Rodrigo Fischer (Director and performer): Rodrigo Fischer is a Brazilian artist based in Brooklyn who develops hybrid research through film and theater, using new audiovisual technologies for the stage. For the past seventeen years, he has been directing the Brazilian Group Grupo Desvio to develop performances, techniques and theatre experimentations with an emphasis on the actor’s craft, resulting in pieces like Short Existence, Eutro, Misanthrofreak and The Losers. He is currently doing a post-doctoral in Performance Studies at NYU, supervised by André Lepecki, to research the polyphonic correlation among images, objects, and body in performance.