Boca de Ferro

Marcela Levi & Lucía Russo

Improvável Produções - Brazil/Argentina

performance / contemporary dance / national premiere

Musically, the state of Pará - in northern Brazil - is an Amazonian Caribbean formed thanks to smuggling routes. In the fifties ships carrying perfumes and whiskeys also carried merengue, salsa and zouk vinyl records. Sixty years later the influence of the Caribbean sounds made the Paraense music pour into the Tecnobrega – a musical genre created by appropriation and alteration of popular songs. The Sound Systems, powerful sound structures that today lull the Tecnobrega celebrations, began in handcarts that in the fifties were called ‘picarpes’ and the sound projector was nicknamed ‘iron mouth’.

Our starting point landscape is the word "Belém": place where there is confusion, chaos, noise and clatter.

An infernal dance-rhapsody, irreverent, playful, provocative, indecent, furious, cunning and sensual. A dance emanated by a body laden with others, of contradictions, ambiguities, goods and evils, that is, a human body, of people.

How about a solo mega sound, a revolving machine-gun, a dance-stereo, a body-vessel that takes off its identity and shakes and trembles furiously?

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Credits

artistic direction: Marcela Levi & Lucía Russo

co-creation and performance: Ícaro dos Passos Gaya

assistance: Tamires Costa

lighting design: Isadora Giuntini

costumes: Levi e Russo

sound design: all the team

video: Tristán Pérez-Martín

support: Centro Coreográfico da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Consulado da Argentina no Rio de Janeiro, Festival Dança Gamboa, Espaço Cultural Sítio Canto da Sabiá, Graner, Sâlmon Festival and Teatro Hiroshima.

production: Improvável Produções

acknowledgments: Aleix Caussa, Amália Lima, Andreia Pimentel, César Augusto, Carles Nogueras, Cristina Alonso, Daniel Luhmann, DJ Waldo Squash, Elena Carmona, Gastón Core, Ginetta Levi Mortera, Isabel Penoni, Jackie Silva, Laura Erber, Luiza Leite, Marcia Rubin, Maria Acselrad, Mercedes Russo, Miwa Yanagizawa, Paula Delecave, Paula Mori, Sérgio Rezende, Tatiana Altberg, Veronica Russo and Vitor Nascimento.

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Bio

The carioca choreographer Marcela Levi and the argentine choreographer Lucía Russo founded Improvável Produções in Rio de Janeiro in 2010. Levi & Russo rely on a shared authorship project in an artistic direction that points to an open-minded regime in which different inventive positions intersect in a process that embraces deviant lines, dissent and internal differences as a constructive critical force and not as contradictory and self-excluding polarities.

Trained by the Angel Vianna Dance School, Levi was a resident artist at the Les Recollets Art Centre; in the Artists in Residence Program - Casa Encendida/Aula de Danza; in the Laboratory of Urban Creativity ON.OFF - Guimarães 2012; guest artist on the Rio Occupation program at the London Cultural Olympiad; and received the Batiscafo scholarship. Her projects have been presented at various festivals and art centres in Brazil, Europe and Latin America. Levi collaborated with Lia Rodrigues, Vera Mantero, Gustavo Ciríaco and Guillermo Gomez-Peña, among others.

Lucía Russo studied Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires and dance at EDDC and Centro Cultural Rojas. Restless, she moves between artistic creation, the processes of transmission and exchange and cultural management. She coordinated the Dialogues project in partnership with the Red Sudamericana de Danza. Russo collaborated with De la Guarda, Diego Gil, Lucas Condró, Gustavo Ciríaco, Natalia Tencer and Ayara Hernández, among others.

www.marcelalevi.com

https://luchiarusso.wordpress.com

https://www.facebook.com/ImprovavelProducoes/

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