Ecoperformance Online Workshop
June 6–27, 2026 | Saturdays 2:00–4:00 p.m. | GMT+1
Coordination: Maura Baiocchi and Wolfgang Pannek I Taanteatro Companhia, International Ecoperformance Film Festival
Organization: Taanteatro Companhia and International Eco-Performance Film Festival (São Paulo, Brazil)
Content: Led by the creators of the ecoperformance concept, Brazilian choreographer Maura Baiocchi and German director Wolfgang Pannek, the Ecoperformance Online Workshop presents a theoretical and practical approach that seeks to overcome the anthropocentric paradigm of the performing arts: a shift from the AnthropoScene to the SymbioScene. Hans-Thies Lehmann, the theorist of post-dramatic theater, described Baiocchi and Pannek’s work as “radically ‘green’ theater” and “a major research expedition into the field of the relationship between humans and the environment.” The creation of eco-poetic and eco-ethical performative presences and events has shaped the research of Taanteatro Companhia for over thirty years. In four sessions and within the methodological framework of choreographic theatre of tensions (taanteatro), the workshop presents an ecological understanding of the performing arts and imparts sound techniques for their implementation.
Concepts that dance: tension, tension typologies, tension-sphere, dramaturgy of tension, inbetween, pentamusculature or ecorporality, schizopresence, ecoperformance, AnthropoScene, SymbioScene.
Practices: Body Energy Mandala (BEM), [De]Construction of performance based on [trans]personal mythology.
Encounters
Encounter 1 – Choreographic Theater of Tension
Encounter 2 – Creative Processes
Encounter 3 – Ecoperformance as a Concept
Encounter 4 – Ecoperformance as a Practice
Obs: Each encounter is composed of a 90 minutes class and 30 minutes of conversation.
Didactic material (included):
Books and articles
Choreographic theater of tensions: forces & forms. Transcultura, São Paulo/Brazil, 2020.
Ecoperformance Vol. 1. Transcultura, São Paulo/Brazil, 2020.
Videos: selected Taanteatro works
Homework: reading, writing, video
Ecoperformance Online Workshop
Dates: June 6–27, 2026 | Saturdays
Time: 2:00–4:00 p.m. | GMT+1
Number of sessions: 4
Duration/class: 8 hours (120 min./session)
Language: English
Investment: 200,00 Euro
Contact: taanteatro@gmail.com , WhatsApp: +55 11 999095060
Payment:
A) BANK DEPOSIT
Transfer the amount of 200,00 Euro to the following account:
Bank: Noris Bank
Account holder: WOLFGANG PANNEK
Bank code: 431
Account number: 4615977
IBAN: DE 901007 7777 0461 5977 00
SWIFT CODE: NORSDE51XXX
B) PAYPAL
1. Visit the PayPal website or app: www.paypal.com
2. Click “Send & Request” (on the website) or “Pay” (in the app).
3. Enter the email address taanteatro@gmail.com as the recipient.
4. Enter the amount of 200 Euro
5. Indicate the payment reason: Ecoperformance Online Worksop
6. Review the information and choose your payment method (card or balance).
7. Click “Send Payment Now”.
8. Then, send the payment receipt to the following email address: taanteatro@gmail.com
Obs: Once we receive the transfer receipt, we wil send the confirmation of your payment and participation.
BIOS
Maura Baiocchi
Considered “one of the great interpreter-creators of Brazil,” Maura Baiocchi is the founding director of the Taanteatro Company (*1991) and the International Ecoperformance Film Festival (*2021). Creator of taanteatro (choreographic theater of tensions). Pioneer of Butoh dance in Brazil. Master in communication and semiotics from PUC São Paulo with the dissertation “Body and communication in process: the tension principle in the Taanteatro experience.” Creator of more than eighty performances, Baiocchi is the author of the book Butoh Dança Veredas D’Alma (1995), the first book on butoh dance in Portuguese, and co-authored seven volumes on her own research with Wolfgang Pannek, including Choreographic Theater of Tensions: Forces & Forms (2020). Her international career as a Brazilian dancer, choreographer, teacher, and researcher includes countries such as Argentina, Germany, England, France, Belgium, Russia, the United States, Japan, and Mozambique.
Wolfgang Pannek
Originally from Germany and residing in Brazil since 1992, Wolfgang Pannek is an author, actor, and theater and film director. He is also the creator and promoter of artistic and cultural events. He holds a Master of Arts (Philosophy, Literature, and Psychology) from FernUniversität Hagen, Germany. Alongside Maura Baiocchi, he is the director of the Taanteatro Company and the director of the International Ecoperformance Film Festival. Pannek has directed highly acclaimed shows including cARTAUDgrafia (2015), 1001 Plateaus (2017), and On Violence: Fanon (2025), and has produced international projects encompassing performing arts, literature, visual arts, philosophy, and film. He directed film projects and acted in feature films and streaming series (HBO Brazil, TV Globo, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+). With Baiocchi, he is the author of books on taanteatro and has published articles in academic journals in Brazil, Argentina, France, and Germany.
Taanteatro Company
Founded in 1991 in São Paulo, Brazil, by the Brazilian choreographer Maura Baiocchi, the Taanteatro Company is recognized for formulating a comprehensive critique of our civilization (Hans-Thies Lehmann) through the visual quality and gestural refinement (Folha de S. Paulo) of its stagings. The company’s work in the field of performing arts encompasses the development of the concepts and methodology of the choreographic theater of tensions (taanteatro), the creation of shows, performances, films and videos, the production of national and international interdisciplinary projects, and the publication of books and academic articles. Moving between dance, theater, philosophy, literature, ecology, and visual and audiovisual arts, its theater-choreographic repertoire, awarded at the municipal, state, and federal levels, has explored the life and work of artists, poets, and thinkers such as Frida Kahlo, Fernando Pessoa, Antonin Artaud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Comte de L’autréamont, Beckett, Hölderlin, Alberto Chissano, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Frantz Fanon. Since 2021, the company has been organizing the International Ecoperformance Film Festival. Currently, the Taanteatro Companhia team is composed of artists from Brazil, Germany, Mozambique, and Argentina.