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Reset Brazil
ORIGINAL TITLE: Reset Brasil
ARTIST: Coletivo Estopô Balaio
240 min | Age Rating: 10+
22 and 23/3, Saturday and Sunday, 3pm
MEETING POINT: Brás Station – CPTM Platform 6/7 – line 12 Safira
SYNOPSIS
The audience is invited to dream up escape routes for Brazil in this immersive, itinerant performance by Coletivo Estopô Balaio. Boarding the train towards São Miguel Paulista—a neighborhood in São Paulo’s eastern zone that was once the site of significant Indigenous resistance during the colonial period—spectators enter a trance: Brazil has disappeared from the map. Upon arrival, they discover that the old Ururay settlement still resists and is plotting a new siege against colonization. The residents, children, and artists reveal themselves through their ancestral roots: Indigenous peoples from Africa, from Abya Yala, healers, shamans, Northeastern migrants. For Ururay to live, São Paulo must die. In this counter-spell, the audience is called to dream of a new world, and São Miguel de Ururay has the power to do so—it is, after all, a dormitory town.
BACKGROUND
Coletivo Estopô Balaio is a theater group founded in 2011 in Jardim Romano, a
neighborhood in São Paulo’s eastern zone, and has since established itself as a company dedicated to public space performance, working within a community-based artistic perspective. Known for its itinerant productions staged on train cars and city streets, the group’s repertoire includes works such as A Cidade dos Rios Invisíveis, which won the 2020 Shell Award for Innovation. In 2023, they premiered Reset Brasil, a piece envisioning an Indigenous resurgence in São Paulo’s east. The collective is predominantly composed of Indigenous artists, a structure that emerged naturally through their ongoing research into migration flows and the deepening of that inquiry.
CRITICAL RECEPTION
“Between dream, reality, and trance, Estopô Balaio proposes a new siege, an uprising, a reclamation. (…) The performativity of space manifests not only in the presence of the peripheral cast and the Ururay neighborhood but also in the dynamic relationship between life and performance. Murals and urban interventions create the link between theater and everyday life.” amilton de azevedo, ruína acesa
CREDITS
Direction: Ana Carolina Marinho
Playwright: Juão Nyn
Assistant Director: Maíra Do Nascimento
Movement Direction and Body Coach: Rodrigo Silbat
Children and Youth Cast Director: Carol Piñeiro
Musical Direction, Editing, and Mixing of “Trem-Ato”: Rodrigo Caçapa
Art Direction: Mara Carvalho and Juão Nyn
Costume Design: Mara Carvalho
Production and Production Management: Wemerson Nunes – WN Produções
Cast: Dandara Azevedo, Dunstin Farias, Jaque Alves, Jeffs Silvério, Jéssica Marcele, Keli Andrade, Laís Cafari, and Silvana Farias
Children and Youth Cast: Aka Santos, Anny Beatriz, Duda Black, Eduarda França, Gi Godoy, Izabely Miranda, Jota Vitorino, Julya Pereira, Kim Andrade, Lilly Carvalho, Ryan Peixoto, and Trix Souza
Percussionists: Josué Bob and Thiago Babalotim
Flutist: Giovani Facchini
Original Songs: Dunstin Farias, Dandara Azevedo, and Juão Nyn
Final Song: Alisson Antônio Amador (guitar), Giovani Facchini (quena and zampoñas), José Giovanni (cello), Sandra Valenzuela (bombo, tambourine, and rattle), Vladimir David (charango), and Fernando da Mata (mixing and mastering)
Sound Technicians: Bruna Moreti and Jomo Faustino
Sound Assistant: Wesley Carrasco
Effects – Laser Art: Diogo Terra
Laser Operation: Nayka Alexandre and Rubens Magalhães
Secretary: Lisa Ferreira
Production Assistant: Muri Palma
Special Appearances: Catarina Delfina, Maju Harachell Traytowu, Cacique Caboquinho, Tutushamun, Anderson Karybaia, Maria Do Socorro, Márcia Gazza, Olga Silva, Seu João, Ângela Alves, Fernando Alves, Didão, Mariana Pimentel, Arthur Carvalho, and Ana Pankararu
Visual Artists and Wall Art: Felipe Urso, Morales, Ricardo Cadol, Ana Kia, Rote, Vini Meio, Ignoto, Auá Mendes, and Ju Costa
Set Technician: Enrique Casas
Props: Enrique Casas, Ayrton Jacó Casas, Helem Tapira, and Valquíria Evelin Casas/Colares Cobra
Choir: Sara Geittens
Seamstress: Pamela Rosa
Visual Identity: Daniel Torres
Stage Crew: Layane Egídio, Derick Laureano, Rafael Alcantara, and Mauro José
Press Officer: Márcia Marques – Canal Aberto
Legal Advisors: Dr. Paulo Rogerio Novaes, OAB/SP No. 354.228 and Dr. Aline Dias de Andrade, OAB/SP No. 360.514
Psychologists: Alessandra Milanez, Bárbara Vanzan, and Marcelly Tatiani Da Silva
Social Media: Jorge Ferreira
Photography and Camera: Cassandra Mello, David Rodrigues, Mylena Sousa, and Natália Tupi
