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April 1. Trança / Thiago Granato (BR/DE)

Trança is an invitation to a sensory journey where sound, light and movement intertwine and branch on unusual surfaces in vertiginous times.

Through a choreography of hands, Thiago Granato accelerates transformation processes where different forces are translated into signs, promoting an investigation on the body's power of creating contexts where it can detect new ways of living, communicating, moving and reinventing itself.

Trança is the second solo in a trilogy which is a choreographic research based on different imaginary collaborations between dead and living choreographers, as well as those not yet born. This trilogy is part of the project entitled CHOREOVERSATIONS that combines research, creation, production and education.

The CHOREOVERSATIONS project mainly aims to create a network of relationships between the participating artists and their public, empowering discussions about history, heritage, authorship, property, translation, transmission, incorporation and presence in contemporary dance.

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Concept, direction, choreography and performance: Thiago Granato.
Invited choreographers (interlocutors): Cristian Duarte e João Saldanha.
Direction assistance: Sandro Amaral
Original track and sound designing: Márcio Vermelho
Light designing: André Boll
Costume adviser: Paula Ströher
Photo: David Kiers
Graphic designing: Otávio Santiago
Production: Expressão Produção, Thiago Granato and Sandro Amaral

Premiered: 11th and 12th November 2016 at SESC Santos (Brazil).

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THIAGO GRANATO (BR/DE)

Thiago Granato is a Brazilian choreographer and performer based in Berlin. His performances have been presented in different countries such as Brazil, Uruguay, Israel, Spain, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Italy, France, Romania, Lebanon and Korea. Among the performances are Plano B (2008), We Are Not Superficial, We Love Penetration (2008), Tombo (2009), Basement (2011), This Is Concrete (2012) and Treasured In The Dark (2015).

He worked with artists such as Simone Mello, Adriana Grechi, Lia Rodrigues, João Saldanha, Laura Samy, Cristina Moura, Sandro Amaral, Neto Machado, Cristian Duarte, Thelma Bonavita, Mathilde Monnier, Enora Riviére, Cecília Bengolea, Lenio Kaklea, Frédéric Gies and Jefta van Dinther. He took part in the Ex.e.r.ce 8 program, coordinated by Xavier Le Roy, at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier (France).

As a teacher he worked at DOCH – University of Dance and Circus and at Cullbergbaletten (Stockholm/Sweden). Also mentoring at HZT/UDK – Universität der Künste (Berlin/Germany). During the years of 2013 and 2014 he was fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (Germany) where he developed his current project entitled “Choreoversations” that combines research, creation and the production of a trilogy of solo dance pieces.

In 2015 he was artist in residency at Centre International des Récollets in Paris (France). Currently, he works on the second solo of the trilogy “Choreoversations” supported by the grant Prêmio Funarte de Dança Klaus Vianna 2014 (Brazil).