2015
First part of the trilogy cARTAUDgraphy based on the life and work of Antonin Artaud.
Premier: May 22, 2015
Performance from May 22 to 31, 2015 – Friday and Saturday 9pm, Sunday 8pm.
Espaço Cênico O LUGAR na Rua Augusta, 325 – São Paulo – SP
Idea, translations, dramaturgy and direction | Wolfgang Pannek
Choeographic director | Maura Baiocchi
Assistente of coreography | Alda Maria Abreu
Music| Gustavo Lemos
Video | Paula Alves
Lighting | Eduardo Alves
Stagedesign | Wolfgang Pannek
Cast | Maura Baiocchi, Isa Gouvea, Ana Beatriz Almeida, Alda Maria Abreu, Ariana Andreoli, Patrícia Pina Cruz, Monica Cristina, Marcelino Bessa, Fábio Pimenta, Henrique Lukas, Paula Alves
Graphic design | Hiro Okita
Press | Celia Musilli
Production| Wolfgang Pannek, Alda Maria Abreu
cARTAUDgrafia 1: A Correspondence is the first part of a theater-choreographic trilogy of the Taanteatro Company on the life and work of French poet, actor and director Antonin Artaud (1896 to 1948); icon of surrealist poetry and idealizer of the Theater of Cruelty.
Under the direction of Wolfgang Pannek and with choreographic direction of Maura Baiocchi, the three-act spectacle has as its starting point Correspondence with Jacques Rivière, an epistolary exchange between Antonin Artaud and the then director of the Nouvelle Revue Française, first published in 1924 .
Unpublished in Brazil, the correspondence problematizes the inspiration, the obstacles and the formalization of the creative act. Artaud defends here, his “literary existence” through a poetic production stripped of Nothingness despite the states of “mental erosion” that he felt. According to Deleuze, the best example of the genesis of thought, the text marks the entrance of Artaud into the great Parisian literary life of the time, prompting André Breton to invite him to participate in the surrealist movement.
Other moments evoked by the spectacle are the childhood lived in the bosom of a wealthy family of shipowners of origin turquoise origin located in Marseilles; the electro-therapeutic treatments to which the young Artaud was submitted for suffering from meningitis; the Artaudian criticism of the institutions of the family, the state and Western rationalism; his pantheon of “cursed poets” – inhabited by Baudelaire, Nerval, Nietzsche, Lautréamont, Rimbaud, Poe, Jarry – considered by Artaud as the “battlefields” of the split between body and spirit, a matter that plagues humanity “from its origins”.
In the second semester of 2015 the trilogy will be completed by two other scenarios: cARTAUDgrafia 2 – México and cARTAUDgrafia 3 – O Momo. The set of these scenarios investigates three interconnected fields of Artaudian work – spirit, culture and language – that approach the crisis of representation in Western civilization as a whole. In its entirety cARTAUDgrafia will be presented in the second semester in Espaço Vênico Viga in São Paulo.
Municipal Program of Promotion to the Dance for São Paulo – 16th edition