednesday, from 10am to 2pm.

WHERE

Tendal da Lapa

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SCAR

WITH Lia Garcia [La Novia Sirena] (MEXICO)

Mexican Lia Garcia’s performance triggers the following questions: What history our pain tells? How is politics made from collective pain? Do the trans * lives (due to the trivialization of the word, the artist spells the term with an asterisk at the end) hurt us? Faced with the state of emergency in which we find ourselves, says the performer, we – trans * lives – rebel, we come out to the public space with our bodies (cuerpas) and expose all the violence that mutilate our memory.

Following, there will be a screening of Matheus Parizi’s documentary on MITsp’s Educational Activities.

WHEN

March 2th, Mon., at 5:30 pm.

WHERE

Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade 

PHOTOS

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AUTHORSHIP AT STAKE: FROM DOMINANT TO PRIVATE

WITH Pablo Manzi and Co. artists. Bonobo (Chile) 

In this workshop, Chilean playwright Pablo Manzi will discuss and dialogue around two fundamental areas in the creation of Bonobo Co.: authorship and improvisation. In the first session, the proposal is to talk about what we understand by authorship and how the dominant (“official”) world and the private, intimate world are related. In the second session, company members will create improvised scenes and, from there, artists and participants will discuss the possibilities generated by improvisation as a dramaturgical creation ground.

WHEN

March 7th and 8th, Saturday and Sunday, from 10am to 1pm.

WHERE

Companhia de Teatro Heliópolis

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INVESTIGATIONS FOR THE BODY’S SAVAGERY

WITH Andréia Pires (Brazil)

In Brazil, while the toucans dance, the horses run and the monkeys jump, the flora screams. Here, everyone acts. Abaporu savagery at the country’s central plateau bossa. Imitation or escape? Instinct or plan? It’s worth understanding the signs and then moving on. It´s worth to sabotage the trap and then move on. Based on the practices of invention and weakening of body techniques, participants will gather action, repetition and composition procedures to then discover statements for work that are beyond the surface.

WHEN

March 9th and 10th, Monday and Tuesday, from 9am to 1pm.

WHERE

Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade – Sala Anexo.

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MASTERCLASS – WRITING WITH THE SETTING

WITH Philippe Quesne (FRANCE)

French director Philippe Quesne, when using a type of mechanical research, creates a technical theatre lab that intelligently modifies the genre’s conventions and generates an ambiguous universe in which dreams and matter, sounds and words, smoke and light, loneliness and group all mingle. Everything converges to validate what cannot be mastered, creating – along with the obvious fun and laughter – a feeling of unrest, a need to ask questions and distort our view of the world. When working with the scenic presence realism, the actors overflow what they call a dead stage, adapting themselves to space with the detachment and focus of someone trapped in their own private universe. Strange and disturbing, Quesne’s work, in its apparent ease in movement and sequencing, highlights concerns about our social organization, our ability to be human. The conference will be an opportunity to discover the French director’s work and the importance of space and define his process of creation through discussions and observation of images.

WHEN

March 13th, Friday, from 10:30am to 1:30pm.

WHERE

Sesc Vila Mariana – Teatro.

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UNDER THE RUBBLE: INTRODUCTION TO THE MATERIAL OF CROWD

WITH Gisèle Vienne (France)

How does the body react and what is its availability after a mind-blowing party, guided by collective euphoria and the gruelling desire to break physical barriers? How to preserve a liquid and wavy physicality? In this intensive workshop, participants will be able to try artist Gisèle Vienne’s method through working with the choreographic material of her show Crowd.

WHEN

March 10th, Tuesday, from 10am to 1pm.

WHERE

Centro Cultural São Paulo, Sala de Ensaio 2.

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A THEATRE THAT IS OUR: WRITING FOR PEOPLE

WITH Tiago Rodrigues (PORTUGAL)

In Latin colaborare means working together (but it can also mean “aching together” or “being tired together”) and has always been an exercise of empathy. Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues, artist in focus of MITsp 2020, proposes in this workshop an exercise in finding our own voice in theatre through writing for the other. “I never just write,” he says, “I always write for someone. And more than writing for actors, dancers or performers, I try to write for Isabel, Pedro, Sofia, Vitor, Frank, Jolente.” Therefore, it is not a question of adapting to someone else’s aesthetics or politics or of cancelling one’s own voice, but about participating in the world with others, becoming the other while we are still us. It is an invitation to all artists interested in text theatre and collaborative work.

WHEN

March 13th and 14th, Friday and Saturday, from 10am to 1pm.

WHERE

Sesi São Paulo – Sala de Ensaios

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LET’S WALK TOGETHER?

WITH Mallika Taneja (INDIA)

What does to walk mean? What does it mean to walk together? In a world where we keep talking about global feminism (as if it were an entity), how is my feminism different from yours? Being present in a public space implies consent of a certain type: to be looked at, to be harassed or hassled? Does consent also work passively? What role does the look of the other play in our lives? Does it set us free? Does it trap us? Indian artist Mallika Taneja proposes a space for sharing thoughts on the city being allowed to women – whether New Delhi or São Paulo – and testimonies on the risks and vulnerability of being a woman and being on the street, especially at night. The workshop will be a period of coexistence, dialogue and bonds of trust development between the participants in order to produce a performative act of collective care: a night march through the streets of São Paulo, scheduled for March 7, in which women escort other women and protect themselves.

WHEN

March 3rd and 4th, Tuesday and Wednesday, from 6pm to 10pm.

WHERE

Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, Sala 3

PHOTOS

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