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Performance and creation by Sônia Soares and Thiago Amaral
Sound design and original music by Kuki Stolarski
Direction by Sônia Soares, Thiago Amaral, and Aline Filocomo

Sônia Lopes Soares is a Brazilian choreographer and performer based in NYC. In her work, she explores the body as a reservoir of emotions, desires and memories, and the possibilities of these experiences to be transformed into communication. Concepts such as passion, wildness, gender and affection are deeply ingrained and the ability to allow ourselves to channel those emotions is explored: what rituals can we perform to allow ourselves to be affected by these forces? Sônia is the founder of Viga espaço cênico, a cultural center in São Paulo, and works independently and collaboratively in São Paulo and NYC. She has received four grants from the city of São Paulo and the British Council to develop, produce, and perform her work. Soares has performed in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, United States, France, Greece and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Since 2019, she has been working on the “Libolli Project “in partnership with the actor and performer Thiago Amaral and the actress Aline Filocomo.

Affective Arrangements

Directed by Regina Miranda
Performed by Marina Salomon
Editing by Regina Miranda and Marina Salomon

Regina Miranda, MSc., CMA is a theater director, choreographer, and cultural activist. She lives between New York and Rio de Janeiro and works internationally. In NYC, she was LIMS’ Director of Arts & Culture from 2003-2019 and twice its Executive Director (2003-2008 & 2015-2019). Currently, she is the Theater and Dance Curator for the NYC-based Artists for Peace Project. In Rio, she is the Director/Choreographer of the ActorsDancers Company (1980-present) to which she created more than 40 stage and site-specific performances presented globally with international acclaim.

Miranda also employs her integrated knowledge of arts and culture to transform the lives of social groups through arts-based violence prevention programs, leadership development for women, and public performances that raise awareness of the reciprocal relation between citizens and their cities. She holds a MSc. from GCU/ Ken Blanchard School of Business, a BA from SUNY/ESC, and is a LIMS Certified Movement Analyst (CMA).

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Dancer, actress and movement director, Marina Salomon is considered one of the best Brazilian performers of her generation. In 1984, Marina was invited to join the Regina Miranda & AtoresBailarinos Company, where she works until current days performing in prominent roles in all of its artistic works, both in Brazil and in the US, Japan, and France. In 2014, Marina celebrated 30 years of career as an actress and dancer, performing in a work specially created for her –  Vertigem das Listas (Vertigo of Lists), at Teatro do Jockey (RJ). In 2016, she participated in Fear & Pleasure Finely Tuned (Teatro Sesc-Ginástico / RJ) and in the installation P.O.E.M.A.  at Oi Futuro RJ Institute,  both conceived by Regina Miranda. In 2018, Marina received the Cesgranrio Dance Award as Best Dancer for her performance in NAITSU, a night long solo performance. In the same year, she was also granted the title of Honorary CMA, by the Laban Institute of Movement Studies – NY. In 2019, Marina worked on Romola and Nijinsky, an immersive performance created by Regina Miranda, about the life-long relationship between the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and his wife, the aristocrat and also dancer Romola de Pulszky (Castelinho do Flamengo – RJ). In March of 2020 Marina had just premiered in the film-theater solo performance of NAITSU, when all the theaters of Rio closed their doors. Since then, she conceived and danced in the short film, Vertigo Vertigem, directed by Regina Miranda, which was awarded with the 2020 State of Rio – Culture Present in the Web.

The Prayer of Daphnis

Christopher Williams, dubbed “one of the most exciting choreographic voices out there” (The New York Times) and “the downtown prodigy” (The New Yorker), is a choreographer, dancer, and puppeteer devoted to creating movement-based works in NYC and abroad since 1999. His work has been presented internationally in France, England, Italy, Spain, Holland, Colombia, Malawi, and Russia, nationally in Philadelphia, Princeton, and Kalamazoo, as well as in local venues including City Center, Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, P.S. 122, the 92nd Street Y, and La Mama. His collaborators have included renowned directors Peter Sellars and Michel Fau, conductor Raphaël Pichon of Ensemble Pygmalion, members of the Anonymous 4 and Lionheart, as well as critically acclaimed composer Gregory Spears and visual designer Andrew Jordan. His recent commissioners include The Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, Interlochen Center for the Arts, 10 Hairy Legs, and the Wiener Staatsoper, and he has previously been commissioned by the Opéra National de Bordeaux, English National Opera, Teatro Real, Perm Opera & Ballet Theater, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton University, the Harkness Dance Center, DTW, and through HERE Arts Center’s Dream Music Puppetry Program. His awards include a 2005 New York Dance & Performance “Bessie” Award, fellowships from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Bogliasco Foundation, as well as residencies via the Robert Raushenberg Foundation, at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Kaatsbaan Culture Park, the Harkness Dance Center, the Bogliasco Foundation, Movement Research, Joyce SoHo, Djerassi, Yaddo, and The Yard. His collaboration with director Michel Fau and musical director Raphaël Pichon on a production of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Dardanus presented at the Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles won the Grand Prix du Syndicat de la Critique 2015 in the category of “best Spectacle Lyrique of the year” and his collaboration with Peter Sellars on a new adaptation of Henry Purcell’s The Indian Queen presented at The Bolshoi Theater won five Golden Mask Awards in Moscow. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College as well as a diploma of study from the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris.

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Serious Talk

Performed by Natalia Fernandes
Music by Vicky Leaks
Editing by Teresa Santos
Special thanks to EPDCL, Isabela Rossi, and Fran Martínez

Natalia Fernandes is a Brazilian dancer and choreographer based in Madrid since 2017. She studied at the University of Campinas/Brazil and gained professional experience in the dance scene of São Paulo, Berlin, NYC and Madrid. She’s currently working with Jesus Rubio, Poliana Lima, and Sebastian Hirn. Since 2014, she is producing her own pieces as a way to reflect and reinvent her own existence. She is currently developing her pieces with the support of different institutions in Spain. She also teaches contemporary dance in different schools and conservatories in Spain and had a project of dance for refugees in CEAR/Madrid.

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Jeremy Nelson has presented his own choreography in New York at venues such as Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop and PS 122, and in several countries in Europe, South America and Asia. Since 2015, he has been working on a series of improvised duets, in collaboration with Luis Lara Malvacías, titled From A to Z. He has danced for the Stephen Petronio Dance Company and in the work of Mia Lawrence, David Zambrano, Susan Rethorst, Luis Lara Malvacías, as well as in his own work. He received a New York Dance and performance “Bessie” Award for outstanding performance, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for choreography in 2004. He has taught in over 30 countries and was Head of the Dance Education at the Danish National School of Performing Arts from 2009 – 2015. He is now fulltime faculty in the Dance Department at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Luis Lara Malvacías is a Venezuelan choreographer and trans-disciplinary artist. His body of work has focused on ideas of transformation, multiplicity and authorship. His projects explore the interaction between dance, design, videos, installations, sound, and the visual arts, questioning preconceived ideas of choreography production and presentation. He has presented work in New York for several years and has performed worldwide, from conventional to more unconventional venues. Current projects include 26 collaborative duets with his partner Jeremy Nelson. These duets look into issues surrounding mature dance makers and inquiring into the relationship of the body thinking, the body processing, the body making, and the body performing. In 2003 he created 3RD CLASS CITIZEN, a collective initially comprising Latinx artists living in NYC, which has become a platform for the NOT FESTIVAL – a nomadic and kaleidoscopic conceptual artistic object, embracing ideas of cross-cultural and global artistic collaboration. Instalación Sur from 2001 and Channel Sur from 2005 are two of his several cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary projects involving collaboration with local artists in countries in Central and South America. His work is presented under Luis Lara Malvacías / 3RD CLASS CITIZEN.

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