Trajectory | 1991 - 2008

Inaugural works: The Deathbook of Alice at Sesc Pompéia Theater and Frida Kahlo: A Stonewoman gives Birth to the Night (solo) at TUCA Theater in São Paulo.

Between 1995 and 1998 Taanteatro Companhia organizes the international Festival 95 Butoh and Research Theater (São Paulo, Curitiba and Brasília), Artaud 100 Years (São Paulo) and The Conquest (adaptation of The Conquest of México by Antonin Artaud) in cooperation with the Japanese director and choreographer Min Tanaka (São Paulo, 1996 / Tokyo, 1998).  In 1998 the company stages Weisman and Copperface by George Tabori with Linneu Dias as leading actor (Goethe Institute, 1998 and Festival Porto Alegre em Cena, 1999).

In 1999 the group initiates the 'Nietzsche Cycle' with Matter: State of Power (Contemporary Dance Award, São Paulo), the first of 15 performances about the work of the german philosopher and poet Friedrich Nietzsche. In 2001, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is performed at the Taanteatro 10 Years festival at The National Foundation of The Arts in São Paulo and in 2002 !Submerge! is performed with the New York band Artanker Convoy at the Chashama Festival in New York City and at the Mercosul International Theater Festival in Córdoba, Argentina.

In 2000 Taanteatro stages the urban intervention Waiting for Godot in streets, squares, parks, on and under bridges of São Paulo.

In 2001, the company inaugurates their countryside headquarters with the annual Taanteatro Residence Workshop for performing artists who came from all over Brazil and Argentina.

Invited by director José Celso Martinez Correa, the company cooperates with Teatro Oficina between 2002 and 2004. Taanteatro was in charge of training actors and of the choreography in Os Sertões (The Earth, The Man and The Man II - São Paulo Critics Award - Best Performance).

In 2004 the company stages Matter 4th State in Bremen, Germany through and invitation by Kuba Vegesak.

In 2005, invited by the City of Matola in Mozambique and co-sponsored by the Brazilian Ministery of Culture, Taanteatro coordenates a long term workshop for the Municipal Company of Song and Dance of Matola resulting in the work Xiphamanine: the eternal origination of the mphama tree performed at Teatro África in Maputo, at the Center of Culture of the Bank of Mozambique and is broadcast nationally and internationally to Portuguese speacking countries by TVM (Television of Mozambique).  

In 2006 Taanteatro returns to the University of Córdoba in Argentina to produce extensive workshops and lectures at the Performing Arts Department. At the same year, it presents the Taanteatro 15 Years Festival at João Caetano Theater (São Paulo) and stages two new works:  Zarathustra Machine (National Foundation of Arts Award and selected as one of the 10 most important cultural events of São Paulo by Brazil's main newspaper Folha de S.Paulo) inspired by the life and work of Friedrich Nietzsche and Feifei and The Origin of Love, a choreography for children. In the same year the project Taanteatro Plus 15 Years is awarded the Municipal Program for Dance in São Paulo. Also in 2006 the company starts the Nucleus Taanteatro - Research and Creation 2006/07 (NUTAAN), a long term educational program for actors, dancers and performers.

In 2007 the company performs the urban intervention The Loneliest Hour, stages a new version of Frida Kahlo: a Stonewoman give Birth to Night (Trio),  New Presences (14 solo performances by NuTAAN members), re-stages Zarathustra Machine and releases the  play's DVD. In Ushuaia, Argentina at the First International Encounter of Literature at the End of the World dedicated to Shakespeare, the company ministers lectures, workshops and performs Subtraction of Ophelia. Later that year, Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek release their book Taanteatro: teatro coreográfico de tensões  (Taanteatro - Choreographic Theater of Tensions) published by Azougue Editorial, Rio de Janeiro.

In 2008 the company is again selected by PROART a program of the Secretary of Education of São Paulo State. It participates in the Cultural Circuit with Frida Kahlo: a Stonewoman give Birth to Night, restages !Arará! Bonestories at Humboldt Theater and Feifei and the Origin of Love at the Alfredo Mesquita Theater. In Brasilia the company inaugurates the 20008/20009 Installment of NUTAAN extending its activities the Federal District.
 
 
Awards

2006/07    Municipal Program for Dance in São Paulo
 
2006         National Foundation of Arts Award Klauss Vianna
 
2004         Contemporary Dance Award São Paulo

2004         São Paulo Critics Award
                 Best Play "Os Sertões" by Teatro Oficina

1998         National Movie Award of Recife
                 Best Actress for Maura Baiocchi in Impressions for Clara

1997         Theater Festival Sorocaba
                 Best Costumes - Variação para Bola, Shiva e Madalena

1997         Theater Festival Sorocaba
                 Best Lighting - Variação para Bola, Shiva e Madalena
 
1992         Cupecê Movie and Vídeo Festival of Maranhão
                 Best Actress for Maura Baiocchi in Nayara the Gorilla Woman

1991         Crowne Plaza São Paulo Performance Award
                 Best Stagework - Absolutas

1998         Critics Award of the Federal District
                 Best Stagework - When the Butterflies Disappear

1987         HINOEMATA Festival Award
                 Best Foreign Performance - Between the Sword and the Wall

1991/92    Vitae Foundation Fellowship for Art                    
                 Taanteatro: A Research for the Transformation of Dance