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BEATRIZ SANO E EDUARDO FUKUSHIMA

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Beatriz Sano and Eduardo Fukushima have been collaborating on each other's artistic work for 10 years. For the past five years, they have been teaching and directing group choreographies through artistic dance residencies in São Paulo, Chile and Paraty. In April 2019, together with Isabel R. Monteiro and Júlia Rocha, they co-directed the play IMAGINE, awarded by the 23rd Cultura Inglesa Festival. In 2021, they developed the project DUAS PEÇAS PARA OUVIR, awarded by ProAC Expresso LAB Aldir Blanc. In the same year, they created the piece WHAT STAIN, producing a dance video, capturing and broadcasting it live at the 2021 Sesc Dance Biennial, its premiere in person at Sesc on May 24, and a season at Sesc Avenida Paulista in July 2023. In 2023 they premiered HORIZONTE at the Tomie Ohtake Institute in São Paulo, Fukushima choreographed São Paulo Cia de Dança, the duo choreographed Balé da Cidade de São Paulo with HORIZONTE +.

What Stain

In this first show directed and danced by Beatriz Sano and Eduardo Fukushima, the two blur the boundaries on and off stage. Transiting between the roles of choreographers, directors and dancers, the duo builds the work from the intertwined vibration between voice and movement. The action of producing sound and gesture at the same time destabilizes notions of duality, such as human and animal, woman and man and living and dead matter. Mixed together, the two blur bodily boundaries and travel through sounds captured and reworked live on an editing table. In this flow, they investigate other possible forms of communication and make room for two existences to broaden the imaginaries of their relationships. 

Horizonte

The piece Horizon is conceived, directed and performed by Beatriz Sano and Eduardo Fukushima, with live music by drummer Chico Leibholz. The duo's creative field was the work and studio-home of Japanese-Brazilian visual artist Tomie Ohtake through the Tomie Dançante project (2022 / 2023). Its premiere took place in March 2023 as part of the Institute's 20th anniversary exhibition, curated by Paulo Miyada and Priscila Gomes. In October 2023, Horizonte was extended to 32 dancers from the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo with Horizonte+. In December, the process opened with 4 performances at the Municipal Theater Dome and in June 2024 it will premiere on the stage of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo. 

The piece returns to the body of Sano and Fukushima through shapes, drawings and colors materialized in dance. The movement score is formed from the horizontal landscape of the pulse of breathing and its balance, of pendular and unstable movement, of what fits and what doesn't fit. Simultaneously, the soundtrack is performed live, with repetitions and accentuated variations, vibrating not only the walls of the theater, but also those of everyone who shares in this event. In Horizon we are invited to set aside not only the habits of moving, but also the habits of looking at movement, we are led to perceive the beauty contained in the simple drawing of the circle in which there is no beginning or end. 

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