Cartas do Brasil (Letters to Brazil) is Juliano’s Nunes first creation for São Paulo Dance Company and for a Brazilian company. “This work is a little bit of Brazil that exists in me. It is the place where the gesture of one affects the gesture of another and, although everything passes very quickly, everyone is connected like a flock of birds”, says Nunes. In the choreography, each dancer writes with the body a continuous dialogue that translates the urgency of being alive. Nunes created the piece inspired by the Bachianas Brasileiras no 8, by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) and his childhood memories that refers him to the universe of birds and forests. In the dance, the hands, arms and heads vibrate and remind us of the images of birds' wings, of leaves in the wind, of the waving of birds' heads. “The beauty of the body in motion touches us like live words”, says Nunes. The costume, a blue mesh in reference to the sky of Brazil - with details hand-painted by the choreographer on the body of the dancers - reveals the silhouette of the artists and the individualities of each one. The light completes the atmosphere that transports us to a vibrant, agile and intense time.

Juliano Nunes is brazilian dancer and choreographer. Born in Rio de Janeiro and took his training took at the Brazilian Conservatory of Dance, in Brazil, and the University of Music and Performing Arts, in Mannheim - Germany. He was gradueted at Ballet Karlsruhe and as a dancer joined important companies such as Ballett Hagen, Gauthier Dance, Leipzig Ballet and Royal Ballet Flanders. He has worked with important coreographers such as Akram Khan, Ohad Naharin, Merce Cunningham, William Forsythe, Christopher Wheeldon, Jírí Kylián, Jonah Bokaer, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Hans van Manen, Yury Grigorovich, among others. He has choreographed for the most important dance companies in the world, such as Royal Ballet of Flanders, Nederlands Dans Theater 2, Mariinsky Theater, Zurich Ballet, Carlos Acosta - Acosta Danza, Pennsylvania Ballet, Atlanta Ballet. In 2022, he created his first work for a company in Brazil: "Cartas do Brasil", choreographed especially for the São Paulo Dance Company.

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