Encantado
The word "encantado" [enchanted], from the Latin incantatus, means something that has been the object of enchantment or spell. In Brazil, it has yet another meaning: it refers to entities that belong to modes of perception of the Afro-Indigenous world. The "encantados”, driven by unknown forces, travel between heaven and earth, passing through jungles, rocks, fresh and salt waters, dunes... transforming them into sacred places. But the systematic destruction of forests, rivers and seas also impacts the existence of the “encantados”. How can we “enchant” our fears and get closer to each other? In troubled times, Lia Rodrigues asked herself how we could "enchant our fears" to recreate a collective dynamic and bring people together. The answer is Encantado, a mesmerising choreography for 11 performers and many fabrics, in which these forces, like the "encantados", travel through the bodies on stage. Encantado is dedicated to Olivier. — Lia Rodrigues / Companhia de Danças
DDD 2023 co-presentation
Culturgest (Lisbon)
April 15th, 2023
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Credits
Created by
Lia Rodrigues
Danced and created in close collaboration with
Leonardo Nunes, Carolina Repetto, Valentina Fittipaldi, Andrey da Silva, Larissa Lima, Ricardo Xavier, Dandara Patroclo, David Abreu, Felipe Vieira Vian, Tiago Oliveira, Raquel Alexandre
Dramaturgy
Silvia Soter
Lighting design
Nicolas Boudier
Sound
Alexandre Seabra
Stage management
Magali Foubert, Baptistine Méral
Choreographic assistantance
Amalia Lima
Artistic collaboration and images
Sammi Landweer
Música excertos de Music extracts from
GUARANI MBYA PEOPLE / Kalipety do Village T.I. / Tenondé Porã, sung and played during the indigenous protest in Brasília in August 2021 for the recognition of their endangered ancestral lands
Sound editing
Alexandre Seabra
International diffusion
Colette de Turville
Production coordination
Astrid Toledo
Management
Jacques Segueilla
Produced by
Gabi Gonçalves / Corpo Rastreado (Brazil)
Production
(Goethe Institut) Cláudia Oliveira
Secretary
Gloria Laureano
Teachers
Amalia Lima, Sylvia Barretto, Valentina Fittipaldi
Supported by
Redes da Maré, Centro de Artes da Maré, FONDOC, Goethe Institut
Acknowledgments
Thérèse Barbanel, Antoine Manologlou, Maguy Marin, Eliana Souza Silva, team of Centro de Artes da Maré
Co-produced by
DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Chaillot – Théâtre National de la Danse, Le CENTQUATRE, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Scène Nationale Carré-Colonnes, Bordeaux Métropole, Le TAP – Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers, Scène Nationale du Sud-Aquitain, La Coursive – Scène Nationale La Rochelle, L’Empreinte, Scène Nationale Brive, Théâtre d’Angoulême Scène Nationale, Le Moulin du Roc – Scène Nationale à Niort, La Scène Nationale d’Aubusson – OARA Office Artistique de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Theaterfestival, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Festival Oriente Occidente, Theater Freiburg, Julidans, Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças, Association Lia Rodrigues – France
