2016

ARTAUD, LE MOMO
by Maura Baiocchi

Celebrating the 120th birthday of french poet and creator of the Theater of Cruelty, Antonin Artaud (1896 – 1948), the solo performance ARTAUD, LE MOMO by Maura Baiocchi is an anthropophagic synthesis and development of her choreographic work in cARTAUDgraphy, a trilogy by Taanteatro Companhia directed by Wolfgang Pannek and performed in 2015 with the support of Municipal Program for Dance for the City of São Paulo. Based on Histoire Vecue d’Artaud Le Momo and Artaud, le Momo, both written in 1946, Maura Baiocchi translates in ARTAUD, LE MOMO specific dimensions of the artaudian production – crisis of the spirit, of cultura and of language – to the body in its singular process of “becoming dance” (devenir danse). The guiding line of the dramaturgy is “the problem of authentic freedom”, impossible to dissociate in Artaud’s work from the creation of one’s own body and the battle against the institutionalization of life forms. ARTAUD, LE MOMO blends the language of dance, poetry, music and vídeo. The creative of the work is composed by artists fromm Brazil, Germany and Argentina.

Direction, choreography and performance | Maura Baiocchi
Concept and dramaturgy |Maura Baiocchi, Wolfgang Pannek
Music | Gustavo Lemos
Video | Roque Onofre Fraticelli, Paula Alves
Production | Wolfgang Pannek
Duration: 60 min.

Premier: september 2016, São Paulo, Brazil.
International premier: November, 2016, CIRA, Strasbourg, France.