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In a piece com­bin­ing music, dance and video, Nina Lais­né cel­eb­rates pian­ist and com­poser Hilda Her­rera and dan­cer Néstor “Pola” Pas­torive, two unique fig­ures of Argen­tine folk­lore who com­bine a faith­ful­ness to the roots of their art with dar­ing creativity.  Hilda Her­rera, …

The final part of a tri­logy of self-defense cho­reo­graph­ies in the face of viol­ence, Rep­er­tório N.3 is a sin­gu­lar and power­ful per­form­ance, in which two cho­reo­graph­ers renew the ima­gin­ary of the black body.  With their Rep­er­tório tri­logy, Davi Pontes and Wal­lace Fer­reira try …

At the heart of an island of cush­ions, Massimo Fusco’s sound and cho­reo­graph­ic install­a­tion invites young audi­ences into a gentle, reflect­ive immer­sion. The stor­ies of the body are whispered in the ears and echo in the audience’s minds and bod­ies, amp­li­fied …

Boos­ted by a phe­nom­en­al energy and densely per­cuss­ive music played on stage, the ten per­formers of the bal­let C A R C A Ç A com­bine club­bing ges­tures with move­ments inher­ited from folk dances. Marco da Silva Fer­reira orches­trates a whirl­wind of ges­tures, music, light­ing …

How can we rein­vent the rela­tion­ship between care­givers and the people they care for, tak­ing it out of the reduct­ive per­spect­ive of ill­ness and dis­ease? Gathered around an ori­gin­al cho­reo­graph­ic piece, 13 patient-care­giver duos per­form their mov­ing and del­ic­ate responses.  …

Three per­formers delve into the heart of the mean­der­ing rain­forest, in a poly­rhythm of sounds, images and myths. Between geo­metry and psy­che­delia, 3 against 2: Psy­cho Trop­ics con­jures up new narratives.  Indi­gen­ous Brazili­an writer and philo­soph­er Ailton Krenak describes the rain­forest as …

Cho­reo­graph­er Bry­an Camp­bell presents a jubil­ant cycle of ori­gin­al songs set in a carpenter’s work­shop. Sung, shouted or danced, the songs cre­ate a sin­gu­lar link with ecosystems.  Deep Cuts began with a walk in the forest, when Bry­an Camp­bell found him­self hit­ting a tree long …

On a small stage in the heart of an arena, beat­box­er Aymer­ic Hain­aux and dan­cer François Chaignaud make their voices and bod­ies go through an endur­ing, furi­ous and grace­ful ritu­al. A rhyth­mic­ally intense show.  A mirliton is a kind of whistle for chil­dren, …