Fúria - Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças

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Regional Debut

Rodrigues

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Regional Debut Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças

Program Notes

Why are we speaking? To whom are we speaking? About whom are we speaking?

How are we speaking? From what place are we speaking?

Clarice Lispector, Brazilian writer, in The Passion According GH, says: “The world would not only frighten me if I became the world. If I’m the world, I will not be afraid. If we are the world, we are moved by a delicate radar that guides us.”

How do we become worlds? How can we be guided by a delicate radar and, on this specific and unique place that is the stage, create a world? A world overwhelmed by ghastly images, by luminous images, crossed by a multitude of unanswered questions and torn by contrasts and paradoxes. A world of fury.

FÚRIACreator Lia Rodrigues

Danced and created in close collaboration by Leonardo Nunes, Carolina Repetto, Valentina Fittipaldi, Andrey da Silva, Larissa Lima, Ricardo Xavier, David Abreu, Felipe Vian, Raquel Alexandre (alternating cast)

Collaboration Karoll Silva and Clara Cavalcante Assistant to the Creator Amalia Lima

Dramaturgy Silvia Soter

Artistic Collaboration and Images Sammi Landweer Lighting Design Nicolas Boudier Stage Manager Magali Foubert

International Booking Colette de Turville US Representative Thérèse Barbanel Tour Manager Gabi Goncalves/Corpo Rastraedo Secretary Gloria Laureano

Administration Lia Rodrigues Company/Paris Jacques Segueilla Teachers Amalia Lima, Sylvia Barretto, Valentina Fittipaldi

Music excerpts of traditional songs and dances of Kanak, New Caledonia

Thanks to Zeca Assumpçao, Inês Assumpçao, Alexandre Seabra, Mendel

Date of creation: December 2018

Production: Chaillot–Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris), Festival d’Automne (Paris), le CENTQUATRE PARIS, MA scène nationale (Montbéliard), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt am Main) im Rahmen des Festivals Frankfurter Position 2019, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Teatro Municipal do Porto, Festival DDD—dias de dança (Porto, Matosinhos, Gaia), Theater Freiburg, Muffatwerk (München), Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças.

With support from: Fondation d’entreprise Hermès part of the program “New Settings” and Redes da Maré—Centro de Artes da Maré (Rio de Janeiro).

In collaboration with The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Minnesota; The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; PEAK Performances at Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ; BAM, Brooklyn, NY.

Duration: 70 minutes, no intermission.

In consideration of both audiences and performers, please turn off all electronic devices. The taking of photographs or videos and the use of recording equipment are not permitted. No food or drink is permitted in the theater.

About the Artist

Lia Rodrigues (Artistic Director and Choreographer) was born in 1956 in São Paolo, where she studied classical Ballet and History at São Paolo (USP) University. Rodrigues was involved in the 1970s in the contemporary dance movement and was in the Maguy Marin Dance Company from 1980 to 1982.

When she returned, she created 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 created and ran for 14 years the Panorama Festival, the most important festival in Rio de Janeiro.

Since 2004, her Company has been involved in developing educational and artistic activities in the Maré Favela in Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with the nongovernmental Organisation Redes de Desenvolvimento da Maré. From this collaboration was born the Centro de Artes da Maré (Arts Center of Maré), opened in 2009, and the Escola Livre de Danças da Maré (Free School of Maré), which opened in October 2011. During 40 years of professional and artistic life, the choreographer Lia Rodrigues has dedicated herself not only to training and artistic creation with touring and commissioning from the major world capitals but also to education with workshops and seminars all over the world. Mixing militancy and utopias, she believes in the synergy between the Art and the social processes.

Rodrigues was awarded by the French government with the medal of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2016 with the SACD Price for Choreography; in the Netherlands she was awarded the Prince Claus Award in 2014.

In France, in 2005 she created one of the La Fontaine fables and in 2007 Hymnen, with music by Stockhausen, for the CCN Ballet de Lorraine. Among her most recent pieces are Such Stuff As We Are Made (2000), Formas Breves (2002), Incarnat (2005), Chantiers Poétiques (2008), Pororoca (2009), Piracema (2011), Pindorama (2013), and Para que o Céu não caia [For the sky not to fall] (2016), Fúria (2018), and Encantado (2021).

Lia Rodrigues is an associate artist at Chaillot—Théâtre national de la Danse and at Centquatre Paris.

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About the Artists

Valentina Prestes Fittipaldi (Dancer), born in Rio de Janeiro, is 23 years old and holds a bachelor’s degree in Dance from UFRJ. At the age of 15, she studied in the technical course at the Angel Vianna School and College, having contact with the technique of Klauss Vianna, Laban, and many somatic pathologies. In 2016, she contemplated the IV edition of the Modern Dance Award, which gave her the opportunity to spend one month studying at the Martha Graham Dance School in New York. Since June 2017 she has been working with Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças.

Leonardo Nunes Fonseca (Dancer), born in Pernambuco, graduated in Dance from the University of the City of Rio de Janeiro. He started his dance practice with the choreographer Paulista Ivaldo Bertazzo, participating in the works Mãe Gentil, Folias Guanabara, Danças das Marés. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as an intern at Deanima Companhia de Dança, participating in the company’s projects. He was part of the young group of the Maria Olenewa Dance School. Since 2005, he has worked at Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças, participating in the creations Encarnado, Hymnem, Chantier Poetique, Pororoca, Piracema, Pindorama, Para que o Céu não caia, Fúria, and Encantado.

David Abreu Leandro (Dancer), 30 years old, born in Cachoeiras de Macacu and living in the city of Rio de Janeiro, was graduated in Dance by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he participated in research projects, among them the project Corpo Estranho, coordinated by Prof. Aline Teixeira. He has taught contemporary dance and body preparation classes in events, projects, congresses, and shows in cities including Santa Maria/RS, São Mateus/ES, and Viçosa/MG. He participated in workshops, residencies and workshops with Grupo Cena 11 Cia de Dança, GaGa Dancers and People, Angel Vianna, Denise Stutz, and Focus Cia de Dança, among others. In 2016, he participated in the 20th Internationales Solo Tanz-Theater Festival Stuttgart, Germany, with the solo “Escuda,” which he directed and choreographed. He assumed the interpretation of the solo and premiered it in an extended version in 2017 at Teatro Angel Vianna/RJ. Currently, he is part of Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças. Larissa Lima (Dancer), 23 years old, is from Rio de Janeiro. She has had experiences at Escola Livre de Dança da Maré, where she was able to work with several renowned choreographers such as Maguy Marin, performing in the choreographer’s work May B.

She received a bachelor of dance degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and currently works at Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças.

Carolina Repetto (Dancer) was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1994. She graduated in Contemporary Dance at Angel Vianna Escola and Faculdade de Dança (2012/2015) and works as an actress, performer, and contemporary dancer. She collaborated as an interpreter in the performance What is really happening when something happens? by Cristian Duarte, at the Verbo 2017 show in São Paulo, and with Marcelo Evelin in the performance Batucada, part of the Festival Panorama program in 2016. Repetto founded the theatrical research group Mulheres de Buço along with seven other young actresses. Since 2014, the group has been carrying out artistic projects that embrace theater and music. In 2016, they premiered their first play, Mulheres de Buço, a show-play, which ran for three months at the O Tablado/RJ theater. She is currently in collaboration with choreographer Lia Rodrigues at Centro de Artes da Maré/RJ, where she participated in the creation of Fúria, which premiered at the Theater Nacional de la danse Chaillot in November 2018, and went on to join the cast of the works Pindorama and Para que o Céu não caia since 2017.

Andrey Silva (Dancer), 22 years old, is from Rio de Janeiro. An actor on the UNIRIO stage, he studied at Escola Livre de Dança da Tide, where he was able to work with the choreographer Maguy Marin in her piece May B. He has a university degree in Dance from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and is currently a dancer at Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças.

Raquel Alexandre David Silva (Dancer), is a 26-year-old Brazilian. She began her contact with dance in 2010 at the Centro de Artes da Maré, in the Nova Holanda favela. She graduated from the Intensive and Continuous Course in Contemporary Dance (Núcle 2), a project conducted by the Escola Livre de Dança da Maré in partnership with Cia de Dança Lia Rodrigues, (2012–2018). She is a bachelor of dance student at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and performer with the Cia de Dança Lia Rodrigues.

Felipe Vian (Dancer) began his studies in contemporary dance in 2003 in the artistic training project Núcleo de Dança de Votorantim, São Paulo, where he was in contact with several artists from Brazil and abroad. In 2009, he became a professional dancer certified by São Paulo Dance Union. In 2011, he was part of the Arsenale Della Danza Group, directed by Brazilian choreographer Ismael Ivo, in Venice, Italy. In 2013,

he joined the dance company of director Lia Rodrigues in Rio de Janeiro and worked alongside the choreographer for eight years as a dancer, creator, and teacher. With the company, he created the pieces Pindorama (2013), Para que o Céu não caia (2016), and Fúria (2018) and performed many other pieces in countries such as Greece, Australia, Netherlands, Israel, Switzerland, and Denmark. He has also taught contemporary dance classes in Norway, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Germany, and France. He was one of the artists invited to teach contemporary dance classes at Núcleo 2, a group of students awarded with scholarships from the Centro de Artes da Maré in Rio de Janeiro.

Ricardo Xavier (Dancer), 23 years old, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A tireless admirer of dance, he has been absorbing dance techniques in several countries where he has been and has danced, such as Mexico, Switzerland, and France. He has had experience in the Ballet Brasil da Ilha do Bom Jesus of the Brazilian army and in the Escola Livre de Dança da Tide, where he worked with several renowned choreographers such as Maguy Marin, dancing in her piece May B, Emmanuelle Huynh, and João Fiadeiro, among others. He studied at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, graduating with a degree in Dance. He currently works with Lia Rodrigues cia de Danças and is the coordinator responsible for a new project in arts at a public school in the favela of Maré.

Gabi Gonçalves (Company Manager) is a PhD student in Communication and Semiotics from PUC–SP. Gonçalves holds a master’s degree in Communication and Semiotics from PUC–SP, directed by Dr. Christine Greiner, with research on the public training for contemporary art. Formed by Unicamp Department Body Arts in 1998 and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, in the course Communication and Body Arts in 2002. Gonçalves was coordinator of production of São Paulo Virada Cultural in 2009 and 2010 and gave courses cultural production in Senac and also in the University Center. She taught and gave lectures for Mis points, in partnership with the Image and Sound Museum and was a cultural producer at SESC SP (Vila Mariana). She was coordinator of production for the International Exhibition of Theatre in the 2014 and 2015. In 2008, Gonçalves finished her master’s thesis “Strategies to give visibility to the dance” that appears now, eight years later, in the book version. Her aim was to precisely analyze strategies to make visible dance in situations where both the official media (print, television, and digital), as so-called public policies, seemed

to do everything to ensure their invisibility. More than ever, the debate continues today, echoing the struggle of artists and producers to gain time.

Nicolas Boudier (Lighting Designer) has been working for theater and dance since 1994 as a designer of hybrid forms including dramaturgy. After studying electricity, he began training in automated mechanical systems and then tackled robotics. In 1992 he left the business world to turn to performing arts. He is a state graduate, free candidate at Rue Blanche, ENSATT, National School of Theater Arts and Techniques in Paris, and GRIM, School of Theater and Events in Lyon as a lighting designer. At the same time, he hung his first photographic exhibitions. He is also a lighting designer, scenographer, and photographer in collaboration with various artists such as Lia Rodrigues, Joris Mathieu, David Wampach, Pina Bausch, Ushio Amagatsu, Yuval Pick, Stéphane Ricordel, Astrid Toledo, Shantala Shivalingappa, the Nordik Black Theater, and others. In parallel with his activity as a freelance creator, he is currently invested alongside Joris Mathieu in the adventure of the Théâtre Nouvelle Génération, Lyon’s national drama center, as a director, designer of scenographic devices, creator of lights, and photographer of productions. Recently he presented his new creation At the origin was speed, the testament of Sov Strochnis, an immersive device for 44 spectators. He has been working with Lia Rodrigues since 2004.

Magali Foubert (Stage Manager), after graduating from the Fine Arts School in Clermont Ferrand, France, in 2000, decided to move on to jobs in the performing arts, specializing in lighting. She worked for different companies for 22 years in several fields such as theater, circus, street arts, and dance companies, including Cie Les transformateurs, Cie Les Trois Huit, Cie Dyptik, Cie Entre Chien et Loup, and Cie Cassandre. She has also been an assistant to lighting designers Nicolas Boudier, Patrice Besombes, and Yoann Tivoli. She has been Lia Rodrigues’s stage manager and lighting supervisor for now 11 years, touring with the Company worldwide.

Thérèse Barbanel (US Representative), after English studies in Paris, University

Paris VIII, in 1979 joined a production office in Paris named Artservice International and started a close collaboration with quite a few major Aartists in modern dance and contemporary theatre and music such as Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Philip Glass, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Meredith Monk, Dominique Bagouet, Système Castafiore, and others until 1998. In 1999, Barbanel opened her own office, Les Artscéniques. Continuing her association with Trisha Brown, she participated to

the start of a new national choreographer center in Nancy, France, with the Ballet de Lorraine. She began her long-term working relationship with Lia Rodrigues in 2004. Also Paul André Fortier from Montreal, part of the Circuit Est, a collective of artists, has also been a close partner since then. Booking, arts administration, logistics, and marketing are parts of her job as representative of Artists worldwide.