TEATRO DA VERTIGEM

The Teatro da Vertigem group, created in 1992 in the city of São Paulo, develops artistic work based on characteristic elements, ranging from the use of unconventional spaces in the city, through the creation of shows based on the personal testimony of its members and a collaborative process between actors, playwright, director and other creators, to research into the processes of interference in the viewer's perception.

Among the shows in the group's career are “O Paraíso Perdido”, from 1992, staged at the Santa Ifigênia Church; “O Livro de Jó”, at the Humberto Primo Hospital, in 1995; “Apocalipse 1,11” (2000), at the former Hipódromo Prison; the Biblical Trilogy, presented in its entirety in 2002; the artistic residency at Casa Nº1, in a partnership between the Historical Heritage, the Municipal Department of Culture and the group, in 2003, which served as the starting point for the next project: BR-3.

In 2013, the group celebrated its 21st anniversary with the “21 Vertigem 21” project, which also brought free screenings of various films from the group's shows to Praça das Artes. In 2014, director Antônio Araújo, at the invitation of Villes en Scène, premiered the show “Dizer o que você não pensa em línguas que você não fala” (Saying what you don't think in languages you don't speak) with Teatro da Vertigem, produced by the National Theatre of Belgium and the Avignon Festival, held in the old Brussels Stock Exchange building and in Avignon at the Hôtel des Monnaies. That same year, the group was invited to take part in the 31st São Paulo Art Biennial, with the intervention “A Última Palavra é a Penúltima 2.0”. 

At the beginning of 2015, Teatro da Vertigem went to the Santiago a Mil Festival in Chile and premiered “Patronato 999 metros”, adapted from “Bom Retiro 958 metros”. In the same year, the group premiered “O Filho”, inspired by Franz Kafka's Letter to the Father. In August 2017, it premiered “Enquanto Ela Dormia”. In the year in which the company celebrated its 25th anniversary, the book “Teatro da Vertigem” was launched, with critical texts by playwrights and thinkers who reflect on the group's ways and means of creation.

In 2020, the group made “Marcha à ré”, a performance-film created in collaboration with Nuno Ramos, commissioned by the 11th Berlin Biennale and filmed by Eryk Rocha, with the realization of a site-specific artistic intervention in São Paulo. From all the material gathered during the filming, the short film “Marcha à ré” was produced, which had its world premiere at the Berlin Biennale on September 5, 2020, and premiered in Brazil during the Porto Alegre em Cena International Performing Arts Festival on October 21, 2020.