2015

cARTAUDgrafia 3: The Return of Momo
It addresses Antonin Artaud’s clash with psychiatry, his exploration of the limits of literature, and his conception of the body without organs. The dramaturgy of this last part of the trilogy makes use of passages of The New Revelations of Being; Artaud the Momo; The True Story of Artaud-Momo; Assumptions and Supplications and Letter to Pierre Loeb. Upon returning to Europe, Artaud is without financial resources. He adopts mystical attitudes, signs his works as “The Revealed.” An attempted marriage fails. He travels to Ireland to rediscover “the living fountains” of Celtic traditions. A riot in Dublin leads to his deportation and detention. He spent the years 1937 to 1946 in French mental hospitals where he underwent treatments through insulin, cardiozole, electroshock and art therapy. At the initiative of friends and after the end of World War II returns to civil and cultural Parisian life. Armed with a new repertoire of poetic expression that mixes murmur, scream, glossolalia, text, dance and drawing, it performs a kind of theater of cruelty in the plane of its own body.

Idea, translation, dramaturgy, scenography and direction: Wolfgang Pannek
Choreographic direction: Maura Baiocchi
Choreography assistant: Alda Maria Abreu
Cast: Maura Baiocchi, Alda Maria Abreu, Isa Gouvea, Mônica Cristina, Patrícia Pina Cruz, Fabio Pimenta, Henrique Lukas, Paula Alves, Janina Arnaud
Music: Gustavo Lemos
Lighting: Eduardo Alves, Fábio Cabral
Videos: Paula Alves, Bruna de Araujo, Onofre Roque Fraticelli, Candelaria Silvestro
Costume Designer: Taanteatro Company
Props: Candelaria Silvestro
Graphic design: Hiro Okita
Press Office: Open Channel
Production: Wolfgang Pannek, Alda Maria Abreu

Municipal Program of Promotion to the Dance for São Paulo – 16th edition

Premiere: November 2015 – Viga Espaço Cenênico, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.