This November 2026 the E.D.C. – EurAsia Dance Company will be on tour in Brazil from Nov. 18th till Nov. 29th.

The performance MAYA will be performed in the followed cities:

• BELÉM: Nov. 21st at the 35° Dança Pará Festival. 20:00 at Teatro or SESI

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• SAN PAOLO: Nov. 26th at the Italian Cultural Institute of San Paolo. 19:00 at the courtyard of the Italian Cultural Institute

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MAYA does not want to be related to the ancient American civilisation, but MAYA is the word in Sanskrit used in Asian cultures to indicate the Indian religious and philosophical concept of ‘cosmic delusion’, embracing the entire non-existent and illusory world, as opposed to the only known recognized reality which is called Atman.
The piece is inspired to all those people forced to live a second life, hidden from the eyes of “the only recognized” society and rules of it, behind the curtain of their private lives, in the constant condition of fear, loneliness, misunderstanding and frustration, and It is dedicated to all those women who live without freedom and rights.
Through the study of some specific traditional dances, originally based in specific countries, and of some dances performed in the past only by women in moments of entertainment for men, the dancers of the Company have acquired the technical elements of those techniques, the qualities, the rhythms, the body languages, the symbolisms , the rituality of the movements for then elaborate everything and create the new movement sequences that gives life to this new creation.
All while remaining abstract, in the code, form and dramaturgy of the piece far from any form of judgment.
The interesting process of “translation” and “transformation” of the basic elements of the traditional techniques that has been examined also give the E.D.C. the possibility of experimenting and hypothesizing what their evolution could have been or what could be in the future and therefore an evolved form of the same movements but in a contemporary perspective.

Brought by: EurAsia & DANCEHAUSpiú (Italy)
Supported by: Italian Cultural Institute of San Paolo (Italy / Brazil)
Directed by: Stefano Fardelli (Italy)
Tour Manager: Luana Marini Bellisari (Italy)
Manager for Brazil: Andrè Santos (Brazil)
Dancers on tour in Brazil: Marco Hernandez (Mexico), Barbara Allegrezza (Italy), Maksym Petrashchuk (Ukraine)
Rehearsal Assistant: Tavishi Pownikar (India)
Costume Designer: Marco Hernandez | De La Croix (Mexico)
Visual Artist: Matteo Bittante (Italy)

In the photo by Salvatore Lazzaro the performance MAYA restaged for Accademia Susanna Beltrami of Milan, Italy