Encantado
Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças
Synopsis
In Portuguese “encantado” means both “enchanted” and “amazed” – and in Afro-Brazilian cosmology the word also refers to mysterious creatures that wander between the earth, water and the skies, transforming landscapes into sacred places. Starting from these beliefs, the internationally acclaimed artist Lia Rodrigues creates a choreography in which human beings and nature are inseparably linked.
Eleven dancers use splendidly coloured material, bodies and movements to unleash a torrent of images. Landscapes emerge, dissolve and transform before the eyes of the audience. The dancers are accompanied by songs and music of the indigenous Guarani people that were recorded during protests to protect their ancestral regions in Brazil. In this way Encantado combines ecological issues with the struggles of indigenous communities and outlines a world in which everything exists in relation to everything else.
Encantado celebrates fantasy as a force of change and invites its audience to reconsider our relationship with nature and with each other. In doing so, the piece also reflects Lia Rodrigues’s stance in linking her work as an artist and her engagement with social and ecological causes.
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Credits
Creation: Lia Rodrigues
Danced and created in close collaboration by: Leonardo Nunes, Valentina Fittipaldi, Andrey da Silva, David Abreu, Raquel Alexandre
Also danced by: Daline Ribeiro, João Alves, Cayo Almeida, Vitor de Abreu
Also created by: Carolina Repetto, Joana Castro, Matheus Macena, Ricardo Xavier, Tiago Oliveira, Larissa Lima
Choreographic Assistant: Amalia Lima
Dramaturgy: Silvia Soter
Artistic collaboration and images: Sammi Landweer
Light Design: Nicolas Boudier
Stage managers: Magali Foubert and Baptistine Méral
Music: (from excerpts of songs of the GUARANI MBYA PEOPLE / Village of Kalipety do T.I. indigenous territory / Tenondé Porã, sung and played during the indigenous demonstration in Brasilia in August 2021 for the recognition of their ancestral lands in danger)
Mixing: Alexandre Seabra
International Booking: Colette de Turville
Production coordinator: Astrid Toledo
Production Brazil: Gabi Gonçalves/ Corpo Rastreado
Production project Goethe Institut: Claudia Oliveira
Secretary: Gloria Laureano
Teachers: Amalia Lima, Sylvia Barretto, Valentina Fittipaldi
Coproduction: Chaillot - Théâtre National de la Danse - Paris, Le CENTQUATRE - Paris / Festival d’Automne à Paris / Scène nationale Carré-Colonnes, Bordeaux Métropole / Le TAP - Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers / Scène nationale du Sud-Aquitain / La Coursive, Scène nationale La Rochelle / L’Empreinte, Scène nationale Brive -Tulle / Théâtre d’Angoulême Scène Nationale / Le Moulin du Roc, Scène nationale à Niort / La Scène Nationale d’Aubusson, l’OARA - Office Artistique de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine / Le Kunstenfestivaldesarts - Bruxelles, Theaterfestival - Basel, HAU Hebbel am Ufer - Berlin, Festival Oriente Occidente - Roveretto, Theater Freiburg, Julidans – Amsterdam, Teatro Municipal do Porto / Festival DDD - dias de dança and Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças, Association Lia Rodrigues-France with the support of Redes da Maré and Centro de Artes da Maré and the partners of the FONDOC (Occitanie)
With the support of the International Relief Fund for Cultural and Educational Organizations 2021 of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut and other partners. Prize for “Best Choreographic Performance ” 2021-2022 for “Encantado”, awarded by the Professional Union of Theater, Music and Dance Critics.
Lia Rodrigues is an international associate artist of CENTQUATRE-Paris and Maison de la Danse/ Pôle européen de création supported by Biennale de Lyon, France.
Photos: Sammi Landweer