Maura Baiocchi | Taanteatro EN

Founding-director of Taanteatro Companhia

Author, choreographer, director, dancer, actress, and performer.
Founding-director of Taanteatro Company and creator of taanteatro dynamics.
Founding-director of the International Ecoperformance Film Festival.
Baiocchi starred in Iranian designer Sepideh Ahmadi’s Summer Fashion Collection 2020.
She holds a Master of Arts in Communication and Semiotics by the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC).

Baiocchi lectured at the performing arts department of the National University of Brasilia and Dulcina Faculty (federal District) and acted in Brazilian short and feature movies directed by Marta Nassar, Joel Yamagi, Walter Rogério, Christian Saghaard, and Paloma Rocha. The award winning performing artist’s international career includes Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Mozambique, Romania, Russia, and the United States. Baiocchi conceived and produced the international 1995 Butoh & Research Theater Festival and, in 2021, she founded the International Ecoperformance Film Festival. She is the author of more than 80 choreographies, plays and performances and of eight books:

Butoh Dança Veredas D’Alma,São Paulo, Palas Athena, 1995.
Taanteatro – teatro coreográfico de tensões. Azougue Editorial, RJ, 2007.
Taanteatro – rito de passagem. Transcultura, SP, 2011.
Taanteatro: teatro coreografico de tensiones. Editorial UNC, Córdoba, Argentina, 2011.
Taanteatro MAE Mandala de Energia Corporal. Transcultura, SP, 2013.
Taanteatro: [des]construção e esquizopresença (Org.). Transcultura, SP, 2016.
Taanteatro: forças e formas. Transcultura, SP, 2018.
Choreographic Theater of Tensions: forces & forms. Transcultura, SP, 2020.

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Backround
In the seventies and early eighties, Baiocchi studied classical ballet, jazz, modern dance and theater in Brasília. She founded and directed a number of performance groups (Naked Photographer, Weird Body, Weather Report) and collaborated with choreographers and directors like Hugo Rodas, Regina Miranda, Ary Pararaios, and Yara de Cunto. Between 1984 and 1986, Baiocchi taught performing arts at the University of Brasília and at Dulcina University. In 1987, she studied butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno and Min Tanaka in Japan, becoming a pioneer of butoh in Brazil and the author of the first book about butoh in Portuguese. Between 1987 and 1991, she developed a vast solo repertoire and worked in Germany. On invitation by Antunes Filho, the director of the Center of Theatric Research of SESC, Maura moved to São Paulo in 1990. While being awarded the 1991/92 VITAE Fellowship of Performing Arts for her project “Taanteatro: a research for the transformation of dance”, Baiocchi founded Taanteatro Companhia in 1991. For further information on Maura Baiocchi’s career click here.

WORKS

SOLOS
2016 ARTAUD, LE MÔMO – Theater Aliança Francesa – São Paulo – Brazil
2014 TRANS – Freud Museum of Dreams – Saint Petersburg – Russia
2009 DAN ancestral becoming – Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – Brasília 2002 SUBMERGE – Chashama Theater – New York City/EUA
2002 Webshaman – mandala dance of the ancestral body 2000 Matter State of Potency – Instituto Goethe – São Paulo
1999 Matter 3rd form – Teatro FUNDAJ – Recife
1999 Matter 2nd form – Strasbourg/França
1999 Matter 1st form – Theater Plan B – Tokyo/Japan
1998 Matter 1st form – Goethe Institute -São Paulo
1991 Frida Kahlo – a stone woman gives birth to the night – Teatro Tuca – São Paulo
1990 Absolutes – Teatro Crowne Plaza – São Paulo
1990 Ophelia Subtraction – Teatro Crowne Plaza – São Paulo
1990 Himalaya – Teatro Crowne Plaza – São Paulo
1990 Behring Strait – Teatro Crowne Plaza – São Paulo
1990 The bride frightened at seeing life opened
1989 The day the wall fell
1988 Variation in black – National Theater of Brasília
1988 Variation in white – National Theater of Brasília
1988 Brasília Bride
1988 Isadora Duncan and the bull, Marta Graham in the forest and Pina Bausch sleeping
1988 When the butterflies get lost – transparent dances – National Theater of Brasília
1987 Spiral line – Gallery Space- Tóquio/Japão
1987 Voice phrase – Theater Seibu 200 – Tóquio/Japão
1987 Between the sword and the wall – Hinoemata Festival /Japão
1987 Three daughters and a water-eye: Yemoja, Oya and Oshum – Therpiscore Theater – Tokyo/Japan
1985 Outsider
1985 Spiral line – Sala Saltimbancos – Brasília
1985 Radical solitude
1985 Critical point
1985 Spiral – UnB – Brasília
1984 The gift of the butterfly
1984 Water-eye – Cultura Inglesa – Brasília
1983 The owner of the keys
1981 Candomblé – School of Music – Brasília 

GROUP WORKS
2022 APOKÁLYPSIS – National Foundation of Arts São Paulo
2017 1001 PLATEAUX – Theater Aliança Francesa (direction of choreography) – São Paulo 
2017 Desert… – Reference Center of Dance of São Paulo
2017 Verbing – Reference Center of Dance of São Paulo
2016 InBetweens – São Paulo Theatre School – São Paulo
2015 cARTAUDgraphy – O Lugar – São Paulo  
2015 cARTAUDgraphy 1: A Correspondence
2015 cARTAUDgraphy 2: Voyage to Mexico
2015 cARTAUDgraphy 3: Return of the Momo
2013 Androgyne – consecration of fire
2012 [Im]Pure Dances – Galeria Olido -São Paulo 
2009 !Zaratustra! – Teatro da Caixa – Brasília 
2007 Frida Kahlo – a stone woman gives birth to the night (trio) – Galeria Olido -São Paulo
2007 New presences – Galeria Olido -São Paulo
2007 The loneliest hour – urban intervention– São Paul 
2006 Feifei and the origin of love – Teatro João Caetano – São Paulo
 2006 Zarathustra Machine – Teatro João Caetano – São Paulo
2005 Xiphamanine – Cine-Teatro Áfr – Maputo, Mozambique
2004 Cardioconnections – Teatro Sesi – São Paulo
2004 Premonitary Performances – Galeria do Vidro – São Paulo
2004 Matter 4th State – Kuba Vegesack – Bremen/Germany 
2004 Matter State of Potency– Galeria Olido -São Paulo
2001 Thus spoke Zarathustra 4th part – Funarte – São Paulo
2001 Frida Kahlo – A Stone Woman Gives Birth to the Night (duo) – Funarte – São Paulo
2000 MatterDeath – Sala de las Americas – Córdoba, Argentina
2000 Matter – State of Potency – São Paulo
1999 MatterLove – MIS – São Paulo
1999 Chants of Maldoror – Funarte – São Paulo
1997 !Arará! Stories that the bones sing – Teatro Hilton – São Paulo
1996 Artaud – where god runs with eyes of a blind woman – Teatro MASP – São Paulo
1996 I: a chips opera – New Dance Studio – São Paulo
1995 Month of Maya (urban intervention)
1994 Variation for ball, Shiva and Magdalene -Teatro Sesi – Sorocaba
1992 Alice’s book of the dead – transitional dances – Teatro SESC Pompeii – São Paulo
1993 At the foot of the mountain – Memorial da America Latina
1993 Variation for ball and Shiva
1991 Month of Maya (Mês de Maya)
1991 The square laughing – Teatro SESC Pompeii – São Paulo
1991 The terrible – urban intervention
1990 The bride frightened at seeing life opened – Teatro Vento Forte – São Paulo
1988 When the butterflies get lost – transparent dances (duo) – National Theater fo Brasilia
1986 Du-El (2nd version) – National Theater fo Brasilia
1986 Invisible connection – National Theater fo Brasilia
1986 Nostalgia tradition – National Theater fo Brasilia
1986 Connection and disconnection – - National Theater fo Brasilia
1984 Duo
1984 Cristovam my love or to create desire
1985 Du-El (1st version)
1985 Static-Extatic
1982 Boomerang – National Theater fo Brasilia
1981 Chaplinlewisniana – National Theater fo Brasilia
1981 Earth – National Theater of Brasilia