A NEW ARTISTIC RESIDENCY
Teatro Oficina & E.D.C. in São Paulo - Brazil
The E.D.C. – EurAsia Dance Company is on tour in Brazil with performances, workshops, conferences in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belém.
Between November 26th and 29th, Teatro Oficina will host the EurAsia Dance Company for a common artistic residency bringing together artists from both entities, actors and dancers: this opportunity is also open to anyone want to apply for it.
By integrating artistic experimentation, movement techniques and theatrical expression, the residency aims to provide participants with tools to enhance their sense of presence – not only in terms of technique, but also to refine their physical movement.
There are 6 places available for participants.
The residency will take place on November 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th, from 10.30 to 18.00 at Teatro Oficina.
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Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona, or simply Teatro Oficina, is Brazil’s longest-running and most radical theater company. Based in the historic Bixiga neighborhood of São Paulo, the company is internationally renowned for its avant-garde productions, political resistance, and its architectural masterpiece of a home.
The theater has long stood as a symbol of urban activism and resistance. It has been founded in 1958 by students of the Law School of the University of São Paulo and its main founder was José Celso Martinez Corrêa (a.k.a. Zé Celso) the group has a history of commitment to social and political issues in Brazil, and has undergone several transformations in parallel, in many ways, to the transformations of Brazilian political history. Commemorating 50 years of existence in 2008, Oficina continues to tour inside the country and abroad, currently led and directed by Marcelo Drummond, who took over the leadership of the company and
produce new works .
The theater regularly hosts open-access heritage guided tours and historical memory programs highlighting its iconic building designed by architect Lina Bo Bardi.
This collaboration and the tour in Brazil is brought by EurAsia Dance Project International Network ETS, directed by Stefano Fardelli, and supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of São Paulo.
