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Grupo Experimental

  • Category Artists and companies
  • Since 1993
  • Interaction with countries 8
  • Members 6

Presentation/Mini-bio:

The Grupo Experimental has a leading role among the contemporary dance produced in the Northeast of Brazil because of its originality and contribution to the professionalization of the local scene. Founded in 1993, in Recife - PE, the company embraces a profile which depicts its name, having the experimentation and interaction as the basis of their work. Nowadays it has a collection of 20 shows renowned internationally and nationally, acting at the contemporary dance field of Pernambuco.

"What leads me to create is looking to people, to the traditions that depict an uneasy town, that occupies streets, areas. In my opinion, the city is a discovering site, especially when I look at the dance at the body of this place. I create thinking about all of that, in how I can bring to the dance all of this narrative that happens on a daily basis, everywhere. I didn't envision this group solely thinking about dancing and occupying stages. I envisioned this group to think and discuss the place that art occupies in people's formations, in politics and on the ways that we improve the world. I believe that the real work comes from these experiments that we find out by doing."(Mônica Lira - Grupo Experimental Director).

By its way of creating and interacting with the city and the artists, the group brought the Espaço Experimental to life wich, besides acting as its headquarters, became a place of reference, study, and interchange, where dancer, choreographers, teachers, researchers, producers among other professionals connected to the contemporary dance field go, helping to consolidate it. The group, along the Espaço Experimental, holds socio-educational projects, seminars, practical and theoretical workshops, study groups and interchange programs on dance production.

In this context, the Group and the Espaço brought to life a social, artistic and pedagogical project that acts at Recife's downtown, but which creates and maker viable itinerary actions, as is the case of the Núcleo de Formação em Dança (Dance Graduation Nucleus) and the Reciclarte, where new artists are trained and encouraged to keep the dance alive in actions at the capital and in the countryside. Through these work initiatives, plus the continuous work of creation and fruition, the Grupo also takes an important role at the mobilization and coordination of dance policies in Pernambuco.

Thus, the Grupo, the Espaço and the special project bring to life a structure that targets to expand contemporary dance actions as an initiative that prioritizes the collaboration and team-work as viable paths to keep art in its place of transforming the world, based in a culture of development and respect to diversity. This is what the Experimental believes in.

Sobre la Obra/Trabajo

Pontilhados – Human interventions in Urban Environments


“If this street was mine…”

One day, she was gone.

She went to the house, the path, escape route, crime scene, carnival parade, full of history, of feelings and where entire worlds met.

On the curbs, parks, sidewalks, people met, places where nowadays only the affective memory of each one is able to access this path, to trace back. This memory was the path where Pontilhados had passed.

For many people it’s outrageous occupying parks, monuments, landscapes, while life goes by, in a hurry and constantly. Even there, where time is liquid, pulsing, people, memories and new realities merge, inviting us all for a walk.

Earphones, a soundtrack, an actress voice outlining the way, the publick leaves in a dancing trajectory, feeling, sharing. On the path artists appear, the time is the present, the time is the past, the time is anywhere in a logical sense where everyone gets disconnected while they stroll.

Pontilhados is an experience envisioned in Recife, which makes new worlds and perspectives wherever it goes. It’s an urban intervention, in a dance-poetry-path format. With its challenging formula it intends to propose a dialogue between cities, with dancing bodies, taking Recife with it, while visiting and provoking the hosting city to make a new outline for itself in its people’s memories.

This work is an exchange, reflection, body, discourse, going through dance that comes from the soul of those who give themselves to live the experience as an artist. A work that comes about in a residency, while a strong team researches, creates the soundtrack, the dramaturgy, that will go to the studio.

It’s a challenge that comes about from the need of building something in a fast paced time that walks, changes, feels and goes through. And what’s the peak of this experience?

To feel the human being who revisits their place, their people, buildings, intangible heritage and media, for, with that, be able to calm down, until its intrinsic process is able to create itself another perspective of the moment, of themselves, of the city, of everything that surrounds them and provokes them to exist and resist.

It happened like this in Porto Alegre and São Paulo, when it went through cities taken by the Rumos Itau Cultural. It happened like that in Recife, when it took to the street a way of thinking and making of the Grupo Experimental, under Mônica Lira’s conduction. A path that doesn’t only belong to Brazil anymore. Crazy? Yes, we are. Who is not?

And, if the man went to the moon, why not try to make a mission out of the unusual?

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Contact

  • monliratrin@gmail.com
  • grupoexperimentalrecife@gmail.com
  • +55 81 9 9609-5383
  • https://www.grupoexperimentalrecife.com/

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