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Conexões Centro-Oeste
Cavucada – The Party Will Not Be Tomorrow
Cavucada – A Festa Não Será Amanhã
ARTIST: Cia Dançurbana
60 min | Ages 18+
- March 9, Monday, 9pm, and March 10, Tuesday, 10pm
- iBT - Instituto Brasileiro de Teatro Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antônio, 277, Bela Vista
- Accessible location
- The session on March 12 features Brazilian Sign Language interpretation and audio description
- There is use of strobe lights and moments of loud sound.
SYNOPSIS
Cia Dançurbana celebrates more than two decades of work on the dance floor. With no division between stage and audience, artists and spectators together revisit choreographies from the company’s repertoire while moving to festive sounds from different musical styles. The party-performance—whose title refers to a brega funk dance step—travels through elements of hip-hop, vogue, contemporary dance, and TikTok choreographies. The work centers on togetherness, highlighting its political and artistic potential, and affirms the diversity and freedom of each performer.
BACKGROUND
Cia Dançurbana is a dance company founded in 2002 in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul. The collective fosters and articulates network-based actions, working collaboratively with groups, institutions, artists, and cultural workers to promote and value the arts. This practice is sustained by a multidisciplinary team composed of a stable core of 13 artists alongside a broad network of collaborators. Their works have toured 54 Brazilian cities and numerous festivals, including the Sesc Dance Biennial and Junta Festival.
CRITICAL RECEPTION
“Disco balls, full glasses, a string of hits: Cavucada is an inviting performance with the feel of a party, the taste of nightlife, of a club. Irresistible even to the uninitiated—high-spirited and deliciously provocative.”
Estante do Jorgito
“The start of the party moved me: the contortions, the collective dancing, the calls to celebration, all the sounds, and above all the erotic force spilling over us, reminding us that today is today and we are very much alive.”
Moises Alves
CREDITS
Creation and Artistic Direction: Jorge Alencar, Neto Machado
Performer-Creators: Afrodite Fetake, Ariane Nogueira, Daniel Andrade, Jackeline Mourão, Livia Lopes, Maura Menezes, Ralfer Campagna, Reginaldo Borges, Renata Leoni, Roberta Siqueira, Rose Mendonça, Wagner Gomes
Soundtrack and Sound Editing: Reginaldo Borges
Lighting Design and Operation: Adriel Santos
Personal Stylist: Wity Prado
Costume Design: Gabriela Mancini
Costume Assistant: Herbert Correa