Creations

Choreography: Richard Siegal *
Music: Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764); Suite in D Minor / Major I. Les Tendres Plaintes, Suite in E Minor V. Le Rappel des Oiseaux, Suite in E Minor IX. Tambourin, Suite in E Minor III. Gigue en rondeau I, Suite in D Minor – Major III. Le Soupirs and Suite in A Minor – Major VII, performed by Tzimon Barto.
Lighting: Gilles Gentner
Costume Design: Simone Mina

* Richard Siegal is represented by Verlag der Autoren, Frankfurt, Germany | choreography@verlagderautoren.de

Inspired by the baroque compositions of Jean-Phippe Rameau (1683-1764), choreographer Richard Siegal created this piece for SPDC. It is a soft, delicate and dynamic choreography in which classical dance appears superimposed on other accents, bringing the idea of ​​rupture and deconstruction of patterns. The costume of Simone Mina and the light of Gilles Gentner dialogues with the proposal of the choreographer using reference of the baroque in contemporary materials and designs. “It’s like crossing the centuries. This is a work that updates this music to the 21st century and not more than the 18th century, “says the choreographer.

Choreography: Fabiano Lima
Music: Quem sabe? (1859), sung by Adriana de Almeida and performed on the piano by Olinda Allessandrini; Bailado dos Índios from O Guarani opera (1870), by Carlos Gomes (1836-1896), performed by the Orquestra do Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, with regency of Armando Bellardi
Lighting: Guilherme Paterno
Costume: Cássio Brasil

Pivô is a choreography by Fabiano Lima that draws on references from basketball, hip-hop and contemporary dance. With music from Carlos Gomes, brings to the scene the Brazilian ambience with known sonorities. The costume of Cássio Brasil dialogues with the light of Guilherme Paterno and shows the different layers of color of the work. “It’s a choreography of exchange and perception to understand how this dance moves from one body to another. I like to work with scenic elements, it gives identity to my work”, says the choreographer. The work was awarded the Third Place in the selection of the jury as the Best Dance Show of 2016 in Guia da Folha.

Choreography and costume: Binho Pacheco
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Lighting: Guilherme Paterno

Epiderme  explores the boundaries between the interior and exterior of the human being, having the skin as object of reflection. “I start from a scientific look, layers, organs and nerve endings, into a world of latent sensations, where the audience is surrounded by Bach chords and a young and provocative choreography that simultaneously connects and separates these universes”, says the choreographer. The dancers appear in situations of constant challenge, looking for ways to rediscover the balance and the forms, which are undone at every moment and in the contact between these skins that now attract with softness and delicacy, sometimes they repel with violence.

Choreography: Maurício Wainrot
Music: Raul Barboza (The Land Without Evil, Winter in Paris and Gold Series: Great Exitos) and Pedro de Cervi (El Celeste Dress)
Lighting: Domingos Quintiliano
Costume: Graciela Galán
Choreography Assistant: Laura Marini

Litoral, by Maurício Wainrot is inspired by the songs of Raul Barboza and Pedro de Cervi, whose Argentine regional rhythms resonate with music from southern Brazil. The cast alternates in duos, trios and ensembles with a wavy movement that shows the language of the choreographer who uses the popular and erudite to create a vibrant and festive dance with soft and dense counterpoints. “Litoral is a region of great rivers in Argentina, red earth, with a forest full of trees, birds and noise formed by the provinces of Santa Fe, Misiones, Formosa, Entre Ríos, Corrientes and Chaco. Coastline meet, get contaminated and suffer influences from different places”, says the choreographer.

Choreography, stage design and costume: Clébio Oliveira
Original music: Matresanch
Lightning: Mirella Brandi

Céu Cinzento, by Clébio Oliveira, addresses the eternal theme of impossible love present in our collective imagination and represented in works such as Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The choreography is inspired by this story and asks: how would the course of the tragedy play out if the lovers stayed blind instead of dying? “In the work, the tragic end of the lovers gives way to the new version and, within this perspective; the pair is lost in a kind of maze and desperately trying to find their way. The play brings out the need to move towards a more integrative understanding of the senses”, says the choreographer.

Choreography: Cassi Abranches
Original soundtrack: Marcelo Jeneci and Zé Nigro
Lightning: Gabriel Pederneiras
Costume: Janaina de Castro
Choreography Assistant: Ana Paula Cançado

Cassi Abranches uses the body memories and the impulses of the soundtrack composed by Marcelo Jeneci and Zé Nigro to create GEN. “The work highlights my switching of being on stage to become a choreographer. I still have the physical references from the period of time I danced at Grupo Corpo, although I search for my own references in each creation. I invited for the creative process people of my generation to start a new time. It’s about start, beginning and resumption”, says the choreographer.

Choreography and costume: Rafael Gomes*
Remixed soundtrack: Dj Hisato with temas de The End, by Jim Morrison, The Solo Tempist, by Vic Firth and Take Five, by Paul Desmond
Lightning: Wagner Freire
Set design: Kleber Matheus

* The dancers wear Alexandre Herchcovitch collection

Inspired by the photographs of Otto Dix and images of the 50’s, Rafael Gomes created Bingo!, for the SPDC. “The work is a clandestine casino that reveals different characters and situations, such as a woman dressed up and a couple in a fight, violence and forbidden sex. The dancers are part of the game of bingo that are randomly chosen,” says the choreographer. At the sound of rock, jazz and funk played by timpani remixed by Hisato, neon lights created by Kleber Matheus and the ambience of Wagner Freire create different sensations that overpass the play. The dancers wear collection by Alexandre Herchcovitch, chosen by the choreographer.

Choreography: Mario Galizzi from the original from 1911 by Michel Fokine (1880-1942)
Music: Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Lightning: Wagner Freire
Scenario and costume: Fabio Namatame

A modern classic, in which we see a new relationship between man and woman, different from romantic classics when men dream of an ideal woman. In this work, a woman receives a rose during her first ball and back home, she falls asleep and dreams of the spirit of the rose which is also the perfume of young man who gifted her. Based on the poem by Théophile Gauthier (1811-1872), the ballet was originally created by Michel Fokine. The music Invitation to the Dance, written by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) for piano, in 1819, and orchestrated by Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) in 1841, was renamed Invitation to Waltz.

Choreography: Mario Galizzi from the original from 1836 by August Bournonville (1805-1879)
Music: Herman Lovenskjold (1815-1870)
Lightning: José Luis Fiorruccio
Costume : Beth Filipecki (caracteres), Marilda Fontes (Sylphides)
Scenario: Marco Lima

La Sylphide, a fairy tale for all ages landmark of the romantic ballet in which the dual feminine appearance – sensual and ethereal – symbolize the duality of body and spirit. The piece is divided into two acts: the first scene we see the preparations for the wedding of James and Effie, similarities and differences of love; the second act presents an imaginary world of fantastical characters such as Sylphides – winged beings of the forest – and witches.

Choreography and Lightning: Édouard Lock
Music: The Seasons, Gavin Bryars, published by Schott Music Ltd, and performed by Percorso Ensemble, directed by Ricardo Bologna
Costume design: Liz Vandal (women), Édouard Lock (men)
Set: Armand Vaillancourt

The images created by Édouard Lock in The Seasons revive the sense of dance memory. In the scene it is possible to observe several layers which interact with one another – dance, music, set and light – and create new relations, not only to those who watch it, but also to those present in the scene. Each gesture has its correspondent in light, which cuts the space as if it edited lively what is being watched, the gestures swing between strong and smooth movements, slowness and intense speed permeate the scenes, in the speed of thought, misleading our perception.

Choreography: Mario Galizzi from the original from 1895 by Marius Petipa (1818-1910)
Music: Piotr Ilich Chaikovski(1840-1893)
Lightning: Guilherme Paterno
Costume design: Tânia Agra

This duo marks the meeting of Prince Siegfried with Odile, the Black Swan. Daughter of the wizard Rothbart, she wants to enchant the prince so he breaks his vows of eternal love to Odette, the White Swan, at a dance. To deceive him, Odile subtly alternates sensuality and sweetness, and reveals all her evil. This is one of the great moments of the third act of this ballet, one of the most popular in the world.

Choreography: Ana Vitória
Original soundtrack: Jorge Peña and Célio Barros
Lightning: Wagner Freire
Costume: Sonia Ushiyama
Choreography Assistant: Renata Costa
Composition Assistant: Natália Fagá
Scenario and videos: Carmen Luz
Scenario Development: Marcos Arruzzo and Alvaro Souza
Video editing: Guido Marcondes and Carmen Luz
Video: Alexandre Robatto

Inspired by the movie Vadiação (1954), by Alexander Robatto, Ana Victoria created Vadiando, work driven by capoeira in dialogue with elements of contemporary dance. Movie scenes permeate the work redefining the bodies, space and time. “This was the first dance movie and I watched and, with it, I rethought about my body and identity. In order to choreograph, I always start from something more biographical and today, 59 years after its release, this movie allows me to go beyond its object”, says the choreographer.

Choreography and dramaturgy: Giovanni Di Palma
Music: Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Lightning: Udo Haberland
Costume and scenario: Jérôme Kaplan
Dramaturgy: Nadja Kadel

Romeo and Juliet, the classic tragedy by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), comes to life in the body of the dancers from São Paulo Dance Company in a version specially created by Italian choreographer Giovanni Di Palma. Under the music of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), the piece is divided into two acts and ten scenes and tells the story of young Romeo and Juliet, whose deaths ultimately unite the Montague and Capulet families, once rivals. The tragic story of love and hate between their families remain timeless and delights audiences all over the world.

Choreography: Luiz Fernando Bongiovanni
Music: Ponteios (Ponteio 18, nostálgico; Ponteio 26, la calma; Ponteio 24, tranquila; Ponteio 15, incisivo and Ponteio 1, la calma), by Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993)
Lightning: Ligia Chaim
Costume: Naum Alves de Souza and Miko Hashimoto
Scenario: Soraya Kölle and Dilson Tavares (TKCeno Cenografia e Produçõess)

In Utopia ou o Lugar que Não Existe, Luiz Fernando Bongiovanni criticizes the way beauty is associated with futile and alienation, in parallel with a universe without utopias. In the ballet development, he selected five Ponteios from Camargo Guarnieri (1907-1993), which reflects the emotional states he sought to the play, by bringing a typical Brazilian feature to it, influenced by themes and gestures of folk music characterized on stage by a solo, a trio and a duo, providing different meanings to the scene. The scenery and costumes mirror and mark the space in black and white.

Choreography and costume: Marco Goecke
Music: Simple Symphony, by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), H.Y.V.Ä and Sininen javalkoinen, with coral Mieskuoro Huutajat
Lightning: Udo Haberland
Dramaturgy and organization: Nadja Kadel
Costume execution: Thomas Lampertz
Production Associação Pró-Dança/São Paulo Dace Company and coproduction Moviments Festwochen der Autostad (Wolfsburg/Germany)

In Peekaboo, the German choreographer Marco Goecke deals with the act of hiding and revealing in an exciting way. The title refers to a childish game well known to children: the person peeks, hides his/her face and suddenly reappears and says, ‘found’ or ‘boo’. In the work, Britten’s symphony combined with the sound of the Finnish choir Huutajat, shows contrasts: while talking about fantasy, it brings out the fears and loneliness of each dancer. The cast alternates in solos, duos, trios and ensembles, the movement is fast and accurate and the performers mysteriously appear and disappear from the scene. “Everything is a matter to be lost and found”, says the choreographer.

Choreography: Rui Moreira
Music: Rui Moreira and Lobi Traoré
Lightning: Domingos Quintiliano
Costume design: Eduardo Ferreira
Choreography Assistant: Bete Arenque
Graphic design: Guili Seara
Graphic design Assistant: Juarez Tanure

Rui Moreira signs Azougue, which has characteristics of African-Brazilian culture marked by the timbre and loudness of the drums. “Azougue is a term with many meanings, but the expression I used was that of peculiar cunning, from the Northeast region of the country. It is the person who is restless, who cannot be beat, who has a higher vibration than normal”, says the director of the Company Será Quê?, of Belo Horizonte. “I also used the relationship of azougue with the rural maracatu (folk music from the Northeast of Brazil), in which caboclos de lança (folk figure of the State of Pernambuco) used an energy drink with gunpowder made with cachaça and a herb called azougue to withstand the ‘thud’ of Carnival and the weight of the clothes”, the choreographer explains.

Choreography: Alex Neoral
Music: Andante de la Sonata No. 2 and Sarabande de Partita No. 1, for violin solo, by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Lightning: Binho Schaefer
Costume: André Vytall
Choreography Assistant: Clarice Rêgo

Alex Neoral created Pormenores (Details), a ballet marked by the details of the movements about Andante from Sonata No. 2 for solo violin and Sarabande from Partita No. 1 for solo violin, by Johan Sebastian Bach (1887-1959). “In this work, we work with duos, the levers and their outbreaks, which are a strong feature of my work and that I could share with the dancers of the Company”, Neoral says, who is the Artistic Director of Focus Companhia de Dança, in Rio de Janeiro. “The work is intimate and appreciates the proximity of the performers”.

Choreography: Rodrigo Pederneiras
Music: Bachianas Brasileiras nº1, by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Lightning: Gabriel Pederneiras
Costume: Maria Luiza Malheiros Magalhães
Choreography Assistant: Ana Paula Cançado

Inspired by Bachianas Brasileiras #1, by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rodrigo Pederneiras created Bachiana # 1, play in which dance responds to the intimate structure of the music. The choreography, which is divided into three movements, evidences the Brazilianness, the romance and passion of our people. The cellos that follow each part of the song translate the gesture itself, and from this tuning between sound and movement is when the work comes, earning special accents on the body of each performer. In Bachiana #1, the versatility of the dancers brings new emphasis to Pederneiras’ language.

Choreography and Lightning: Henrique Rodovalho
Music: André Abujamra
Costume: Cássio Brazil
Scenario: Shell Jr.
Scenario execution: FCR | Fábio Brando

In Inquieto (restless) Henrique Rodovalho presents three aspects of restlessness. Three characters share the scene and little by little reveal their restlessness to the world: one veiled, apparently still, that reveals itself in small, almost uncontrolled movements; the other is as determined as a straight line that crosses the stage; and another that can be translated into movement: the body and its different articulations, connections and singularities expanded in the space. In the course of the performance, the third character multiplies itself by ten: his movements are multiplied; they go through distinct interpreters, as if they were one, and at the same time they show the human restlessness, creating new structures and repetitions with changes. The body image in the space is complete with Shell Jr’s scenery trace, permanently building the scene. The lighting also creates space, cutting the stage and specially emphasizing some moments of the performance. The trace in Cassio Brazil’s costumes emphasizes shades and parts of the body and the music by André Abujamra creates the atmosphere and reveals the dynamic of the act. Immobility and movement, shade and light, straight and winding lines; all this contrast in the scene instigate our curiosity in relation to the space and its possibilities and the inventions reveal a little of our everyday apprehension.

Choreography: Maurício de Oliveira
Music: André Abujamra
Lightning: Wagner Freire
Director of costume: Jum Nakao
Creation and execution of costume: Bruna Valente, Joceli Oliveira, Juliana Zampini, Patricia Maria Grossi and Roberto Slursarz Filho

The main theme of Maurício de Oliveira’s creation for the São Paulo Dance Company is the image of the dancer, which multiplies throughout the performance. It is the double of each one, of the other, and of the group, which establishes ambiguous relationships. The artists are co-creators of the strategies presented throughout the performance, and their choreographic signature is recognized in the movement and dialog with costume designer Jum Nakao, and the music specially composed by André Abujamra.