Réquiem SP is a choreographic piece in two continuous acts, interspersed with an interlude. A choreography for György Sándor Ligeti’s Requiem with the São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra and the São Paulo
City Choir.
In the interlude, as the orchestra and choir exit, the music is reshaped through controlled amplification, digital manipulation of water timbre, and the sonic capture of the entire stage environment.
The second act unfolds over two compositions from
the album Rossz Csillag Alatt Született, by Canadian musician Venetian Snares (Aaron Funk): Hajnal (Dawn, in Hungarian) and Kétsarkú Mozgalom (Bipolar Movement).

Performed by 16 dancers: 15 from the regular cast of the São Paulo City Ballet and one guest dancer – Bill Valkirie, with ample technical movement abilities in krump technology – this work dances life’s irreversibility, intersecting with memories of what is no longer in or with us. Dancing fictions about our losses, establishing through movement our rituals of mourning and rebirth. Choreography emerges as an imagistic-behavioral event, embodying an ecosystemic arrangement of scenic composition in which extensions of light, sound, objects and images work as orthosis and prosthesis independently from the dance. Movement technology serves as a connective framework for all bodies involved, human or otherwise.

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