2017
1001 PLATEAUS
Multimedia play by Taanteatro Companhia
Director: Wolfgang Pannek
Choreographic director: Maura Baiocchi
Script, stage set and adapted texts: Wolfgang Pannek, Maura Baiocchi
Performers: Maura Baiocchi, Isa Gouvea, Wolfgang Pannek, Mônica Cristina, Janina Arnaud, Gustavo Braunstein, Oz Ferreira, Hiro Okita
Invited dancer: Jorge Armando Ndloze (Mozambique)
Soundtrack
Concept: Wolfgang Pannek
Composition: Gustavo Lemos
Voice off: Maura Baiocchi
Rap Body without Organs: Wolfgang Pannek (adapted lyrics based on How to make oneself a body without organs? by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari)
Translation to changana: Jorge Armando Ndloze
Vocal arrangment: Jorge Armando Ndloze, Wolfgang Pannek
Instrumental arrangment: Gustavo Lemos
Costume
Concept: Eurico Da Rocha, Wolfgang Pannek, Maura Baiocchi
Confection: Eurico Da Rocha
Props: Maura Baiocchi
Lighting: Hernandes de Oliveira
Stage set: Wolfgang Pannek, Maura Baiocchi
Videos
Concept: Wolfgang Pannek
Mapping and edition: Edu Luz, Cibele Appes, Fuzuê Filmes
Scene 1: Onofre Roque Fraticelli, Candelaria Silvestro, Edu Luz
Scenes 3 e 5: Wolfgang Pannek, Edu Luz
Scene 4: Maura Baiocchi
Video and sound operation: Ronei Novais, Edu Luz
Graphic design: Hiro Okita
Press officer: Sandra Beltrán
Production: Wolfgang Pannek, Mônica Cristina Bernardes
SINOPSIS
The relationship with Earth, social organization and power, the notion of knowledge and the struggle for freedom are the themes of 1001 PLATÔS.
This new play by Taanteatro Compania is triggered by is A Thousand Plateaus – Capitalism and Schizophrenia 2, a book by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and by the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari published in France in 1980.
In their work, Deleuze and Guattari propose a philosophy of the Earth (geophilosophy) that escapes the moralization of nature and opposes social institutions of power and their traditional theoretical foundations. In the wake of Nietzsche, and through the invention of concepts – rhizome, multiplicity, transversality, intensity, nomadism, war machine – the authors stimulate the development of critical and creative thinking that opens new perspectives for the conception of the human being, the State, capitalism and ways of life in society.
Approaching Mil Plateaus through dance-theater constitutes a major challenge, due to its theoretical requirement and its political perspective. The content, size and complexity of the work compel to synthesis. They invite, not to the representation of the philosophical text, but to the creation of a new plateau, articulated in an instigating sensorial poetic, composed by the intertwined movements of body, sound, light, image and word.
Conceived by Wolfgang Pannek, who has a master’s degree and is currently a PhD in philosophy with works on Deleuze, 1001 PLATÔS elaborates recurring themes of Deleuze and Guattari’s thinking in the light of contemporary sociopolitical experiences:
current economic and geopolitical wars – global migratory flows – deepening the gulf between concentration and scarcity of vital resources – reshaping the body in the technological age – revolt against models of domination – threat of Earth’s climate collapse.
The play premiered in São Paulo as the main event of the Deleuze Occupation and has a creative team composed by artists from Brazil, Germany, Argentina and Mozambique.
1001 PLATEAUS was performed at:
Theater Alliance Française São Paulo: September, 1 to 10 2017
Theater João Caetano São Paulo: September, 14 to 24 2017
Theater Centro Cultural Olido: September, 28 to October 8 2017
Theater Paulo Eiró São Paulo: October, 19 to 21 2017