Open Call
NUTAAN 2025
Nucleus Taanteatro: training, research and creation
Duration: from March 12 to July 7, 2025
Registration: from February 1 to 24 Here

NUTAAN 2025 is a training, research, creation and performance program in dance. It is part of the project “Da Violência: Fanon”, by Taanteatro Companhia, contemplated by the 36th Edition of the Municipal Program for the Promotion of Dance for the city of São Paulo — Municipal Department of Culture.
For four months, with two weekly meetings in a rehearsal room and four immersive meetings in open spaces (city and nature), dance artists will experience the methodology of the Taanteatro Company founded by choreographer Maura Baiocchi in 1991.
The Group introduces the concepts and practices of ‘taanteatro’ or ‘choreographic theater of tensions’, transmits techniques of traditional African, contemporary and urban dances and debates key ideas of Frantz Fanon’s anti-colonial thought. Based on this program and the thematic triangle of personal mythology, ancestry and contemporary violence, participants will be guided in the creation of solos to be presented publicly at the closing of NUTAAN 2025.

Location: São Paulo/Centro
Number of participants: 12 (professionals and students of the performing arts)
Selection: via resume, letter of interest and audition/interview)
Scholarship for participants: R$500.00/month (500 Brazilian Reais, upon proof of food and transportation expenses)
Total workload: 144h

Intended audiences: people of all origins, orientations and ages interested in choreographic theater of tensions and the themes of decoloniality and ancestry. Preferably, Afro-descendant artists, migrant artists and Afro-diasporic refugees and trans artists.

TEAM
Coordination:

MABALANE JORGE NDLOZY (Mozambican choreographer and dancer)
JANINA ARNAUD (dance artist and educator)
General Coordination: Wolfgang Pannek
Cultural Consultancy on Frantz Fanon/Caribbean: Médrick Varieux
Project “Da Violência: Fanon”, Taanteatro Companhia.
This project was supported by the 36th Edition of the Municipal Dance Promotion Program for the city of São Paulo — Municipal Department of Culture.