“Following the huge success of Correria and Agwa in France and abroad with more than 250 performances, we wanted to continue this wonderful collaboration with these 11 Cariocan dancers. Their desire to discover and encounter other worlds of dance led me to create a piece in which these 11 characters could meet with unique choreography styles. I invited several choreographers to contribute : Anthony Egéa, Céline Lefèvre and Denis Plassard for the French part and Octavio Nassur for the Brazilian part and of course the dancers themselves.
While Anthony Egéa uses the dancers’ natural strength and works with the body to create hybrid shapes, Céline Lefèvre brings poetry to the pieces, Denis Plassard blends genres and the language of hip-hop with the Brazilian color brought by Octavio Nassur, the show will reveal other worlds.”
Mourad Merzouki
Press
“Those men who seem to perform with a full freedom of expression, practising their art with bursts of joy and a huge generosity.” Le Dauphiné Libéré
“Hip-hop basics are still there and are transcended ; a transformation occurs towards a hypersensitive dance.” Le Progrès
“It sparkles with energy, worked down to the smallest detail.” L’Humanité
Distribution
Artistic direction Mourad Merzouki
Choreographies Collectif Käfig Brasil, Denis Plassard, Céline Lefèvre, Octavio Nassur, Anthony Egéa, Mourad Merzouki
Musical arrangements AS’N
Music Vivaldi, Dinho Nascimento, Guy Monk, Ame, Camille, The Lushlife Project, AS’N, Deadmau5, Emmanuel Santarromana
Dancers Diego Alves Dos Santos known as Dieguinho, Leonardo Alves Moreira known as Leo, Eduardo Augusto Pires Hermanson, Cleiton Luiz Caetano De Oliveira, Helio Robson Dos Anjos Cavalcanti, Geovane Fidelis Da Conceição, Diego Gonçalves Do Nascimento Leitão known as White, Aldair Junior Machado Nogueira known as Al Franciss, Wanderlino Martins Neves known as Sorriso, Jose Amilton Rodrigues Junior known as Ze, Alexsandro Soares Campanha Da Silva known as Pitt
Lighting design Yoann Tivoli, assisted by Cécile Robin
Costume design Emilie Carpentier
Stage design Mourad Merzouki and Yoann Tivoli
Props construction Samuel Chenier
Production
Producer Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne / Compagnie Käfig
Co-producers Festival Montpellier Danse 2012 ; Scène nationale de l’Oise (préfiguration) Théâtre du Beauvaisis / Beauvais, Espace Jean Legendre / Compiègne ; Espace Albert Camus - Bron ; Les Gémeaux Sceaux / Scène Nationale ; La Rampe et La Ponatière, scène conventionnée – Echirolles
With the support of the Centro Coreografico da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro
