SAO PAULO COMPANHIA DE DANçA

BIOGRAPHIES

Created in January 2008, by the São Paulo State Department of Culture, and directed by Iracity Cardoso and Inês Bogéa, the São Paulo Companhia de Dança (São Paulo Dance Company) is a young repertory company that includes choreographic restaging of the classic and modern international repertoire, as well as new pieces created specifically for its troupe of dancers.
The production and circulation of performances is the main focus of its work. Since it was formed, the company has already produced eleven works, including six restagings (Les Noces, by Bronislava Nijinska; Serenade, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and Theme and Variations, by George Balanchine; Gnawa, by Nacho Duato and Sechs Tänze, by Jirí Kylián), and five new works: Polígono Revisitado, by the Italian Alessio Silvestrin; Ballo, by Ricardo Scheir; Entreato, by Paulo Caldas; Passanoite, by Daniela Cardim and Os Duplos, by Maurício de Oliveira – creations by Brazilian choreographers. The company has been performing throughout the year in São Paulo and in towns and cities in the interior of the State, as well as other Brazilian capitals. It has put on more than 100 performances, to an audience of approximately 60 thousand people.
Its activities are supplemented by educational and audience training efforts and dance register and record programs. The program Palestra Para o Professor (Lecture For the Teacher) contextualizes dance in the different disciplines of regular training, and encourages teachers of formal and non-formal training to carry out some sensorial experiments that help the student to perceive the body's action in different activities in the classroom. These educational activities are continued in the Ensaios Abertos para Estudantes (Open Rehearsals for Students), where some parts of the performances and of the choreographic process are shown on video.
The documentary series Figuras da Dança (Dance Personalities) looks at the careers of well-known personalities in Brazilian dance, through statements from the artists themselves, illustrated with images from their careers. Canteiro de Obras (Jobsite) depicts the work process of São Paulo Companhia de Dança's creations. The two series are shown on educational TV and distributed to libraries and universities.
Since its foundation, the São Paulo Companhia de Dança has released a book of essays, and eighteen documentaries, and more than 22 thousand people have been served by its educational programs. The company is a meeting place for a wide variety of artists such as photographers, guest teachers, restagers, writers, fine artists, cartoonists, musicians, costume designers and others, all combining to create what can now be considered a Brazilian dance project.

Iracity Cardoso, director of the São Paulo Companhia de Dança, worked as dance advisor and curator for the São Paulo Municipal Department of Culture (2006-07), at the Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo Cultural Center) and created the de Centro de Dança da Galeria Olido (Olido Galeria Dance Center). She was artistic director of the Ballet Gulbenkian (Portugal, 1996-2003); and co-director (1988-93), assistant director and dancer (1980-88) at the Ballet du Grand Thêatre de Genève (Switzerland). She participated in the transformation of the Corpo de Baile Municipal de São Paulo (Municipal Ballet Corps of São Paulo) (1974-80). She was a dancer and teacher with the Ballet Stagium (1972-74), and a dancer with the Staats Theater Karlsruhe (Germany, 1966-67), the Stadt Theater Bonn (1965-66) and the Opéra de Marseille (France, 1964). As a teacher at the Teatro de Dança Galpão (Warehouse Dance Theater)(1975), she participated as a dancer in recordings for Television Suisse Romande in creations by Oscar Araiz for the Ballet de Genève. On TV Cultura of São Paulo, she performed as a dancer in recordings of the repertoire of the Corpo de Baile Municipal de São Paulo.


Inês Bogéa has a doctorate degree in arts (Unicamp, 2007), is a director of the São Paulo Companhia de Dança, a teacher of the specialized languages of art course at the University of São Paulo/Maria Antônia, curator of the Festival Cultura Inglesa (English Culture Festival), documentarist and writer. She was a dancer of Grupo Corpo (1989-2001). She wrote about dance for the Folha de S. Paulo from 2000 to 2007 and is the author of O Livro da Dança (Companhia das Letrinhas, 2002) and Contos do Balé (Cosac Naify, 2007). She edited the books Oito ou Nove Ensaios Sobre o Grupo Corpo (Eight or Nine Essays about Grupo Corpo) (Cosac Naify, 2001); Kazuo Ohno (Cosac Naify, 2002) and Espaço e Corpo – Guia de Reeducação do Movimento– Ivaldo Bertazzo (SESC, 2004), among others. Along with Ivaldo Bertazzo, she was assistant director for the Projeto Dança Comunidade (Community Dance Project) (2005-06) and presented the performance Milágrimas, and she was co-director of the Cidadança Project (2006-07), where she presented Tudo o que Gira Parece a Felicidade. She was a consultant for the Fábricas de Cultura da Secretaria de Estado de São Paulo (Culture Factories of the São Paulo State Department of Culture) Program (2007-2008). She is co-author, with Sergio Roizenblit, of the documentaries Movimento Expressivo – Klauss Vianna (Miração Filmes and Crisantempo, 2005), Renée Gumiel, a Vida na Pele (DOCTVII, 2005), Maria Duschenes – o Espaço do Movimento (Funarte Klauss Vianna Award, 2006) and with Tatiana Lohmann, of Umberto da Silva – Amo a Vida Namoro a Morte (Municipal Department of Culture, 2008). More info at www.inesbogea.com

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