Spotlight: Lia Rodrigues & Associates

Encantado von Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças

In Portuguese encantado means both enchanted and amazed – and in Afro-Brazilian cosmology the word also refers to mysterious creatures that wander between the earth, water and the skies, transforming landscapes into sacred places.

Starting from these beliefs, the internationally acclaimed artist Lia Rodrigues creates a choreography in which human beings and nature are inseparably linked.

Eleven dancers use splendidly coloured material, bodies and movements to unleash a torrent of images. Landscapes emerge, dissolve and transform before the eyes of the audience. The dancers are accompanied by songs and music of the indigenous Guarani people that were recorded during protests to protect their ancestral regions in Brazil. In this way Encantado combines ecological issues with the struggles of indigenous communities and outlines a world in which everything exists in relation to everything else.

Encantado celebrates fantasy as a force of change and invites its audience to reconsider our relationship with nature and with each other. In doing so, the piece also reflects Lia Rodrigues’s stance in linking her work as an artist and her engagement with social and ecological causes.

Duration:

Approx. 60 minutes

Language:

No language skills required

Tickets:

Tickets can be purchased through the link below.

With the support of the International Relief Fund for Cultural and Educational Organizations 2021 of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Goethe-Institut and other partners. Prize for Best Choreographic Performance 2021-2022 for Encantado, awarded by the Professional Union of Theater, Music and Dance Critics.

Lia Rodrigues is an international associate artist of CENTQUATRE-Paris and Maison de la Danse/ Pôle européen de création supported by Biennale de Lyon, France.