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Onassis Stegi Friends presale: from 13 APR 2022, 17:00
General presale: from 15 APR 2022, 17:00
Full price: 7 €, 18 €, 25 €, 36 €
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Groups 10+ people: 14 €, 18 €, 26 €
Neighborhood residents: 7 €
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Companions: 10 €
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Duration
60 minutes (no interval)
Dance as movement. Dance as a resistance movement. From the neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão and his company react against the far-right practices and barbarity of the Bolsonaro administration.
In Niterói, on the south-eastern edge of Rio de Janeiro, Bruno Beltrão’s Grupo de Rua dance company is trying to comprehend the violent world around it. Through their art, the dancers give their own response to the Bolsonaro administration and its repressive practices.
Internationally recognized as a refreshing innovator of the hip hop scene, Beltrão pays close attention to the intense tremors emanating from the political realities of his homeland in order to translate them into extreme pulses of bodily energy.
Enriching the dialectics of urban dance with the principles of contemporary dance, he delivers high-powered works of immense dancerly skill that have seen him described as the William Forsythe of hip hop.
His latest choreography confirms that to inhabit movement is a consciously political act.
Photo: Kerstin Behrendt
“Inoah” by Bruno Beltrão
Bruno Beltrão’s adventures in dance began when he was 12 years old. As a teenager, he began going with friends to a nightclub where MC Hammer and Sir Mix-a-Lot reigned supreme. He and Rodrigo Bernardi immersed themselves in hip hop and started giving lessons to their peers. When they founded Grupo de Rua in 1996, Bruno Beltrão was just 16 years old.
In 2000, he began his dance studies at the Centro Universitário da Cidade, and also studied art history and philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. One year later, he made his official dance debut with “From Popping to Pop”, presented at a local Copacabana festival.
He has twice been honored by New York’s leading dance awards, the “Bessies” – for the work “H3” in 2010, and more recently for his choreography “Inoah” in 2020.
According to the French “Libération” newspaper, Bruno Beltrão “proves that he can restart the world and language of hip hop with each creation”.
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Photo: Wonge Bergmann
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Credits
Artistic Direction
Bruno Beltrão
Assistant to Artistic Director
Gilson Cruz
With
Wallyson Amorim, Camila Dias, Renann Fontoura, Eduardo Hermanson, Alci Junior, Silvia Kamyla, Ronielson Araújo ’Kapu’, Leonardo Laureano, Antonio Carlos Silva, Leandro Rodrigues
Lights
Renato Machado
Costumes
Marcelo Sommer
Music
Lucas Marcier / ARPX
Electrical
Sineir
Set Design
Anderson Dias
Production
Grupo de Rua
In collaboration with
Something Great
Coproduced by
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfurt - DE), Festival d’ Automne à Paris & Centquatre (Paris - FR), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels - BE), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna - AT), SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht - NL), Sadler Wells (London - UK), Kampnagel (Hamburg - DE), Onassis Stegi (Athens - GR), Culturgest (Lisbon - PT), Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto - PT), Romaeuropa (Roma - IT), Charleroi Danse (Charleroi - BE), Le Maillon - Théâtre de Strasbourg (Strasbourg - FR), Cité Musicale-Metz (Metz - FR)
Distribution
Something Great (Berlin - DE)
Commissioned by
the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses in Germany
Sponsor/Partner
Supported by
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