H3
11/10/2008
, 
19:30
12/10/2008
, 21:00
Director, choreographer Bruno Beltrão
Assistant director Ugo Alexandre Neves
Music Lucas Marcier, Rodrigo Marcal - ARPX
Dancers Bruno Duarte, Bruno Williams, Charlie Felix, Danilo Pereira, Eduardo Hermanson, Filipi de Moraes, Kristiano Goncalves, Luiz Claudio Souza, Thiago Almeida
Set designer Gualter Pupo
Light designer Renato Machado
Costumes Marcelo Sommer
Executive production Mariana Beltrao
Production Gabriela Weeks
Administration Joao Marcos Beltrao
A coproduction Grupo de Rua, KunstenFestivalDesArts, Festival Internacional de las Artes-Salamanca 2008, Junta de Castilla y Leon, Le Grand Theatre de Luxembourg, Festival d'Automne a Paris
With the collaboration of Hebbel-am-Ufer, La Ferme du Buisson
Support Cavalera
NATIONAL PREMIERE
length 50'
The brasilian choreographer Bruno Beltrão’s new piece, H3, is a special experience of dance, and also the follow-up of the formal results reached in the preceding hit H2.
While in H2 Beltrao has looked for a renewal of the hip hop vocabulary using a pre-planned space in which set the dancers, here, instead, the audience admire a continuous flow of bodies, that “flow through its boundaries in a much less formal way, almost as if by floating” (Nayse Lopez), constructing a complex map of trajectories and paths.
There is a careful study on the possibilities of the physical contact into the hip hop dance, on falling and weight, that are considered secondary elements.
Beltrao has decided to “explode some hip hop movements into pieces” (Nayse Lopez), without trying to take the street on the stage, but showing the new set of questions and hypothesis (“in motion”) about contemporary dance.
Grupo de Rua de Niterói, founded in 1996 a Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and directed by choreographer Bruno Beltraõ, has been establishing a path in the national and international dance scene supported by the way in which articulates hip hop and contemporary dance. At the beginning the company's vocabulary was just the street dances but GRN is soon aiming the convergence of the popular and the academic knowledge. In 2002 GRN started a fruitful international career as guests of some of the most important festivals and theatres in more than 14 countries worldwide.
GRN's last piece, H2, was co-produced by 7 European institutions and festivals: Springdance Festival, Tanzhaus, Hebbel Theater, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Wiener Festwoche, Festival d'Automne and La Ferme du Buisson. Throungh this production Beltrão was awarded ‘upcoming choreographer of the year by one of Europe's leading dance publications, the magazine “Ballettanz”.
