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Photo: Raphael Mendes | Maura Baiocchi in a Photoenvironmentperformance Isadora Duncan and the bull

Brazilian choreographer, director, actress and dancer.  Founder and Director of Taanteatro Company.  Creator of the taanteatro approach to the performing arts.  Master in Communication and Semiotics.  Maura is a butoh dance pioneer in Brazil and author of the books Butoh - Dance Path of the Soul and Taanteatro - Choreographic Theater of Tensions.  She has an international career in Brazil, Argentina, France, Germany, Japan, Mozambique and the United States.  Aside from her work with Taanteatro, Maura is currently teaching at the University of Brasilia's performing arts department.

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Director, actor, translator and producer. Co-director of Taanteatro Company since 1994. Co-author of Taanteatro - choreographic theater of tensions (Azougue Editorial - Rio de Janeiro - 2007). Currently finishing his Master of Arts (Philosophy, Psychology and Literature) at the University of Hagen, Germany.

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Photo: Andrew Personette

Bruna is a director in the NY video Collective MUX.

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