RETRÓPICA
DANCE PERFORMANCE BY MARI PAULA
SUNDAY l MARCH 22, 2020
Festsaal Kreuzberg - Am Flutgraben 2
Retrópica is a "cannibal" dance performance. It devours samba, bossa nova, taconeo and breaks with the imaginary that defends the culture as airtight. While neocolonialism, fanaticism, intolerance, immorality and fear run over us, Retrópica is a woman. It is hunger, it is fire, it is the extreme pleasure in the form of pure honey that still drains through the veins of Ecuador.
The hegemonic discourse, away from romantic ideas, tells that Brazil was "rediscovered" by an Iberian-Catholic treaty. That said, it was our America who gave birth to European modernity. However, we were soaked in a catechism, leaving us breastfeeding, thirsty, of a profane virgin. Our hero is the barbarian and has a woman's breasts, like the pasiegas, who provided their essence in milk to the children of power.
Immersed in the fissure of the nation of tropicalism, we continue aimlessly but with samba on our feet. The Matriarchate of Pindorama is reborn in this work and stages the re-meaning of everything that had to die for us to be born.
Check website: https://www.maripaula.com/retropica-es
Retrópica from Mari Paula on Vimeo.
DATASHEET
Conception direction and performance: Mari Paula
Choreographic orientation: Airton Rodrigues and Ángela Donat Mas
Dramaturgical orientation: Giorgia Conceição, Leonarda Glück and Ricardo Nolasco
Text: Leonarda Glück Lighting
Design: Trio Light Design Music
Direction and Soundtrack: Fernando de Castro
Illustration: Evandro Prado
Costumes: Mari Paula Videos: Livea Castro Calvo and Marcus Bonato P
hotos: Frank Pittoors, Cayo Vieira and Humberto Araújo
Light Operation: Semy Monastier
Debut Production and Coordination: Jorge Schneider and Simone Bönisch - ABABTG Latin America Production: Gabriel Machado
Production Europe and Africa: Adrián Torices
Communication: Marta Romero
Support: Festival Time Realization: Águila Produções and FUNARTE, Ministry of Culture - Brazil (Funarte Klauss Vianna Dance Award - 2015)
