Atravessemos! - Portrait de la ville de São Paulo, 2024

A crossing in gestures, movements and stories, a monster city, river... 21 million inhabitants, more than 150,000 hectares in area. Urban expansion. An infinite variation of gray. Communities. Fractures. Dances. Music.

During a residency in September 2022, 10 artists from the Pontifical University of São Paulo and 9 artists from the Studio dance performance of Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris shared daily life, memory, history and fiction. The districts and places of the city –Avenida Paulista, Praça de Sé, Quartier Liberdade, Minhocão, Parque da Agua Branca, Villa Lina Bobardi, Casa do Povo, Museu da Imigraçao Japonesa… – constituted the places of action and habitation of the group through workshops and performances. Brazil experienced, with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, an extraordinary political shift which was part of a general movement linked to withdrawal, nationalism and populism. The residence was listed just before the elections that brought Lula back to power (January 2023).

This experience produced and crystallized forms which will be reactivated during the  film-installation-performance. Each interpreter is taking on the role of their Brazilian partner. or passer, bear witness to the space/memory/architecture relationship, and make the encounter visible in a map of shared experiences. The notion of limit, whether symbolic, psychological, geographical or identity, will serve as a common thread for this fourth portrait, of a city powerfully carrying all the contradictions, the tensions of contemporary society which also has a relationship to singular body, with hospitality, dance and music.

photos © Diane Arques / ADAGP, Paris, 2024

Distribution / Credits

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Film-installation-performance

Conception & realisation  Emmanuelle Huynh et Jocelyn Cottencin

Artistic collaboration Daniel Nicolaevsky Maria

and the students-artists from Studio dance performance at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris Adèle Bertrand, Circé Cherry Lac, Camille Cosson, Salomé Daheron, Arthur Dujols Luquet, Arya K/nell, Sehyoung Lee, Louise Steffan, Yixuan Xiao

and the students-artists from Communication Courses Artes do Corpo of PUC - Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo Stéfanie Bertholini, Leticia Cipriano, Brunette Coelho, Mateus Eiji Haga, Wesley Felix, Victor Inacio, Ju Lima, Heverton Meira, Luiza Pichirilli, Thainá Texeira Duarte

for a creation residency in São Paulo from September, 6th to 19th 2022

Film, Editing Jocelyn Cottencin

Images Jocelyn Cottencin & Daniel Nicolaevsky Maria

Text by Ju Lima, Arthur Dujols-Luquet, Yixuan Xiao, Thainá Teixeira Duarte

Music

Sound conception Jocelyn Cottencin from « Flûtes-à-bloc – Yaulapiti », extract from « Musique indienne du Brésil », 1968, registered and edited by ethnomusicology department of Musée de l’Homme and extracts from « Drumming Part I » by Steve Reich

Music during the credits of the film « um so », album Krishnanda (1968) by Pedro Santos

Little Simz « S.O.S. »

Administration & development Amelia Serrano

Production & tour management  Elodie Richard

Production support in Brasil Corpo-Rastreado

Thanks to Louis Logodin, Daniel Nicolaevsky Maria, Ana Texeira and Perrine Warmé-Janville.

Creation in Paris in February, 19th & 20th 2024 with the sudents from Studio dance performance of Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris directed by Emmanuelle Huynh 

Baptiste Agnero Rigot, Adèle Bertrand, Céleste Eliote Bizarro, Camille Cosson, Helena Grompone, Adrian-Niclas Heidrich, Arya K/nell, Rita Lira, Isador Premier et Lou Steffan. 

Duration of the film 46 minutes

Duration of thefilm-installation-performance 1h15

Production Plateforme Múa

Coproduction Jocelyn Cottencin Studio

Partners & supports

Beaux-Arts de Paris |  Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) of São Paulo |  Consulat Général de France in São Paulo | L’Institut Français dans le cadre d’une convention avec la Région Pays de la Loire et grâce aux partenariats noués avec les Sesc (Service social du commerce).

Plateforme Múa is supported by Etat – Direction régionale des affaires culturelles (DRAC) des Pays de la Loire, by  Département de Loire-Atlantique and by Ville de Saint-Nazaire.

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