THE JOYCE THEATER
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THE JOYCE THEATER
THE JOYCE THEATER The Joyce Theater Foundation, in association with Focus Cia. de Dança, presents Director and Choreographer Alex Neoral Production Director Tatiana Garcias Executive Producer Náshara Silveira Company Alex Neoral, Carol Pires, Clarice Silva, Cosme Gregory, Felipe Padilha, Marcio Jahú, Marisa Travassos and Mônica Burity Realization Neoral Garcias Produções Artísticas LTDA Focus Cia de Dança is sponsored by Petrobras Leadership support for The Joyce Theater’s 2013–2014 season has been received from the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust. This presentation is underwritten by Amit Wadhwaney and supported by The R. Britton Fisher and Family Gift for International Dance. The Joyce Theater’s Dance Presentation Program is supported by a grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts; and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; as well as supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council with special thanks to Christine C. Quinn. Additional support has been provided by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund to encourage the performances of out-of-town companies at The Joyce Theater. Major support for The Joyce has been provided by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation. Additional major support has been provided by Dance/USA, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, First Republic Bank, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, and The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. AS CANÇÕES QUE VOCÊ DANÇOU PRA MIM (2011) Director and Choreographer: Alex Neoral Production Director: Tatiana Garcias Executive Producer: Náshara Silveira Light Designer: Binho Schaeffer Lighting Technician: Phelipp Raposo Musical Creation and Editing: Alex Neoral Costumes and Makeup: André Vital Scenic Ambiance: Marcio Jahu Costume Construction: Jacira Garcias Photos: Marian Starosta and Cintia Pimentel Stage Technician: Wellison Rodrigues Company: Alex Neoral, Carol Pires, Clarice Silva, Cosme Gregory, Felipe Padilha, Marcio Jahú, Marisa Travassos and Mônica Burity ABOUT THE COMPANY Focus Cia. de Dança is currently one of the most active dance companies in Rio de Janeiro. Between 2010 and 2011, Focus performed in 32 French cities, including performances at the acclaimed Lyon Dance Biennial in September 2010. The company has also brought its art to Portugal, Italy, Germany, and Panama. In Brazil, Focus has been to nearly 50 cities, including state capitals and towns. Directed and choreographed by Alex Neoral, the company is supported by SESC Rio, and for two consecutive years was part of Project Art Residency SESC Rio. In 2007 and 2008, Focus was nominated as one of the best dance performances of the year by Jornal do Brazil newspaper. As canções que você dançou pra mim was chosen one of the top ten dance performances of 2011 by the newspaper O Globo. WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY ALEX NEORAL (Artistic Director and Dancer) began studying dance in Rio de Janeiro in 1994. He joined renowned Brazilian companies, like Cia de Dança Deborah Colker, Cia Nós da Dança (Regina Sauer), Grupo Tápias (Giselle Tápias), and Cia Vacilou Dançou (Carlota Portella). In 2000, he founded the Focus Cia de Dança, presenting his first professional show, Vértice. As a teacher of contemporary dance, he has taught in Washington, DC and Italy and teaches regular classes at the Centro de Artes Nós da Dança in Rio de Janeiro. As a guest choreographer, Alex has done several works, highlighting the reas- sembly of PATHWAYS for CityDance Ensemble of Washington, DC and original pieces for the Bolshoi Theater in Brazil, Cia Nós da Dança, solos for Nina Botkay and Roberto de Oliveira, and pieces for Cia DeAnima Bale Contemporâneo, Grupo Extase from Viçosa (Brasil), and São Paulo Dance Company. He created the choreography for the musical Rock in Rio, which was on display in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in 2013. For four carnivals, he was the choreographer of the Front Commision of the samba school Imperatriz Leopoldinense of Rio de Janeiro and is currently the choreographer of the Front Commision of the Vila Isabel samba school. WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY CAROL PIRES (Dancer), a native of Rio de Janeiro, was born in 1981. She has worked as a dancer for Focus Cia de Dança since 2000. In 2006, she participated in João Saldanha’s ExtraCorpo project, which was co-produced by the Dance Biennale of Lyon. The premiere was held at the Biennale in September and subsequently played at SESC Copacabana in Rio during the month of November. In 2006, she participated in the Maracanã project produced by Kampnagel (Hamburg/Germany) and choreographed by Deborah Colker, having performed in Hamburg and Cologne in January/February. In July 2008, she danced in João Saldanha’s Monochrome in the Winter Festival SESC; the work was recognized by O Globo newspaper as one of the best works of dance of 2007. Carol assisted João in June 2007 on his work Manipulações sobre as forças do vazio, created for the Brazilian choreographers project of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. The work was nominated as one of the ten best works of the year in 2007 by Jornal do Brasil. In 2009, she participated in the Solos de Dança of SESC as a dancer and choreographer in ZAP, a work performed with Alex Neoral and Clarice Silva. During the same year, she also worked as an assistant to Alex Neoral on Imperatriz Leopoldinense at the Brazilian Carnival. CLARICE SILVA (Dancer) was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 28, 1980. She went to Centro Universitário da Cidade, where she graduated as a dance teacher in 2001. In 2005, she completed her studies as a contemporary dancer in Centre Choregraphique National de Montpellier in France, directed by Mathilde Monnier. During her career, Clarice has worked with some important names in Brazilian contemporary dance, such as João Saldanha, Dani Lima, Roberto Pereira, and Silvia Soter. Since 1997, she has worked with choreographer Alex Neoral, and since 2000 she has been part of the staff of Focus Cia de Dança. She also works as a body therapist, actor, singer, movement coach, and movement director for theater plays. She has performed at several important festivals and cultural institutions, including Biennale de Lyon, France; Festival Panorama da Dança, RJ, Brazil; Joinville Dance Festival, SC, Brazil; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; and Jahre Noverre Festival in Stuttgart Ballet, Germany. WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY COSME GREGORY (Dancer) was born in Natal, RN on March 7, 1988. He began his career in the Municipal Ballet of Natal and Dance Company of Alberto Maranhão Theatre. He worked with choreographers at Bertrand Davy’s National Choreographic Center of Montpellier in southern France and Vlademir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. In 2006, he was invited to perform as a soloist dancer with Kamu Suna Ballet Company in Lisbon, Portugal, and in 2011, he danced as a guest in Cia de Danca Deborah Colker-Brazil with Ballet Tatyana. Cosme graduated in 2008 from the Bolshoi Theater School in Brazil, having trained with great professionals, such as Galina Koslova, Galina Kravchenko, Dmitry Afanasiev, Denys Nevdomyy, Amarildo Cassiando, and Sabrina Lermen. Cosme was a dancer with the Cia Jovem of the Bolshoi Theater School in Brazil from 2009 to 2011. MÁRCIO JAHÚ (Dancer) was born in January 28, 1984 in Rio de Janeiro. He has been a member of Focus Cia de Dança since 2006. He graduated from the professional course of Centro de Dança Rio and from the dance program at UniverCidade, both in 2004. In the same year, Márcio joined, at the invitation of China National Song and Dance Ensemble, the cast of the show Brazil Feeling, performing in various cities in China for ten months. He participated in several projects, such as Relações with LASO Companhia de Dança in 2006; Por Onde Os Olhos Não Passam with Andréa Maciel Companhia de Dança, also in 2006; the opera Alabe de Jerusalem in 2007; and the Brazilian musical Isaurinha, performed in Rio de Janeiro in July 2008. For the past five years, he has been working as Alex Neoral’s choreography as- sistant at the Imperatriz Leopoldinense Samba School in the carnival parade of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2010, he has also worked on the video edits for Focus Cia de Dança. FELIPE PADILHA (Dancer) was born in Rio de Janeiro on December 27, 1986. He began studying dance in Rio de Janeiro in 2002. He performed with Cia de Atores e Bailarinos Adolpho Bloch in the plays Ele por nós and Não Quebra Nós, directed by Rosane Campello, between 2002 and 2004. He also took part in the shows and musicals O Príncipe do Egito (2002), Mulan, Moulin Rouge (2003), El Dourado (2004), Pas De Deux Lago do Cisne (2004), and D. Quixote (2005), choreographed by Renata François and directed by Valéria Moreyra. He created and performed in the solo Corpo Transitório at the SESC/ N.FRIBURGO Solo Marathon in July/2005. Under the supervision of Marcela Levi, Denise Stutz and Marcia Rubin, Felipe performed Corpo Transitório as part of the Panorama Rio Dança 2005 Edition in the Os Novíssimos project. He was invited by Esther Weitzman to perform her Territórios (2005) and by the choreographer Andrea Maciel for the remake of the show Por onde os olhos não passam in October 2006. He was a member Esther Weitzman Cia de Dança (2005-2006) and performed with Marcia Milhazes Cia de Dança between 2007 and 2013, touring through several Brazilian and European cities in the works Meu Prazer (2008), O Beijo (2010), O Bosque (2011), Camélia (2012), and O Bilhete (2013), as well as two opera plays: Lucia Di Lammermoor (2011) and Pigmalião (2012). WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY MARISA TRAVASSOS (Dancer) was born in Rio de Janeiro on December 31, 1979. She began her dance studies at age six at the Eloisa Menezes Conservatory of Dance. At 15, she joined the Maria Olenewa State School of Dance in Rio de Janeiro, from which she graduated in 1998. In 2000, she received a full scholarship to attend the Ecole Superieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower in France. There she danced the first role in Paquita in the Palais des Festivals. In 2002, Marisa was part of the corps of The Nutcracker in Cisne Negro Cia de Dança, São Paulo. In 2003, she joined the Ballet of the Theater Castro Alves, Salvador-BA. From 2004 to the end of 2005, she performed with the Deborah Colker Dance Company, where she danced Rota, 4 por 4, and Mix e Nó. In 2006, she began teaching ballet classes for various ages and joined Focus Cia de Dança. MÔNICA BURITY (Dancer) was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 18, 1983. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Dance from UniverCidade, and joined the Dance Academy Carlota Portella. She interned with Dance Company Carlota Portella - Vacilou Dançou during the last year. She was part of Cia Aérea de Dança’s European tour with the show Samba Variationen in 2002. Mônica was a member of Cia Dani Lima between 2002 and 2007. While there, she created and performed the work Falam as Partes do Todo? and performed in the projects Real Life in 3 Chapters and Chapter 2 - Instructions. In 2004, she was invited by choreogra- WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY pher João Saldanha to participate in the project Solos do SESC with a solo performance of Eles assistem e eu danço. Um estudo para Mônica Burity. She also presented this solo at the opening of “Domingo contemporâneo no Municipal” at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro in 2005, Comtempo-râneo in Oi Futuro in 2006, Itaú Cultural in 2009 and the project “Entrando na Dança” in 2009, among others. In 2013, she was part of the Collective Br +13 in an artistic residence for a month in Munich, Germany. She has been a member of Focus Cia de Dança since 2000. Photo: Cintia Pimentel
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