Alice Ripoll
ZONA FRANCA
© ZONA FRANCA, Alice Ripoll © Renato Mangolin ©
© ZONA FRANCA, Alice Ripoll © Renato Mangolin ©
© ZONA FRANCA, Alice Ripoll © Renato Mangolin ©
Creation, Alice Ripoll
Performers, Gabriel Tiobil, GB Dançarino Brabo, Hiltinho Fantástico, Katiany Correia, Maylla Eassy, Petersonsidy, Romulo Galvão, Tamires Costa, Thamires Candida, Vinicius Rodrigues
Creative assistants, Alan Ferreira and Thais Peixoto
Lighting, Tomás Ribas and Diana Joels
Set and Costume Design, Raphael Elias
Assistant costume designer and seamstress, Gabriel Alves
Sound, Alice Ripoll, Alan Ferreira and DJ Seduty
Sound editing, DJ Seduty
Sound technician and repetiteur, Renato Linhares
Touring lighting technician, Tainã Miranda
Illustration and designer, Caick Carvalho
Photos, Renato Mangolin
Production manager, Natasha Corbelino, Corbelino Cultural
Production executive, Milena Monteiro
Production assistants, Thais Peixoto, Isabela Peixoto and Thiago Monteiro
Delegate producer of the European tour Festival d'Automne à Paris
Distribution ART HAPPENS
Coproduction Festival de Marseille ; Festival d'Automne à Paris ; Charleroi Danse ; RomaEuropa ; TANDEM Scène nationale (Douai-Arras) ; Tanzhaus NRW (Düsseldorf) ; Teatro Municipal do Porto ; Julidans (Amsterdam) ; Les
Mécènes Danse Aujourdhui
The Festival d'Automne à Paris is delegated producer of the European tour of this show.
With the support of Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian - Délégation en France and Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
The Festival d'Automne à Paris is the delegated producer of the European tour of this performance.
The Festival d'Automne à Paris is co-producer of this performance and presents it in co-production with the CENTQUATRE-PARIS.
With the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – Delegation in France and Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
ZONA FRANCA: the title evokes the vision of a world in which everything can be shared, in a completely open way. In this latest piece, which incorporates different popular dances and music in a free manner, Alice Ripoll and her performers enable us to see how a newly-resurrected Brazil can reinvent itself.
ZONA FRANCA was first performed at the end of Jair Bolsonaro’s period of government and the return of Lula as the head of Brazil, in a country scarred by tensions and social and economic inequalities. Starting from the base of what these changes have meant for individuals and society alike, Alice Ripoll uses these life experiences as the basis for choreographic research into modes of action and collective creation. Following on from Suave and Cria, in conjunction with the Suave company, and its encounter between urban dance and contemporary dance, ZONA FRANCA goes one step further in this hybridization process in its association between theatre and song, and blend of popular dances from the north and north-east of Brazil with afro dances and afro house. Onstage the ten performers move, sing, and handle coloured balloons, elements in a contemporary ritual which invites the audience to experience a wide range of emotions, between a vulnerability, deep-seated anger and great joy.
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