Walker Art Center presents
LIA RODRIGUES:
FÚRIA
Friday-Saturday, October 28 – 29, 2022
8:00 pm
McGuire Theater
Created by
Lia Rodrigues
Danced by, and Created in Close Collaboration with
Leonardo Nunes, Carolina Repetto, Valentina Fittipaldi, Andrey Da Silva, Larissa Lima, Ricardo Xavier, David Abreu, Felipe Vian, & Raquel Alexandre
In Collaboration with
Karoll Silva & Clara Cavalcante
Assistant to the Creation
Amalia Lima
Dramaturgy
Silvia Soter
Artistic Collaboration and Images
Sammi Landweer
Lighting Design
Nicolas Boudier
Stage Manager
Magali Foubert
Music
Excerpts of traditional songs and dances of Kanak – New Caledonia
Date of Creation
2018
International Booking
Colette de Turville
US Representative
Thérèse Barbanel
Tour Manager
Gabi Goncalves/Corpo Rastraedo
Secretary
Gloria Laureno
Administration Lia Rodrigues company/Paris
Jacques Segueilla
Teachers
Amalia Lima, Sylvia Barretto, & Valentina Fittipaldi
Thanks to
Zeca Assumpçao, Inês Assumpçao, Alexandre Seabra, & Mendel
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 (Brüssel), 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 as part of the program “New Settings” and Redes da Maré - Centro de Artes da Maré (Rio de Janeiro)
Lia Rodrigues is an associate Artist at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse and at Centquatre Paris.
A Note from the Artists
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 to G.H., 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.
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Talking Dance with Brazilian Choreographers Lia Rodrigues and Mário Nascimento
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalaster College
Free
Lia Rodrigues and 2022 McKnight International Choreographer Mário Nascimento will speak about contemporary dancemaking in Brazil, explore class and economic influences on their work, and share insights into their choreographic processes. Moderated by artist and scholar Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento, chair and professor of theater and dance at Macalester College. More information here.
Lia Rodrigues Dance Workshop: Discovering New Movement Language
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Cargill Lounge, Walker Art Center
Free
Members of Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças invite participants to discover new forms of creativity and explore possibilities of expression through movement. More information here.
Post-show Q & A with Lia Rodrigues, moderated by Patrick Scully
Friday, October 28, 2022
McGuire Stage
About the Artists
LIA RODRIGUES is a dancer/choreographer and the artistic director of Lia Rodrigues Dance Company, which she founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1990. Born in 1956 in São Paulo, Brazil, Rodrigues studied classical ballet and history at the São Paulo University (USP) where she was involved in the contemporary dance movement during the 1970s. She was part of the highly regarded Maguy Marin dance company in France from 1980 to 1982.
After returning to Brazil, she created the Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças in Rio de Janeiro, offering activities including dance laboratories, commissions/creations of new work, classes, and rehearsals. In 1992, she created the Panorama Festival, the most important performing arts festival in Rio de Janeiro, and ran the festival for fourteen years.
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 non-governmental organization Redes de Desenvolvimento da Maré. From this collaboration was born the Centro de Artes da Maré (Arts Center of Maré), open since 2009, and the Escola livre de Danças da Maré (Free School of Maré), which opened in October 2011. During her 40 years of professional and artistic life, Rodrigues has dedicated herself not only to artistic training and dance creation, with touring and commissioning around the world, but also to education with workshops and seminars worldwide. Mixing militancy and utopia, she believes in the synergy between art and social processes.
Lia Rodrigues is at the forefront of contemporary dance in Brazil, creating bold and technically stunning choreographies. She has been awarded many prizes and honors throughout her career including the French government’s Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2007), the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Award for choreography (2016), and the Prince Claus Award, from the Prince Claus Foundation of the Netherlands, for artistic and social work (2014). Rodrigues was also awarded the AFIELD fellowship 2014 for Centre de Artes da Maré; the Bravo Bradesco Award (2017); Choreographer of the Year by the German magazine Tanz (2017); Criticism Question Award (For The Sky Not To Fall) (2017); Bravo Bradesco Award (For The Sky Not To Fall) (2017); Itaú Cultural 30 Years Award—Create Category (2014); APCA Award Grand Prize of Critics for Pindorama and exercise M (2010); and the APCA Award, Journey in Dance: 20 Years of Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças.
In addition to directing and producing all of her shows, Lia Rodrigues is also a cultural producer. She has been the Artistic Director of the Panorama de Dança contemporary dance annual festival since 1992.
In 2005, in France, she created a work based on one of the La Fontaine’s fables, and in 2007 she created Hymnen with music by Stockhausen for the CCN Ballet de Lorraine. Her dance works include 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 nao caia (For The Sky Not To Fall) (2016), Fúria (2018) and Encantado (2021).
The company has built a solid reputation throughout the world and has been invited to perform its repertoire in important festivals and dance institutions in over 25 countries. Her works have been presented in prestigious venues including the Festival d’Automne a Paris/Theatre de la Ville, Angers/National center for Dance, Vitry/Théâtre Jean Vilar, la Ferme du Buisson/Marne la Vallée, Belgian – Brussels Kaaïtheater/ Kunsten festival des art/, Potsdam -+Tranzfabrik, Belgrade Dance Festival, Salamanca festival in Spain, Lisboa/Culturgest and Porto/Museo Serralves, Montreal Festival TransAmériques, Venice Biennale and Amsterdam Julidans festival, Salamanca Façil festival, and in the top festivals in Brazil. Her 2022 US tour includes Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York City), the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio), Peak Performances (Montclair, New Jersey), and the Walker Art Center.
LIA RODRIGUES COMPANHIA DE DANÇAS was founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1990. In addition to investing in and training dancer/artists, the company also stimulates reflection, provides spaces for debate, introduces audiences to contemporary issues, and generates intellectual and affective encounters.
The company remains active throughout the year, teaching classes and rehearsing, as well as researching and creating new work, always in collaboration with the dancer/artists. The company has performed throughout Brazil and internationally in Israel, France, United States, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Slovenia, Hungary, Sweden, Romania, Norway, Peru, Argentina, Chile, United Kingdom, Austria, Switzerland, and Canada.
In 2003, Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças was invited by Silvia Soter to collaborate with the non-governmental organization Redes de Desenvolvimento da Maré, in Morro do Timbau. The company moved its daily activities there, helping to build and maintain a place for dance, in addition to offering classes and workshops for young people in the community, and donating a large collection of dance videos and books. In this space, in 2004, the company created Against those difficult to please, Encarnado, and Hymnen; presented two works from its repertoire what we are made of and brief forms; presented the rehearsal of the show Isabel Torres by French choreographer Jérôme Bel; presented the show Movente by the Carioca choreographer Paula Nestorov, including a residency with the Paula Nestorov dance company; and offered workshops with professors and guest artists. All these activities were free, attracting a diverse audience.
In 2007, the company, always in partnership with Redes da Maré, started a new project in the Nova Holanda community in Maré: the creation of the Centro de Artes da Maré (CAM), a place for sharing, living together, and exchanging knowledge, aimed at training, creating, disseminating, and producing the arts. In addition to being the headquarters of Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças, CAM houses, among other initiatives, the Escola Livre de Dança da Maré.
At CAM, the company created Fúria, Para que o Céu nao caia (For The Sky Not To Fall), Pindorama, Pororoca, and Piracema, as well as developed the dance for all project between 2008 and 2009 with free classes on body awareness, contemporary dance for young people, and creative dance for children.
The company also organizes and offers lectures, debates, and workshops aimed at both beginners and dance professionals. In 1999, they organized classes for first grade teachers in several cities in Brazil (São Luiz do Maranhão, Marabá, Catas Altas-MG, Parauapebas) for the Escola que Vale project for the Vale do Rio Doce Foundation. In 2005, the company participated in the TIM – Música project, teaching dance classes to 500 young people in elementary and high schools across Rio de Janeiro,. The company has also supported other dance companies or artists that did not have support or sponsorship, such as Paula Nestorov, Duda Maia, Gustavo Ciríaco, Frederico Paredes and Carmen Luz. liarodrigues.com
RICARDO XAVIER, 23 years old, was born in Rio de Janeiro. A tireless admirer of dance, he has been absorbing dance techniques in several countries as he travels; he has danced in Mexico, Switzerland, and France. He has had experiences with the Ballet Brasil da Ilha do Bom Jesus of the Brazilian army; in the Escola Livre de Dança da Tide, where he worked with several renowned choreographers such as Maguy Marin (with whom he danced in 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 Companhia de Danças and is responsible for coordinating a new project in arts at a public school in the favela of Maré.
LEONARDO NUNES FONSECA was born in Pernambuco. He 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 Mãe Gentil, Folias Guanabara, Danças das Marés. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as an intern at Deanima Companhia de Danca, 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 the company 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.
ANDREY SILVA, 22 years old, is from Rio de Janeiro. He is an actor on the UNIRIO stage and has studied at Escola Livre de Dança da Tide where he was able to work with the choreographers Maguy Marin dancing to the piece May B , the choreographer's work. He has a university degree in dance from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and is currently a dancer with Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças.
LARISSA LIMA, 23 years old, is from Rio de Janeiro. She spent time at Escola Livre de Dança da Maré where she was able to work with several renowned choreographers such as Maguy Marin, with whom she worked on May B. She received a Bachelor of arts in dance at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and currently works with Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças.
CAROLINA REPETTO 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 dancer. She was an interpreter for the performance What is really happening when something happens? by Cristian Duarte at the Verbo 2017 show in São Paulo, and also with Marcelo Evelin in the performance Batucada, which was part of the Panorama Festival in 2016. She also 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 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; she has also been in the cast of Pindorama and Para que o Céu não cair since 2017.
VALENTINA PRESTES FITTIPALDI was born in Rio de Janeiro. She 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, learning the techniques of Klauss Vianna, Laban, and many somatic pathologies. In 2016, she received the IV edition of the Modern Dance Award, which gave her the opportunity to study at the Martha Graham Dance School in New York. She has been working with Lia Rodrigues Companhina de Danças since 2017.
RAQUEL ALEXANDRE DAVID SILVA is 26 years old. She began dancing 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 dance student at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a performer with the Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças.
DAVID ABREU LEANDRO, 30 years old, was born in Cachoeiras de Macacu and lives in Rio de Janeiro. He graduated in dance from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he participated in research projects, among them the project Corpo Estranho, coordinated by Aline Teixeira. He has taught contemporary dance and body preparation classes in events, projects, congresses, and shows in cities like Santa Maria/RS, São Mateus/ES, and Viçosa/MG. He participated in 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 in Stuttgart, Germany, with the solo Escuda, which he directed and choreographed. He premiered an extended version of the solo in 2017 at Teatro Angel Vianna/RJ. Currently, he is part of Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças.
FELIPE VIAN began his studies in dance in the artistic training project Núcleo de Dança de Votorantim, where he worked with several artists that make up the contemporary art scene in Brazil. He joined Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças in recent years where he has been developing his work together with the choreographer.
GABI GONÇALVES is the company manager for Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças. She is a PhD student in communication and semiotics from PUC – SP and holds a master's degree in communication and semiotics from PUC-SP, directed by Dr. Christine Greiner, researching public training for contemporary art. She has been shaped by Unicamp Department Body Arts in 1998 and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo in the course Communication and Body Arts in 2002. She was coordinator of production of São Paulo Virada Cultural in 2009 and in 2010, she taught courses in cultural production in Senac. She has taught and lectured for Mis Points, in partnership with the Image and Sound Museum, and was a cultural producer at SESC-SP (Vila Mariana). She received a Femsa Award nomination for production in 2012 and 2015.
In 2014 and 2015, she was coordinator of Production International Exhibition of Theatre. In 2008 Goncalves finished her master's thesis "Strategies to give visibility to dance” that appears now as a book. 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.
THÉRÈSE BARBANEL is the administrator for the company. After English studies in Paris at the University Paris VIII, in 1979, she joined Artservice International, a production office in Paris, and started a close collaboration with numerous major artists in modern dance and contemporary theatre and music such as Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Philip Glass, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Meredith Monk, Dominique Bagouet, Systeme Castafiore, and others. In 1999 she opened her own office, les Artscéniques, and continued to develop: she worked closely with Trisha Brown; participated in the start of a new national choreography center in Nancy with the Ballet de Lorraine; and started working with Lia Rodrigues in 2004. Her long-term relationship with Lia Rodrigues continues to this day. Paul André Fortier, part of the Circuit Est artist collective in Montreal, has been also a close partner since then. Booking, art administration, logistics, and marketing are parts of her job as representative of artists worldwide.
NICOLAS BOUDIER is a lighting designer, technical director, and photographer. He 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 arranges photographic exhibitions. He is 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, Stephane 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 is stage manager for the company. After her graduation at the fine arts school in Clermont Ferrand- France in 2000, she decided to move on to jobs in the arts fields and performing arts where she specialized in lighting. She has worked for different companies for 22 years in several art 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 is also the assistant lighting designer to Nicolas Boudier, Patrice Besombes, and Yoann Tivoli. She has been Lia Rodrigues’ stage manager and lighting supervisor for 11 years, touring with the company worldwide.
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