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In December 2022, Taanteatro Companhia undertook the first Ecoperformance Expedition in two Ribeira Valley State Parks of São Paulo, Brazil.
The first phase of the journey led to an immersion in the chthonic universe of the PETAR caves; the second phase explored the coastal landscapes of Ilha do Cardoso.
Taanteatro’s Ecoperformance Expedition resulted in six short films featuring Mônica Cristina Bernardes and Jorge Ndlozy as welll as an interview with Maura Baiocchi, the creator of the ecoperformance concept and founding director Taanteatro Companhia and the International Ecoperformance Filmfestival.

The first part of the expedition’s program consists of the films ITAOCA, TIKO TIKU, TAPERA, and ECOPERFORMANCE: Interview with Maura Baiocchi.

The films are also part of the Environmental Dance project by Company Christoph Winkler (Berlin).
PROGRAM:

1.

TIKO TIKU (11:31 min)
6:00 pm (GMT – 3)

TIKO TIKU is a contemporary [re&de]construction of traditional mozambican dance from a African Diaspora perspective. The performance was recorded at Mirante Pôr do Sol (Juquiá) and Mirante do Governador at Caverna do Diabo State Park (Iporanga, SP, Brazil).

Director: Wolfgang Pannek
Dance: Jorge Ndlozy
Camera, sound edition: Wolfgang Pannek
Sound mixing: Anderson Kaltner
Production: Wolfgang Pannek, Mônica Christina Bernardes

2.

ITAOCA (9:08 min)
16:15 pm (GMT – 3)

ITAOCA presents a genesis process of the body and its states of matter in symbiosis with a tropical womb-cave. The performance was recorded at Black Hill Cave (Iporanga, SP, Brazil).

Director: Wolfgang Pannek & Maura Baiocchi
Dancer: Mônica Christina Bernardes
Choreographic director: Maura Baiocchi
Camera, edition: Wolfgang Pannek
Music: Claudio Vinícius Fróes Fialho
Production: Wolfgang Pannek, Mônica Christina Bernardes
3.

TAPERA (9:41 min)
16:30 PM (GMT – 3)

TAPERA is a meditation on the memory of ancestral lifeworlds, abandonment and suspensions of time. The performance was recorded in a mud house, typical for traditional South American and African construction methods.

Director: Wolfgang Pannek
Performers: Mônica Cristina Bernardes, Jorge Ndlozy
Camera & sound edition: Wolfgang Pannek
Sound mixing: Anderson Kaltner
Edition: Wolfgang Pannek, Maura Baiocchi
Production: Wolfgang Pannek, Mônica Christina Bernardes
4.

ECOPERFORMANCE: Interview with Maura Baiocchi (23:12 min)
6:45 pm (GMT – 3)
Portuguese with English subtitles.

Interview by Wolfgang Pannek with Maura Baiocchi, founding-director of Taanteatro Companhia and the International Ecoperformance Filmfestival.

The interview presents the purpose and the characteristics of the festival and discusses performing arts concepts created by Baiocchi, such as Ecoperformance, Ecorporeality, Anthropo-Scene, and Symbio-Scene. Recorded at Taanteatro’s headquarters in São Lourenço da Serra, SP, Brazil.

Check out the INTERNATIONAL ECOPERFORMANCE FILMFESTIVAL website:

https://www.ecoperformance.art.br/

https://youtu.be/B7eViW5jyrE

Video

A video by Wolfgang Pannek and Maura Baiocchi
Performance: Maura Baiocchi
Edition: Wolfgang Pannek
Maura Baiocchi wears Sepideh Ahadi

Luzia (Ligiana Costa)
Part of the series “Dancing to the songs on the album Eva”
During the period of isolation, Ligiana invited eight dancers to venture to dance to the songs on her album Eva from their homes. The result is a series of eight videos with dancers from various regions of Brazil and France, from different backgrounds, ages and realities.
Available on all digital platforms: https://onerpm.lnk.to/Eva

Video

CO|R|PO
A filme by Maura Baiocchi
Direction, script, performance: Maura Baiocchi
Camera & photography: Paula Alves
Edition & sound design: Wolfgang Pannek
First filme of the project „The Great Health“.
Taanteatro Companhia, Brazil, 2020.
8.59 min.

ANTONIN ARTAUD’s THE THEATRE AND THE PLAGUE

A cinematic project conceived, directed and produced by WOLFGANG PANNEK.
Based on the homonymous essay by ANTONIN ARTAUD.
Contributing Artists from 5 Continents. 18 short movies. 1 movie.

Contributing Artists:
Florence de Mèredieu (France), Nabil Chahhed (Tunisia), Trausti Ólafsson (Iceland), Jorge Ndlozy (Mozambique), Wolfgang Pannek (Germany), Reha Bliss (Russia), Candelaria Silvestro (Argentina)
Nourit Masson-Sékiné (France), Théophile Choquet (France), Or Kittikong (Thailand), Jürgen Müller-Popken (Switzerland), Insa Popken (Germany), Shane Pike (Australia), Maura Baiocchi (Brazil)

Final video weaving and subtitles: Bruna de Araujo (USA)
Final editing and sound design: Wolfgang Pannek
Website: Mônica Cristina Bernardes
Subtitles based on the translation by Mary Caroline Richards

Trailer - project website - The Film: https://youtu.be/ogreIR8OQCQ

Antonin Artaud’s The Theater and the Plague is an international cinematic reading of the essay „The theater and the plague“ by the French poet Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Directed by Wolfgang Pannek, co-director of Taanteatro Companhia (São Paulo, Brazil), the project is a collaboration of artists and academics from five continents and engaged in multiperspectivist reflection on the critical tension between „death and cure“.

In The Theatre and the Plague, the first, now prophetic-iconic text from his best-known book, The Theater and its Double, originally presented as a peformative lecture on April 6, 1933, at the Sorbonne, Artaud develops the foundations of the „Theater of Cruelty“ by establishing an analogy between the rupture of the civilizational order caused by the “plague” and the “convulsive passions” triggered by the virulence of his transgressive theatrical poetics.

The Artaudian text was divided into 8 distinct segments (in turn divided into sub-segments), each with a specific thematic focus. Each collaborating artist accepted the challenge of developing an audio-visual dramaturgy (and recording Artaud’s text in their respective language), corresponding to the segment to be addressed. The only creative indication given to the artists was to perform a cinematographic reading of Artaud’s text in the light of their subjective experiences conected to their respective geographical locations, and under the conditions of limited circulation and social distancing in pandemic times. This work process, recorded with simple digital cameras, cell phones or IPads, resulted in a set of 18 films, lasting between 4 and 11 minutes each).

In addition, the audio-visual collection of these cinematic narratives was re-edited for the feature film Antonin Artaud’s The Theater and the Plague (62 min., 11 languages, English subtitles). The film presents the text of “The Theater and the Pest ”in its entirety and brings together people, landscapes and sensibilities ranging from São Paulo to Paris, from Brisbane to Garðabær, and from Maputo to Khon Kaen.

Taanteatro Youtube

Artaud, le Mômo – trailer
cARTAUDgraphy 1: A Correspondence
cARTAUDgraphy 2 – Voyage to Mexico
cARTAUDgraphy 3: Return of the Momo
50 drawings to kill magic
Frida Kahlo: a stonewoman gives birth to te night 1
Frida Kahlo: a stonewoman gives birth to te night 2
DAN ancestral becoming
[Im]Pure Dances
Hamlet Machine Fisted
!Zarathustra!
ARTAUD – where god runs with eyes of a blind woman

https://vimeo.com/124229222

https://vimeo.com/124096501

Gramatyka (2015) is a shortfilm by Paloma Rocha first exhibited at the Short Film Corner at Cannes/France:
Starring: Alda Maria Abreu, Maura Baiocchi and Helena Ignez.

Tryptich film conceived, directed and starred by Maura Baiocchi.
Cinematographer: Randal Andrade

The ecopoetic film deals with the relations between the body, ancestry and the brazilian landscape called Cerrado.

Watch here!